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If you have children, grandchildren or just care about humanity read below and TALK to your children!!!

This is horrifying...the popularity of the game seems to come and go, but the kids doing it are usually good kids, respectful, good students. Search the net and you will see the heartache this game has caused. Protect your loved ones!!!

The choking game, also known by large number of other names (see end of article), is not technically a game but a schoolyard activity involving the production of unconsciousness or near unconsciousness by restriction of the supply of oxygen to the brain. According to demographics, the practice of this highly dangerous activity is strongly weighted towards juvenile males but includes females and adults of both genders. The activity has been responsible for a large number of juvenile deaths and permanent neurological disabilities almost entirely among the juvenile male cohort. There are estimates that as many as 250 to 1,000 young people die in the United States each year playing some variant of the choking game. Tracking the exact number is difficult because many of the cases are reported as suicides.[1]

They choke themselves with belts, ropes, ties, their own bare hands, or in the case of Kimberly Wilson, a bicycle chain lock, to deprive their brains of oxygen and get a drug-like high. Apparently there are two parts to the experience. First, the high is when there’s light-headedness due to reduced blood flow and therefore a reduced flow of oxygen to the brain. The second part, the rush, comes with the removal of pressure on the chest or neck with releases a powerful surge of dammed up blood through the carotid arteries into the brain.

Kids do it to one another or to themselves. It is particularly deadly when they do it alone because there is no one there to be sure they come out of the pass out phase. Some develop brain damage and others die. This is something the kids do

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