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Subscribe to RSSThose baby changing stations found in public bathrooms often look a little suspect when it comes to cleanliness. But of all the things you might imagine would be mucking up the surface, probably cocaine didn’t cross your mind.
But that’s exactly what was found on 92 out of 100 nappy changing stations tested at shopping centers, hospitals, police stations and churches (!) in the UK, reported The Daily Telegraph. A team of journalists from Real Radio conducted the investigation as part of the Cocaine Unwrapped series.
One former addict, going by the name Kerry, told the Real Radio journalists she “was taking cocaine in my dinner times in the toilets [and] I was coming back off my head.”
Last month, the UK was named the cocaine capital of Europe, with nearly 5 percent of residents saying they’ve tried it at least once, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
While the study was done in the UK, it does give us pause when you think about what exactly happens on pull-down tables that are so convenient for changing a baby or, apparently, snorting a line.
We don’t know about you, but we plan on giving it an extra wipe down next time we use one.
Do you use diaper changing tables in public restrooms? What are your tips for protecting your baby?
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We all carry baby wipes already, just take one and give it a quick wipe down.
If you are stupid enough to snort coke off a baby changing table, then you deserve the viruses and feces you are probably stuffing up your nose.
I'd say they are snorting shat one way or the other.
On a side note I guess we can use this against the argument that it's the fault of the USA only for the demand for drugs.
We think this is a pretty funny article you wrote "Linda Dahlstrom." Your use the the "Royal We" was not lost on most of the readers. We thank you for this.
Baby poop and cocaine both make my eyes water.
Here's a fun trick I learned from a friend whose roommate was a junkie. Dust the top of the table (or in his case the top of back of the toilet) with Ajax. One snort is all it will take to break them of the habit.
Cocaine = Baby Powder
Obviously, the only logical conclusion to be drawn from this study is that cocaine use among infants/toddlers is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK . . .
World War II was really hard on the gene pool over there.
i call it...crack cocaine...
CassAnn I agree with you, but I think the reason this is a story is because of how it may affect the children, not the cokeheads.
Gee, I thought they had cameras in all the bathrooms over there. Sanctioned or otherwise.
No wonder the UK is full of peeping toms and perverts.
People been snorting coke off toilet tank lids for years. This surprises who? There is coke on every $100, $50, $20, $10, $5 and $1 in YOUR wallet right now!
EEEEEEUUUUUUUUWWWWWW!
@ lib tarded-oh and the US has no peeping toms and perverts?? Seriously?? just saying...
what I get out of this is 8 stations did not meet the hygiene criteria to do a line off of
People been snorting coke off toilet tank lids for years. This surprises who? There is coke on every $100, $50, $20, $10, $5 and $1 in YOUR wallet right now!
How fortunate then that I only carry $2 bills.
Big deal. Most coke is cut with a baby laxative anyway. Any smooth flat surface will do for a coke head. Lacking that, any surface will do.
Gee, I don't know. You tell me.
More bang for the buck! Human feces makes users homesick! {(:-)}
Every diaper bag should include disinfectant wipes!
I always bring a changing pad to put on top of those tables. Cocaine is the least of my worries when it comes to cleanliness. It is the other baby's poop that worries me.
Hey...you gotta have some relief when dealing with those little monsters.... and oh the smell...oh the smell...
The smell? They obviously don't mind if they're doing lines on baby changing surfaces. lol
This is a joke, right? Like the stories about the needles chocked full of heroin floating around at the McDonalds playgrounds?
Which McDonald's playgrounds? Where? How long ago? Are any within driving distance of Atlanta? Was it really a joke? . . . . . . . not that I'm all that interested . . . . but, seriously, where?
;)
That was an email chain from about 10 years ago about a child dying from a drug overdose because he got pricked by a needle in a McDonald's ball pit. True or not, after that, McDonald's eliminated all ball pits in its restaurants.
Well that's not true. There's a ball pit at the McD's in my hometown.
Why in the world would you even use that to snort off of??? Amateurs!!!
You don't snort off ANYTHING in the bathroom; use a credit card or something!!
diaper stations are in mens bathrooms too but how many women do you know that don't have a makeup mirror in their purse??????????
Exactly!! That is just plain gross and not imaginative at all.
I hide my crack in my diaper.
Crack from the crack?
My question is still, how does all of the cocaine get into a country? What I am saying here is that most of the imports that are smuggled in NEED someone in an authoritative position to be sure they get in. Based on my past experience in cocaine 25 years ago, many of the people involved are elected or appointed leaders with customs clearance. I knew judges and politicians who used their immunity to fly or boat in drugs from South America and Mexico. I would assume that this still goes on today with the Greedy bastards that are in power and think they are above the law. This type of crime never stops when large sums of undeclared CASH can be pocketed to enhance their luxurious lifestyles. The rich can easily cover up this type of CASH. Face it, this is the reality of why drugs remain illegal. There are too many wealthy and powerful people doing the bad deeds and getting away with it. It makes me sick to see this. Let's make these drugs legal and control them like we do with alcohol and tobacco.
If you really think about it, why can so many people get their hands on prescription drugs and illegal drugs? It is because someone rich and powerful is behind it and they will never get caught because they are in power or pay off all those that find out or murder them.
If these drugs are legalized and controlled, the cost can be brought down and the corrupt leaders and greedy scum will not be able to make the under the table CASH.
We must face the reality that these drugs will NEVER be stopped. Our only hope is to control the distribution of cocaine, heroin, other opiates and marijuana.
People need to start thinking more logically on this issue and take away the huge sums of money going to greedy corrupt people who kill anyone getting in their way.
We CANNOT stop it, but we can control it to a point. Let's be logical about this issue and really solve it.
Legalize legalize legalize legalize
Bribery is a wonderful thing (if you're a drug kingpin). It's appalling how cheap politicians/gov. workers go in my area. Legalize the drugs & politics as we know it will collapse...
there's cocaine still around? I thought we did it all in the 80's
The politicians are all bought off and will never legalize it. It's big business for the rich, the police, the attorneys the courts, the jails and the legal process all together.
Well, Tod, you are exactly right. It is our own government officials who bring the cocaine into the country. And you are right about the G R E E D!
It is only a war against our own citizens, not on the drugs.
Hey Tod, any relation to Bernie?
Just tax the crap out of it.. I mean what's in the diapers.. LOL..
Not surprising at all. I used to work in a nightclub and you could go into any of the bathrooms after closing, run your finger over the toilet tank lid, and come back with white residue where they were snorting it off the tank lid. Pretty gross to me.
Hey now mister! Some of us older folks use quite a handful of talc to smooth out the disco moves! Did you sniff any of it to be sure? It could be old people lube. Let us know.
I thought Vasoline was the "lubricant" of choice for the older (dignified) crowd? No one will suspect you're snorting it.
Vaseline smokes too bad when you're coked up and pulling a "Saturday Night Fever" move.
Rick, there's a big difference between a nightclub toilet and a church or store baby-changing table!
To Rick:
Then what were you doing it for?
No crap?
Articles written in the first person voice of the media outlet and the inclusion of personal commentary are disheartening. This isn't a high school newspaper nor do we need to end hard news with "...what do you think?" I'd prefer facts that allow me to create my own opinion. I don't need nor do I care what Linda Dahlstrom's opinions are. Social media has soiled the value and credibility of news; opinions are easier to sell than facts.
Mike F.==== Apparently you are too mature for this site. This site and a lot of the MSN sites seem be populated by teen-agers. Some of them just appear to be trying to out one-line each other.====== If I had a baby to change I wouldn't change it in a public restroom anywhere. There a lot of germs that are worse than a little sucked-up Cocaine residue on those tables and they require more than a wipe down to get rid of them.=====The areas under the women's sanitary product disposal receptacle is the most germ laden area in the bathrooms=====and yes the women's bathroom is appreciably dirtier than the men's room. They did tests in our building after the OSHA report. Don't forget the E-coli and MRSA on the door handles and faucets.
What's the substance going to do - enter an infants blood stream on its own accord?
Unless you place a wounded infant on a station laden with cocaine where it enters the blood stream I dont think it's anything to be concerned about considering the masses of other germs that can be much more harmful to a baby that are indeed present on such stations. Even the cleaning agents can harm a baby.
FFS
I'd be more concerned with bringing a baby into this futurless world as it is.
I dont understand why the media just wants to scare people who already have enough to deal with.
Mother's little helper. ;)
Too funny. Mother's Little Helper. You must be from the 60s crowd. Really good wit!!!
this cocaine smells like $4!7
This $4!7 smells like cocaine.
i don't like cocaine, i just like the way it smells.
that was Gr8!!...love it.....I will have to remember that one...
Way back when, a commonly used phrase to offer party favors to others was :
"I think this may be old... Does it smell right to you?" , while offering the mirror.
The doctor told me to stay away from it so now I use a two foot straw.
Linda Dahlstrom refers to Lines. My type of gal!
I dont like cocaine, i just the way it smells. Hahaha
i wrote that at the exact same time you did, wtf?
Great minds think alike hatr hurter.
That's one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard.
Well it sounds like their war on drugs is working out just as well as ours is.
100 watt light bulb ban goes into effect in January. It will be illegal to possess a 100 watt light bulb. Cops will be able to act on a bad tip, break your door down, shoot your dog, maybe even shoot you, certainly ruin your life over a friggen light bulb.
I guess now they will be removing all diaper changing stations because they are truly a gateway to drug addiction................................
Feel free to spend more for your utilities than you need too. CFLs cut my electric bill by 33%
I have the new bulbs. Thats not the issue. I also have the old ones. I dont care to go to jail for possession of a 100 watt light bulb.
I don't think the bulbs will be illegal, I understood that they were just not going to be manufactured/sold any more. Heard a company in the UK bought a ton for $0.60 each and are selling them for something like $1.50 each now. Again, not illegal, just not easily available.
Time for ebay. I'll ebay the @!$%# out of this government.
This is one I never would have guessed.... Seriously! Changing tables? Ugggh
LOL they are called nappy stations, but coke is an upper not a downer!
And to think all this time they've been blaming it on the sugar.LOL.
"Juniors a little hyper active today" and "I catch him licking the counter tops every damn time i turn around"!
catch these eejits on cctv then dend them off to the net. that's good ol' fun,no @!$%#e.
silly at best,breathing others babies crap while taking up space. nab 'em. if they could only see themselves.
Bus seriously this is really weird to me, baby changing stations in public restrooms? You have the greatest chance of getting an infection in such places and babies do not have a fully developed immune systems. How stupid can people be?
So who's going to do the survey in the US? Some university? A co-ordinate d effort? The FBI? It would be interesting to see a map with all the numbers plugged in though. Lets get some grant money in the works.