Dust Off - Dusting
>Dust Off (or a variant of the product) is available
>> everywhere there's a
>> computer.
>>
>>
>> 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 int o 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 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 530 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. Its just
>> compressed air. It cant
>> hurt
>> you. His best friend said so.
>>
>> Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It
>> also contains a
>> propellant called R2. Its 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 cant 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. Its 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 eye's
>> 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 effected. 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 wont
>> talk about it. The
>> other will only sleep in our room at night. And my
>> wife, I cant 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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