#Keyboard cleaner aerosol driver#
Earlier this week, a driver who allegedly huffed was found guilty for hitting and killing three Wisconsin Girl Scouts and an adult volunteer last year. There were 11 killed in Minnesota and Wisconsin in just the last two and a half years. It’s important to also note the number of innocent bystanders killed or injured by people abusing and inhaling various aerosols. There are overdoses and deaths because of it. Hennepin County Medical Center’s Poison Control Center gets about 300 calls a year about inhalants. The chemical in the can that causes the high is difluoroethane or DFE and abusing that compressed gas has been an issue for decades. It’s a cheap and fast high that can be addictive. “It was not being released with the vapor spray, but was rather just sitting at the bottom of the can because it didn’t mix correctly with the vapor,” said Sieff. Sieff says the additive doesn’t even leave the can. In Diehl’s case, there was bitterent added to the dust remover the driver inhaled before the crash. “We’re going to want to see actual verifiable tests run by the manufacturer to demonstrate this bitterant was or was not effective.” “And we’re going to want to see tests,” said Sieff. Diehl’s attorney is prepared to argue the bitterent doesn’t even work and 3M knew it. 3M did know “huffing” was an issue as there were warning labels on the cans and a bitterent was added to the compressed gas to deter misuse.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals, however, reversed that decision, arguing the district court needs to determine if it was reasonable for 3M to have expected a danger to Diehl – or an innocent bystander –when it manufactured and sold the dust remover. The original case was tossed out by district court. “We’re going to ask what they knew, when they knew it, and what they did about it,” said Phil Sieff, her attorney. Now, Diehl is suing 3M, maker of the dust remover that Buehlman inhaled.
I can’t get up and go outside whenever I want, I have to wait for someone to help me. I have to drive in the street at times, I can’t go to the bathroom by myself, I can’t use a kitchen table, I can’t cook food. “I knew right away the legs didn’t work, the chair ya know, but there’s so much more,” said Diehl. In 2015, he was sentenced to one year of jail and probation, but Diehl says she got a life sentence. He apparently blacked out and lost control, hitting her.
At the same time 29-year-old Robert Buehlman had inhaled or “huffed” compressed gas from a can of 3M dust remover. It was August 2012 in Duluth when Diehl was on the sidewalk walking with her nine-year-old daughter to the grocery store.
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