TORONTO -- At least 82 children and teens in the United States have died over the past 12 years playing what's known as "the choking game," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said yesterday as it urged parents to look for telltale signs their adolescents may be participating in the dangerous fad.
Canadian authorities have also been studying the phenomenon, and have data that show 74 hospitalizations of children who survived the game at least long enough to get to hospital. But not all do.
Sharron Grant's son, Jesse, 12, died in April 2005, after choking on a computer cord. He learned the game he called "black out" at summer camp the previous year.
BRIEF HIGH
His family, which lives near Barrie, Ont., started a website called GASP -- Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play -- to gather statistics and get out the word on dangers of the choking game.
"It just keeps going on like a bad weed," Grant said.
The choking game, which goes by a variety of other names, involves intentionally choking oneself or being choked by someone else to the point where the player is on the verge of or loses consciousness. The lack of oxygen induces a brief state of euphoria or a high.
Grant said GASP has received 38 reports of deaths among Canadian children.
wow kids these days just give them some wed or sumthing they need to chill or go play
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linko said
13:56 02/15 2008
lol
tob2190 said
17:54 02/15 2008
Wat the f..k
Major Krazy said
18:00 02/15 2008
I think the goal is to block the pulse in the neck but still allow air thru. It's not meant to choke, it's meant to cut off *la*hd to the brain making the person pass out. It is known as a sleeper hold to a "trained" person.
Ambassidah said
19:34 02/15 2008
bet yuh seh dat nah happen yah suh, afta wi ah nuh eediat
Buddah said
19:48 02/15 2008
dem yute need some pu$$y in dem life....cuz no high is like dat
mattbossy said
20:02 02/15 2008
sumting similar to dat use to gwan a my school, but instead of choking dem do dat chinese knock out move pon di neck but at least we realise seh it too dangerous an stop
jamaican5star said
20:06 02/15 2008
lol .. Poor ting
nexx said
02:43 02/16 2008
dumb ass dem
littlemisslinkz said
03:40 02/16 2008
wtf
Garrick said
22:07 02/18 2008
Dem kids nuh have nothing named sense
minksta said
22:10 02/18 2008
thats crazy......poor kids
asian said
22:41 02/18 2008
lol
JamaicasNextTopModel said
00:41 02/20 2008
Interesting...
warhawk said
00:44 02/20 2008
yo dis crazy in my school middle school time people do what is known as dat too dem would push pon a mans chest with dem hands and him lose consciousness i was smart even back then cause i never did it its weird how people find these games out like wtf ever happen to milton bradley mi nuh know
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TORONTO -- At least 82 children and teens in the United States have died over the past 12 years playing what's known as "the choking game," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said yesterday as it urged parents to look for telltale signs their adolescents may be participating in the dangerous fad.
Canadian authorities have also been studying the phenomenon, and have data that show 74 hospitalizations of children who survived the game at least long enough to get to hospital. But not all do.
Sharron Grant's son, Jesse, 12, died in April 2005, after choking on a computer cord. He learned the game he called "black out" at summer camp the previous year.
BRIEF HIGH
His family, which lives near Barrie, Ont., started a website called GASP -- Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play -- to gather statistics and get out the word on dangers of the choking game.
"It just keeps going on like a bad weed," Grant said.
The choking game, which goes by a variety of other names, involves intentionally choking oneself or being choked by someone else to the point where the player is on the verge of or loses consciousness. The lack of oxygen induces a brief state of euphoria or a high.
Grant said GASP has received 38 reports of deaths among Canadian children.
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