[Gllug] OT travel in town

[Lee Blackwell]

Good job I always stand I guess ;-)

Lee

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, George Saxby wrote:

>
> Hi, well this will put you off your lunch is it true or Urban Myth I
> know we have lurking Uni types on the list who may be able to dig
> around
>
>  > > > London Travel News
> If you are a regular traveller on the London Underground, here are some
> facts which you are going to wish you hadn't read.
>
> During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of
> Forensics at University College London  removed a row of passenger seats
> from a Central Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite
>  London Underground's claim that the interior of their  trains are
> cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists  made some alarming
> discoveries.
>
> The analysis was broken down. This is what was found  on the surface of
> the seats:  4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)  7 types of
> insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)  vomit originating from at least 9
> separate people
>  human urine originating from at least 4 separate people  human
> excrement
> rodent excrement  human semen hen the seats were taken apart, they
> found:
> the remains of 6 mice the remains of 2 large rats 1 previously unheard
> of fungus It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are
> transferring, to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as many as
> 400 different people.
>
> It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes
> a day than
> to travel for one hour a day on the London Underground.
>
>  It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently
> flushed toilet bowl before  eating, than to wipe your hand on a London
> Underground
> seat before eating.
>
>  It is estimated that, within London, more work  sick-days are taken
> because of bugs picked up whilst  travelling on the London Underground
> than for any other reason (including alcohol).
>
>
> George F. Saxby
>     Systems Engineer
>        I.T.S. Team
>
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