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From: My Friend <censored@censored.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: please read this. it's from my mom's friend.
To: Me and my other friends
>> >> The story below happened in 2005, but the dangers
>> >> is something everyone should be aware of.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I feel that you will want to know this
>> >> information about how dangerous using
>> >> "Dust off" can be.
>> >> This is true--checked it with snopes.com. What will
>> >> the kids think of next?
>> >> Also very scary.
>> >>
>> >> Send this to your children, grandchildren, this is
>> >> very scary stuff. I
>> >> Don't want to lose my grandchildren or my children.
>> >> What else are they all
>> >> Going to think of ?
>> >>
>> >> Subject: Fw: Latest Drug in Middle School - Please
>> >> Read
>> >> First, I'm going to tell you a little about me and
>> >> my Family.
>> >> My name is Jeff. I am police Officer for a city
>> >> which is known
>> >> Nationwide for it's 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 cant 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.
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