Do highway troopers use Coca-Cola to clean blood stains from streets?

MYTH.

Not likely, said Neil Smithers, the owner of Crime Scene Cleaners in San Francisco.Smithers, whose company contracts with police forces throughout the country to clean up accident and crime scenes, said he has tried using Coke on blood stains with little success.

‘It just doesn’t work,’ he said. ‘If anything, it makes more of a mess.’

George Johnston, a quality insurance manager for the Washington State Police crime division agreed that Coke is probably not used on blood stains.

Although Johnston hypothesized that the high level of sugar in Coke may have inspired this myth, he said he saw no value in using the soft drink as a cleaner. ‘I’ve never heard of anyone using it,’ he said.