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Posted on 03/02/2006 7:25:02 AM PST by grundle
MILWAUKEE -- A relative discovered a 23-year-old man dead in the front seat of a car Friday still embracing a dead 17-year-old girl.
Their nude bodies were inside a closed garage in the front seat of a 1978 Cutlass. They had apparently been having sex when they were overcome by carbon monoxide, 12 News reported.
The medical examiner said the deaths appear accidental.
The two were not found for nearly a day. The man's mother became worried because she could not reach him on his cell phone Friday morning.
"She called his cousin, who lived nearby, to help her track him down. He's the one who looked inside the garage and found the bodies," WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr said.
"Carbon monoxide can accumulate very rapidly. It's just something you don't want to take a chance with," said Dr. Ken Schellhase, of the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Schellhase said warming up a car in a closed garage is one of the most dangerous things you can do, much less staying in the car as it idles.
He said the symptoms can be hard to recognize.
"The symptoms are pretty non-specific. It can include things like headache, dizziness, a general sense of ill ease," Schellhase said.
Sleepiness is also a symptom.
"Those are often the most tragic circumstances where people fall asleep, and there's a carbon monoxide leak of some sort. The dose is overwhelming," Schellhase said.
Schellhase said it is unusual for someone to be overcome so quickly, but it's not clear how long they may have been in the car prior to having sex.
According to the medical examiner's report, the carbon monoxide levels the garage got so intense at some point that the car itself choked off for lack of oxygen.
The car still had one-quarter of a tank of gas.
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This is the worst case of Colorado poisoning I have ever seen.
While "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights" was playing on their 8-track tape player.
Almost sounds like a Darwin Award candidate...just about anybody should know not to leave a running car in a closed garage.
This gives the phrase, "Get a room!" even more credence.
I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night
And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal
on the edge of a knife
Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
C'mon! Hold on tight!
C'mon! Hold on tight!
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
I can see paradise by the dashboard light
Well, the D.A. won't have to charge the 23 year old guy with having sex with a minor. The guy won't go through life with the stigma of being on the sex offender registry. The girl won't have to struggle with the decision to have an abortion, if the act impregnated her. Bad behavior has so many consequences.
My twin aunts died in the car in the garage. They were proud of their suicide.
I have always thought that paradise by the dashboard light
was the perfect rock song.
Teenage lust meets reality.
It looks like he was cheating on his girlfriend.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404893
Two die of carbon monoxide poisoning
By BOB PURVIS
Posted: Feb. 28, 2006
A Milwaukee man and a 17-year-old girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning while having sex inside a running car in a closed garage last week, according to a Milwaukee County medical examiner's investigation report.
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Family members of the 23-year-old man had gone looking for him Friday after he didn't return repeated calls to his cell phone. He had dropped his girlfriend off at work Thursday night and had borrowed her car, which a relative spotted parked in an alley behind his home in the 5400 block of W. Lincoln Creek Drive around noon Friday, the report states.
The relative entered the man's two-car detached garage, found him and the girl inside and called police.
There was no sign of external trauma, according to the report. An autopsy conducted Saturday determined that both had died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The man's mother said the dead 17-year-old was not her son's girlfriend, and she did not know her, according to the report.
The girl had been staying with a relative a few blocks away, the medical examiner's report states.
It's when thinking of situations such as this that parents remind their children to always put on clean underwear.
Well, the good news is they only had to use one gurney to carry them out with.
My parents never
warned me about underwear,
but my Dad often
told me about how
my Granddad almost died when
he tried to listen
to the radio
in the car in the garage
with the car running
and the door pulled down.
I think my parents were wise
in their warning choice . . .
Almost sounds like a Darwin Award candidate...just about anybody should know not to leave a running car in a closed garage.""
Especially in a climate like Wisconsin.
Well I know why they did it, but it doesn't make them any smarter!
Well, the good news is they only had to use one gurney to carry them out with.
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Would you like them mounted? No, but holding hands would be nice.
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