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>If you have children or grandchildren, PLEASE read this officer's story
>carefully. You can also verify the story at
>http://www.snopes.com/toxins/dustoff.asp.
>
>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 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 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 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. Its 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. 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 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. 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 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 it's
>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
>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 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 can't help but wonder If I died and went to Hell.
>carefully. You can also verify the story at
>http://www.snopes.com/toxins/dustoff.asp.
>
>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 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 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 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. Its 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. 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 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. 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 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 it's
>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
>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 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 can't help but wonder If I died and went to Hell.