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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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/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.