Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants

[boyRacer]

Look at all the e-thugs

 

[ViviTheMage]

not surprised

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
she basically proved that grass is green. unless she is mentally handicapped that experiment is way below a normal 7th grader.

If I remember 7th grade correctly most were concerned about getting their mom to take them to the mall on Friday night and usually sat with a dazed look in science class. Maybe I went to Dummy Jr. High, but I doubt a normal 7th grader would have come up with this idea.

 

[OutHouse]

you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

:disgust: who cares what the point is, you guys read too much into stuff.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

exactly

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

Sensationalist journalism? It's a slight jump from this story to "There's crap in our ice!"

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

Media sensationalism. That's why we care when Nick breaks up with Jessica, because people eat this crap up.

In the 7th grade I was doing science fair experiments about laundry detergent.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

:disgust: who cares what the point is, you guys read too much into stuff.

what if your business got put on the news for having bacteria in your ice instead of the toilet? joe billy and ray sue sitting at home will think "omfg that thar restaurant is disgusting!" and never go there again. reporting that there is bacteria on food causes morons to start protesting and boycotting, when it has always been there and always will be but they just arent smart enough to comprehend the difference between helpful, harmful, and neutral bacteria. that is the problem with this.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: bR
Look at all the e-thugs

i may be guilty of e-thuggery in this thread, but i am at least trying to make a point and not needlessly bashing the girl.

 

[RiDE]

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

:disgust: who cares what the point is, you guys read too much into stuff.

what if your business got put on the news for having bacteria in your ice instead of the toilet? joe billy and ray sue sitting at home will think "omfg that thar restaurant is disgusting!" and never go there again. reporting that there is bacteria on food causes morons to start protesting and boycotting, when it has always been there and always will be but they just arent smart enough to comprehend the difference between helpful, harmful, and neutral bacteria. that is the problem with this.

I'm sorry but that seem to be more of a problem with general Americans being ignorant of that fact.

 

[Heifetz]

Since the toilet water is so clean, they should just make the ice from it instead! Problem solved.

 

[MisterJackson]

I'll have the Big Mac combo.....bacteria size that please!

 

[HBalzer]

I drink my own urine it?s sanitary and I like the taste - Dodgeball

 

[DanTMWTMP]

aside from the ethuggery lol, the discussion was pretty interesting hehehe.

 

[SP33Demon]

I worked drive thru at a BK in high school, and there was ALGAE growing in the ice machine. They're gross.

 

[spunkz]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
I'd like to see her compare those to men's room samples too

 

[djheater]

This a thoroughly typical misreporting of science banking on the implication of the results and Joe Public's latent sensationalism to make an interesting story.

As a previous poster has said, she did exactly what she intended, the fact that her exceedingly simple hypothesis and conclusion isn't sensational is not her fault. The reporter is allowing the implication to carry the story.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: RiDE

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Citrix
you guys are idiots. a 12 year old did this experiment for a 7th grade science class. she isnt in high school or college nor looking for a specific bacteria. it was a simple experiment for her level of education.

Then what's the point of a news agency reporting on her findings?

:disgust: who cares what the point is, you guys read too much into stuff.

what if your business got put on the news for having bacteria in your ice instead of the toilet? joe billy and ray sue sitting at home will think "omfg that thar restaurant is disgusting!" and never go there again. reporting that there is bacteria on food causes morons to start protesting and boycotting, when it has always been there and always will be but they just arent smart enough to comprehend the difference between helpful, harmful, and neutral bacteria. that is the problem with this.

I'm sorry but that seem to be more of a problem with general Americans being ignorant of that fact.

i completely agree, but i dont think that problem is going to be solved anytime soon.

 

[SP33Demon]

The men's room is probably dirtier, they should have swabbed the walls. When working in F.Food, I never cleaned the walls, and the floor was only mopped once a day. I bet it's freaking nasty. But that doesn't take away from the fact that ice machines are also pretty dirty as well. Nobody ever cleans them, well scratch that, I think the manager did it once a year.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: BigJ
More bacteria? Big deal.

Now if they showed what types of bacteria, that'd be a bit more interesting.

She's a 12 year old fvcktard, how much detail do you expect?

 

[ISAslot]

Jasmine found that in four of the five restaurants, the ice that came from the self-serve machines had more bacteria than the toilet water. Three of the five cups of ice from the drive-through windows had more bacteria than the toilet water.

Of the bacteria found in the ice, three out of the five restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform or E. coli, organisms that come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.

Health symptoms related to the presence of coliform include cramps and diarrhea. E. coli can cause intestinal illness and, in rare cases, hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious kidney condition.

Jasmine offers several theories for the contamination.

"The machine may not be cleaned properly, or it comes from someone touching the ice with their hands," she said.

Galina Tuninskaya, vice president of Applied Consumer Services, a private lab that tests drinking water, said the standard for drinking water is usually 100 colony-forming units of bacteria per milliliter. The highest amount Jasmine found was 54 units in ice from a self-serve machine.

Tuninskaya said the acceptable level varies for each type of bacteria.

"No levels of fecal coliform or E. coli are acceptable," she said. "If you find that, you've got a problem."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11318353/

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: BigJ
More bacteria? Big deal.

Now if they showed what types of bacteria, that'd be a bit more interesting.

She's a 12 year old fvcktard, how much detail do you expect?

She tested the samples at a lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center where she volunteers with a USF professor. Roberts says the results did not surprise her.

I'm the fvcktard, when the article said she tested the bacteria at a lab? It would've been a small leap to identify the bacteria with the USF professor, or even her teacher.

Considering she won a science fair, I'd at least expect the teacher to try to work with either the USF professor or her teacher on identifying the bacteria.

I realize you probably didn't even know what bacteria was when you were 12, but for those of us who didn't ride the shortbus to school, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal to ask the teacher or professor for help when we were 12.

EDIT: And looking at ISAslot's article, there was an identification of the bactera. So tell me again, who's the fvcktard?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: BigJ
More bacteria? Big deal.

Now if they showed what types of bacteria, that'd be a bit more interesting.

She's a 12 year old fvcktard...

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