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RVs in Prunetown

2008 Reader Submission
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I don’t have a media link for this, because it happened in the early 1990s. Something about Prineville one winter was very bad for RV parks because there were two incidents— both really stupid, one deadly.

The first involved a peacefully sleeping elderly couple who awoke to a commotion outside. The turned on the light and a high school kid is rolling around on the ground, retching his guts inside out. A piece of tubing was attached to the side of the RV, pouring out black goop onto the ground next to a gas can.

It only took a moment to figure out what was happening, and once the police were called and the man taken to the hospital for ingesting sewage from the RV’s blackwater tank, the couple didn’t press charges, figuring the kid had been punished enough.

The second incident involved another elderly couple’s RV where the heat had gone out. Rather than call a repairman or get an electric space heater, they decided to heat the RV using their truck. They ran a hose from the exhaust pipe under the RV. Their was enough leakage under the RV that the two asphyxiated.

Submitted on 07/23/2008

Submitted by: William Hunt
Reference: personal account

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
That first story is certainly worthy of a PA as far as I'm concerned. Mistaking the RV's sewage tank for its gas tank and siphoning out the wrong one is a new one for me! The second one is way too common though - we get tons of stories about carbon monoxide asphyxiation from various sources. Thanks, William!


Shadow said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
thats a great PA thanks!


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