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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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Guys, am I alive? I am not sure, because I put my fan all night, and I somehow managed to survive.  It must be a miracle! Ha!
The only fan death I believe is one somehow catching fire and the fire spreading or a rock star getting shot by a crazed fan. |
Wait a minute there adventurer...
I'm sorry to have to break this to you...
But like Brucie in 6th sense have you noticed at all recently that when people interact with you it could just be coincidental and the same scenes would transpire were you not really there....
I'm worried that you might be a ghost and did once indeed die from fan death...
sorry to have to break it to ya pal... (that sound slike something bruce would say in Die hard.) |
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Katchafire
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Location: Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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I went to sleep the other night with a fan on (hadn't owned one before). It was about 4ft from my bed, on low 'blow', and was doing the semi-circular rotation. My bedroom is approximately 10x10ft, and the door was closed.
I woke up a few hours later gulping for air. (I'll add that I do not suffer from any sort of breathing problems).
I got up, and instinctively opened the window and sucked back some deep breaths of (I was going to say fresh) NIGHT air.
I read what someone wrote about the fan re-circulating your expelled air ... and Im pretty sure that is exactly what happened. 
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Grab the Chickens Levi wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
Guys, am I alive? I am not sure, because I put my fan all night, and I somehow managed to survive. It must be a miracle! Ha!
The only fan death I believe is one somehow catching fire and the fire spreading or a rock star getting shot by a crazed fan. |
Wait a minute there adventurer...
I'm sorry to have to break this to you...
But like Brucie in 6th sense have you noticed at all recently that when people interact with you it could just be coincidental and the same scenes would transpire were you not really there....
I'm worried that you might be a ghost and did once indeed die from fan death...
sorry to have to break it to ya pal... (that sound slike something bruce would say in Die hard.) |
So, I died, and wound up in "Korea"? Is Korea heaven?
Gotcha! This place is kind of a funny place... Where on Earth would you ever hear about fan death? And the funny thing is when you ask Koreans about various things about Korea some act like they never heard about it, or that it's all exaggerated. |
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Hoklanie
Joined: 22 May 2008
Location: South Korea
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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I slept last night with the air con on all night by accident.
Feel fine this morning |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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I eat American beef. I've eaten chicken while traveling in South East Asia.
I've travelled to Thailand Post Tsunami post SARS. I turn on the fan and close all the windows.
I'm still alive |
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glimmer
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Wow.. straight from the horse's mouth! Excellent find glimmer. |
Or some other part of the horse's anatomy, maybe.
Oh, and to answer my own question as to whether air-conditioners are equally dangerous, the Korean Consumer Protection Board says YES!
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Beware of Summer Hazards!
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) issued a consumer safety alert after analyzing injury data related to summer accidents collected for the past three years through its Consumer Injury Surveillance System (CISS).
The top five recurring accidents are: asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners; children�s asphyxiation inside cars; explosions inside cars; air conditioner explosions; and sanitary accidents at home.
■ Doors should be left open when sleeping with the electric fan or air conditioner turned on.
If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air conditioners for too long, it causes bodies to lose water and hypothermia. If directly in contact with a fan, this could lead to death from increase of carbon dioxide saturation concentration and decrease of oxygen concentration. The risks are higher for the elderly and patients with respiratory problems.
From 2003-2005, a total of 20 cases were reported through the CISS involving asphyxiations caused by leaving electric fans and air conditioners on while sleeping. To prevent asphyxiation, timers should be set, wind direction should be rotated and doors should be left open. |
You have been warned. |
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