Uh huh! Grody to the max!

[DesignerGal]

All I have to say is WOW and GROSS!

Some academic studies show that the typical American bill does some hard living. In 1997 the Argonne National Laboratory found that 78 percent of bills from Miami, Houston and Chicago carried trace amounts of cocaine. Later tests have found similar results. Cocaine on cash is so commonplace that the courts have ruled that police can no longer use a drug-sniffing dog’s signal to nab a suspect or to confiscate money because it’s deemed drug-related.



Money also doesn’t have to go through the mob to be considered dirty. Studies conducted over the decades in countries around the globe have found bacteria on most paper money, which is friendlier to bacteria than coins.



Medical Center showed that 87 peercent of bills he collected from a local high school food stand were contaminated with germs that could make the weak sick and that 7 percent carried germs that could make anyone sick. Only 6 percent were clean. Later studies showed 94 percent of singles carried bacteria.



The dirtiness of bills is one reason Australia is leading the charge to use a plastic currency that is supposed to be inhospitable to both germs and counterfeiters and four times as durable as paper notes. Australia introduced the rubbery-feeling bills in 1988 and now prints them for 22 other countries, including Romania, Malaysia and Mexico.

[sunny104]

yuck!

[cherandbuster]

DesignerGal wrote: In 1997 the Argonne National Laboratory found that 78 percent of bills from Miami, Houston and Chicago carried trace amounts of cocaine. Later tests have found similar results. Cocaine on cash is so commonplace that the courts have ruled that police can no longer use a drug-sniffing dog’s signal to nab a suspect or to confiscate money because it’s deemed drug-related.




That's so interesting . . . and kind of a pathetic comment on our society, isn't it?