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| Thread ID: 129961 | 2013-03-21 23:56:00 | Man died after lighting cigarette near oxygen machine | kingdragonfly (309) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1333668 | 2013-03-21 23:56:00 | "[New Zealand] man died after lighting cigarette near oxygen machine" www.newstalkzb.co.nz Guessing he was doing a "Bernie Mac" www.urbandictionary.com |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1333669 | 2013-03-22 00:52:00 | It beggars belief why someone who needs oxygen in the first place would even think about having a smoke. | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1333670 | 2013-03-22 01:04:00 | I shouldn't laugh, but... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1333671 | 2013-03-22 01:15:00 | Darwin's law in fiery action | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1333672 | 2013-03-22 01:54:00 | Well Durh --------- Guess its the meaning " dying for a smoke" | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1333673 | 2013-03-22 05:21:00 | We bit of supposition ? Eligible for Darwin Award BUT oxygen does not burn !!! It will help other things to burn, But is not flammable itself! So how come ?? |
Woody (710) | ||
| 1333674 | 2013-03-22 05:27:00 | The cigarette will burst into flame and anything close may catch on fire and burn furiously eg hair, beard, clothes. | user (1404) | ||
| 1333675 | 2013-03-22 05:28:00 | We bit of supposition ? Eligible for Darwin Award BUT oxygen does not burn !!! It will help other things to burn, But is not flammable itself! So how come ?? There are very good reasons how come, just think of the difference between burning acetylene in air, and combining it with oxgen. One gives light, the other melts steel! Oxygen + Cigarette = Nostril-hair conflagration, and if you ever inhaled the smell of burning nose hair, you'd die too! However, other factors may have been involved, possibly the cigarette flared up, he dropped it, and maybe it ignited clothing etc, especially if he was lying down or propped up on pillows. The Media tend to pick on the oddity value at the expense of the facts! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1333676 | 2013-03-22 05:38:00 | I'd agree with you there digby. If he was attached to an oxygen machine (we don't know why) is there a medical reason that he may not have been thinking logically. Also - it may be common sense to us, but is this guy expected to know that in an oxygen rich environment smouldering things can go catastrophically wrong? Also, the warnings/instructions were present on the machine, but was the guy able to read/understand them? Or did he read them? I think it is tragic, but I don't really see any grossly stupid behaviour. Sure, if he was a hospital technical or one of the medical staff then the duffer should have know the result of fire + oxygen, but as a patient, without knowing the fact, I couldn't fully agree and say "what an idiot" at this stage. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1333677 | 2013-03-22 06:36:00 | Odds are he needed O2 due to emphysema, from years of smoking... so either way you look at it, the smokes killed him. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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