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Ya usually the car WOULD STALL OUT if the pipe was clogged!!
Some years ago I backed into a spot at work. When I tried to go home that evening it wouldn't start. Turns out the tail-pipe was in a snow bank. Cleared it out and the car started.
I've been in NY (Queens) for the last two days, visiting.
I was walking from the Jackson Heights area yesterday to Woodside and walked by alot of people that were digging cars out. One case in particular involved a guy shoveling a car out that was running that had what appeared to be his buddy inside. All of a sudden, the windows were activated to go down and the guy inside flung the driver's side door open and was coughing really bad, shaking his head and then he started coughing worse and began spitting on the ground, then looked dizzy and lost his balance while his buddy kept shoveling.
Now, I'm not a genius but I could tell what happened and am just wondering WTF is going on. Seriously.
Some years ago I backed into a spot at work. When I tried to go home that evening it wouldn't start. Turns out the tail-pipe was in a snow bank. Cleared it out and the car started.
Ya... Poor thing cant start if its vent is blocked!! (No where to "exhale" so to speak)
I don't know. I started my car on Tuesday morning and put the heat on. Started getting a strong exhaust smell so I pulled the car forward away from the snow bank behind it. Exhaust smell cleared. Maybe the exhaust was only partially filled? My question would be how come they didn't smell the exhaust?
I didn't realize so many people didn't realize. Not familiar with what is/was a fairly common method of suicide?
I do feel for the dad, I can't even begin to imagine the horrors he must be going through mentally.
I'm familiar with putting a hose on the exhaust pipe. An exhaust pipe blocked by snow never crossed my mind. Sue me.
Vehicle manufacturers should install sensors to cut the engine or open to the exterior when carbon monoxide gets too high.
I'd like to see something designed to help prevent the deaths of babies and animals in the hot cars too.
They've already designed such things for situations such as in your second paragraph. Car manufacturers won't take on the liability in case such a device fails, so that's why they aren't in use. The minute one device doesn't work, a parent of a dead baby would be carried screaming to the courts on the shoulders of a horde of greedy lawyers.
What I don't get is didn't he notice that his wife and kid were passed out in the car as he was moving around them? Do you die that quickly from carbon monoxide? I thought it took a while, but I really don't know.
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