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.
That's what makes me curious about the Darwin Award Winners. Why didn't they just put on the Auto Pilot?
For that matter, John John Kennedy would still be alive today if he had activated his Auto Pilot - but I digress.
Let's talk about cheating on your girlfriend in her car and getting caught, dead and naked.
;-)
Carry on.
OuiJa Board.
I'm not above rolling over and going to sleep afterward. But I've always woke up ... sometimes to my regret.
I suppose that's all I can ask for...
Hope she had a "happy ending."
The clean underwear doesn't matter in this case. They were nude.
Come on, you can always ask for more. Whether you get it is something else entirely!
Well since this isn't the singles thread...I'll hold off... ;-)
So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!!!
I hope he was wearing a protective shoot.
That is quite something - isn't it.
I swear, I would buy one of those if I could find it.
Searching web now.
It happened in the Dallas area last week. The gas company had shut off an elderly couple and the couple used a charcoal grill in their bedroom.
Is it too early to be sent you-know-where?
It's never too early...or too late...
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