If
you have children or grandchildren, PLEASE read this officer's st=
ory
carefully. You can also verify the story at <=
?color>http://www.snopes.com/to=
xins/dustoff.asp
Dust Off (or a variant of t=
he
product) is available everywhere there's a computer.&nb=
sp;
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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 w=
hich
is known nationwide for its crime rate.&nb=
sp;
We have a lot of gangs and drugs.&n=
bsp;
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 dru=
gs 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
February 2005. I also was wor=
king
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 ca=
n of
compressed air to blow dust off a computer. A few weeks later when I went to u=
se 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.&nbs=
p;
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 h=
ave
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 compu=
ter.
On March 1st, I left for work at10 PM.&nbs=
p;
Just before midnight my wife went down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 530 am the next mornin=
g 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 ea=
sy to
get up. She went in and shook=
his
arm. He fell over. He was pale white and had the stra=
w from
the Dust Off can coming out of his mouth.&=
nbsp;
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 nev=
er
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 ab=
out 10
seconds. It makes them dizzy.=
A boy who lives down the street fr=
om 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 conta=
ins a
propellant called R2. It̵=
7;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.&=
nbsp;
That's why you feel dizzy, buzzed.&=
nbsp;
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 d ice and if your number comes up you die. IT’S 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 your
breathing it in. If not you d=
ie
within 2 seconds of finishing "the hit." That's why the straw was still in =
Kyle's
mouth when he died. Why his e=
yes
were still open.
The experts want to call this huffing.&nbs=
p;
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 it’s more
accepted. There is no chemical
reaction. No strong odor. It doesn't follow the huffing
signals. Kyle complained a fe=
w 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 famil=
y's
life. I have a hole in my hea=
rt and
soul that can never be
fixed. The pain is so immense=
I
can’t describe it. Ther=
e'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.&=
nbsp;
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.&nb=
sp;
A Probation Officer went to the school system next to ours to speak =
with
a student. While there he fou=
nd a
student using Dust Off in the bathroom.&nb=
sp;
This student told him about another student who also had some in his
locker. This is a rather affl=
uent
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 med=
ia
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.&n=
bsp;
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.&nbs=
p;
April 5th would have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday I catch myself s=
itting
on the living room couch at2:30 in the afternoon and waiting to see him get=
off
the bus. I know Kyle is in he=
aven
but I can’t 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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