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Guitarzan-54

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Not sure what forum this belongs in. MODS please move if deemed necessary.

In an on-going effort to always keep my friends safe, I thought I would pass this email,

that I just received this morning, to all my Redskins Budz.

If you have teenage children, it's a MUST READ.

If you don't, just pass it on to all that you can.

YOU MAY SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE FOR CHRISTMAS. :cheers:

D U S T I N G

dustoff.jpg

First, I'm going to tell you a little about me and my family. My name

is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city which is known nationwide for its

crime rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one point we were #2 in

the nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He

was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3 years old because

he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now and I still tr ain

with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact that there was no way

to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow it. He would tell on

you. The reason I say this is so you understand that I know about drugs.

I have taught in schools about drugs. My wife asks all our kids at

least once a week if they us ed any drugs. Makes them promise they won't.

I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one

in February 2005. I also was working on s ome of my older computers. They

were full of dust so on one of my trips to the computer store I bought a 3

pack of DUST OFF. Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a

computer. A few weeks later when I went to use one of them they were all

used. I talked to my kids and my two sons both said they had used them on

their computer and messing around with them. I yelled at them for wasting

the 10 dollars I paid for them.

On February 28 I went back to the computer store. They didn't have the

3 pack which! h I had bought on sale so I bought a single jumbo can of Dust

Off. I went home and set it down beside my computer. On March 1st, I left

for work at 10 PM. Just before midnight my wife went down and kissed Kyle

goodnigh t. At 5:30 am the next mo rning Kathy went downstairs to wake Kyle

up for school, before she left for work. He was propped up in bed with his

legs crossed and his head leaning over. She called to him a few times to

get up. He didn't move. He would sometimes tease her like this and pretend

he fell back asleep. He was never easy to get up. She went in and shook his

arm. He fell over. He was pale white and had the straw from the Dust Off

can coming out of his mouth. He had the new can of Dust Off in his hands.

Kyle was dead.

I am a police officer and I had never heard of this. My wife is a

nurse and she had never heard of this. We later found out from the coroner,

after the autopsy, that only the propellant from the can of Dust off was in

his system. No other drugs. Kyle had died between midnight and 1 AM. I

found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids ages 9 thro ugh

15. They even have a name for it. It's called dusting. A take off from the

Dust Off name. It gives them a slight high for about 10 seconds. It makes

them dizzy. A boy who lives down the street from us showed Kyle how to do

this about a month before. Kyle showed his best friend. Told him it was

cool and it couldn't hurt you. It's just compressed air. It can't hurt you.

His best friend said no.

Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a

propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is used in your

refrigerator. It is a heavy gas, heavier than air. When you inhale it, it

fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen, out that's why you

feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your brain, to your heart.

Kyle was right. It can't hurt you. IT KILLS YOU!

The horrible part about this is there is no warning. There is no level

that kills you. It's not cumulative or an overdose; it can just go

randomly, terribly wrong. Roll the dice and if your number comes up you

die. IT'S NOT A N OVERDOSE. It's Russian Roulette. You don't die later. Or

not feel good and say I've had too much. You usually die as you're

breathing it in, if not you die within 2 seconds of finishing 'the hit.'

That's why the straw was still in Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes

were still open.

The experts want to call this huffing. The kids don't believe its

huffing. As adults we tend to lump many things together. But it doesn't fit

here. And that's why it's more accepted. There is no chemical reaction, no

strong odor. It doesn't follow the huffing signals. Kyle complained a few

days before he died of his tongue hurting. It probably did. The propellant

causes frostbite. If I had only known. It's easy to say hey, it's my life

and I'll do what I want. But it isn't. Others are always affected. This h as

forever changed our family's life. I have a hole in my heart and soul that

can never be fixed. The pain is so immense I can't describe it. There's

nowhere to run from it. I cry all the time and I don't ever cry. I do what

I'm supposed to do but I don't really care. My kids are messed &n bsp;up. One

won't talk about it. The other will only sleep in our room at night. And my

wife, I can't even describe how bad she is taking this. I thought we were

safe because of Thor.

I thought we were safe because we knew about drugs and talked to our kids

about them.

After Kyle died another story came out. A probation Officer went to

the school system next to ours to speak with a student. While there he

found a student using Dust Off in the bathroom. This student told him about

another student who also had some in his locker. This is a rather affluent

school system. They will tell you they don't have a drug prob lem there.

They don't even have a dare or plus program there. So rather than tell

everyone about this 'new' way of getting high they found, they hid it.

The probation officer told the media after Kyle's death and they, the

school, then admitted to it. I know that if they would have told the media

and I had heard, it wouldn't have been in my house.

&nbs p; We need to get this out of our homes and school computer labs. Using

Dust Off isn't new and some 'professionals' do know about. It just isn't

talked about much, except by the kids. They all seem to know about it.

April 2nd was 1 month since Kyle died. April 5th would have been his

15th birthday. And every weekday I catch myself sitting on the living room

couch at 2:30 in the afternoon and waiting to see him get off the bus. I

know Kyle is in heaven but I can't help but wonder if I died and went to Hell.

This Officer is asking for EVERYONE who receives this email to forward

it to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers. Even

if you do not have children, you can still forward this to friends & family who do.

***************************************************************

I did confirm this story with "Snopes.com" and it IS true.

-->> Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dust Off Death

MERRY CHRISTMAS WASHINGTON!!!............:peaceout:

HEALTH AND PROSPERITY TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES!

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Guitarzan-54

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I find it hard to believe that people STILL aren't aware of this. Its been all over the news for years now, has been part of most school's anti-drug campaigns, and should have been pretty hard to miss...

I almost feel inclined to say that it would require willful ignorance to just be hearing about this thing now.

Well, I guess myself, and many others....are just ignorant.

If you already knew about it....GREAT!

If you didn't, now you do.

"I almost feel inclined to say that it would require willful ignorance to just be hearing about this thing now."

......sorry I bothered you, bro. :cheers:

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Enter Apotheosis

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Well, I guess myself, and many others....are just ignorant.

If you already knew about it....GREAT!

If you didn't, now you do.

Doesn't hurt to repost it, but a complete lack of oversight/knowledge by parents has always been something thats bugged me.

I suppose my line of thought is just a byproduct of the various parental crusades out there. People rallying against certain things that would not be problems had they exercised better judgment in keeping tabs on their kids from day one.

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G.A.C.O.L.B.

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I find it hard to believe that people STILL aren't aware of this. Its been all over the news for years now, has been part of most school's anti-drug campaigns, and should have been pretty hard to miss...

I almost feel inclined to say that it would require willful ignorance to just be hearing about this thing now.

No ****. I remember being told about this in elementary school way back when dinosaurs roamed the land.

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Consider me a dinosaur too. Dusting (dust off) and jenkem are now terms I'm familiar with, thanks to this thread.

To the "dinosaur" comment I'll say only this. When I was a kid and dinosaurs were popularized the *first* time, there were probably less than 50-60 common species discussed in books (pre-internet, sorry folks). Now there's more than I can count and they discover new species all the time.

The point here is that even by this afternoon, some other kid will have "discovered" one more way to do something stupid and unhealthful to his or her body. All under the guise of finding a high or along those lines. Many of our greatest or most popular inventions were accidentally discovered (Listerine -once a surgical antiseptic and floor cleaner; weren't ED drugs invented as blood pressure treatments first?) or remarketed to their current fame. Unfortunately, many of our worst inventions (huffing, dusting, etc.) often result in unneeded deaths because of ignorance, stupidity or both.

So thanks for informing me.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

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Jenkem is by far the most disgusting way to get high. Every time someone says that word, I immediately think 2 girls 1 cup and want to throw up. How people could stoop to that level to get high is beyond me.

Gotta love the butthash.

People have been doing this for years. They used to huff from shaving cream cans, whipped cream cans, freon from the air conditioner lines.

If drugs were affordable and easy for kids to get they wouldn't have to resort to this type of thing. So sad.

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