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Title: Mother warns parents of dangerous game
Category: Health
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-07-04 17:12:18
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

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Experts say it is often the brightest kids who take part in the dangerous game.

I dont think brightest would be the word I would choose.

[QBall]

Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:

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Experts say it is often the brightest kids who take part in the dangerous game.

I dont think brightest would be the word I would choose.

There's book smarts then there's common dog smarts. These kids have the former but none of the latter. Sort of like a woman who would name their kid Jagger.

[Guy_Fawkes]

No, if you look at someone and say "Hey choke me out for fun," you have just lost the title of 'bright' child.

[andyt]

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"You hyperventilate…and then once you start to dizzy…it will seem like you kind of need glasses or something then you stand up and put your thumb in your mouth and you are blowing, but without letting air out," said Jagger.

What Jagger says you experience next is a few moments of lightheadedness.

A group called Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play estimates seven Albertans have died from the choking game, which involves cutting off the flow of blood to the head via choking.

The two paragraphs contradict each other. The first one describes no choking. We used to do that as kids too - hyperventilate, stand up and press your arms to your chest while holding your breath. You just space out for a bit, and I doubt if it's very dangerous. But if he stood up while disoriented, and then banged his head, that's probably the problem.

The second one sounds much different. I know kids hang themselves on washroom roll towels for that. That does sound dangerous. Just ask Micheal Hutchence.

Somebody is mixing up two different activities.

[Choban]

I knew kids in JH school that would hyperventilate then stand up and have their friends press on their necks to pass out, it's common and despite what many believe kids of all intelligence levels do it. Never saw the appeal myself.

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