Fatal Flatulence

[Oz]

25 March 1993)
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man killed by his own gas. There were no marks found on his body, but an autopsy revealed the presence of large amounts of methane dissolved in his blood.

His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage, just the right combination of foods to produce a severe gas attack. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed.

Had his windows been open, the flatulence wouldn't have been fatal, but the man was shut up in a nearly airtight bedroom. He was an obese man with an unlimited capacity for creating the deadly gas. Three rescuers became sick and one was hospitalized.


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Carl Sagan determined that aliens could deduce the presence of carbon-based life on Earth by spectral analysis of our atmosphere. Detection of methane would prove continuous bioproduction of the molecule, since it breaks down rapidly in contact with oxygen. He further demonstrated that the largest single source of methane in our atmosphere is from bovine flatulence, with particularly large concentrations above the cattle producing states of the US and in Argentina. A single cow fart is significantly larger than a human's production all day.

[BP2K2Max]

wow...that stinks.

[HogieGT-R]

at this point i don't know whether to feel bad or laugh my head off....

[TexasF355F1]

Originally Posted by HogieGT-R

at this point i don't know whether to feel bad or laugh my head off....

Me neither.

[quarter_mile]

Originally Posted by HogieGT-R

at this point i don't know whether to feel bad or laugh my head off....

laugh ya head off. its what i did

[goat_launcher]

Can you imagine what would happened if his furnace had sparked

[chicago_guy]

I kind of feel bad for the guy.....but damn that is some funny shit!

[slave]

I'd soooooooo wanna revive him so I could hit him if i was made ill by his gas like the rescuers.

[RSX-S777]

I feel bad for the gas....being trapped all night in a room with a big fatty....what a shame.

[MagicRat]

I think this might be an urban legend, like the little old lady who tried to dry her rain soaked poodle off in the microwave.
If gas really was fatal, I would have succumbed last night after gorging myself on 4 day old chili.