Absurd News: Man Dies from Breathing In 605 of His Own Farts
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal, but the man was shut up in his near airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating 'this deadly gas.'" Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized."
Moral of the story is: if yer gonna eat beans, keep the bedroom window open at night.
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Is It Possible to Kill Someone with Farts?
Last month there was a deadly gas leak at a Dupont facility in La Porte, Texas. Four people died from asphyxiation when a bad valve let huge quantities of the noxious gas methyl mercaptan leak into an area where employees were working, and their deaths would have been preceded by a nasty, familiar odor—one that’s present in rotting cabbage, and, yes, your butt.
Farts contain not just methyl mercaptan, but other asphyxiants like methane and dimethyl sulfides. Here’s the question though: Let’s say you were John Doe from Se7en, and farting were a deadly sin. Could you actually kill someone with farts?
The victim would have to be an otherwise healthy person—no farts so smelly they make your grandma have a heart attack.
You would have to use some combination of farts and a closed space or mask, but nothing that could be considered a weapon—no plastic bags over the head.
You would have to be able to kill them within a few hours for it to be considered a fart-related death—no infections caused by airborne intestinal bacteria.
The farts themselves would have to deliver the fatal injury—no farting out so many greenhouse gasses you cause climate change–related natural disasters.
Here’s what I discovered:
Farts Can Be Toxic
Estimates vary on exactly how much of every gas is in every fart, because what you’ve been eating determines what’s in your digestive tract—apart from a very small percentage of smell-producing gasses that make up a kind of smell signature.
The gasses in your farts that can kill someone are called asphyxiants, which are very different from cytotoxic agents like mustard gas, which damage your cells on contact. Nitrogen, a gas that can be used to execute prisoners is the asphyxiant found in greatest quantity in farts. Flammable methane is another such asphyxiant, and can constitute a large percentage of your fart gas.
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