Buffalo Boy's Blog

Our landlord came to the house a few weeks back and brought with him new batteries for the smoke detectors and he also dropped off a carbon monoxide detector. I took it from him, set it on the kitchen counter and forgot about it. (yes I replaced the smoke detector battery).

Then the other day, <a href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=63566">Amanda Hansen</a> died of carbon monoxide poisoning. She was 16 years old and from West Seneca. An absolute unexpected and devastating tragedy. Everyone's heart goes out to her, too young to go from such a trivial cause such as that. Its really something that could have been prevented but who knew?

Suffice it to say, after seeing a story like that a few weeks after getting a free detector from my landlord, I am going to dig it out of its hiding place and plug the thing it, I mean why not? With all the things that could go wrong and kill you in your sleep, I would like to eliminate one thing by doing something as simple as that.