WD40 and Coke
You just can’t make this stuff up:
But police have found another [use for WD40] — keeping the public from snorting cocaine off toilet lids in bars.
Police in Bristol said on Wednesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray the colourless lubricant on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the lavatory that customers often use to snort drugs.
Apparently, cocaine and spray lube don’t mix.
“A chemical reaction takes place with the cocaine that causes it to congeal and become a mess so it’s unusable,” a police spokesman said. “It’s one very small, very cheap way in which you can very seriously restrict the amount of drug use in your premises.”
So, when someone dies or becomes violently ill because they decide they’re going to somehow ingest the drugs anyway, who will be responsible?
January 20th, 2005 at 9:40 am
And who snorts cocaine off toilet seats? That’s gross.
January 20th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
No kidding. Yuck.
January 20th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
No kidding. I think you’re supposed to snort coke off a hooker’s breast or something.
January 20th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
I’m sure you’ve heard of the monkey who will pull the lever 40’000 times while rejecting sex and food….
January 20th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
I’d be more concerned about the lawsuits from people who develop rashes on their fannies. There’s got to be someone out there with a WD40 allergy – and trial lawyers can dig up 10,000 more (who may or may not be allergic, but did happen to get a rash) if they scent a big settlement.
January 21st, 2005 at 11:53 pm
I don’t much like — umm — using toilet seats in public for their regularly designed purpose, but when I do I like to be able to sit on them securely rather than sliding off. I think someone with a cracked tailbone is going to sue (and win) before the cocaine snorters…