Carbon Monoxide probably. Highly doubt it was foul play.
RIP Actor Gene Hackman
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An outstanding actor, Imo. RIP Gene Hackman, one of the greats.
Seen it many times. Hackman plays a great foil character to Willem Defoe 'by the book', character. Mississippi Burning one of my favorite movies.
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I guess from what the wife was just saying they adopted GSDs
I’d like to remember Gene as his tough guy persona, but if you Google “ last photos of Gene Hackman” you’ll see he was probably ready to go. RIP.
dnewton3
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Well, he was in his 90s and lived a full life. What do we expect him to appear like????
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Police already said it doesn't seem like foul play. Someone on the radio this morning also speuclated carbon monoxide poisoning.
Very sorry to hear about this. He was a good actor and played great tough guy roles. Hoosiers was my favorite movie of his but Mississippi Burning was good too. My wife loves The Birdcage movie. RIP.
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“Pennsylvania Fallage.” Always remember that line from The Birdcage. The varsity of characters he could do was amazing.
CO poison is real possibility. His house was drastically changed from original form. Who knows.
CO poison is real possibility. His house was drastically changed from original form. Who knows.
There wasn't a role that I didn't like him playing.
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Very sad news. RIP Good Sir--you were one of a kind and portrayed very diverse roles throughout your career.
From the Reverend in the Poseidon Adventure to the blind man in Young Frankenstein who offered to make the monster an expresso to Lex Luthor in multiple Superman movies to Little Bill Daggett in the Unforgiven to Herod in the Quick and the Dead to Brill in Enemy of the State.
You could play them all and will be missed, but never forgotten!
From the Reverend in the Poseidon Adventure to the blind man in Young Frankenstein who offered to make the monster an expresso to Lex Luthor in multiple Superman movies to Little Bill Daggett in the Unforgiven to Herod in the Quick and the Dead to Brill in Enemy of the State.
You could play them all and will be missed, but never forgotten!
I never liked that version of The Quick and the Dead, but he was great in Enemy of the State and many other films. He had a commanding presence in any film.
I will let the police do their investigations without jumping to conclusions. CO poisoning certainly sounds like a possibility. It is one of the many reasons my house is all electric.
I will let the police do their investigations without jumping to conclusions. CO poisoning certainly sounds like a possibility. It is one of the many reasons my house is all electric.
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A lot of people in Ontario use natural gas for their heating but it is also mandatory to have CO detectors in all new homes built (at least one on every floor too) and landlords must install them on their rental units. CO poisoning doesn’t happen often here.
They put a chemical in the natural gas here so that if there is a leak you can smell it. I had an external leak at the outside meter on one of my homes and it was immediately noticeable.
It is considerably cheaper to heat a house up here with natural gas compared to electric, even with our relatively cheap electricity rates.
What about Otisburg? OTISBURG!??!
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Same in Colorado. I have multiple CO detectors on each floor. Methyl Mercaptan is what is typically added to NG to give it that "rotten" smell else, NG would not have any smell.
https://www.gdscorp.com/blog/natura...an-the-chemical-behind-natural-gas-additives/
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That is exactly the smell I had when I had my leak. Called the fire department and they showed up within five minutes and had their CO detectors out and confirmed the leak.
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I am guessing that is what happened--CO leak during the night and it sadly took all their lives.
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If it does turn out to be the case and that they didn’t have any detectors in the house then that’s even more tragic because it was totally preventable
What was really interesting, and that most people don't know, is the entire chase scene in "The French Connection", was done illegally. Stunt driver Bill Hickman drove for over 20 blocks at 95 MPH through Queens with no permits, coordination, or planning!
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...i57j69i64.16100j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
CO is partial combustion - no smell and raw unburned NG or propane are different with required odorant and of course stink
