One third of men don't wash their hands in public toilets. Which is kind of worrying about the sanitary issues of the two thirds that do. A sink is a much better place for hand washing.
Hand washing is a big issue. One judge has allowed some young people to walk free after they beat up a disabled boy, and made him eat his own faeces. Clearly the judge felt such behaviour unworthy of a custodial sentence, possibly as they didn't kill the boy. Makes one wonder who was practicing tolerance.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
The Principle of Clean Hands
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One third of men don't wash hands in public toilets
From news.com.au
NEARLY a third of Australian men do not wash their hands when they use public toilets – and Gen Y are the worst offenders, according to a survey.
Nearly one in three men and 10 per cent of women who took part in a survey about their public toilet behaviour did not habitually scrub their hands after using the facilities.
According to the survey, carried out by electrical manufacturer Dyson and Woolcott Research, 61 per cent of respondents aged between 16 and 24 said that public toilets were dirty – but still did not wash their hands as often as other age groups.
Just a third of respondents older than 55 years of age thought that public toilets were “unhygienic”.
But for those respondents that said that they washed their hands, only 24 per cent actually dried them completely afterwards.
The majority of respondents said that they did not know that damp hands were 1000 times more likely to attract bacteria.
About 68 per cent of respondents said that they found waiting for their hands to dry under drying machines “frustrating”, while nearly half said that they wipe their hands on their clothes instead.
The lack of paper towels was the most common reason why respondents did not dry their hands.
Dyson released the survey results at a launch for its new Airblade hand dryer today in Sydney.
Disabled boy attackers walk free
By Christine Flatley
TWO schoolgirls who participated in the prolonged beating of a disabled boy forced to eat faeces laughed and posed for cameras as they left court after escaping a custodial sentence.
The two girls, who cannot be identified, were just 12 years old when they helped attack the 15-year-old boy who has muscular dystrophy on October 3 last year.
Two males – one who was aged 17 at the time and another who was just 15 – also appeared in court today over the same incident.
Few details of the attack were read out in the Brisbane District Court, but it was revealed the four assaulted the teenager at a derelict house at Mitchelton in Brisbane's north.
During the original hearing in the Brisbane Children's Court on October 7 last year, the court was told the girls threw rocks at the boy as he tried to escape.
The court was told the 17-year-old youth forced the frightened boy to eat faeces while the girls threatened him with a metal pole.
The children's court was then told the two male youths viciously punched and kicked the teenager.
The two girls both pleaded guilty today to two counts of common assault.
The boys both pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, as well as common assault charges.
All four walked free today, after Judge Milton Griffin SC ruled that non-custodial sentences were appropriate given their age and lack of prior criminal convictions.
Judge Griffin said, however, that their actions were "cowardice in the extreme".
The two girls laughed and waved to news cameras as they left the court premises.
They were each released on a 12-month probation order.
The two boys each received a two-year probation order, and were ordered to perform 120 hours of community service.
No convictions were recorded.
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