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Old 02.14.2008
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CDC: Death count 82 for 'choking game'
2/14/08
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ATLANTA - At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.

In the game, children use dog leashes or bungee cords wrapped around their necks or other means to temporarily cut blood flow to their head. The goal is a dreamlike, floating-in-space feeling when blood rushes back into the brain.

As many as 20 percent of teens and preteens play the game, sometimes in groups, according to estimates based on a few local studies. But nearly all the deaths were youths who played alone, according to the count compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC started the research after receiving a letter last year from a Tacoma, Wash., physician who said her 13-year-old son died from playing the game in 2005.

"At the time I had never heard of this," said Dr. Patricia Russell, whose son was found hanging in his closet, but later learned he had talked to a friend about it.
"One thing that really needs to happen — and is starting to happen now — is to get more information about how common this is," she said.
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This was big around our school about 5 or 6 years ago. I had to be the lucky adult to find a passed out girl in the bathroom, apparently her friends left when she passed out. How nice is that?
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This was big around our school about 5 or 6 years ago. I had to be the lucky adult to find a passed out girl in the bathroom, apparently her friends left when she passed out. How nice is that?
Geez, that couldn't have been pleasant. So did she admit what she had been doing?
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Geez, that couldn't have been pleasant. So did she admit what she had been doing?
A teenager admit something? Yeah right.
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A teenager admit something? Yeah right.
Yeah, I figured as much. Remember, I have two of them. Always the last to know here.
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I don't get this at all!

When I was a teenager I had things to do in life! Don't these kids have chores like I had to do?

The only time I had to worry about being choked, was when I didn't do my chores.................
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This explains alot for a medical call on teenager a couple of years ago. No note left behind.
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I remember DOING this when I was in middle school! We were on a bus headed down to Daytona Beach (girl scouts! LOL!) and we would actually put pressure on our carotid(sp?) arteries on either side of our necks till we felt like we were in that 'dreamlike' state!! One of the girls on our bus actually ended up having a small seizure from it! Needless to say...we never did it again.

Just one of the many stupid things I did as a kid.
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I still remember what it was like to be a teen. Immature I was. NEVER did I once think myself indestructible or go "Gee. This stunt would be SUCH a cool thing do." Are today's kids just naturally brainless, or what's going on?
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I have a friend whos uncle hung him self doing that while he was jacking
o................ I had never heard of that before that,strange people.
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