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Killer electric fans - Is falling asleep next to an electric fan a potentially fatal mistake?
Maclean's ^ | August 19, 2015 | Meagan Campbell

Posted on 08/20/2015 4:58:19 AM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: Flick Lives

That looks a lot like what was installed in the warehouse at a place where I worked for a while. They had two of them and the brand name on theirs was actually, “Big Ass Fan”, believe it or not. The logo was a picture of a donkey. Must have been invented by a Democrat. They really made it far more tolerable in that area on a hot day.


41 posted on 08/20/2015 5:45:56 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Flick Lives
The WMD of fans.

You forgot to give attribution to the fan company that makes this product..... http://www.bigassfans.com/product/ .....and yes, that is their name.

42 posted on 08/20/2015 5:49:33 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: Flick Lives
Looks like one of these.


43 posted on 08/20/2015 5:52:38 AM PDT by pa_dweller (But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain - JRK)
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To: rickmichaels

Theonion.com is getting sneaky posting under another url.


44 posted on 08/20/2015 5:52:55 AM PDT by NotQuiteCricket (I will return to lurk mode. Feeling a little frisky today.)
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To: Patriot Babe
The fan helps especially when one is going thru hot flashes

TELL ME ABOUT IT...

45 posted on 08/20/2015 5:54:25 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: rickmichaels
Of course, some South Koreans think the risk of death is just a fantasy.

I suspect that "most" could be safely and honestly substituted for "some" in that sentence.

46 posted on 08/20/2015 5:54:57 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: rickmichaels

When I was in Korea 25 years ago, electric fans were a no-no. The majority of the population (okay, my sample was limited to bars and restaurants that served G.I.s, so it’s likely quite skewed) believed that an electric fan in an enclosed room would suck the air out of the room and cause them to suffocate in their sleep. They would always open a door or window if they ran a fan.


47 posted on 08/20/2015 5:55:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The other day I... No, that wasn't me.)
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To: Crazieman

Electric fans kill more people every year than Shark-Nados. True fact. maybe it isn’t Sky Net becoming fully aware that we need to fear, maybe its fans!


48 posted on 08/20/2015 6:00:57 AM PDT by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: RipSawyer
Must have been invented by a Democrat. They really made it far more tolerable in that area on a hot day.

It worked, couldn't have been made by a Democrat.

49 posted on 08/20/2015 6:01:32 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The other day I... No, that wasn't me.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I worked with a mixed race crew, about half Caucasian and half “African American”. We only had one little room where you could get some relief from the heat or the cold. It was of little use to me because the blacks kept setting the thermostat on 80 or even higher summer or winter. Black people in South Carolina seem to consider 80 the ideal temperature, many have actually told me they like an 80 degree day much better than a beautiful, sunny 65 degree spring day. Go in their home in the winter and if you are anything like me you cannot take it, 80 degrees with everything shut up tight and no air movement. It is bad enough in the summer but 80 inside in the winter feels to me like 100 does outside in the summer, sometimes even worse. I can’t breathe in a place like that. I am quite comfortable right now, the air conditioner is on and the temp inside is 77 with a humidity reading of 39. As long as I am not doing anything other than typing on a keyboard that is just fine but if you’re talking about inside temps 72 is way too cold for me in my home in the summer but plenty warm, maybe too warm in the winter.


50 posted on 08/20/2015 6:02:09 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: WayneS
I suspect that "most" could be safely and honestly substituted for "some" in that sentence.

Based on my experience there 25+ years ago, you'd be wrong.

51 posted on 08/20/2015 6:03:07 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The other day I... No, that wasn't me.)
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To: rickmichaels
Between 2003 and 2005, the agency reported a total of 20 fan deaths.

The only solution is to ban fans or at minimum get a government certified to operate one safely...

If we can save even one life, it will be worth it...!

52 posted on 08/20/2015 6:04:42 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: rickmichaels

dr. who had a killer christmas tree....every bit as believable


53 posted on 08/20/2015 6:06:29 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: NotQuiteCricket

Ditto’s


54 posted on 08/20/2015 6:07:56 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: SES1066

Pickles are just as bad, sixty years ago when I was in the sixth grade I knew a lot of people in their fifties and sixties who ate pickles every day. Would you believe that every single one of them is dead now?


55 posted on 08/20/2015 6:09:09 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: rickmichaels
Fans generate "white noise", which make some people sleep better. Some like the noise a small oscillating fan makes while others may prefer a deeper toned attic fan

There are also several websites that generate white noise and allow the user to set the tone(base/treble) of the white noise.

White Noise & Co.

56 posted on 08/20/2015 6:09:41 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: rickmichaels

Everything is fatal. I read somewhere that 100% of people who breathe oxygen are going to die. Horrible.


57 posted on 08/20/2015 6:09:44 AM PDT by LouAvul (Ted Cruz and the presidency goes together like a gun and bullets. Nothing else works.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

WHITE NOISE

58 posted on 08/20/2015 6:13:29 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: bigbob

We once had to spend several days in India with an American lady who insisted she was allergic to: moving air, chilled water, ice, non certified organic vegetables, most all spices, and the list went on. And as a native New Yorker she was an insufferable b!+@% if anybody made the mistake of serving her a prohibited item or mistakenly placed her near a fan or air conditioning. Watching her react to India was memorable and we could never figure out why she came. Some people should not be allowed to have a passport.


59 posted on 08/20/2015 6:15:21 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: rickmichaels

I bet some plaintiff attorneys are already preparing late-night TV ads to try and find potential litigants: “Do you know someone who died in a room with an operating electric fan? If so, you could be entitled to compensation....”


60 posted on 08/20/2015 6:17:32 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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