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WHAT?! Cocaine Found on Most Public Baby Changing Tables
Changing a diaper or readying lines?
Okay so I could use a pick-me-up when dragging both kids around on errands as much as the next mom, but this a little much.
As Jezebel.com reports, a study of more than 100 changing tables in shopping centers, hospitals, police stations, and churches found that more than 92% contained traces of cocaine.
COCAINE!
I guess it make sense. The john is where a majority of folks seem to be doing their cocaining. But, c’mon, druggies! Have the common decency to crouch over a toilet and cut your lines on a pocket mirror like a respectable drug doer! Don’t besmirch the one area I choose to place my child’s delicate bum!
Officials say the results are “shocking” and may be indicative of the increase in cocaine abuse in the region. However, I read somewhere that money is also coated in cocaine so, as Jezebel says, it seems unlikely that the contamination is solely due to addicts doing lines off of Koala Kare changing stations.
Still, people. Use the mat from your diaper bag because in case it didn’t occur to you, those changing stations are pretty germy. I mean, it’s basically a poop station. Hell, I’d prefer a little bit of cocaine to what else is probably lurking there waiting to attach itself to your child’s tender baby skins.
Also, I’m wondering if we’ll now see an increase of junkies snorting and rooting around bathroom changing stations for leftover cocaine dust…
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Becca Said commented on Dec 20 11 at 11:11 amTake your revenge by leaving a thin layer of petroleum jelly over the changing table. It’s what they do to loo seats to discourage cocaine use… and also to be able to go “bwahaha – you paid how much for that? And now it’s mush?”
emily commented on Dec 20 11 at 11:30 amlol thats brilliant!
sarahh commented on Dec 20 11 at 11:35 amOK…who actually puts a naked baby on a changing table in a public bathroom? Screw the cocaine, how many germs, kinds of goo and bits of gunk do you think are all over that thing? Ew! Use the changing pad that comes with your diaper bag indeed!!
And yes, almost all money at least in the US is contaminated to some extent with cocaine. Obviously it’s not enough to do anything to us, or bank tellers would be a bit more wired. :)
jeneria commented on Dec 20 11 at 7:18 pmConsidering how much of our money tests positive for cocaine, I’m not surprised that any surface would test positive.
MailDeadDrop commented on Dec 21 11 at 5:24 pmAt this point I’m beginning to suspect the workers at the supply factories are doing cocaine, and in the process are contaminating all the cotton swabs used by test labs/crime scene techs.
Rehab Alert commented on Dec 21 11 at 10:16 pmThanks for getting this out there. We also just posted an article about this – http://www.rehabalert.com/92-of-baby-changing-table-contain-traces-of-cocaine/ and I hope more and more people blog about it. We really need to make some noise out there and warn parents.
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