"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
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Chris Lewis writes:

"Near zero" CO emissions from cars can kill you if you're not
ventilating well enough. Starting a car in a closed garage and
sitting in the car to read a book is about the easiest and gentlest
ways to die there is.

Bunk. The pCO2 respiratory stimulation will kick in long before
integrated
pCO is enough to affect anything. Car exhaust is nearly pure CO2 and
steam, plus very tiny amounts of things like CO. As a suicide method,
it's
absolutely stupid, because the mostly likely outcome is a brain-damaged
but
still-alive subject.

The dose makes the poison. Your swell ideas about what happens given a
lethal dose of CO doesn't mean inhaling car exhaust will administer a
lethal dose. Citing unusual cases where it has happened is to commit the
fallacy of selection.


So in other words, a few years ago when I was working on a car, in a closed
shop, exhaust hose attached, but unaware of a hole in the exhaust, I should
have known sooner I was poisoning myself?? I realized that I was feeling
faint and headed out the door. I don't remembering even getting outside,
don't remember opening the heavy shop door. All I remember is a buddy that
happened to stop by, finding me sitting, passed out in a snow bank along
side the shop. If I had not caught myself feeling faint, or the shop door
was farther away, I would not be here today.
I noticed nothing untill I felt dizzy.
Greg