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Thu 16 Feb, 2006 02:15 pm
Girl, 12, proves toilet water cleaner than ice
A Florida schoolgirl won top prize with a science project proving toilet water is cleaner than ice in fast food restaurants.
Jasmine Roberts, 12, of New Tampa, tested her thoery in five local restaurants, reports Tampa Bay's 10 News.
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants' ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants' toilet water," she said.
Jasmine says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, then used sterile gloves to gather samples.
She also collected ice from soda fountains and asked for cups of ice at drive thru windows. She then tested the samples at a lab.
Jasmine said: "I found that 70% of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."
Her project won the science fair at Benito Middle School, and she hopes to win the top prize at a regional science and engineering fair.
Anybody for a nice cold drink of Coke? C'mon now, it's not like I peed in it or anything.
so like bacteria is a bad thing?
Depends on what kind, I think.
I think these are the poopity bacteria kind.
I WAS getting Burger King for dinner....I may reconsider.
So Bush pushed his "health program" from Wendys?
Wonder how 5 samples managed to produce a 70% anything. 60% sure. 80%, why not? 70%??
thats pretty weird. but dogs have cleaner tongues that people. Plus urea is in stuff found in the toilet and thats a disinfectant. so its not really that weird. thanks for telling me.
Now, I did know about the dogs thing. Their saliva has a lot of acid (or something) in it and that is why they can lick their wounds and it has healing capabilities (not sure that's the right word), but I still don't want a dog licking my face after he licked his butt, if ya know what I mean. :wink:
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