On 1/30/2012 7:12 AM, George wrote:
On 1/30/2012 6:59 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 1/29/2012 10:56 PM, leonard hofstadter wrote:
about stupid exhaust gases leaking in the house from the garage.

Seriously.

How many people run their vehicle in the garage long enough to have any
effect?

rant off

Unfortunately a late friend of mine did, just before he became my late
friend. :-(

TDD


It only took a few hours for the guy next town over who had serious
financial issues (his restaurant was in trouble) and simply sat in the
car he started in their multi car garage. My pathologist friend whose
practice does all of the autopsies for the local coroner said they only
found high CO in his blood.


My late friend was a Vietnam vet and was on medication from The VA
hospital which he'd been on for years. His usual habit was to chase
his meds with beer and since he'd been on the same meds for years,
he had the meds to beer ratio finely sorted out. A problem occurred
when VA doctors changed his medication which disrupted my friend's
routine. He was finding himself sitting in his car at stoplights and
having no idea how he got there. He wound up being arrested for DUI
which is something that had never been a concern with his old meds.
The new meds in combination with alcohol caused depression which
really took him over after his mother died. His mother had been the
support for his mental well being and after her death, he was lost.
Another friend had prevented one suicide attempt but eventually, he
succeeded in offing himself. I'd like to believe his death was an
accident but the garage door was the manually closed type. Dammit,
we better take a lot better care of the kids who fought in The Middle
East because I think they may have gone through a lot more Hell. I
never want to see them ignored, treated with scorn and disrespect as
my contemporaries were.

TDD