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3 Time BoM
I just want to share this with all of you, especially those of you with kids.
'Dusting'
First, I'm going to tell you a little about me
and my family. I am a Police Officer for a city which
is known nationwide for it's crime rate. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general 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. The reason I say this is so you understand that I know about drugs.
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.
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 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 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. ITS 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 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
its 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.
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.
This 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. I am a Police Officer for a city which
is known nationwide for it's crime rate. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general 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. The reason I say this is so you understand that I know about drugs.
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.
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 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 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. ITS 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 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
its 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.
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.
This Officer is asking for everyone who receives
this email to forward
it to everyone in their address book, even Law
Enforcement Officers.
