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Otha received this e-mail IMPORTANT
- PLEASE READ Checked this one out with snopes
and it is true. This is one of many thing that
kids are huffing or baging. What might make
this one a little more dangerous is that many think it is just air, so it can't
hurt you. The snopes link is: Latest Drug in Middle School - Dusting 'Dusting' P. Puumala Instructions for sharing this page with friends or acquaintances: If you encounter problems. Site Map Important
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After you read this email you should go to the snopes
link above and read about other, similiar things kids
are 'puffing' on.
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 train 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 used any drugs.
I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one in
February 2005. I also was working on some 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
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 goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning 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 kid's ages 9 through
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 so.
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. 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. IT'S NOT AN OVERDOSE
. 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. 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 has 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 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 problem 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.
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 2 nd
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.
This Officer is asking for everyone who receives this email to forward it to
everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers!
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