Story about salons

Was it about nail salons or hair salons? Just curious.

I've seen stories in the past about the dangers of what can happen when nail equipment isn't properly sterilized.

But I've not seen anything in particular about risks at hair salons.

It's WTOL 11. Those were promos, the story airs Monday at 11pm.

That makes sense...I was wondering how I missed it.

Normally I see a gazillion items every day via WTOL's FB feed, was wondering how I possibly could have missed that story!

(I don't think it usually hits their FB feed until the day the story is going to air.)

told about women getting herpes on their legs fm dirty foot baths...

nasty!!

Ewwww....

"Honey, can I have a foot massage..."

barf

I'm guessing the dirty places are the ones that you find in the shopping mall or strip malls. You're higher-end salons and spas (Soto, Shamas, etc.) typically are better with their sanitation standards. They disinfect the tools and basins between every customer. Most of their tools are disposable too. I could be wrong, but I will be very surprised to see these places on the report.

Let's face it, no one knows exactly what goes on when we aren't watching. I don't care if it's a high end salon, restaurant, or hospital. One small lapse in sanitation and the possibility for infection is huge.
Frankly, I'm surprised more cases aren't reported. I think people do get exposed to things in these places, but the body fights them off or they just figure it was caused by something else.
This story is just another "terrorist reporting" story.

Let's face it infections run rampant in all kinds of institutions. Staph is common place in our hospitals and causes more deaths then most realize.

My neighbor works for a high end spa and has told me for years of people coming to her because of infections from other places.

I would only go to a spa or high end salon who value their reputation and do the right thing for their clients. It is definitely buyer beware out there.

Update on this? LInk?

Oh, Monday! Sorry :)

http://www.wtol.com/story/16922162/tonight-at-11-dirty-salons

They are regulated by the Health Dept-they must be busy writing grants to cover their asses

Talk about poor journalism. The story on their website provides a link to all of the inspection documents. During the report, they mention the one salon in Maumee - Salon Uptown I think? - for unsanitary waxing supplies. One would think this means dirty wax or the like. No - if you read the inspection report they simply didn't store the tweezers in a closed container. So now that salon's name is out there and their business might be affected because of this. There are other salons on there with pretty bad violations - one salon and spa in Maumee had unsanitary pedicure stations (herpes anybody?) and were reusing implements but they weren't called out. Go read the reports - they are some of the most boring stuff - person licensed in Michigan and practicing in Ohio, picture on license isn't current, etc. WTOL really needs to get their act together because this was a pretty poor excuse for investigative journalism.

Someone at the studio had a bad visit and is exacting revenge.

WTOL really needs to get their act together because this was a pretty poor excuse for investigative journalism.

Investigative journalism involves risk. A lot of risk, legal and financial.

WTOL and the rest of the local "media" would never dream of cutting itself off from our entrenched local political machine, so there goes any political investigation...even though a scandal is raging right now in the Dept. of Neighborhoods. Hell we have an ongoing thread on this board regarding all the bullshit at the Health Department. Have you seen anything about it anywhere else??? Nobody from local media reads this board or any other to gather tips about what's happening "out there"? Please...they're scared shitless of ticking off the power players in this town the dutiful sheep vote in time and time again.

They also wouldn't dream of attacking/investigating any of the big companies in town, since big companies have big legal staffing that file big ugly expensive lawsuits (whether merited or not). TV stations, like a lot of media outlets, are owned by conglomorates that don't want any legal risk. None. So there goes that angle...

What's left: investigate the businesses that (a) can't really fight back and (b) are easy to exploit because they are inspected by the state with detailed reports filed on a regular basis. Meaning...you don't really have to investigate anything. Just go read the reports and gin up a sensational story about "dirty this" and "risking your health if you ______", and run big splashy promos hyping it all weekend. "Dirty restaurants". "Dirty Salons". "Dirty ________". And the best part--because the information is public record and true, you can't sue for defamation if your little business is hurt. And the media company will claim no "actual malice"...they were simply reporting what was in the publicly available file, all factual information. It's a win-win-win...unless it was your small business that just got blown apart.

I feel bad for that salon if the only thing that was wrong was minor, yet WTOL portrayed it like you'd get the plague if you went there. I don't want to go to a "dirty" place, but c'mon...

BTW, we're in the middle of February TV sweeps. You don't think that WTOL was doing it just for ratings do you.....naaaaaahhhhhh.....

All valid points, OHT. I thought it was interesting that they didn't open the story up to comments on their website. Maybe it's normal for them to wait awhile but I noticed that the other investigative stories allow for comments.

How can you say no local media will cover political scandals, when the Department of Neighborhoods scandal was generated from Toledo Blade articles?

Dell_diva...WTOL's Facebook page always has comments about stories whether or not comments are allowed on the website.

It seems like the FB page always gets way more comments than anything on the website.

Even if you don't have a Facebook account, I think WTOL's page is public & viewable without being logged in.