EPTFan death? - Page 2
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LosingID8
CA10824 Posts
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pinenamu
United States770 Posts
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Wasabi
United States3085 Posts
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boghat
United States2109 Posts
On September 01 2008 12:07 LosingID8 wrote: it's because if you sleep with your mouth open, the moving air can dry up the back your throat causing it to close thus leading to asphyxiation I think the only way for this to possibly happen (and I'd bet money it wouldn't happen even in the ideal situation) would be to get passed out drunk so you won't wake up, stick a fan on full blast down your throat and tape your mouth open. This is obviously impossible, and the only proof you need is that it has never happened ever. | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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nortydog
Australia3067 Posts
![[image loading]](http://bp1.blogger.com/_uzawKLIGw6k/R_aKyYeUhWI/AAAAAAAAAK4/JokqpXINw1w/s400/Electric_Fan.jpg) I'm gonna do it guys | ||
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HyoSang
United States194 Posts
BTW my roomate and i added this onto the mythbusters website but they havent done it yet. Maybe the TL community should try getting this as an episode? | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common seasonal summer accidents or injuries, according to data they collected. .....LOL | ||
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HumbleZealot
Canada508 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i36.tinypic.com/2wdyt0k.jpg) But honestly the shut off switch and the myth are a good way to get people to not waste power and add to global warming. | ||
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CapO
United States1615 Posts
good luck! btw, i also think this might be urban legend after reading, but anyone confident enough to do what i said above? edit: the room you choose should be tiny. | ||
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overpool
United States191 Posts
On September 01 2008 13:36 CapO wrote: if you wanna test it, completely shut your windows and doors. tape the bottom of the door if it has a fair amount of room beneath it. now, turn the fan on and directly point it at your face. now go to sleep with the full blast on. good luck! btw, i also think this might be urban legend after reading, but anyone confident enough to do what i said above? edit: the room you choose should be tiny. Or we could look at the mountains of evidence to the contrary, the fact that this phenomenon apparently only happens in Korea/China, and the fact that not a single person has ever died from a fan. | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
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boghat
United States2109 Posts
On September 01 2008 13:36 CapO wrote: if you wanna test it, completely shut your windows and doors. tape the bottom of the door if it has a fair amount of room beneath it. now, turn the fan on and directly point it at your face. now go to sleep with the full blast on. good luck! btw, i also think this might be urban legend after reading, but anyone confident enough to do what i said above? edit: the room you choose should be tiny. The thing is, even if your body did go into some adverse reaction from this, which I very seriously doubt it would, you would wake up! You don't just die in your sleep from suffocation, you'll always wake up. The Wikipedia article is funny, look at the quotes at the end, apparently everyone who dies from "fan death" either has a heart attack or is an extreme alcoholic. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On September 01 2008 11:33 Pressure wrote: yeah... when i sleep with a fan on i always keep the door open i have no clue but my grandma pushed it on me LOLOL so it's not a fake wiki? I read this shit a long time ago and thought it was a racial joke hahahaha ^OMFGLMAO I thought about it for a moment... this is only something that could be perpetuated in an asian country, where people strictly adhere without questions or challenges. Any other place, if they were raised to fear moving-air, people would try it anyways, even if it killed them, just to find out/test it. I can't believe there are people on this board who are like, "oh shit it doesn't kill you? i just assume it did since they told me so." | ||
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OmgIRok
Taiwan2699 Posts
On September 01 2008 11:19 NoobsOfWrath wrote: I've slept with my fan on at night for like 8 years, O_O Cause its fucking hot in Taiwan, f'sho | ||
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ScarFace
United States1175 Posts
On September 01 2008 12:07 LosingID8 wrote: No.it's because if you sleep with your mouth open, the moving air can dry up the back your throat causing it to close thus leading to asphyxiation | ||
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Worked!
Canada264 Posts
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lesser_good
Canada698 Posts
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hideo
Canada1641 Posts
I've never ever encountered a situation where somebody warned me of "fan death", or even connoted leaving a fan on overnight with personal harm at all. As for suggestions of leaving a door or window open, that would mean better circulation and cooling right? | ||
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