family killed by cow-farts :(

[Vienge.]

SHIT DEATHS LOCK & B7

I saw this in an old paper I was reading this morning and figured you'd get a kick out of it.

Bridgewater, Va. - Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people - a Mennonite farmer who climbed into the pit to unclog a pipe and then, in frantic rescue attempts that failed, his wife, two young daughters and a farmhand.

"They all climbed into the pit to help," Sheriff Donald Farley said. "Before they hit the floor, they were probably all dead."

Farmers typically take pains to ventilate manure pits, where methane often gathers. A family member questioned whether cattle feed could have trickled into the pit and accelerated the formation of the gas.

"You cannot smell it, you cannot see it, but it's an instant kill," explained Dan Brubaker, a family friend who oversaw the construction of the pit decades earlier.

Scott Showalter, 34, apparently was transferring manure from one small, 9-foot-deep pit to a larger holding pond Monday evening, the sheriff said, as is usually done once a week.

When something clogged the drain, Showalter went through the 4-foot opening into the enclosure, which is similar to an underground tank. He would have climbed down a ladder into about 18 inches of manure.

"It was probably something he had done a hundred times," Farley said. "There was gas in there, and he immediately succumbed."

Believing Showalter had suffered a heart attack, police said, a farmhand followed him moments later and also passed out.

That's when another farmworker alerted Showalter's wife, Phyillis.

"The family took off to try to get him," said Sonny Layman, who rents a house on the farm. "Phyillis threw the phone out at me and asked me to dial 911."

Layman instead followed her and two of the Showalters' four children.

By the time he got to the pit a few feet away, "They were all gone, except Phyillis."

Layman said he tried to pull the woman out of the pit but could not. She died, along with daughters Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9, and farmhand Amous Stoltzfus, 24.

The Showalters' two surviving daughters were being cared for by family members.

http://origin.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6293332

How shitty (lawls) would that be to be known as the people who died from smelly shit? Obviously people joke all the time about the stench of death that comes from farting and shitting but to keel over because of it? Then have 4 other people die with you? And if there is an afterlife, what do you say when people ask how you died? Do you lie? Do you just say methane poisoning without mentioning you died in a shithole?

Maybe this has been dugg maybe not but I don't read digg so oh wells.

[shockthemonkey]

sounds like one of my farts

[ieyeasu]

That's actually really sad.

[superllamapoop]

you're a digg

[Vienge.]

aw i liked my thread title.

[Klypr]

Originally Posted by Vienge

aw i liked my thread title.

Sanjay didn't.

[No_OMG]

Guess it really is silent but deadly.

[OneWhoKnows]

Methane is no joke.

[ieyeasu]

Originally Posted by OneWhoKnows

Methane is no joke.

Cow farts are srs business?

[-lotus-]

talk about a shit thread

[ilikeandross]

i dont read digg, thanks

[KpaBap]

wow took 5 people dying for them to figure out to stay the fuck away from the shit pit

you figure after they saw the first 2 bodies they'd think "hmm maybe we should stay the fuck away"

[ck]

Originally Posted by No_OMG

Guess it really is silent but deadly.

lolf

[No_OMG]

Originally Posted by KpaBap

wow took 5 people dying for them to figure out to stay the fuck away from the shit pit

you figure after they saw the first 2 bodies they'd think "hmm maybe we should stay the fuck away"

Farmers are simple folk.

[SmashingPumpkins]

Originally Posted by KpaBap

wow took 5 people dying for them to figure out to stay the fuck away from the shit pit

you figure after they saw the first 2 bodies they'd think "hmm maybe we should stay the fuck away"

60% of deaths are by potential rescuers. I'm not talking about firefighters or whatever, i'm talking about the people who try to save others.