Do not run...

[zeitghost]

petrol engine driven pumps inside rooms...

Two men dead in Tewksbury coz of this apparently.

 

[Cowboy Bob]

Darwin in action...

 

[MrRobin]

Darwin in action...

 

[wobbegong]

petrol engine driven pumps inside rooms...

Two men dead in Tewksbury coz of this apparently.

I seem to recall the Nazis using this (and trucks) in their early search for cheap, highly effective method of mass killing.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana

Poor sods though, just trying to help out.

 

[Kyajae]

I can see a flood of sympathy messages coming.

 

[Ruprect]

I can see a flood of sympathy messages coming.

pun intended?

 

[Diver]

They keep saying on the news that it was petrol fumes that killed them.
I think it far more likely to have been carbon monoxide (CO).

 

[cojak]

Yep, probably weren't divers...

We know not to fill tanks next to running generators,

or fit pipes to exhausts,

or run engines when stuck in snow.

Dat kind of thing...

 

[Moscow Mule]

Yep, probably weren't divers...

We know not to fill tanks next to running generators,
...

Or without a 3-stage filtration system. I like my air PURE!

 

[wendigo100]

Very sad, all the same...

Indeed.

BTW, the patent "Giant Alien Lizard Rain Machine, Earth, For the flooding of" seems to have an intermittent fault. It was sunny this morning.