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.
Airplane Porn... LOL!!!
aero-erotic art...
Bragging is a hard habit to break.
There was a case about a year ago in Texas when two experienced pilots flying a late model Piper had reported 10 miles out for landing but never showed up until the plane was found in Mexico, several hundred miles along the exact course they had been following. CO levels in the blood of both were off the chart. Got them quick or they would have reduced power to approach their destination airport.
Charcoal holds within its porous structure enough oxygen to burn even when outside air is virtually depleted, as a consequence, the amount of CO released far exceeds the amount of CO2 produced and it can burn overnight in a grille basin with the lid down.
CO is almost the same weight as air and goes into flux easily saturating the air about it; as you breathe it in it is immediately treated as oxygen and proceeds to destroy your red blood cells turning your blood a bright red and rendering it useless to your tissues.
"The secret."... that I could get anything I ever wanted in life from a man.
Are you sure it was a suicide? Maybe the latest spouse got tired of the game?
Although as tragic as a suicide is, perhaps even more tragic is the life that some people live.
"Though its cold and lonley in the deep, dark night..."
It's MySpace's fault.
No big deal if you don't leave your car running. That really doens't happen too often, does it?
If I wasn't already laughing my head off before your post, I would have lost it then...
"I can see paradise by the dashboard lights..."
Carbon monoxide fumes can still drift up into the bedrooms.
"OuiJa Board."
That's what I was saying--though completely self-interested in life, ultimately, they might not have been so proud of their suicide. Brimstone tends to dampen one's hubris.
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