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Topinambourg t1_j1vwvy9 wrote

FYI it wouldn't have killed them. There is no carbon monoxyde in natural gas. Worst case the smell and irritation would wake them up. The risk would be more an explosion, but not sure it's quite possible with that amount of gas

Edit: downvote how much you want, but gas open with no flames cannot create CO. It's impossible. And for an explosion to happen the smell has to be VERY bad.

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Lined_the_Street t1_j1vxfnn wrote

It is absolutely possible, OP got super lucky no one else decided to have a smoke. That boom would've been a hell of an alarm

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Topinambourg t1_j1vy383 wrote

It really depends on the type of gas and the amount that leaked. It doesn't blow up that easily

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Lined_the_Street t1_j1wuwn0 wrote

It does depend on the gas

But leaving a stove top leaking gasses for hours in a poorly ventilated house (at least in America) is a major danger. Personally have seen this go wrong twice and almost a third time, its rare but still a serious concern

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Topinambourg t1_j1wws21 wrote

Yes of course it's dangerous, I was mostly reacting to OP thinking everyone would have died of the sister has slept in ;)

Obviously if you smell gas, do not use any electronic devices, phone chargers, switching the light, obviously no lighter or cigarettes, open the windows and cut the gas.

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lizziebordensbae OP t1_j1w0av9 wrote

I'm super lucky I smoked beforehand apparently 😂

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Lined_the_Street t1_j1wulj4 wrote

This! As a fell smoker of the reef, this is one those fails moments

Edit: Jeez apperently people on this sub hate that Mary Jane is a legal recreational substance now. If being stoned is SOOO bad, guess being drunk must be satanic

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MistressPhoenix t1_j1w35ai wrote

It most certainly can kill you. First hit when searching if natural gas can kill you

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Topinambourg t1_j1w40e9 wrote

Leaving natural gas open doesn't make Carbon Monoxide.

Carbon Monoxide is created by incomplete combustion, usually because of a defective device burning gas. This is absolutely not the case here.

It's useless to share random links if you don't read them nor understand them.

There was a 0% chance of a carbon monoxide intoxication by leaving the stove open (and no flame). As I said there are explosion dangers but it's not that straightforward and depends on the gas type and its concentration. So it depends on the volume of the house, the ventilation, etc

Now badly maintained devices can leak gas while working, and some of this gas can be CO, result of an incomplete combustion and a device malfunction. Once again that's not at all what happened there

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Talvert182 t1_j1x4v03 wrote

You don’t need CO to die from asphyxiation. You just need enough of a gas to displace the oxygen. It’s the same reason people die from inhaling nitrous oxide. Carbon Monoxide is just especially good at it and used to be a lot more common.

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Topinambourg t1_j1yh3v8 wrote

CO doesn't kill because of asphyxiation. It fixates on the blood cells and prevents them to work correctly. That's why it's called intoxication/poisoning.

OP cottage isn't a hermetic minuscule vault, the gas outflow would never asphyxiate anyone, because there is an enormous oxygen volume and because the place isn't perfectly hermetic from the outside air. It's almost like saying the CO2 created by their breathing could have killed them. And once again the smell would wake anyone up way before the level of oxygen is low enough to be damaging.

Reddit is just tripping

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