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[funky_house]

olympos... Sorry, I don't know what happened there.

What I wrote, was that I remember a newspaper article about an Italian town, where so much of the stuff was being consumed, that it was showing up in tests on the local water supply.

http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/08/16/nearly-90-of-u-s-money-has-traces-of-cocaine/?iid=tsmodule

Nearly 90% of U.S. money has traces of cocaine

A study that tested paper money from 30 big cities in five countries?including the U.S., Brazil, Canada, China and Japan?found that big metropolitan areas in both Canada and the U.S. have an alarmingly high presence of cocaine on their currency, with traces of the narcotic on 85-90% of bills.

Brazil, coming in just behind the North American nations, had contamination on 80% of paper money. On the other end of the spectrum, in China and Japan, cocaine was present on a much lower 12-20% of banknotes.

There was an article in a newspaper a while ago, where it was actually showing up in the water supply of an Italian city, due to high consumption among the inhabitants.

The findings, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., suggest that the prevalence of cocaine-laced bills in U.S. cities has jumped about 20% since just two years ago.

University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, the lead author on the current study, conducted a similar analysis in 2007 which found that 67% of U.S. banknotes had some traces of cocaine.

The study authors speculate that the increase of residue on bills is likely in step with an increase in cocaine consumption?already as much as a $70 billion annual industry in the U.S., according to the researchers. An estimated 6 million Americans use cocaine each year, consuming somewhere between 259-447 tons of the stuff.

As anyone who's seen the Johnny Depp movie Blow knows, bills are often contaminated when they are rolled up and used to snort cocaine. (According to the study, bills for $5, $10, $20 and $50 tended to have higher amounts of cocaine compared to $1 and $100 notes.)

But, as the prevalence of drug-dusted dollars conveys, it isn't just people snorting and selling cocaine who might have some residue in their wallets. Once a small amount of the substance is introduced, it can spread among bills as they intermix in cash registers, day to day transactions, and bank counting machines, meaning, if you live in a city, you've probably had a laced bill mingling with your money at some point.

Yet, don't worry, you're not likely to face any legal trouble or fail any company drug tests as a result: the amounts of cocaine found on bills ranged from a minuscule .006 micrograms to 1,240 micrograms?an amount comparable in weight to about 50 grains of sand, according to the researchers.

@ funky_house: Just wondering do you have a comment too? Or do i have missed anything?

[olympos]

olympos... Sorry, I don't know what happened there.

What I wrote, was that I remember a newspaper article about an Italian town, where so much of the stuff was being consumed, that it was showing up in tests on the local water supply.

http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/08/16/nearly-90-of-u-s-money-has-traces-of-cocaine/?iid=tsmodule

Nearly 90% of U.S. money has traces of cocaine

A study that tested paper money from 30 big cities in five countries?including the U.S., Brazil, Canada, China and Japan?found that big metropolitan areas in both Canada and the U.S. have an alarmingly high presence of cocaine on their currency, with traces of the narcotic on 85-90% of bills.

Brazil, coming in just behind the North American nations, had contamination on 80% of paper money. On the other end of the spectrum, in China and Japan, cocaine was present on a much lower 12-20% of banknotes.

There was an article in a newspaper a while ago, where it was actually showing up in the water supply of an Italian city, due to high consumption among the inhabitants.

The findings, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., suggest that the prevalence of cocaine-laced bills in U.S. cities has jumped about 20% since just two years ago.

University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, the lead author on the current study, conducted a similar analysis in 2007 which found that 67% of U.S. banknotes had some traces of cocaine.

The study authors speculate that the increase of residue on bills is likely in step with an increase in cocaine consumption?already as much as a $70 billion annual industry in the U.S., according to the researchers. An estimated 6 million Americans use cocaine each year, consuming somewhere between 259-447 tons of the stuff.

As anyone who's seen the Johnny Depp movie Blow knows, bills are often contaminated when they are rolled up and used to snort cocaine. (According to the study, bills for $5, $10, $20 and $50 tended to have higher amounts of cocaine compared to $1 and $100 notes.)

But, as the prevalence of drug-dusted dollars conveys, it isn't just people snorting and selling cocaine who might have some residue in their wallets. Once a small amount of the substance is introduced, it can spread among bills as they intermix in cash registers, day to day transactions, and bank counting machines, meaning, if you live in a city, you've probably had a laced bill mingling with your money at some point.

Yet, don't worry, you're not likely to face any legal trouble or fail any company drug tests as a result: the amounts of cocaine found on bills ranged from a minuscule .006 micrograms to 1,240 micrograms?an amount comparable in weight to about 50 grains of sand, according to the researchers.

@ funky_house: Just wondering do you have a comment too? Or do i have missed anything?

Yes thats correct, i remember that article from Italy too, "The report, an analysis of the waters of the Po River, found that the waterway carried "the equivalent of about 4 kilograms of cocaine per day," or 8.8 pounds, indicating that consumption of the drug was substantially higher in the area than that given in official national figures."

NY TIMES, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/world/europe/12iht-cocaine.html

[LakeGeneve]

More stupid than weird....

Late passenger makes hoax bomb call to delay planeAugust 18, 2009 - 4:34PM .

A businessman running behind schedule triggered a bomb scare on an airplane in a desperate attempt to catch his flight, Indian police said Tuesday.

Vijay Khandelwal, 35, was stuck in a traffic jam on the way to New Delhi airport last week when he realised he would miss the IndiGo plane to Kolkata unless it was held up, senior police officer Satyendra Garg said.

Khandelwal was arrested after he confessed to making a hoax call on his mobile phone.

"Just to delay the flight's departure, he telephoned the call centre of the airline and announced there was a bomb in the aircraft," Garg said.

Security officials at the airport were alerted, and launched an major emergency operation to search passengers and luggage.

Police arrested Khandelwal by tracing his mobile number and taking a statement from his taxi driver, who had overheard him making the hoax call and refused to drop him at the airport.

Authorities declared the emergency over after 90 minutes and the plane took off four hours late.

AFP

[olympos]

09/04/2009

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=80532

Man Finds Frog in Pepsi Can

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has confirmed that a man found bits and pieces of a frog in his can of Pepsi. An investigation by the FDA has been launched into how the frog got in the drink.

Fred DeNegri of Florida spoke to CNN television about his discovery, describing his shock and finding a "disgusting" blob in his drink. He bought the can at a Sam's Club grocer.

[pandorea]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8274602.stm

A baby boy has been born in Indonesia weighing a massive 8.7kg (19.2lb).

Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute caesarean delivery, which was complicated by his size.

Indonesian doctors said the baby, who was born at a hospital in Kisaran, North Sumatra, was the heaviest newborn recorded in the country.

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It's also in evening news in DK today. The reporter said, the mother has diabetes that's the reason her baby was born with 8+ kg.

I'm soooooo glad I don't have any kid.

[thaibel]

flandersnews.be > News > Body recovered from wreckage in Dinant

Body recovered from wreckage in Dinant

Sat 26/09/2009 - 12:24 Update: Sun 27/09/2009 - 11:30 In Dinant two men tried to rob a bank Friday night using dynamite. They used far too much and part of the building was blown up. One of the men was taken to hospital but died of his injuries. The other man was found dead under the rubble hours later.

The two gangsters went to work about 3 am Saturday morning.

Belga

It looks like they wanted to blow up an automated teller machine but the force of the dynamite caused much of the building to collapse. One of the men was killed. The police were still searching the wreckage to see if there was a second body through the afternoon. The second body was finally recovered Saturday evening..

A delousing squad is also at the scene to make sure there is no dynamite left that did not explode. The bank safe and the money machine were undamaged by the blast.

[LakeGeneve]

No pants ride.......no, not a new pick up line but something which happened on the San Fran metro recently.

http://media.theage.com.au/outer-net/weird-week/no-pants-ride-in-san-francisco-1031799.html?&exc_from=strap

I have no idea why but not something I would want to do in winter time.