Posted on 03/05/2019 3:21:25 PM PST by SMGFan
VOLUSIA COUNTY (CBSMiami) — A Central Florida couple is crediting Bella for saving their lives. Bella is not their daughter or their dog, she is their cat. Paul and Leona Jones say when they got home from eating dinner on Feb. 27, they just wanted to get inside out of the rain. In their haste, they forgot to push the off button on their car.
It sat in the garage all night emitting carbon monoxide, silently poisoning the entire house.
At around 1:00 a.m., Bella started crying and woke them up.
Weak from inhaling so much carbon monoxide, Leona was barely able to call 9-1-1. Fire fighters administered oxygen to the couple and Bella then took them to the hospital.
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The cat was obviously the smartest being in the house.
My Jeep Compass has an off / on button...
“Why can’t they come with something that detects dangerous carbon monoxide then shuts the car off?”
That’s a REALLY great idea. One I wouldn’t mind paying for either. Of course folks will need to get more creative on committing suicide.
A similar incident to this happened several years ago in our area. Four boys, just 16, got together at a friend’s townhouse for a birthday party. Just soda and snacks and movies type thing. But the driver had an old car and the battery was bad and it wouldn’t always start.
So, they parked in the garage and left it running so they wouldn’t have to worry about starting it again. Sounds pretty smart for a 16-year old. Except for parking it in the garage.
All of them died. No booze, no drugs, just kids not thinking.
Hey, a GOOD story coming from Florida; it’s about time.
Cats rule!
Idiots works too.
Perhaps cats can smell carbon monoxide. It’s tough to detect because it’s similar in atomic weight to N2.
Whats sad is that most college educated journalists today couldn’t pass the spelling and grammar classes I had in 5th and 6th grades.
Indoctrination instead of education is surely ruining everything.
We’re probably seen as pedants by the younger crowd. They didn’t learn cursive, use a calculator rather than a pencil, and see correct language as an eye-rolling, “Whatever.”
But what do i know? I haven’t spoken to anyone younger than fifty since the last century. LOL
If they did that, cars in LA would cut off going down the freeway.
Post of the day!!!
Is he in your will? Did he have a copy?
Another reason to have a damned key!!!
It’s like a light switch in a room. When you leave, you click it off. Not rocket science.
Like I said, they were either drunk, stoned or just stupid.
And yesterday was National GRAMMAR Day!
some cats have an uncanny ability to sense when things aren’t right ... for example, i’ve heard of cats who wake up their caregivers because the caregiver forgot to put on their CPAP or it came off during the night ...
it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the cat could tell the breathing patterns of the sleeping family were different than normal or the cat might also sense that it was feeling ill from the carbon monoxide itself ...
one of my cats will carry on if we forget to turn out some of the lights when we go to bed or if we forget to close the garage door of the attached garaged ...
Our old cat , which we had to have put down, would bite us when we got home, if gone for 2 days. If gone for a week, he’d cry when we got home. Then he’d bite us.
These cars that shut off whenever you stop, and then start again when you mash the gas are a problem. I have heard of people parking their cars and coming back later to find them out of gas because they had been turning themselves on and off. It’s something to be aware of.
Off button? All of my vehicles are turned off via the keyed ignition switch.
This is why I want every car I ever own to have a device such as a key which I must have in the car for it to run.
If the key or other device is removed from the car, it shuts off by itself.
It may be that this was the case, and the people left a wireless fob in or too close to the car when they went into the house.
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