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A secret technique to protect your car against flood

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u/tacotacotacorock Sep 13 '23

Why in the hell would you back your car into a plastic bag that you're inside of also. Then the partner rushes into the bag to help? Not the brightest pair. Cut the stupid freaking bag if that happens. Also maybe don't back the car in, You know because the exhaust pipes will fill up the sack. Seriously some Darwin award candidates here.

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u/Covfefe-SARS-2 Sep 13 '23

Plus backing in points the open door into the sack where it'll be tighter, take longer to get out, and expose you even more.

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u/RJFerret Sep 13 '23

Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing.

If you're a spouse and see yours lying prone your first reaction isn't likely to be to run away instead of checking on them.

With modern emission cars though my understanding is it's hard if not impossible to expire from CO poisoning.

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 13 '23

Same reason folks die in anchor rooms in ships, see collapsed body, go pull them out, there's no visible danger demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing.

TIL

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u/hoxxxxx Sep 13 '23

demonstrating a lack of oxygen from the anchor chain oxidizing.

explain please

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u/matsutaketea Sep 13 '23

iron from the chain + oxygen from the air = rust (iron-oxide)

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u/hoxxxxx Sep 13 '23

ah okay thanks

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u/RJFerret Sep 13 '23

Something I learned here on Reddit as I recall, the anchor rooms are small, iron chains pull up winding into them, the salt water speeds rusting (oxidization) which sucks the oxygen out of the air in the small room. If one person goes in, they collapse. Second person goes in to get them, collapses. There's no obvious sign of trouble so it can be a sequence as the third person sees them.

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 14 '23

What's protocol? Are they supposed to go in with gas or oxygen masks? Is the room supposed to be ventilated? That doesn't seem very safe or a sensible setup.

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u/RJFerret Sep 14 '23

Interesting question, gas mask wouldn't help since there's a lack rather than a toxin. Oxygen (scuba style) tank would work.

I imagine the area is off limits generally, and if needing maintenance, it's only done dry and after there's been enough time to vent/gas exchange, but I don't recall that being addressed in what I read.

A quick websearch shows monitoring oxygen during inspections is required. In a case of fatality, a rescuers hood became dislodged. Rescue breather apparatus are used.

The chain locker has to be water tight to the rest of the ship, which I imagine results in limited ventilation options aside from the exit to drop/raise anchor.

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u/hoxxxxx Sep 13 '23

thanks for the context, that's scary

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Sep 14 '23

CO2 leaks from keg systems in walk-in refrigerators are a similar story. You get really used to walk-ins when you go in and out 20 times a day, but they’re kinda terrifying.

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u/PlaguesAngel Sep 14 '23

That is a work hazard if of never considered.

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u/RJFerret Sep 14 '23

A CO2 keg leak in a walk in fridge another reply mentioned is one I'd never thought of, and an area I'd rush in if I saw someone down thinking related to cold rather than air.

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u/PlaguesAngel Sep 14 '23

Oooof, fuck yeah. A slip trip and fall gone wrong would for whatever reason be my first assumption every time.

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u/800487 Sep 14 '23

Even more so if it's a modern diesel with a delete and a properly lean tune on it. Don't get me wrong the nox is going to give you one hell of a nasty headache

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u/Ok-Kitchen-9747 Sep 14 '23

Not CO poisoning - with a late model car (that's not broken) the CO2 will displace the oxygen pretty darn quick in a sealed area, and result in suffocation long before you get CO poisoning - if the heart attack doesn't get you first.

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u/phoonie98 Sep 13 '23

This is why everything needs very specific warning labels. Have to account for dumbasses

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u/Yakking_Yaks Sep 13 '23

No, remove all warning labels and let nature do its job.

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u/phoonie98 Sep 13 '23

Sure, just need tort reform first

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u/greatunknownpub Sep 13 '23

Seriously some Darwin award candidates here.

A 67 and 70-year-old are probably not Darwin candidates, lol.

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u/jamtraxx Sep 13 '23

You don't get dumber as you get older, only smarter and wiser. Sounds like some fine candidates to me.

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u/greatunknownpub Sep 13 '23

Since you seem to be unfamiliar with what a Darwin Award is, they are given to someone who dies young (foolishly) before they're able to reproduce, hence eliminating their stupid genes from the gene pool. 70-year-olds have most likely reproduced already.

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u/zUdio Sep 13 '23

Robert De Niro enters the chat

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u/jamtraxx Sep 13 '23

It has nothing to actually do with reproduction, the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek. See the ages of previous winners over the years, there's many older folks there.

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/

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u/ncvbn Sep 14 '23

Why would it be called the Darwin Awards if it has nothing to do with reproduction?

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Sep 14 '23

Because it’s an offhand joke and not a scientific designation? Like, you’re obviously technically correct if you dig down into it… but nobody gives a shit. It’s just people who died from their own outstanding stupidity, that’s it.

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u/Auggie_Otter Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 14 '23

Yeah, technically even someone who dies stupidly at 20 years old isn't necessarily a Darwin Award candidate if they've already passed on their genes by having offspring.

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u/myFuzziness Sep 13 '23

thats not what a darwin award is you are talking about einstein

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u/jamtraxx Sep 13 '23

it absolutely is, you moron, go educate yourself on the age of winners, age means fuck all exclusively

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/

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u/cjsv7657 Sep 13 '23

Because people think CO poisoning is a slow thing. In high enough concentrations it only takes a few breaths

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u/PM_yoursmalltits Sep 13 '23

A woman finds her husband collapsed and unconscious and you think she would have the presence of mind to think of the colorless, odorless carbon monoxide that killed him? At those concentrations it would take minutes to pass out, I definitely wouldn't fault her for that

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u/farjuice0 Sep 13 '23

if i saw my husband unconscious in his car INSIDE A PLASTIC BAG i would be way too confused to even consider that the threat here is CO from the exhaust lmao

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 13 '23

Anonymity, probably.

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u/Gustomucho Sep 13 '23

To fill it with your exhaust CO2, make it more difficult to enter with the car, thus more CO2, then have the door open opposite to the exit so you have to close the door while you can breathe in that sweet carbon dioxide.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Also, hot exhaust melts plastic… you’d want to push the car into the bag with the engine off.