Another Possible UL?

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

I "heard" in the past year of a person who had died as a result of sleeping in a small enclosed room, and being overly flatulent. It has all the UL earmarks--and I'm under the impression that flatulence is for the most part a voluntary action the does normally occur during sleep. Anyone else heard of this?

[NanoByte]

Guess I better not fall asleep reading threads like these, where the guilty sphincters are not under my control.

Ray

[AuntiePam]

Maybe if he had a hose connecting his anus and his mouth, and his nose was plugged?

If this were true, I'd be dead. My hubby emits gas like a swamp. He's nice enough not to move for awhile afterward though -- if he fluffed the covers, I'd have to kill him.

[aseymayo]

Auntie P - apparently your husband doesn't know about the dreaded "dutch oven."

[AuntiePam]

Okay, I gotta ask. ????

[AuntiePam]

Okay, I gotta ask. ????

[AuntiePam]

Shall I compound my error by saying "oops"?

[Louie]

<font color="green">A "dutch oven" is farting under the covers, then fanning the covers to get the fart smell come to you.</font>

[Torgo]

Dutch Oven: dreaded practice of passing gas in bed then pulling the sheets up and over the two of you. Legal grounds for divorce in 17 states.

As for the UL query, I think this one may actually be true. IIRC, the victim subsisted mainly on a diet of cabbage and beans and kept the windows of his apartment closed very tight--tight enough so that the air circulation was practically non-existent. After one rather productive flatulence session enough methane was expunged from this poor guy's colon to kill him, and since his apartment was in effect "air tight", it did.


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Tim
"My hovercraft is full of eels."

[aseymayo]

I don't know, it sounds an awful lot like the "suffocate in sealed room with electric fan" story:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970912.html

And you don't pull the sheets over your own head - you fart and quickly yank the blankies over your partner's head!

[MrKnowItAll]

Sounds like a UL to me. It seems to me that any condition that is going to produce so much "gas" to kill a person is probably going to kill the person anyway. After all, the amount of gas produced by a sleeping person cannot have any more mass than the entire contents of the person's digestive and excretory systems when they went to bed, can they?

[Louie]

It's not a UL, but a Darwin award nominee I heard about a year ago.

Lord knows I don't plan on doing any research on this, but I would guess if you were in any enclosed place so small that the amount of flatulence you expelled was a significant threat, you would already be doomed because of oxygen deprivation.

[Doug Bowe]

The room would have to have a square footage not much greater than a bowel section.
Hmmm. I just don't see it.

[TheIncredibleHolg]

Well, maybe if there was a burning candle in the room...

[Temujin]

How would you word this in an obituary?