(DUST OFF) Please read and pass on to everyone you know with kids

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Please read this and pass it on for the sake of our children. With

all of the computers in

our homes, I am sure more than a few of us have these cans around to

keep the

keyboards clean.

Snopes confirmed... sad stuff...

Thanks,

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/dustoff.asp

D U S T I N G 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 h 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 a t

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 w ake le 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 the m 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 re action, 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

thou! ght 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 fo und 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 tel l you they

don't have a drug prob lem

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. Even if you do not

have children, you

can still forward this to friends & family who do!