Posted by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:10am
Msg #117361

OT





I got this email and I looked this up on google, and the disease does exist, although the report I read said the symptoms can take from 2 days to 4 weeks. It is still pretty scary.
Leptospirosis - VERY IMPORTANT - READ


A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke
which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she

was
taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit.
She died on Wednesday.

The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the
can of coke she drank from, not using a glass. Tests showed that the can
was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.
Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances.
It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper part of soda cans
before drinking out of them.
The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to
the shops without being cleaned. A study at NYCU showed that the tops
of soda cans are more contaminated than

public toilets (i.e.) full of germs
and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth
to avoid any kind of fatal accident.

Please forward this message to all the people you care about.

Reply by Winston_Tn on 5/3/06 8:18am
Msg #117363

OT: Re: OT

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/raturine.asp

Reply by Marlene/USNA on 5/3/06 8:34am
Msg #117364

Re: OT:

I used to work in a grocery store with a malfunctioning toilet on the 2nd floor. The pallets of soda were stored on the first floor - guess where? - right below the restroom. The toilet would overflow, the pallets would be soaked, the crew would hose them off and eventually stock the shelves with the soda. I could tell you more stories, but you'd never eat from a grocery store again.

Maybe rat urine isn't toxic, but play it safe and don't put anything in your mouth if you don't know where it's been.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117365

Re: OT: My husband's business is the grocery business

and have been for well over 30 years and although Pepsi may not keep their stock for any length of time, not all staff in grocery stores rotate stock as instructed. The point is, as with many things in life, just a little extra info to keep in mind and be more aware.....No harm no foul...
I never thought much of spiders until the brown recloose (wrong spelling) hit CA.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117366

Re: OT: My husband's business is the grocery business

and have been for well over 30 years and although Pepsi may not keep their stock for any length of time, not all staff in grocery stores rotate stock as instructed. The point is, as with many things in life, just a little extra info to keep in mind and be more aware.....No harm no foul...
I never thought much of spiders until the brown recloose (wrong spelling) hit CA.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117367

Re: OT: My husband's business is the grocery business

and have been for well over 30 years and although Pepsi may not keep their stock for any length of time, not all staff in grocery stores rotate stock as instructed. The point is, as with many things in life, just a little extra info to keep in mind and be more aware.....No harm no foul...
I never thought much of spiders until the brown recloose (wrong spelling) hit CA.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117368

Re: OT: My husband's business is the grocery business

and have been for well over 30 years and although Pepsi may not keep their stock for any length of time, not all staff in grocery stores rotate stock as instructed. The point is, as with many things in life, just a little extra info to keep in mind and be more aware.....No harm no foul...
I never thought much of spiders until the brown recloose (wrong spelling) hit CA.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117369

Re: OT: My husband's business is the grocery business

and have been for well over 30 years and although Pepsi may not keep their stock for any length of time, not all staff in grocery stores rotate stock as instructed. The point is, as with many things in life, just a little extra info to keep in mind and be more aware.....No harm no foul...
I never thought much of spiders until the brown recloose (wrong spelling) hit CA.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 8:43am
Msg #117371

Re: OT: Sorry finger must have gotten stuck!?!?@?@ n/m

Reply by LilyMD on 5/3/06 8:41am
Msg #117370

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...always check it out @ Snopes. n/m

Reply by SueW/Tn on 5/3/06 8:58am
Msg #117373

Sad but true...

Several years ago during the 911 horror I was working in route sales. We were responsbile for servicing the large mfg. companies and part of that was maintaining soda machines. Our company got word that a major soft drink mfg. located in Georgia was in receipt of a possible terrorist plot against their company. This probably sounds silly to some BUT the fear was that someone from a terrorist cell was employed within the facility and was/would attempt to pass harmful agents into the beverage, helter skelter. That facility which supplied everyone here in the Southeast actually shut down until they could get their security in place. It was a long long time before I drank a soft drink....I have worked inside the snack food industry and know first hand how easily something like that can be done. Whether this story appears on Snopes or not isn't relevent to me, I experienced this first hand as the shortage our company experienced took alot of creative thinking on our part to work through. We never like to think how vulnerable we are but it's a fact, we're wide open to any and everything.

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/3/06 9:13am
Msg #117378

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...always check it out @ Snopes.

I do too...the thing that ticks me off (not aimed at you LkArrowood) is that the stories are so good they are believable.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 9:27am
Msg #117387

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...always check it out @ Snopes.

Believable or not, it's poop(I mean food) for thought..........

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/3/06 9:34am
Msg #117390

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...LkArro. and I meant

they make sense...good food for thought - you are correct.

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/3/06 9:38am
Msg #117392

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...LkArro. and I meant

No Brenda, it is poop for thought remember....

Reply by Winston_Tn on 5/3/06 9:22am
Msg #117383

Re: OT: I"m like Winston...always check it out @ Snopes.

On the flip side... I have practiced the 'wipe & rinse' routine almost as habit, since first being introduced to the purveying of aluminum contained beverages in intoxicatingly lit vending machines.
They may be pristine and sterile at the time of stocking, but the multitude of creepy-crawlies that have been enticed by the lights, to discover this bug vacation hacienda, and deposit their normal excretions, as well as other unidentifiable 'group-bug' secretions. Eeeooouuuu!

Reply by FINK FUNERAL HOME, PA - BETTY on 5/3/06 9:21am
Msg #117382

Yes..Always wash the can if you drink from it.

My cousin worked for Coca-Cola in MD and would tell me how they would walk on the stacked cans of coke when loading and unloading trucks.

Reply by BP/WV on 5/3/06 9:24am
Msg #117384

My heavy fingers rolled the trackball. n/m

Reply by CaliNotary on 5/3/06 10:57am
Msg #117423

"Please forward this message to all the people you care about."

This is always a dead giveaway that you're dealing with somebody trying to start an urban legend.