Tuesday, August 02, 2005

The Choking Game

2nd Post

NOTE: Reading the other post first will score you with an almost nekkid pic of Mimi in hot blue dress…

OK… This is my second post… I am sort of catching up from Friday and taking advantage of my time to post while I have it. I have six long nights of this shit and will probably hate every minute of it.

My days now consist of the following… I Get home, eat something, say hello to my little girl, and to Mimi. I give each a kiss, see my puppy, go up and say hello to my son (although today we will be having a short discussion about his motivation and football), I will then go take some meds, go to sleep, wake around 6 PM or so, eat some dinner, take my son to football, come home take a shower, and go to work till I come home the next morning.

But my fucked up schedule is not what I am writing about, nor is my fucked up professional life or any of that shit. I am writing about something I have recently heard about.

So one of my best buddies and I were talking last week, and he says, “hey Jay, did you hear about this new thing, these kids are doing.. They are strangling each other till they pass out and doing this for fun…”

OK, first, as soon as he mentioned “passing out” I know what the score was, and it is fucking idiotic what these kids are doing… Cause you know what? I did it in middle school (don’t worry I will tell all), but we did it another way. This is just bullshit. And apparently there are several kids locally who have died from this strangulation high technique.

The worse part, not like there is anything good about this, is these kids are actually doing something similar to what Michael Hutchence (for those unfamiliar, the lead singer of INXS) when he died, except there is no alleged masturbation going on while they strangle themselves.

SO I heard this from my buddy, and though, “Oh… how fucked up is this?” well, I did not think anything more of it till last Friday night when a 20/20 was airing commercials for this “thing” that the kids were doing and do you know what theya re doing as a game. Immediately I am thinking, they are going to talk about the game “Snap” which was my topic of interest last Thursday night… Go see my post and come right back…

Waiting… Waiting… Waiting… Waiting…


OK… Great you are back…

So you know about the game “Snap” now… So this is what I thought 20/20 was going to air… So Mimi and I started watching it and they began describing the disturbing trend and “GAME” that was happening as early as middle school and the lead part of the story started discussing the asphyxiation of this 13 or 14 year old girl. Now twice in two weeks I have heard of this asphyxiation thing.

So for you folks who have no fucking clue what I am talking about here is the deal…

What the kids are doing now…

You take a length of rope, a dog leash or anything that has some length and can be tied around one’s neck… The tie it to the closet rack, a door or anywhere they can, then around their neck, lean forward and cut off the blood and air to the brain till just before they black out, then they let off the pressure and breathe… This gives a huge rush because basically what they have done is stopped the air and blood circulating towards the brain, and when the pressure is released and air is brought back into the body they experience a blinding rush.

They have also taken to chocking one another to achieve the same thing but in more of a game type atmosphere.

They way WE (meaning the kid I knew… ok and I did this)

It is actually a much tamer and maybe not as effective thing, but this was more of a trick to fuck with someone or to screw around than any type of game or way to get “high.” So basically one would take deep breaths and each time the breathed out, they would expel as much oxygen as they could, and the general number was do this about 10 times, then on the last time of exhaling, hold your breath… Now you wrapped your hands across your chest and squeezed as tightly as you could bending over at the waist holding your breath as long as you could. When you could no longer hold your breath, you exhaled and you would get a rush.

This has about the same effect as what the kids now are doing, but potentially not as intense a rush.

Either way this is a stupid thing to do. If you have ever had a coughing fit to the point of where you feel light headed and feel tingly all over and you see black for a moment, you have felt the same basic rush as these children are seeking and are getting, yet they are strangling themselves.

So yet another disturbing trend I have heard bout that kids my son’s age are starting to get into…


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