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Probably the stove would be my guess if it was CO
How do they not have detectors then? They should have went off well before the levels it would kill someone. I was making chicken broth once in my stove and forgot to turn on the exhaust fan and mine went off well before I even noticed any effects.
 

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How do they not have detectors then? They should have went off well before the levels it would kill someone. I was making chicken broth once in my stove and forgot to turn on the exhaust fan and mine went off well before I even noticed any effects.
Yeah that I don’t know. I’ve never owned a gas stove, so I’m not familiar with the safety mechanisms in place.

I do know my boss once went on a work trip once and accidentally left the gas stove on. And came home to the house full of gas. So, I’ve heard about that happening first hand.
 

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Nobody’s mentioned The Birdcage yet?

The scene where the penny drops about Nathan Lane not actually being a woman, and Dianne Wiest is exasperatedly trying to explain it to Hackman, and he just repeats “I don’t understand” in a confused, noncomprehending way always cracks me up. And then he dresses in drag to escape the press.
 

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Yeah that I don’t know. I’ve never owned a gas stove, so I’m not familiar with the safety mechanisms in place.

I do know my boss once went on a work trip once and accidentally left the gas stove on. And came home to the house full of gas. So, I’ve heard about that happening first hand.
I won't own a gas stove range again after my last one failed. One evening our carbon monoxide detector went off so called Mid American out and they were struggling to find the source. Asked us if we had used the gas stove at all which we had but it was several hours prior. They turned it on and got a reading and it was putting out very high levels of carbon monoxide so I am guessing it had been doing that for awhile and just never was prolonged enough to trigger the alarm or maybe we had some windows open that kept the levels in the house down. Asked them why it took so long for the alarm to go off and since the alarm was in another room of the house they assumed it must have taken awhile for the gas to make its way throughout the house to a level to trigger the alarm and was likely just concentrated in the kitchen at first. Installed 220 in the kitchen and installed an electric range in its place. While I like the gas stove top for cooking apparently it is pretty common for the oven part of the unit to eventually deteriorate over time and start emitting unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide.
 
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They call it the silent killer. Odorless, no taste or color. You breathe it in and it gets into your bloostream and inhibits oxygen from getting into your blood.

I’m not sure why I remember this, but when Johnny Orr was coaching here, he and his wife felt pretty sick one winter. As I remember it lasted for a while until they eventually figured out it was a CO leak.
 
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CO seemed unlikely to me being this is an upscale home. Maybe he fell and died and she took the pills? Tox Report should be telling.

The wife was found next to a space heater. Isn't that something that could be dangerous with CO?
 

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CO seemed unlikely to me being this is an upscale home. Maybe he fell and died and she took the pills? Tox Report should be telling.

The one dead dog and two surviving dogs is throwing me off. Also the fact that the front door was open.
 
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The wife was found next to a space heater. Isn't that something that could be dangerous with CO?
Doesn't sound like a gas space heater, since it fell off the counter and landed next to her, sounds more like an electric; gas units are usually floor models. Electric unit would not produce CO..
 

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Already dreading the day **** Van Dyke leaves us.
Like Gene Hackman, the Van Dyke brothers grew up in Danville, IL. These days, nothing good comes from Danville, IL. (Had to put the IL on there as there is also a Danville, IA down by Burlington).
 

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Like Gene Hackman, the Van Dyke brothers grew up in Danville, IL. These days, nothing good comes from Danville, IL. (Had to put the IL on there as there is also a Danville, IA down by Burlington).
I was surprised to learn Hackman attended Storm Lake High School his sophomore year right before he joined the Marine Corps at the age of 16.
 
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The one dead dog and two surviving dogs is throwing me off. Also the fact that the front door was open.
The dog in the closet probably had no access to water. Why you wouldn’t let your dog out before ingesting a handful of pills is a little odd but this story is already pretty crazy.
 

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CO seemed unlikely to me being this is an upscale home. Maybe he fell and died and she took the pills? Tox Report should be telling.
And then the dog ate some of the pills that were on the floor. Who knows, we'll find out soon enough
 

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