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Darwin's Half-Dozen
Ellen had a nasty habit of trying to make this work back when we lived in an apartment many years ago:
A teenage girl was discovered dead this weekend, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.
And it's important for Ron to remember that mudding can be dangerous. Dangerous to the dumb and panicky, that is:
Five people died after a pickup truck got stuck in a shallow pond and sat with the engine running for several minutes while the truck was submerged just above the tailpipe, West Texas authorities said Monday.
I have to think the latter was caused by a not-so-stock truck. Many modern vehicles actually clean the air of pollutants, and all of them emit so little poisonous gas it can take a very long time indeed to build up to toxic levels. A car without these devices, however, can kill very quickly indeed.
They were teh dumb. I've no idea why, when stuck, they didn't send at least one person out to attempt to get halp.
Besides, I'm not big on trying to drive through mudholes. I'm more of an obstacle type (think rocks, trees, and trails, not mudholes of undetermined depth).
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on June 24, 2009 11:53 AMI dunno... Carbon monoxide is an awfully sneaky poison, which is the reason it's a good idea have at least one detector in your home, even if everything but the car runs on electricity. Mudding in a truck with the tailpipe near the ground would result in intermittent blockages of the exhaust, causing more stress than a simple blockage and sending monoxide into the cab. With the windows rolled up (presumably to keep the mud out), they were probably on the verge of blacking out without even realizing it, when the truck finally got stuck.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on June 24, 2009 12:18 PMI dunno...the top thing sounds almost like a (Romanian?) Mafia hit!
Posted by: Mark on June 24, 2009 03:42 PM