What pleasant reading !!!
London Travel News
>If you are a regular traveller on the London
>Underground, here are some facts which you are going
>to wish you hadn't read.
>
>During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the
>Department of Forensics at University College London
>removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line
>tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite
>London Underground's claim that the interior of their
>trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists
>made some alarming discoveries.
>
>The analysis was broken down. This is what was found
>on the surface of the seats:
>
>
> · 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
>
>
>
> · 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
>
>
>
> · vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
>
>
>
> · human urine originating from at least 4 separate
>
> people
>
>
>
> · human excrement
>
>
>
> · rodent excrement
>
>
>
> · human semen
>
>
>
> When the seats were taken apart, they found:
>
>
>
> · the remains of 6 mice
>
>
>
> · the remains of 2 large rats
>
>
>
> · 1 previously unheard of fungus
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests,
> you are transferring, to your body, the natural oils
> and sweat from as many as 400 different people.
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that it is generally healthier to
> smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one
> hour a day on the London Underground.
>
>
>
>
> It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the
> inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before
> eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground
> seat before eating.
>
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that, within London, more work
> sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst
> travelling on the London Underground than for any
> other reason (including alcohol).
Dont know if this has been posted before, but it gives me another reason why I dont like the tube !!!
Sweet xx
London Travel News
>If you are a regular traveller on the London
>Underground, here are some facts which you are going
>to wish you hadn't read.
>
>During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the
>Department of Forensics at University College London
>removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line
>tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite
>London Underground's claim that the interior of their
>trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists
>made some alarming discoveries.
>
>The analysis was broken down. This is what was found
>on the surface of the seats:
>
>
> · 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
>
>
>
> · 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
>
>
>
> · vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
>
>
>
> · human urine originating from at least 4 separate
>
> people
>
>
>
> · human excrement
>
>
>
> · rodent excrement
>
>
>
> · human semen
>
>
>
> When the seats were taken apart, they found:
>
>
>
> · the remains of 6 mice
>
>
>
> · the remains of 2 large rats
>
>
>
> · 1 previously unheard of fungus
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests,
> you are transferring, to your body, the natural oils
> and sweat from as many as 400 different people.
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that it is generally healthier to
> smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one
> hour a day on the London Underground.
>
>
>
>
> It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the
> inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before
> eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground
> seat before eating.
>
>
>
>
>
> It is estimated that, within London, more work
> sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst
> travelling on the London Underground than for any
> other reason (including alcohol).
Dont know if this has been posted before, but it gives me another reason why I dont like the tube !!!
Sweet xx
