The Choking Game

[Yamanaka]

The Choking Game -- Updated News

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Idaho officials blame a dangerous game -- one that's apparently popular among some young kids -- for the death of a ten-year-old boy. Dalton Eby may be the state's second child killed in recent months playing a choking game where kids try to cut off oxygen to the brain to get high.
A statement from the Fremont County sheriff's office says children know of it as "pass-out game," the "fainting game," the "tingling game" or the "something dreaming game." The boy's mother reported him missing last Thursday when he didn't come home after visiting a friend. Emergency workers found his body, hanging from a tree, near his home the next day.

Three months ago, Idaho officials found 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn hanging in her closet. Dunn's family thinks she died accidentally while playing the game. A child psychologist says kids have likely been doing this a long time. He urges parents to discuss the risks with their kids.

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A game played by today's youth that can could sever brain-damage and death. Why do they play it? It's just to get high off the lack of oxygen? Hundreds play this game without realizing the true dangers of this wide-spread game. Peers at a local Jr. High school I attend have played the game. I myself have never played the game. I have not heard of it, until as of last week. This game is dangerous, please anyone whom is doing this or will attempt this act, consult your counserlor for help, because I know there are people who love you and care about you, don't give in to peer pressure. Just for a little enjoyment afterwords should mean you have to risk your life for it.

[Romantic]

I actually heard about this when the first death came along. Very confusing. It disturbs me.

[Queen-of-Mars]

Wow, kids are pretty damn stupid these days. I certainly hope some of them learn a lesson from this.

[Demond]

Wow this is a fun game i should play with people i hate.

[Yamanaka]

Heh, well I doubt that'd be something there family's would what. ^_^;;

[LittleWhiteLie]

I am sad to admit i've played this game. Its really wierd. You feel like you've standing there for about 1 year. I wouldnt ever play it again but it was fun i guess. But i didnt know you could die from it.

[zodiak]

how stupid are these kids to chke them selves to get high, its a little thing we call marjauana, it doesn't involve killing yourself, but it gets you high. how stupid are they to risk there own lives.

[Capernicus]

I am sad to admit i've played this game. Its really wierd. You feel like you've standing there for about 1 year. I wouldnt ever play it again but it was fun i guess. But i didnt know you could die from it.

Okay, the point of the game is to cut yourself off from oxygen. You die without oxygen. How would you NOT know the game was dangerous! I heard of this game back when I was in middle school (a whole 7 years ago). Even back then I knew it was SO retarded! I mean, come on! I hear the game is most dangerous when played alone. A huge percentage of deaths from it occur when the player does it by themself. I guess then you don't have any senseless "friends" to stop you from really choking. -_- I've never played it, and never plan to.

[Cursed~Amante]

although i live on the other side of the world, this sounds creepy enough to come true here in Asia......

[Imp[losion]]

This sounds too strange to be true. I know kids can be really stupid at times, but this... this is outrageous. Like zodiak said, there are other ways to get high. I wouldn't recommend them, though.

[Aerith Gainsborough]

That is just stupid..

I would say more on the matter, but.. I have nothing else to say.

[3BladeDemoness]

I had never heard of this game intill now, that is stupid! Its lame and pointless. I have never played this game and never plan to! I pity any one stupid enough to choke themselves to get high...

[Storm Strife]

Ok, if kids these days want to play a stupid game like that just to get high, frankly in my eyes they get what they deserve. Why can't they get high the other way? Go to a metal festival and have a look around all the stalls selling legal herbal drugs.

[Sakuras Flame]

That's...retarded...sounds like something Sumae The Firewolf does...wouldn't supprise me but anyways...Children..It's called go to the darkest street in town and meet p with a guy in a trench coat he'll help out >><<.

[Sword]

My friends do that...I refused tho. I never thought anyone actually died doing it, but I thought that it was possible...

[TodayIsMine]

wow...The Choking Game...retards! kids are becoming more and more influenced by stupid crap because they are told it's cool to do...i can't believe how dumb kids have gotten...and to think i'm only a few years older than that 13 year old...honestly, how screwed up do you have to be to want to play a game whos name is clearly telling you "You're going to kill yourself!"
that bothers me to hear about this...oh yeah, i've never heard of it until i read this, and it sounds absolutely retarded to me...i have never done it and never plan to...*idiot kids*

[Khanxay]

the choking game????....what happend to tag, or playng sports???....im confused....so much has changed since i was little...and im only 15

[g0d_of_death]

I heard about this back in the Chelsea Dunn case, and my opinion still hasn't changed; the game is retarded. Like any means of "getting high" it's pointless and stupid. It must take some gnarly crack to get people screwed up enough to do that.

[I Love Elfy]

i also heard of this.its so sad that people do this sort of things

[En Svensk Tiger]

Weird game.

What happened to just smoking pot? Might make you stupid, but at least it doesn't kill you.

[Nullpunkt]

I've heard of this game... it's not uncommon for the local kids to play it. I, however, prefer doing California Headrushes. Slightly less dangerous, ultimately more fun. =D Just kidding. It's just as dangerous, and not something I would recommend to anyone. Please, leave the dangerous activities to people like Yours Truly... people who don't care what the results are.

Marvin

[Naokomi ShYana]

Hmm sounds to me like that one game with the quarters. Just dumb games. I admit to watching my friends do this to each other. But I never really knew the point or what it was supposed to make you feel like. Just passing out? I didn't really knew that got you high, or gave the feeling of getting high. Geez today's youth..

[Mugetsu]

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. To say that common sense should have prevented this is an understatement.

[Capernicus]

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. To say that common sense should have prevented this is an understatement.

hahaha Like your sig has anything to do with common sense! *can't stop laughing* Okay, we all seem to agree on how stupid the game is, but what about we discuss why people do it? A much more contreversial topic, huh?

[Mugetsu]

People do it to be accepted. They see others doing it and want to be down. They do it to prove to thremselves that your they're because when your young you don't think that you'll actually get hurt. They think to themselves "Sure it's dangerous, but that kind of stuff only happens to other people. I'll be fine." They do it to get high. They do it because they lack common sense. They do it cause their too naive to know better and not give in to the pressure.
I could be wrong though.