this was in my email this morning i havent heard of it just thought i would pass it on because there is a can setting on my desk
"DUST OFF" CAN BE LETHAL! PLEASE PASS 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 I-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 wont.
I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one
in Febr uary 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 PM. At 11 PM 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 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 w ould
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 no.
Kyle's death
Kyle was wrong. It's not just compresses air. It also contains a
propellant I think its 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.
Its easy to say hay, its 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 bec ause 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 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.
Jeff
"DUST OFF" CAN BE LETHAL! PLEASE PASS 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 I-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 wont.
I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one
in Febr uary 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 PM. At 11 PM 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 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 w ould
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 no.
Kyle's death
Kyle was wrong. It's not just compresses air. It also contains a
propellant I think its 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.
Its easy to say hay, its 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 bec ause 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 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.
Jeff
