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SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

My intent with the help of Wikipedia, a trusted online reference (This particular wiki article will likely be deleted because its based on pure fiction, btw.), is to put to sleep the notion that fans can somehow cause a sleeping person to permanently expire if used in an enclosed space next to the sleeper's face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

No, that's not true. I know I personally have died at least four times from sleeping with the fan on. Or maybe I just bribed a doctor to not reveal that I had committed suicide; hmm. Can't remember. Damn you, Hypoxia!

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

Does anybody know where I can buy a fan in Bundang?

poet13 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

Fan death is real. A woman in my city died last summer that way. Apparently if the fan is on high and positioned such that the air passes perpendicular to the nostril and mouth, the high rate of flow will actually suck the air out the lungs of the victim. In an extreme case a few years ago, a child sleeping in a classroom with his head back actually imploded, showering the other students and teacher with, well, bits of himself.

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

time to call the mythbusters

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

poet13 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

IS SO TRUE!!!

Now that I think about it, it was TWO kids who imploded.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

That's funny -

I've had some kids talking about fan death. Yeah, that Korean Herald article about the 16 year old who died? She probably died from exhaustion. I don't see how long these kids go to school for. It's crazy.

Porter_Goss · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Location: The Wrong Side of Right

poet13 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject:

I know where you're going with that, and no, they weren't inside of him, they were nearby. You see, while the two boys and I just remembered, a girl too, imploded, the main force is inward, but there was a resultant cast off of human debris. During an implosion, there is usually some ejecta...

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

I haven't seen any evidence of this on youtube.

cbc

poet13 · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject:

Not on youtube? If anyone had by coincidence caught any of the four, not three, previous children imploding, I am sure it would have been all over the net. But, as it is such a rare occurence, it just hasn't happened yet. Give it time though...