Well, it's Florida and they got no bidness with havin' ice.

Talk about hockey violence!

Not quite what I expected from the headline, but... yeah.

I used to work in an office that was located immediately off of a running track (yay cheap state office space). A few years ago, they wanted to lay a new track. This meant scraping up the old track and laying new polyurethane base and then making a new track on top of that.

Well, they brought in a bunch of scrapers, little diesel powered road machinery type things with blades, to scrape up the old track down to the bare cement. Problem was, the building was built in 1912, and the only ventilation - windows at the top of the huge domed roof - long since didn't function. So, well, what's the problem? Just go ahead. It's a big room!

Yeah. So, we found ourselves getting sleepy and sick and lightheaded, called it in, turned out yay! Carbon monoxide poisoning. Running diesel vehicles in non-ventilated space, even a HUUUUUGE non-ventilated space, is not a good idea.

Turns out they had to have a crane remove the roof windows for the remainder of the project, problem solved (though with delays as of course that meant it could now rain freely into the space, ha).

Headline Fail. Zamboni is not a food it is an ice resurfacer machine.

I had the fish. So I'm okay.

Pffft. "lethal levels of carbon monoxide". Those little snowflakes just need to walk it off. If they'd breathe nothing but carbon monoxide more often, they could build up more of a tolerance for it.


/these kids today

Matthew Keene: I had the fish. So I'm okay.


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'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me

Guy Who Doesnt Get The Joke: Headline Fail. Zamboni is not a food it is an ice resurfacer machine.

The source of the CO was a humidifier; but no Italian food sounds like "humidifier"

ArkAngel: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I had the lasagna.

Surely you can't be serious...

I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley.

Won't somebody please think of the children? These zambonis are dangerous and we're real lucky nobody got killed THIS time. Please join me in my cause to outlaw these deadly zambonis where ever they maybe found.

DOWN WITH THE ZAMBONI.

Largo Fire investigators officially determined the levels were roughly 50 percent of the point O.S.H.A. considers dangerous.



"Well maybe we should chug on over to namby-pamby land, where you can tell me all about how just half of the deadly wittle CO dose hurt your poor wittle lungs"

Pussies. It's just carbon (what we're made of) and oxygen (what we need anyway).

MythDragon: Largo Fire investigators officially determined the levels were roughly 50 percent of the point O.S.H.A. considers dangerous.

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"Well maybe we should chug on over to namby-pamby land, where you can tell me all about how just half of the deadly wittle CO dose hurt your poor wittle lungs"

Pussies. It's just carbon (what we're made of) and oxygen (what we need anyway).


Two guys walk into a bar and first guy says "I'll have an H2O" second guy says "I'll have an H2O too" second guy died

I HAD THE VERMICELLI
ZAMBONI SOUNDS MMMM GOOD THOUGH
I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT JUST FOR THE EQUISATE FLAVOR. WHO CARES IF IT WOULD HAVE MADE ME SICK

I picked a hell of a day to quit breathing oxygen.

Fire Chief Wallace: "There were lethal levels of carbon monoxide."

...next paragraph...

Fire Chief Dixon: "Upon arrival, they found carbon monoxide levels at 96 parts per million. That's elevated -- nothing immediately dangerous to health and life..."

Author fails...

Clearwater? I blame Scientology.

FTA: "This may be a mechanical failure. This is a rare occurrence," Wallace said. "There were lethal levels of carbon monoxide."

(very next paragraph) "Upon arrival, they found carbon monoxide levels at 96 parts per million. That's elevated -- nothing immediately dangerous to health and life -- but that we needed to evacuate the building," Largo Fire District Chief David Mixson said following an investigation.

Damn arcas, beat me to it with time to spare. Good to know I wasn't the only one that caught that.

it wasnt even the zamboni it was the humidifier.. duhhhhh

Hey, Tony... All the kids WERE off the ice, right?

/Zambonis kill more kids than Zombies
//Zamboni Apocalypse?

At the levels they measured and the time the kids were on the ice it was all in their head and there was no immediate danger (they'd have to be there all day for that). They'd have to be in the ice rink for 6 or 8 hours to get serious symptoms. The placebo effect is strong. The fact that four ambulances were called to transport them to the hospital is a bit silly. Still, the carbon monoxide shouldn't be there, but it seems wrong to say they were "poisoned" as such doesn't match up with what is known about carbon monoxide poisoning. As the article points out OSHA regulations have a 100 ppm "ceiling" exposure and (not pointed out in the article) 50 ppm exposure continuously during the average work-day.


The article is full of fail on so many levels though (as others have pointed out). Nothing about it is correct, 96 ppm isn't 50% of the allowed OSHA levels (it is 96% for acute exposure).

Zambonis are fun to drive on the ice.

/Management doesn't take too kindly to drivers crashing into the boards though
//But it's fun

Lotsa spaghetti!

I got carbon monoxide poisioning once in a small-town arena.

/Canadian
//getting a kick... etc...

Wrong kind of putty used to fix the Zamboni?

"The secret is the unique formula that instantly generates a controlled burst of harsh fumes"