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I remember people doing that in middle school - but within a year they had discovered pills.
What ever happened to Monopoly, Tag and Kickball? Seems everything in this world is just getting more extreme by the passing day, including the games kids play.
Boy dies playing 'passing out game,' officials believe
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; Posted: 10:29 a.m. EDT (14:29 GMT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy was found dead, hanging from a tree, apparently killed while trying to get high by playing the "pass-out game," authorities said.
Dalton Eby may be the second Idaho child killed in recent months while playing a choking game, trying to cut off the oxygen supply to the brain to achieve a type of "high."
Dalton's mother reported him missing last Thursday when he failed to return home after visiting a friend. Search and rescue crews found his body Friday in a tree near his Island Park home, the Fremont County sheriff's office said in a statement.
There was nothing at the scene suggesting that anyone else was involved, the sheriff's office said.
"During the course of the investigation it was learned that there is a game that is common knowledge to many of our youth. A game known as the 'pass-out game,' the 'fainting game,' the 'tingling game,' or the 'something dreaming game' -- to name a few," the statement added.
Dalton's parents had never heard of the game, and neither had the parents of his friends, the sheriff's office said.
That was also the case three months ago in Nampa, where 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn was found dead after apparently hanging herself in her closet.
An investigation was inconclusive, but Dunn's family believes she died accidentally while playing the game, which was popular with a group of girls at her school. Six girls at the school were suspended for a day after a security camera videotape showed the seventh-graders choking each other in a hallway.
Though the so-called game is new to many adults, it's likely something that children have been doing for a long time, said Connecticut-based child psychologist Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, author of "The Secret Language of Children: How to Understand What Your Kids are Really Saying."
"That's scary," Shapiro said.
In addition to talking to kids about drugs and alcohol, parents should discuss other risky behavior, like the pass-out game, Shapiro said.
"Younger kids don't know that they can die from this, that it's a very dangerous activity," Shapiro said.
Nathan Hoiosen, a school resource officer with the Nampa Police Department, said youngsters think the choking game offers a safe buzz compared with drinking or doing drugs.
"You wish you could just take the kids and shake them and say, 'What are you thinking?"' Hoiosen said.
I remember people doing that in middle school - but within a year they had discovered pills.
"Younger kids don't know that they can die from this,
what how young do have to be to not know you can die from choking/not being able to breath? 4?
I just mentioned this to my oldest daughter and in her 11yo ways she basically said, WTF?
God save my kids from being so utterly stupid...
My son never heard of it either. I did tell him that if someone ever asks him to play to tell them no. And then I told them there are a lot of stupid people in the world and he said, "I know, mom. You always tell me that!"
At least I know he's listening!
It's not new, we used to do this 20+ years ago. A passing novelty over a weekend whose facination abruptly ended when another girl passed out and whacked her head on the corner of a console TV.
notorious hop, jekka
i hope yall have kids
otherwise your opinions are worthless
maybe when yall have kids youll understand!
Seriously. Are you re ed?
what?
really
maybe when they become parents theyll realize...
I stopped holding my breath for attention at a very young age.
When you found out that all you do is pass out and then start breathing again? I think that's the whole idea.
poor mookie
ROFL
yall have nothing to say
tried to come up with a response but you realized thats exactly what yall did to me
yall are very smart and i know if yall had a comeback you would have given it to me
LOL
no hard feelings
Mookie cracks me up.
Hey man, they are just weeding out the gene pool for us.
Did a parent buy them the rope or whatever or show them how to do it? Then STFU, your response didn't apply to the situation.
How was that for a "comeback"?
Dalton's parents had never heard of the game, and neither had the parents of his friends, the sheriff's office said.
when i become the best parent i can be, ill be aware of all the games my children play
Nice try, but no one ever argued that kids wouldn't do stupid behind their parents' back. But hey, when you become a parent and can figure out a way to anticipate things like this, please be sure to fill in the millions of parents who have been unsuccessful in doing so on your technique so we can prevent anymore of these tragic, heartbreaking losses.
TYIA.
And my children will never lie or cheat and they will always read books and not watch any tv unless it is educational and forget video games. And if they are very good I will hire them a stripper on their 16th birthday.
i believe mookie is just throwing chum in the water to watch the piranha converge.
I never knew Mookie knew how to play the fiddle!
I agree, I actually find Mookie entertaining.
I never knew Mookie knew how to play the fiddle!
Sorry to rain on the hilarity....but I just miss Tpark and he's the closest I could find.
Sorry to rain on the hilarity....but I just miss Tpark and he's the closest I could find.
Like I said to Can't Be Faded...
He, mookie and elpimpo have their own language.
However, mookie does pull the 'poor me' when no one agrees with him.
And now the pissing contest has ended.
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