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>Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:29:36 -0700

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>' D U S T I N G '

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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 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 won't.

>

>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 goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy

>went downstairs to wake 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. 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. 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 how to do this about a month before. 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.

>

> was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a

>propellant called R2. It'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

>that's why you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your

>brain, to your heart. 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 's mouth when

>he died. Why

>his eyes 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 it's more

>accepted.

>

>There is no chemical reaction, no strong odor. It doesn't follow

>the huffing signals. 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 affected. 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 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 '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 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 is in heaven 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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