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the 12 th man
09/01/2007, 6:24 PM
According to the news this evening sample of 45 bank notes taken from an Irish bank showed 100% positive for traces of Cocaine or stronger drugs.Its estimated that 60% of all Dollar bills in the USA are also show up positive for trace elements of class 1 drugs.

Figures that are not to be sniffed at.
pineapple stu
09/01/2007, 6:29 PM
Free cocaine! :)
Sheridan
09/01/2007, 6:32 PM
That's an original piece of research (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6208877.stm). :rolleyes:

A sample of 45 notes isn't even scientifically admissible, particularly since most of them probably passed through the hands of bankers, students and journalists.
OneRedArmy
09/01/2007, 6:35 PM
The similarly high percentage of mints/jelly beans taken by punters from the bowls left at many restaurant tills that contain trace fecal matter and urine is much more interesting.
Student Mullet
09/01/2007, 6:37 PM
Cocaine is a very fine powder (it's absorbed into your bloodstream through the wall of your nose) and trace amounts of it can get pretty much anywhere.
The fact is probably true but completly meaningless.
First
09/01/2007, 7:14 PM
According to the news this evening sample of 45 bank notes taken from an Irish bank showed 100% positive for traces of Cocaine or stronger drugs.Its estimated that 60% of all Dollar bills in the USA are also show up positive for trace elements of class 1 drugs.

Figures that are not to be sniffed at.


So the Northern bank robbery wasn't for the money it was for the coke that it is laced with. Smart very smart.;)
anto1208
09/01/2007, 10:23 PM
did they just get the money from a bunch of coke heads
Block G Raptor
09/01/2007, 10:46 PM
Was watching this on the news earlier and something occurred to me; if all the bank notes they tested came back positive then possibly there was something wrong with the testing procedure. I think 100% positive in any test like this is called a false positive or something like that
Dr.Nightdub
10/01/2007, 12:31 AM
If I was a cop, I'd put a tail on the lab technician right away.
the 12 th man
10/01/2007, 7:12 AM
did they just get the money from a bunch of coke heads

They took the sample at random from a Bank afaik.
Macy
10/01/2007, 7:45 AM
They took the sample at random from a Bank afaik.
BofI Coolock?

I'm surprised anyone's surprised tbh.
BohsPartisan
10/01/2007, 7:53 AM
Nah AIB IFSC.
Dodge
10/01/2007, 8:01 AM
We can all mention places lads...

Rubbish survey. 45 notes? Out of how many millions in circulation? Good sampling
dfx-
10/01/2007, 8:23 AM
Its estimated that 60% of all Dollar bills in the USA are also show up positive for trace elements of class 1 drugs.


Wasn't there something somewhere about the test being in a FBI lab where it turned out that there had been cross-contamination in the lab?
the 12 th man
10/01/2007, 8:45 AM
BofI Coolock?

I'm surprised anyone's surprised tbh.


Its the percentages that catch the eye,65% of all the Dollars in the USA showing evidence of direct use in drug intake = Mountains of snow:)
osarusan
10/01/2007, 10:00 AM
We can all mention places lads...

Rubbish survey. 45 notes? Out of how many millions in circulation? Good sampling

Absolutely.

45 notes?? By any survey standard, you need at least 1,000 people for it to be considered any way representative of the topic.

How about testing the hands of the person who counted the notes?

Ridiculous.
pete
10/01/2007, 10:00 AM
45 Notes is a pitiful sample.

Says a lot more about the Bankers than the general public.
Terry
10/01/2007, 10:25 AM
in the sky news report about this, it says, that it was the largest sampling worldwide for this specific test
NeilMcD
10/01/2007, 10:37 AM
There was a guy on radio this morning who conducted the research. The reason it is 100% is because cocaine passes from the note on to any surface it touches and then on to another note that has never had cocaine on it. The true results of the test are that 5% had high amount of cocaine on them as in they were used to snort cocaine. The other 95% simply touched surfaces that this 5% had previously come into contact.
osarusan
10/01/2007, 10:41 AM
Shouldnt sniffer dogs at the airport be ripping the wallets from the pockets of practically every passenger??
Lim till i die
10/01/2007, 11:25 AM
Were all notes represented??

I find it hard to believe

I mean, who the fupp would snort coke through a fiver?? :eek: :)
noby
10/01/2007, 11:30 AM
Exactly. Fiver's are for lighting fags with. €100 minimum for coke.