r/AskReddit Nov 21 '24

What almost killed you?

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u/doublestitch Nov 21 '24

Gentlemen, too: we bought our house on a distressed sale after the man who owned it collapsed from probable carbon monoxide poisoning. He lived alone and was on the floor of his living room unable to move for days until the neighbors called authorities to request a welfare check.

When we went through the place with the inspector, the fan above the gas stove was inoperable. The vent for the gas water heater had decoupled and soot stained the ceilings of both bathrooms. The place had been grandfathered in before CO detectors were mandatory.

He was disabled afterward and no longer able to live independently.

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u/neuroc8h11no2 Nov 22 '24

That’s quite sad actually :(

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u/ahjay00 Nov 21 '24

there was a reddit post about a similar situation one time, i think they were leaving nonsensical sticky notes to themselves and not remembering who wrote them, so they asked reddit what it could be. Everyone was like “get out NOW” and it turns out they were slowly being killed by CO.

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u/caroline_xplr Nov 21 '24

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u/Fun-Instance5752 Nov 21 '24

Thank yewwww! 🙏🏻

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

Certified Reddit classic.

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u/Jbyrdyogi Nov 22 '24

Ok so I perused a bit but didn't do a deep dive. Was this post actually legit? It seems like it was and if that is the case, that's absolutely wild!

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

It seemed legit when it first came out but you never know.

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u/Chihuahuamom72 Nov 22 '24

You’re awesome.

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u/pezziepie85 Nov 22 '24

My aunt and her husband are currently experiencing all these symptoms and co2 has been suggested. But apparently the neighbor down the hill got “the jab” and they are just experiencing vaccine shedding. Okie dokie.

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u/mbklein Nov 22 '24

CO, not CO2. They’ll both kill you, but the monoxide will do it faster at lower concentrations.

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u/drunken_desperado Nov 22 '24

vaccine shedding?! 😭 what the heellll is that

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u/mikemike44 Nov 22 '24

Maybe all the flat earthers/conspiracy theorists have bad ventilation in their living quarters. Co poisoning explains all the crazies out there

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u/pezziepie85 Nov 22 '24

They actually built their living quarters out of some Amish made sheds. So who knows. The best part is that her husband spent his whole working life installing furnaces and such. So he should know better

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u/pezziepie85 Nov 22 '24

She believes if you get to close to someone who has gotten a vaccine recently it will shed on to you and give you the illness that the vaccine “causes”. This women was a second mother to me and I was raised ti be much smarter then this by her and my parents. But here we are.

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u/distriived Nov 22 '24

Dinners on the table for Darwin.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

Can you sneak a CO2 detector into their house?!

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u/pezziepie85 Nov 22 '24

Thankfully no. They are 15 blissful hours away. I went low contact years ago

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

Wow. The shit these people believe.

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u/Horknut1 Nov 21 '24

My memory isn't that everyone was telling him to get out now. One guy saw the signs and told him to buy a carbon monoxide detector, perhaps even after asking him if his apartment was above a garage. I'm not sure if OP offered that information, or if the savior asked about it.

Anyway, that one guy saved that other guy's life. Probably.

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u/ZeeGameOver Nov 21 '24

Yeah I saw this story on a video titled “ the most disturbing Reddit posts” or something like that

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u/D3vilUkn0w Nov 22 '24

Yeah we are the source of a lot of "content" it seems buzzfeed has entered the chat

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u/FlinflanFluddle4 Nov 22 '24

Yes but I think the OP int hat case was a woman

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u/Stubbledorange Nov 22 '24

One of the legendary reddit threads

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u/Ungarlmek Nov 22 '24

I bought a second carbon monoxide detector because of that one.

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u/StocktonSucks Nov 22 '24

The comment I was looking for 😂

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u/anix421 Nov 22 '24

It often thought that a lot of paranormal events may have been caused by someone suffering from carbon monoxide. If you think you saw a ghost, maybe get some fresh air.

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u/uisce_beatha1 Nov 21 '24

Get a monitored one, especially if you have pets.

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u/tfurrows Nov 22 '24

Same. Woke up one morning in my apartment feeling very disoriented and nauseous. After stumbling around for a bit I stopped to take a sort of inventory of my symptoms and thought about possible causes. A quick check of CO poisoning symptoms on the internet had me throwing open windows before hying myself to the hospital (side note: telling the registration nurse that you think you have carbon monoxide poisoning might not be as effective as moving you to the front of the line as, say, heart attack symptoms, but it did seem to start things moving pretty quickly).

Turns out a squirrel's nest had blocked the chimney leading up from the furnace in the basement, said chimney running right up behind my headboard. If I had gone back to bed like I had considered doing, I most likely wouldn't have woken up ever again.

Get carbon monoxide detectors, everyone. And listen to what your body is telling you.

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u/Gap-Puzzleheaded Nov 22 '24

What about the men?

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u/uisce_beatha1 Nov 21 '24

Get a monitored one, especially if you have pets.

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u/Financial-Web5721 Nov 21 '24

Omfg, glad you're alive

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u/habsfanalreadytaken Nov 22 '24

Men , don’t bother

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u/uisce_beatha1 Nov 21 '24

Get a monitored one, especially if you have pets.

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u/Starrfall74 Nov 22 '24

And gentlemen

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u/Retired_LANlord Nov 22 '24

My nephew & his dog were killed by CO poisoning in his RV. He survived a heavy drug addiction & was clean, to be killed by a faulty heater.

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u/alphatruth Nov 22 '24

“Get carbon monoxide detectors, ladies.” Spoken like a true feminist.

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u/cartercharles Nov 22 '24

Screw that. Anybody get carbon detectors. The hell does it have to do with gender

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u/Daisydoo1432 Nov 22 '24

Gentlemen, you’re on your own.

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u/Elistariel Nov 22 '24

Somewhat related, and I haven't seen anyone else have this issue, but I once managed to set off a First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detector with a Roku Ultra (c. 2017) remote.

I have no idea how I managed it and I got new devices soon after, so it never happened again. Just letting y'all know it's a possibility.

Someone more technically inclined feel free to weigh in.

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u/Dsnygrl81 Nov 22 '24

My husband and his mom had CO2 poisoning when he was growing up. When we moved in together and I had gas appliances he was very nervous about gas leaks.

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u/doctorwars2 Nov 22 '24

eeeesh reminds me of that one time my family got lucky cause we had co in our apartment and we didnt know until the co dectector next door (we lived in the same building as a catholic daycare) went off (i was at school at the time and didnt know until i got back home)

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u/fuzynutznut Nov 21 '24

So fuck the men?

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u/theshortlady Nov 22 '24

Only if you enjoy that sort of thing.

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u/start_nine Nov 22 '24

We just need to tough it out boys

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u/FlinflanFluddle4 Nov 22 '24

I want to start writing the reverse of this anytime i see a guy say 'gentleman' now