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> > Don't erase this as parents, educators,

> grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. we need to know

> about this. This needs to be read by everyone, so

> please send this out to as many people as you can. It

> is true. You don't know whose life you may save. Julia

> >

> > Dust-Off (canned air) -- Dust Off- a

> serious danger to our kids (please read)

> >

> > Dust Off- A Serious Fatal Hazard

> >

> > First IM 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 on e 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 them they were all

> used. I talked to my kids and my 2 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. At 11 PM my

> wife went down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 530 AM

> the next morning Kathy went downstairs to wake Kyle up

> for school, before she left for work. He was sitting

> 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. Kyle 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. Kyle 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 Kyle how to do this about a

> month before. Kyle 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.

> >

> > Kyle's death Kyle was wrong. It's not just

> compresses air. It also contains a propellant.. I

> think its 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. Kyle 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 your

> breathing it in! . If not you die within 2 seconds of

> finishing "the hit." That's why the straw was still in

> Kyle'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. Kyle 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 hay, 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 Kyle 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 Kyle's death and they,

> the school, then admitted to it. I know that if they

> would have told the media and I had hear d, it

> wouldn't ha! ve 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 know about it.

> >

> > April 2nd was 1 month since Kyle 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 Kyle is in heaven but I can't help but wonder If

> I died and went to Hell.

> >

> > Jeff Tracey Lowey, B.A., M.S. Crime Analyst Targeted

> Enforcement Unit #583 Calgary Police Service Office:

> > 206-8360

> >