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Posted by HeyBub on April 6, 2007, 6:19 am
"NEW CASTLE, Ind. - A cat helped spare a family from death by carbon
monoxide poisoning by jumping on the bed and meowing wildly as fumes filled
the home..."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264399,00.html
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Posted by GROUP MODERATOR on April 6, 2007, 8:33 am
> "NEW CASTLE, Ind. - A cat helped spare a family from death by carbon
> monoxide poisoning by jumping on the bed and meowing wildly as fumes
> filled the home..."
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264399,00.html
>
smart cat. dumb people. has any one here done anything dumber than leaving
a gas engine running in the basement and then going to sleep? about the
dumbest thing I can remember doing when I was a teenager I was working on a
motorcycle I had, suzuki 185, and had loosened the wheel nuts to adjust
something and didn't tighten them back all the way. On my first test drive
in front of the house I popped a wheelie and the front wheel came off and
then I aimed for the grass and when the forks came down in the dirt I
flipped a few times. Could have been worse, nothing broken but my pride.
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Posted by mm on April 7, 2007, 12:16 am
wrote:
>
>> "NEW CASTLE, Ind. - A cat helped spare a family from death by carbon
>> monoxide poisoning by jumping on the bed and meowing wildly as fumes
>> filled the home..."
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264399,00.html
It was just on the 11PM news here on an ABC station. I didn't know a
cat could notice CO or that it would do anything this nice. Maybe it
was just concerned about itself.
>
>smart cat. dumb people. has any one here done anything dumber than leaving
>a gas engine running in the basement and then going to sleep? about the
>dumbest thing I can remember doing when I was a teenager I was working on a
>motorcycle I had, suzuki 185, and had loosened the wheel nuts to adjust
>something and didn't tighten them back all the way. On my first test drive
>in front of the house I popped a wheelie and the front wheel came off and
>then I aimed for the grass and when the forks came down in the dirt I
>flipped a few times. Could have been worse, nothing broken but my pride.
Well, I was on a trip home, and heard soemthing going clunk, clunk,
and for some reason decided my wheel bearing was going bad, and there
was nothing I could do about it at the moment, so I might as well keep
driving.
When I finished the trip an hour later, I looked and foudn that it was
not the bearing, that my front wheel lug nuts had been loose (I'm glad
the wheel didn't fall off) and I had damaged the threads on two of the
studs, and made the wheel holes out of round.
IF that wasn't bad enough, instead of learning how to replace lug
studs, I just got a used hub and brake drum with studs in place, and
even though I knew one is not supposed to mix one half of an old
bearing with the other half of another old bearing, I did it. Drove
around NYC for a day with no problem, so I decided the car was good,
and left the next day for Chicago, with 2 riders I got from a bulletin
board, and didn't know. Made it along I-80 almost to Ohio when one of
the riders was driving and she told me the car was making a noise. So
I drove for a little bit, and as she said, when I turned the wheel a
bit, no noise, but when I went straight ahead some high-pitched squeal
iirc. Stopped the car, and touched the hub where I had changed the
brakedrum, and it was burning hot.
Looked ahead a quarter mile and there was an exit ramp with a
gasstation at the end. What a relief. Went there and he said he
couldn't fix it! He said there was a Pontiac dealer only a mile away
in this little town of Mercer, Pa. iirc. I went there and the first
thing the mechanic does is look at the clock. 4:45. I figure he is
going to say he can't fix it that day, and I'll have to pay for motel
rooms for my two riders, one a girl and one a boy, so that's one room
for her and one for us two guys. Dang.
But he doesn's say that. He starts and takes off the brake drum, and
the wheel bearing has melted and fused to the spindle! He says he
can't do it! And again I think about the motel and wonder if I'll be
able to drive that far, what with melting steel and all. But he gets
his boss. His boss says I might need a new spindle when he's done.
But he manages to cut the bearing off with an acetlyene torch, without
damaging the spindle at all. Then, my car is only about 7 years old,
but somehow he doesn't have one of the parts. Back to the motel, I
think. I guess it's a part that never wears out and they don't stock.
The one non-stupid thing I had done was to put all the parts I took
out in my trunk so, I forget what it was but I have it. He puts the
car back together and it's 5:15. Bearing in mine that this is about
1973, what do you suppose he charges for all this? Answer below, but
guess now.
So the whole experience only wasted about 45 minutes. This was back
in the days when I was very lucky. And we were about 8 hours from
Chicago, and I guess we got there at 1 or 2 in the morning.
Anyhow, he charged me iirc 7 dollars. He said it was all labor
because I had provided the parts. Even in 1975 this was no money. I
thought it was going to be 50 dollars, and I was amazed, and I think I
also put 10 dollars in their coffee fund, so they could buy cake or
something. I apologized for making him stay late, and he said it was
no problem because it only took him 5 minutes to get home anyhow.
That's life in a small town.
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Posted by ---MIKE--- on April 7, 2007, 1:08 pm
I don't think the cat noticed CO. There were probably other noxious
fumes that he did smell.
---MIKE---
>>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
>> (44=B0 15' N - Elevation 1580')
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Posted by HeyBub on April 7, 2007, 6:29 pm
---MIKE--- wrote:
> I don't think the cat noticed CO. There were probably other noxious
> fumes that he did smell.
>
Don't neglect the possibility that the cat simply wanted to bother its
two-legged friend.
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