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February 7, 2011

Running A Car Inside Your House Is A Bad Idea

Awesome: The Vietnamese recently celebrated a lunar New Year. Not so awesome: The power went out. Awesome: Some friends improvised by pulling an actual car into the house and letting it run in order to jam some tunes. Not so awesome: No one thought to open a window.

Vietnamese police say nine friends died during a lunar New Year party after they started a car parked inside a house to play music, following an electricity outage. And because New Year parties are rather jolly affairs, none of the nine people breaking out a sweat on the dance floor thought to open a window. When the father of one of them was unable to wake them a day later, it was therefore not because of filthy hangovers, but because of carbon monoxide poisoning.  Read the full story here.