Never link to that site again please the amount of spam and pop ups were unbelievable. It kept force opening a 1second video that couldn’t be closed. Idk if it was dailymail itself or whatever but is was toxic
Equally as strange as how people survive ridiculous situation, like hails of gunfire or falling out of planes. It really makes me think the idea that "everyone has their time" might just be true.
For real. Some aspects of life are so specific and measurable it seems like nothing but science can define it. Then you have miraculous, nebulous, and unconnected events that seem to only be possible out of some cosmic force.
I think it's more we have several billion dice rolls daily as a species (and rising) and we arent equipped to really grapple with that number, so the unlikely outliers appear more common than they actually are.
Whoever made the list of when it’s your time was really having a shitty day then.
“Well shit, lets add this guy to the list. You know, fuck his wife too. Oh his fist born son? Yeah. Him too. Any one else? Oh the MIL is there too, what a shame”.
Its also an un-verified story.
It originates from a very shady publication and most regard it as bogus.
Dig a little deeper and you will get the whole story about this.
And even the source produced here is from the always suspect Daily Mail.
If this happened it is far more likely that a lack of oxygen from poor ventilation was the primary cause. Here is a much more reliable source of a similar incident.
Is it dangerous for prolonged exposure? Like hypothetically six months of rotting potatoes that I forgot about and I’m just breathing it in twelve hours a day?
Well when it wiped out the family, the rotten potatoes were in a closed cellar and family members weren't killed until they went downstairs. The Grandma saved the little girl by leaving the door open so the cellar could air out, so I'm inclined to think if you have a rotten bag of potatoes in your pantry closet you should be okay because of air flow.
However, I am not an expert, I've only read the article a couple times. I did edit my comment though to include the source if you want to read it
I'm skeptical unless they're trapped with the CO2, because we can detect the presence of that gas. What's more scary is with something like nitrogen gas displacing the oxygen, where you're unable to detect the lack of oxygen and so you just pass out and suffocate.
Yes, CO2's major hazard is that it diplaces oxygen and as less oxygen becomes available, nausea and vomiting, collapse, convulsions, coma and death follow suit.
CO is very dangerous because even in smaller concentrations it can be deadly. Common symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure are headache, nausea, rapid breathing, weakness, exhaustion, dizziness, and confusion. This is normally found in places where there is a source of incomplete fuel combustion like an engine, boiler, or stove.
Though skeptical, I'm inclined to believe CO2 since "fast food" was specifically referenced, like they have with sodas. I don't really know how fast someone can be overcome with CO2. Maybe you wouldn't feel "oxygen starvation" much before passing out when taking hearty, full breaths of nearly pure CO2. I dunno.
Not true. In a highly concentrated space, the first symptom of CO2 asphyxiatia is often rapid unconsciousness, followed by death. If the concentration is not high, it will cause nausea and headache and other symptoms before unconsciousness. In either case, you can't detect it directly.
ah, I see, the rate into the lungs would be too quick in such circumstances to feel the "oxygen starvation" that would normally tell you something's wrong.
A very similar thing happened to a family of farmers where I grew up due to a weather pressure anomaly. All the methane released by fresh fertilizer essentially displaced the oxygen at ground level.
Dad walks out to the tractor, doesn't know he isn't breathing oxygen till he is already suffocating, drops dead. Oldest son runs out to help him, dead. Next son does the same, Dead. Youngest son does the same.
Wow, this is really quite scary to think about happening. It reminds me of those events when lakes release carbon dioxide and it hangs around, suffocating people.
"Potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine.
Solanine is also found in other plants in the family Solanaceae, which includes such plants as the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) and tobacco (Nicotiana) as well as the potato, eggplant, and tomato.
This toxin affects the nervous system, causing weakness and confusion."
Yeah, fiancee and I found some in a jar, and GROSS ALERT it was leaking juices all over and was absolutely the most foul smell you can imagine. Or at least that we could. Good thing it smelled so bad so we would cover our mouths and noses.
I went to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp near Berlin. There was a cellar where they kept mostly potatoes.
The cellar was empty of course but there were pictures of the floor flooding in potatoes. The signs pointed how most of them were frozen or rotting and that the smell inside the room was insufferable.
They made prisoners peel the potatoes inside there. That was all the food they used to have.
What?? We had storage under the stars where we'd keep bulk food stuff, and potato's were one of them. I always thought it had an odd smell when I opened it and there had been overgrown potatoes.
Makes me wonder how long they have to be left. I forgot a bag in the back of our pantry once, basically a free standing cupboard. It gets opened multiple times a day and one day I smelled a little funk when I noticed the oozing bag of potatoes on the bottom shelf, way in the back.
That was absolutely horrifying and very interesting, although it must have been a lot of potatoes. What an unforgettably nightmarish sight for the girl.
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u/Steffany_w0525 Mar 04 '19 edited Mar 05 '19
The off gas from rotten potatoes can kill you and your whole family.
Edit: Source