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On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:41:59 -0600, philo wrote:

On 12/09/2016 08:30 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Ondroom in a house where an engine was running in an
open
garage.

BTW, you can't smell carbon monoxide.


My guess is the guy had an older car in need of a tune-up. Maybe an oil
burning POS and the exhaust really smelled. Newer cars with cat
converters don't give off a lot of CO these days, but in a closed
garage, it can kill you. There were a couple of kids killed in bed
recently from a car left running in a closed garage. Carelessness and
stupidity are factors.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburb...618-story.html





Yep, I'm sure the car was a POS

People have failed in their attempts to commit suicide running a late
model Subaru in an enclosed garage because the co level is SO low.
They MAY have succeded if they started the car cold in the garage
instead of coming in all steemed up with the engine fully warmed up
and deciding to end it.