Killer crosswalk controls
This is what Channel 5's investigative team has been reduced to: Janet Wu wandering around Boston like some crazed pediatrician with a throat-culture Q-tip, rubbing random objects in random public places (such as a single crossing button at a single, unidentified crosswalk) and having a lab determine whether they have bacteria on them.
Guess what? They do! Alas, Janet can't tell us if these are KILLER GERMS because she apparently spent so much on the swab sticks that Channel 5 refused to pay for real testing. But you never know:
The samples were random, and Krueger said the test does not differentiate between good bacteria and bad bacteria.
"If the surface has got a high total bacteria count -- it increases the likelihood that it has pathogenic bacteria, as well," Krueger said.
Comments
When I saw your headline ...
I thought you were going to talk about people who turn right on red in front of pedestrians in crosswalks.
re: Re: I Saw Your Headline
and I was thinking of the a$$hole drivers who blast their horn at drivers in front of them who refuse to make an right on red because there are people in the crosswalk and there is a posted sign stating no right on red
germs everywhere
Is the city going to do something about this? Thank God that Channel 5 is on the case!