How stupid are people in this state??

[JimBob]

There have been over 70 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning in Tulsa from dumbasses running generators indoors. WTF is wrong with these people??:eek:

[BackHomePoke]

inbreeding?:confused:

[BigBadBen]

booooooomer.........




:cool:

[JimBob]

booooooomer.........




:cool:


sooooner.....

The winning number is now 88!!:D

[osujane]

:D I thought it would be classless to mention the "sooner" possibility. Someone beat me to it! :D

[OKState918]

The big question is, why would Sooners need generators to power their homes?

I thought they could just turn the key and crank the heat. Problem solved. No wonder so many suffered CO2 poisoning - there isn't much air inside a conversion van.

[Boss 24]

The big question is, why would Sooners need generators to power their homes?

I thought they could just turn the key and crank the heat. Problem solved. No wonder so many suffered CO2 poisoning - there isn't much air inside a conversion van.

Tsk, tsk,

Dude, just because they have all those cars in the front yard doesn't mean they'll start and run!:D

[CoachOSU]

Probably the same people who put brail on some drive thru ATM's.. .scary thought that these people actually might reproduce :eek:

[Erick]

Sorry dude, but making fun of dead people is tacky.

[Jonno]

Sorry dude, but making fun of dead people is tacky.

Dude, 70 people didn't die, they got sick from carbon monoxide poisoning. It ain't always fatal. Chill.

[Shooter McGavin]

The gentleman from Collinsville that died from doing this is the brother of a lady that I know from work... While I don't know specifically where the brother was on his state teams, his sister and her family are all big O-State fans...

So while 70 people didn't die, some of them did... Making fun of them does seem a bit tacky...

[JimBob]

The gentleman from Collinsville that died from doing this is the brother of a lady that I know from work... While I don't know specifically where the brother was on his state teams, his sister and her family are all big O-State fans...

So while 70 people didn't die, some of them did... Making fun of them does seem a bit tacky...


Really surprised at the amount of stupidity given the media coverage from EMSA on tv, the TW, etc., over several days. Maybe bro could have read the instructions/warnings, and had a clue.

[legelegel]

Really surprised at the amount of stupidity given the media coverage from EMSA on tv, the TW, etc., over several days. Maybe bro could have read the instructions/warnings, and had a clue.

No electricity would indicate no tv.

Maybe you should let this one go, JimBob, since people have died.

Most accidental deaths are due to some type of stupidity. Most stupidity is found behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.

[jakeman]

No electricity would indicate no tv.

Maybe you should let this one go, JimBob, since people have died.

Most accidental deaths are due to some type of stupidity. Most stupidity is found behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.

I'm sorry people have died, and it was a tragedy that the young expectant mother in OKC died when the exhaust leaked into the house from a generator positioned outside, but seriously, how goofy do you have to be to hook up a gasoline powered generator "inside" your home?

It is an internal combustion engine. These same people would probably never think of sitting in their closed up garage with their car running (cause that'll kill ya), but they hook up a generator "inside" their home?

I believe there is a "Darwin" award every year for the dumbass that kills himself in the "most outrageous or outlandish fashion". Everyone gets a kick outa that. What's the difference here?

People die from accidents with leaking exhaust pretty frequently, enough that it's in the news on a pretty regular basis. Enough that they sell detectors for it in every wal-mart on the planet. I'd say if you don't want to be a potential candidate for a "Darwin Award", you should leave your gasoline powered equipment outside your home.

What stupid drivers have to do with this I have no earthly idea. I will agree though, there are a lot of stupid drivers out there.

[legelegel]

I'm sorry people have died, and it was a tragedy that the young expectant mother in OKC died when the exhaust leaked into the house from a generator positioned outside, but seriously, how goofy do you have to be to hook up a gasoline powered generator "inside" your home?

It is an internal combustion engine. These same people would probably never think of sitting in their closed up garage with their car running (cause that'll kill ya), but they hook up a generator "inside" their home?

I believe there is a "Darwin" award every year for the dumbass that kills himself in the "most outrageous or outlandish fashion". Everyone gets a kick outa that. What's the difference here?

People die from accidents with leaking exhaust pretty frequently, enough that it's in the news on a pretty regular basis. Enough that they sell detectors for it in every wal-mart on the planet. I'd say if you don't want to be a potential candidate for a "Darwin Award", you should leave your gasoline powered equipment outside your home.

What stupid drivers have to do with this I have no earthly idea. I will agree though, there are a lot of stupid drivers out there.

Jakeman, you too are guilty of not either reading the article or not fully reading the article. :)

[jakeman]

Jakeman, you too are guilty of not either reading the article or not fully reading the article. :)

Maybe you can point out the link to me in this thread to an article. Why don't you quote the link and then highlight it in one of those pretty colors you like so much? :)

I don't see an "article". I do see a post where someone quotes a number of dumbasses that have been poisoned from running their generators "indoors". In case you are also looking for that, it would be the first post in this thread.

[legelegel]

Maybe you can point out the link to me in this thread to an article. Why don't you quote the link and then highlight it in one of those pretty colors you like so much? :)

I don't see an "article". I do see a post where someone quotes a number of dumbasses that have been poisoned from running their generators "indoors". In case you are also looking for that, it would be the first post in this thread.

I will have to find the link for you later.

Does my use of color bother you?

[jakeman]

I will have to find the link for you later.

So, there really isn't an article linked in this thread for me to have read, fully or even incompletely,then? So, you're suggesting that before we post in any thread we do an extensive internet search to make sure we are properly educated on the topic before we post our opinion? Just looking for some clarification, or ground rules.

Does my use of color bother you?

Yeah, it does. It makes people's posts look like a 4th grade English paper that has been marked up by an oppressive, red ink welding, tyrant of a teacher. I'm just sayin. Of course, this comes from someone that would like to strangle their sales manager when he uses a highlighter on their reports to point out positive things, and then sends it back with cute comments. I wrote the damn thing. I know what it says.

They're your posts, far be it from me to tell you how to make 'em, mark 'em up to your heart's content.

[legelegel]

So, there really isn't an article linked in this thread for me to have read, fully or even incompletely,then? So, you're suggesting that before we post in any thread we do an extensive internet search to make sure we are properly educated on the topic before we post our opinion? Just looking for some clarification, or ground rules.



Yeah, it does. It makes people's posts look like a 4th grade English paper that has been marked up by an oppressive, red ink welding, tyrant of a teacher. I'm just sayin. Of course, this comes from someone that would like to strangle their sales manager when he uses a highlighter on their reports to point out positive things, and then sends it back with cute comments. I wrote the damn thing. I know what it says.

They're your posts, far be it from me to tell you how to make 'em, mark 'em up to your heart's content.

Who put the burr under saddle today? I said I would look for the link later.

Maybe you would be better served if you told your boss about your problem with color and not me, but I guess you prefer sitting ducks.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9198/sittingducklargeww2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bleedorange]

Who put the burr under saddle today? I said I would look for the link later.

I guess it would be you.

I believe he's confused about your snarky comment about him "not reading the article" because in this thread, THERE IS NO ARTICLE TO READ.

I wouldn't go googling for some article because whatever you find, it will not help your case here.

[Verb]

FWIW, I like your use of color, Mr. Egel.

But then, I did used to mark up those junior high essays with my red pen...

:D

[legelegel]

I guess it would be you. Yes, looking back I may have been the culprit from the start. I tried to add to the brother against brother in the Sutton v. Sutton threat with the history of Iba v. Iba. To my admitted embarrassment I failed to fully read the article quoted in this thread, that is the words in red:

http://www.ostatesports.com/community/showthread.php?t=388 (http://www.ostatesports.com/community/showthread.php?t=388)


In 2004, Yale's James Jones and Columbia's Joe Jones became the first brothers to coach against each other in a major college basketball game since OSU's Henry Iba and Tulsa's Clarence Iba used to gig each other in the 1950s.

Jakeman, was kind enough to point this out to me and found it "killingly" funny:

Seriously? Did you read the article?


I believe he's confused about your snarky comment about him "not reading the article" because in this thread, THERE IS NO ARTICLE TO READ.

I wouldn't go googling for some article because whatever you find, it will not help your case here.

Snarky? Nah. I was just trying here to point out we all make mistakes when we don’t read or fully read what is in front of us.

Bleedorange, you didn’t pile on here because of the color thing did you? ;)

Now, I will begin the search for the article that was in paper no one reads and discussed in several TV news broadcasts.

[legelegel]

Last week a neighbor had come to this woman's rescue from the cold with a generator that he own. The error was that he set it up next to an exterior wall on the porch and the fumes from the engine came into the house.


A woman died Wednesday from carbon monoxide poisoning after a power generator was placed too close to the interior of an Oklahoma City home, authorities said.

About 5:30 a.m., a person called 911 saying a woman in their house had vomited several times.

Kevin Rowland, spokesman for the state medical examiner, said the woman died when she succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas generator near the home's front door.


http://newsok.com/article/3180203/

Jakeman, looking back at your first reply, I find that I am guilty of doing the same thing twice. The part denoted in blue I read, but it did not register. :o

[MemphisPoke]

I just wanted to write something in red

and blue

nm









:D

[legelegel]

I just wanted to write something in red

and blue

nm:D

A convert. :) ...... :confused: Let me help you with the blue.

[JimBob]

A convert. :) ...... :confused: Let me help you with the blue.

It's time to move on to the folks that drive into running water!:eek:

[panhandler62]

You would think you lot would know better than to write ANYTHING in red... yuck.

People do inadvisable things when they are cold and scared. The generator suprises me because, along with the CO, you get a lot of smelly hydrocarbons (e.g. Car exhaust stinks) and things get moved because they are annoying. Co deaths from make-shift heat are usualy caused by using workshop heaters or charcoal in the house.

Maybe some people have short extension cords and think they are just putting up with some stink and don't think it will poison them.

Some nitwit here decided to end it all by leaping from the rt34 bridge over the Potomac ... I'm not sure what he had in mind since the bridge isn't more than about 25 feet over the water but it seems that fortune favors (or not... it of a double negative going here) the fools since he missed the river and landed on the bank.