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01-19-2005, 10:52 PM
Don't snort, spray (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/uk_news/2005/01/18/dont_snort_spray.html)
WD40 is not a chemical normally associated with combating illegal drug use. Defoliants over Colombia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,443550,00.html), maybe. But not WD40.
According to a report on the BBC Radio Five Live Breakfast (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?5L_breakfast) show (wind the player through to 01:40 and listen), Avon and Somerset police (http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/) are advising Bristol bar owners to spray the household cleaner and lubricant in their bathrooms to stop cocaine use.
The spray puts an "invisible film" over toilets and basins that absorbs the cocaine when any tries to snort it off them. It instead turns it into a congealed mess. The advice comes just a few days after BBC Wiltshire reported that a pub owner in Swindon was spraying it on toilet seats because anyone who then tried to snort cocaine off them got a nose bleed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4177567.stm).
When telephoned, a spokeswoman for WD40 told Guardian Unlimited it did not recommend the use of the spray internally. But the company is otherwise keen to promote as a wide a use of its products as possible and the press release (http://www.wd40.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=24) section of its website is a testament to ingenious PR. Even things that you never knew were problems – such as snow stuck to shovels or too-tight wheels on rolling ping pong tables – can be remedied with WD40, it claims.
It doesn't end there - most imaginative is the advice from "TV's Handy' Andy" on how the spray can pep up your love life (http://www.wd40.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1758). Before a night of romance unstick the dimmer switches, free-up the corkscrew and fix creaky bedsprings. Around the point I stopped reading it suggested WD40 can "ensure zips slide freely". Drugs and WD40, you can just about take it - but please, not sex.
Posted by Simon Jeffery at January 18, 2005 03:07 PM
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So WD-40, which is basically kerosene and coconut oil, is supposed to work wonders on toilet seats? The coconut oil part I can understand, but the solvents in WD-40 deserve no place next to anyone's skin, despite whatever nonsense its manufacturers claim. This is like Armor All, the "cleaner" for vinyl. Any vinyl repair person will tell you it's the first thing that will crack your car's dashboard, and while it might make your tires shinier, it'll reduce their life by prematurely hardening the rubber. Snake oil, all of it. Soap and water works pretty well, for toilet seats too.
WD40 is not a chemical normally associated with combating illegal drug use. Defoliants over Colombia (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,443550,00.html), maybe. But not WD40.
According to a report on the BBC Radio Five Live Breakfast (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?5L_breakfast) show (wind the player through to 01:40 and listen), Avon and Somerset police (http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/) are advising Bristol bar owners to spray the household cleaner and lubricant in their bathrooms to stop cocaine use.
The spray puts an "invisible film" over toilets and basins that absorbs the cocaine when any tries to snort it off them. It instead turns it into a congealed mess. The advice comes just a few days after BBC Wiltshire reported that a pub owner in Swindon was spraying it on toilet seats because anyone who then tried to snort cocaine off them got a nose bleed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4177567.stm).
When telephoned, a spokeswoman for WD40 told Guardian Unlimited it did not recommend the use of the spray internally. But the company is otherwise keen to promote as a wide a use of its products as possible and the press release (http://www.wd40.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=24) section of its website is a testament to ingenious PR. Even things that you never knew were problems – such as snow stuck to shovels or too-tight wheels on rolling ping pong tables – can be remedied with WD40, it claims.
It doesn't end there - most imaginative is the advice from "TV's Handy' Andy" on how the spray can pep up your love life (http://www.wd40.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1758). Before a night of romance unstick the dimmer switches, free-up the corkscrew and fix creaky bedsprings. Around the point I stopped reading it suggested WD40 can "ensure zips slide freely". Drugs and WD40, you can just about take it - but please, not sex.
Posted by Simon Jeffery at January 18, 2005 03:07 PM
Comments
So WD-40, which is basically kerosene and coconut oil, is supposed to work wonders on toilet seats? The coconut oil part I can understand, but the solvents in WD-40 deserve no place next to anyone's skin, despite whatever nonsense its manufacturers claim. This is like Armor All, the "cleaner" for vinyl. Any vinyl repair person will tell you it's the first thing that will crack your car's dashboard, and while it might make your tires shinier, it'll reduce their life by prematurely hardening the rubber. Snake oil, all of it. Soap and water works pretty well, for toilet seats too.