A friend recently sent this
to me and I felt it deserved
to be shared with the group.
I checked this story out and
it is true. The question of
how far Kids will go for a
supposedly good time is
beyond me. As parents, we do
everything that we can to
protect our kids from the
dangers of Drugs, but they
keep finding new things to
hurt themselves with. This
is just one more lesson
learned. It's a shame it has
to be learned through death.
The Police Officer is Jeff
Williams of Painesville
Township, Ohio. His son died
on 3/2/05.. 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
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 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 no. 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 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 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.
