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The Troubled Teen Industry / New High DUSTING kills 14 year old
« on: August 25, 2005, 04:33:00 PM »
This police officer is asking for everyone who receives this email
>to forward it to everyone in their address book, even Law
>Enforcement Officers.
>
>
>
>DUSTING
>
>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.
>Thor 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. 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 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 them they were all used. I talked to my kids and my 2
>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 10:00 pm. At 11:00 pm 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 sitting 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 1:00 am.
>
>I found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids 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 no.
>
>Kyle's death taught us two things:
>
>1. Kyle was wrong.
>It's not just compressed air. It also contains a propellant. I think
>it's 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.
>
>
>
>2. 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 AN 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 your 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 it's
>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, its 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 cant 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. The school 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, Dust Off
>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 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 pm 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.
Pass this on - I didn't know anything about this myself.....
>to forward it to everyone in their address book, even Law
>Enforcement Officers.
>
>
>
>DUSTING
>
>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.
>Thor 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. 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 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 them they were all used. I talked to my kids and my 2
>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 10:00 pm. At 11:00 pm 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 sitting 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 1:00 am.
>
>I found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids 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 no.
>
>Kyle's death taught us two things:
>
>1. Kyle was wrong.
>It's not just compressed air. It also contains a propellant. I think
>it's 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.
>
>
>
>2. 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 AN 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 your 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 it's
>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, its 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 cant 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. The school 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, Dust Off
>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 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 pm 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.
Pass this on - I didn't know anything about this myself.....