(03-26-2018 01:26 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  My brother and his GF won a trip to Mexico while in Vegas... They turned it down...

You could not pay me enough to take a vacation in Mexico right now

I lived in the south of the country for the better part of a year and for a number of years would drive down to Laredo and cross the border, with firearms, for a deer hunt in Nuevo Leon.

You couldn't pay me enough to get me to do that today. Nuevo Laredo I do believe is now under the control of drug lords.

(03-26-2018 01:26 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  My brother and his GF won a trip to Mexico while in Vegas... They turned it down...

You could not pay me enough to take a vacation in Mexico right now

While there are valid reasons for having these feelings about the failed state of Mexico this isn't one of them. This same thing can and does happen here on a regular basis.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/0...story.html

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local...55393.html

https://www.kxly.com/news/woman-killed-m.../710284058

(03-26-2018 12:42 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(03-26-2018 12:37 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/26/...-says.html

Quote:A water heater that “was leaking gas, maybe from use or lack of maintenance" was likely the source of the toxic fumes that led to the deaths of an Iowa family last week in their Mexican vacation home, one of the country’s prosecutors revealed Monday.

The head prosecutor of the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo, Miguel Angel Pech, told the Radio Formula station that "a high level" of gas was found in the rented condo where the couple was staying, according to the Associated Press.

Quote:Autopsies had indicated the family died from inhaling toxic gas in the resort of Tulum, but the source hadn't been determined.

Jana Weland, Amy Sharp's cousin, told the Des Moines Register Monday that they were informed of the suspected source of the leak by the U.S. Consulate in Mexico. The family is working on getting the bodies back to U.S. soil for a funeral.

Photos released by Pech's office over the weekend showed investigators in anti-contamination suits and firefighters with air tanks examining gas connections to a stove in the condo in Tulum. The office said investigators "carried out a physical investigation of the gas connections in the room," and the civil defense office of Tulum would issue a technical report on the findings.

How often does this happen in the usa?

Well, pretty common after a hurricane, bad t-storms etc with extended power outages.

When brain dead knuckle draggers crank up the generator in the living room or a closed garage.

Amazing it still happens, but it does.

Then it’s claimed as a death caused by the storm...

https://www.safewise.com/resources/carbo...tors-guide

it's really that simple if you have any gas source and don't sleep like a baby.....

(03-27-2018 09:53 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  https://www.safewise.com/resources/carbo...tors-guide

it's really that simple if you have any gas source and don't sleep like a baby.....

Welcome back stink. Your absence was duly noted.

(03-26-2018 01:34 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  

(03-26-2018 01:26 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  My brother and his GF won a trip to Mexico while in Vegas... They turned it down...

You could not pay me enough to take a vacation in Mexico right now

I lived in the south of the country for the better part of a year and for a number of years would drive down to Laredo and cross the border, with firearms, for a deer hunt in Nuevo Leon.

You couldn't pay me enough to get me to do that today. Nuevo Laredo I do believe is now under the control of drug lords.

I did that (not always hunting) about every month... great food and drink... Original Cadillac Bar.... wouldn't even think about it today

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/...486239002/

Quote:The Iowa family who died during their spring break vacation here was asphyxiated by gas from a faulty water heater that had rusted in the humid Caribbean climate, Mexican police told the Des Moines Register.

In an exclusive interview Wednesday, Christopher Martínez, the main investigator on the case for the Fiscalia General Office in the Tulum municipality, laid out what police know of the last days of Kevin, Amy, Sterling and Adrianna Sharp, of Creston, Iowa.

Quote:The initial autopsies, conducted in nearby Playa del Carmen, show the four Iowans died of asphyxiation from propane inhalation, he said. The U.S. National Institutes of Health says that "exposure to very high concentrations of propane can cause death by suffocation."

“There was a leak, and it was coming right from the laundry room,” he said through an interpreter. “The laundry room had no ventilation whatsoever.”

Samples were sent to Mexico City for further analysis; those results have not been returned to local police, Martínez said.

Police found the bodies in a top-floor condominium about 3 a.m. March 23. The next day, investigators combed through the apartment wearing full body suits and respirators.

When police took apart the water heater, they discovered rust had corrupted the device, a common problem for appliances in this part of the Caribbean, police said. They examined a similar model for comparison.

The appliance, a Delta Raptor, was purchased in 2012, and its warranty expired in 2017, Martínez said.

Quote:n his plain, white-walled office surrounded by 2-foot-tall stacks of police investigative files and binders, Martínez flipped through fire department photos showing how investigators discovered the apartment.

The pictures, which he would not allow to be published, show black marks on the laundry room walls and ceiling surrounding the rectangular water heater tank. Martínez said there was never an active fire but the water heater malfunction stained the walls.

Quote:Police believe the Sharps had been at the beach on the day of their deaths. Their rental car was full of sand. Police believe the family returned to the condo to bathe and rest.

Each parent was found in a separate bedroom — both apparently had been sleeping — and the children, ages 12 and 7, were found in front of the television in the living room.

Martínez reiterated that police do not believe there was any foul play. The apartment showed no signs of a break-in or struggle, and the bodies were undisturbed.

“They were totally relaxed,” he said, “like if you go to sleep and stay in one position.”

Police still do not know an exact time of death. The autopsy analysis in Mexico City should shed more light on that, Martínez said. The condominium was being air-conditioned, which likely slowed decomposition of the bodies.

“This will be clear once the autopsy is finished,” he said through the interpreter.