Posted on 02/27/2025 7:12:05 AM PST by Vendome
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in New Mexico along with their dog, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office told CNN. He was 95.
Their causes of death have not been confirmed, but foul play is not suspected, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Denise Womack-Avila told CNN on Thursday morning.
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For some odd reason I thought he had died many years ago.
The DOD , too. I’m thinking carbon monoxide.
Some years ago, had an odd experience with the gas company emergency line.
First time I called with my concerns they said it couldn’t be gas because I didn’t smell it.
I called back and said there was a smell, and was told the CO wouldn’t smell.
I actually forget the order of the calls, but sometimes they like to make you feel it’s a game in which you have to compete to get a response.
Same thing just happened with my oral surgeon, the nurse tried several times to get to the conclusion that I didn’t really need to see him for pain and swelling in the area where he just removed a wisdom tooth.
Then when you get past the gatekeepers, you’re treated completely different.
Maybe something like a gas leak. It’s been cold. Hate to think an alternative option. What a Great actor.
Dog, not dod 🙄
We have a friend who lost his brother to CO poisoning during a sleep over. The detectors are cheap and small can sit on a table or at any height in a room the gas does not settle or rise.
We have two.
Carbon monoxide, no doubt.
A relatively inexpensive working (combination) carbon monoxide detector and smoke detector, would likely have prevented these deaths.
Very sad, and also a warning to the living.
Cracked heat exchanger
Your selective editing fails the humor test.
RIP for him and his wife and dawg.
The Poseidon Adventure scared me as a kid. One of my favourite childhood movies.
https://youtu.be/aNOmTuwnGYg?si=2oNflhVv2w774i36
Yes I do, and while I felt sad, the law requiring them is a scam.
Just like the helmet laws pushed by businesses who sold a product no one wanted.
So they got politicians to push the laws and now those losers are billionaires for conning American politicians into forcing a product to be sold because 5,000 people a year died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
It’s like forcing a business to put warning labels on a bucket, because 2 children fell in side and drowned.
In a country that has millions of babies being murdered legally, and some states allowing assisted suicide laws so children can inherit their parent money earlier, we are one screwed up country.
Politicians should never be passing they claim are needed so we can illuminate death by chance, when in reality they are schemes so their donors can sell products no one needs nor wants.
That is not the governments job, yet many grifters will continue to fool politicians in need of election funds to push for stupid laws that are only created so someone can get wealthy.
Laws requiring carbon monoxide detectors was just another scheme for politicians to get finances for reelection, and wealth for someone trying to sell something no one wants to buy!
You want one? make it or buy it, but do not force me to buy them, nor force contractors to install them in homes when 99% end up never working anyway. As you state no one ever replaces the batteries, and the ones that hard wired just increase the risk that an electrical fire will ignite due the the cheap ones contractors buy and install, just because regulations rule they have to.
Just looked it up. Apparently it’s by state. I got sent one for free by the gas company.
yes, but 48 states have regulation pertaining to them needed to be installed in all new homes and in many businesses.
You do the math, and you will see how this product became a multibillion dollar baseness that had no buyers just 25 years ago.
Got something you want to sell, but no one wants it?
Just find some politicians needing money.
Before long you can be a biilionair also.
Oh, and the gas company was probably forced by the city, county, or state to send them to all their customers. Another entity forced to purchase a product no on wanted
CO makes one’s skin turn cherry red. You’d think someone would have noticed.
Back in the 2009 ice storm, over 400 people in KY were reported with carbon monoxide exposure. 10 people died of it.
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