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Subject: Dutch farting
Posted Aug 19, 2008 by
BigAl - Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Blue Banana, Patron Saint of Left Handers
 
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An extreme form of this was described in a feature in this week's Daily Mail (UK) (12/08/08) entitled 'Dead Unlucky', which lists some unusual ways of dying.

aPPARENTLY, IN THE usa, an average of 10 people die per year after breathing in (methane) gas from manure pits. In 1989, 5 dairy farm workers from Michigan died after being overcome by methane fumes when one of them slipped into a manure pit yuk , and the others tried to rescue himyikes .

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