Posted on 09/06/2021 8:31:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Another possibility is being investigated in a case that one sheriff has called the most mysterious of his career.
Responding agencies treated the scene as a hazmat situation because of uncertainty about the cause of the fatalities, and everything from toxic algae to dangerous mine gasses to murder has been probed. According to a New York Times feature on the family, now lightning strikes have been added into the mix.
A handful of causes of death have been ruled out. Previous autopsy data provided by the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office excluded acute trauma, such as stabbing, gunshot wounds or blunt-force trauma. They also do not believe the family was killed by toxic gas escaping from an abandoned mine shaft.
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I liked Quincy M.E.
Preachy as it was sometimes.
Half the episode Quincy was yelling at people including government types though.
And then it started preaching about guns and how evil they were.
—”In over 100 degree heat? A baby?”
Not a newborn and not too often as an infant but around the one year/toddler stage, mostly because of all the diapers and accessories needed.
We used a backpack with a sunshade and lots of water.
Most of the people of the tropics and subtropics seldom if ever experience air condition.
Also, see #33
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
H. Keller
Sadly yes.
It had a catchy theme.
Robert Ito was also a good compliment.
Danny’s seemed like my kind of place.
Manbearpig
Here if its not lightning, and there are pumps pulling up oil on the property, and the farmer is too cheap to put a fence around the well, the cows sometimes go to lick accumulated salt off the oil pump and get clobbered as the counter weight comes down. Dumb animals, but we’re not breeding them to be smart.
Other possibilities; they ate something like water hemlock or deadly amanitas. The argument against that is that they would have taken a while to die and could presumable texted or wrote a message. Unless it was multiple suicides or murder / suicide by poisoning, lightning sounds about right.
Plenty of murders committed by people who are supposed to be here
Sure looks like a likely culprit. You would think the trees would love CO2 but too much of anything can be toxic.
But it’s a dry heat....
Clean air?
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