Washington man finds dead mouse in energy drink can

[Cagey]

The Mythbusters did a myth once, that if I recall, was about rats walking along the tops of the cans, getting traces of urine everywhere.
They swabbed a bunch of cans from every place they could find and tested for whatever they were looking for, but concluded that all of the cans were clean.

Actually, rats are pretty fastidious. They got a bad rap because of the bubonic plague their fleas carried that nearly wiped out Europe.  Mice, on the other hand, can't seem to stop dumping waste every few steps. They're as bad as rabbits, which are the same way. Hop, hop, crap. Hop, hop, piss. Hop, hop, crap. Hop, hop, piss. Makes you wonder where it's all coming from.

 

[line6man]

The Mythbusters did a myth once, that if I recall, was about rats walking along the tops of the cans, getting traces of urine everywhere.
They swabbed a bunch of cans from every place they could find and tested for whatever they were looking for, but concluded that all of the cans were clean.

Actually, rats are pretty fastidious. They got a bad rap because of the bubonic plague their fleas carried that nearly wiped out Europe.  Mice, on the other hand, can't seem to stop dumping waste every few steps. They're as bad as rabbits, which are the same way. Hop, hop, crap. Hop, hop, piss. Hop, hop, crap. Hop, hop, piss. Makes you wonder where it's all coming from.

In that case, I don't give a rat's ass about rat ass on soda cans.

 

[stubhead]

That "fastidious" business is mostly just that in America - a business. If you didn't have billions of happy bacteria in your stomach, "you" couldn't digest your food, or rather the bacteria couldn't rot it within you, thereby feeding themselves - your nutrition is just a by-product, from their point of view. Which is why an overdose of antibiotics gives you the twirlies & subsonic ballistic trots.  And the billions of germs we breathe every day are mostly only a problem for those who didn't develop a tolerance for them - like all the clean-living American city kids with awful bronchitis and asthma. Farm kids grow up snorting "stuff" their whole lives, and they just don't get sick as much.

If you obey your TV to any extent, your entire life is a litany of paranoia, spraying and wiping and scrubbing and visualizing those cartoon squirmy wormy things that are now all the fad on the ads.  Which is not to say that no germs are bad for you but - you're really not going to catch "it" off a toilet seat unless you're pretty pervy your own self; remember the new mother who learned home sanitation from the Lysol commercials - her baby died from inhaling too much Lysol!

One thing's for sure, there were germs around for billions of years before we got here, in fact If you take the long view, we are descended from germs. Yes, your great grandpa  & ma actually were germs. And there will be plenty of them left when we're gone. In fact, if you hold truck with any of this Mother Earth/Gaia conceptualization, I'd be willing to bet "she" views the human species as a particularly nasty and persistent germ. Ahhh, CHOO.....

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

This is the Dwight Shrute defense of coddling the immune system.  There's something to be said for that.  Hand sanitizer everywhere can make us sicker.  Staying in the house during Flu season can make one more suceptible to the Flu.

 

[Graffiti62]

This is the Dwight Shrute defense of coddling the immune system.  There's something to be said for that.  Hand sanitizer everywhere can make us sicker.  Staying in the house during Flu season can make one more suceptible to the Flu.

My little brother had a good friend growing up who had a mother who would chase after everyone with a can of Lysol and a bottle of Clorox. Their house was so sanitary growing up that the poor kid wound up nearly biting the big one when he left for college because his immune system was so underdeveloped. The kid's name was Mitch, but he wound up getting the nickname of Paul Pfeiffer (think back to The Wonder Years), not only for his lack of an immune system and the possibility of being allergic to his own snot, but also due to looking like Paul with blonde hair.

 

[Torment Leaves Scars]

Wow. Monster slapped that guy's balls. Way to go. I hope they counter-sue for defamation. Nothing much, just have the guy cover THEIR legal bill.

I agree.  Years ago, I think I read something to the same effect, except for with Coors, or some other company...a mouse apparently got in a can.  Whatever...

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Anyone remember the finger in Wendy's Chili?  It was revealed to be an attempt to defraud Wendy's.