Can you BELIEVE this?
Apparently a new game played by youngsters where they choke one another until they pass out is causing concern. (I BET!)

Do these kids even understand how dangerous that is!?

I didn't hear about that. Kids are stupid anyway.

Where the heck are the parents and why aren't they teaching them the basic lessons of life... one needs air to breathe.

LOLi wanna play

Originally posted by Desperate_Fan03
Kids are stupid anyway.
u r mean

Originally posted by Kristina
LOLi wanna play *reports*

I've never heard of this game. Where are these kids' parents while they're choking each other to death?! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Janet McFarland
I've never heard of this game. Where are these kids' parents while they're choking each other to death?! :rolleyes: Doing crack.

Mmm. Games like that are so stupid. Like Chicken. This kid in my school played Chicken and now he's in a wheelchair cos the car hit him.

Originally posted by -*Forever*-
Mmm. Games like that are so stupid. Like Chicken. This kid in my school played Chicken and now he's in a wheelchair cos the car hit him.
holy ****.

i didnt even know anyone else played chicken in the road. me and my brother and his friends always did stuff like that. one of them got in trouble with the cops because he ran in front of a police car. :lol:

Originally posted by safety pin
holy ****.

i didnt even know anyone else played chicken in the road. me and my brother and his friends always did stuff like that. one of them got in trouble with the cops because he ran in front of a police car. :lol:

Well, not Chicken like the Chicken you play in the pool. Heh my friends and I played that in the woods once. But no, the Chicken where you see how close you can stand to the cars going by without them hitting you.

Originally posted by Pretty in Purple
Do these kids even understand how dangerous that is!?

No, because their parents don't tell them.

thats awful....I dont understand how anyone that calls themselves a parent can allow their children to play such a game.

I dont think kids are fully aware of how dangerous it is.They dont really think about death,and dont believe it can happen.When i was younger the doctors and nurses game was popular,but even that was a concern for parents because of kids touching each other inappropriately,maybe causing damage,etc.I think parents need to pay more attention to what their kids get up to at 'playtime',or school teachers,if games like that happen at school as well.

Wow what dum dums.

It's all fun and games until somebody loses a life.

Can you BELIEVE this?
Apparently a new game played by youngsters where they choke one another until they pass out is causing concern. (I BET!)

Do these kids even understand how dangerous that is!?
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I was surfing the net about this game I heard that they call (the choking game) and found an article about it. Here it is: Please, warn your kids.


12-year-old Jesse Grant thought he was just playing a game when he put the computer cord around his neck.

Sharron Grant says 'He promised me he wouldn't play it again.'

Dr. Mark Chandra says 'This is not a game.'

Children choking themselves to death in game
Updated Fri. Jan. 27 2006 9:00 AM ET

Doctors suspect the suicides of some children may really have been caused by them accidentally choking themselves to death as a part of a game.

During the choking game, children get a brief high by temporarily strangling themselves and cutting off the supply of oxygen to their brain.

The game can have deadly consequences, though, if the child can't take off the rope or cord used for strangulation.

Jesse Grant, a 12-year-old Ontario boy, thought he was just playing a game when he put the computer cord around his neck.

"He promised me he wouldn't play it again," Sharron Grant, his mother, said. "He said 'I won't do it again'."

But last April she found Jesse dead with the cord around his neck after he played the game alone.

Dr. Mark Chandra, an emergency physician at the Huronia District Hospital in Midland, Ont., warned about the serious effects of the game.

"This is not a game," Chandra said. "It is as dangerous as using drugs, as dangerous as using alcohol and the consequences can be disastrous."

He believes kids are addicted to the temporary high.

"Because it's addictive you're looking for the high now," he said. "Kids can even start to do it alone."

About four deaths have been linked to the choking game in recent months. Doctors suspect more children have died from the game, but their deaths were wrongly classified as suicides.

One such case was the death of a nine-year-old boy from Alberta two days before Christmas.

"He was on his knees. The belt was around the neck," his mother, who didn't want to be identified, said.

Police said he committed suicide. His mother was unconvinced, though.

"I knew in my heart there's no way that's what this could have been," she said. "He was a happy kid."

Police later called the death accidental after they suspected the boy died from the choking game.

"Certainly, I've treated other kids who died from what we thought was suicide. Who knows, could it have been part of this tragic game they've been playing?" Chandra said.

Grant has created a website, www.deadlygameschildrenplay.com, to educate people about this dangerous game.

"I want parents, teachers and children to know it's deadly," she said.

From the website, signs a child is playing the choking game:

Any suspicious mark on the side of the neck, sometimes hidden by means of a turtleneck, a scarf or a permanently turned-up collar
Changes in personality, such as overly aggressive or agitated
Any kind of strap, a rope or a belt lying about near the child without any reason – questions about such objects are often eluded
Headaches, sometimes excruciatingly bad ones, loss of concentration, a flushed face
A thud in the bedroom or against a wall – meaning a fall in cases of solitary practices
Any questions about the effects, sensations or dangers of strangulation
Other names for the game: Blackout, Fainting Game, Space Monkey, Dream Game, Suffocation Roulette, Pass-out Game, Flat liner, California Choke, Space Cowboy, Airplaning and many more.
"After he died, we realized those signs were there," Grant said in an interview with CTV's Canada AM on Friday.

"Had I known that information back then, I could have sat him down and said, 'Look it, 150 children here, look at these children who have died between 9 and 14.

"And you can't be doing this."

Thats a stupid game... what age group usually plays this?

I've never heard of this game. Where are these kids' parents while they're choking each other to death?! :rolleyes:

Turning the other way either ignoring it or thinking 'How cute, Little Johnny found a hobby.' Some parents today don't know nor don't want to take care of their kids:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Desperate_Fan03
I didn't hear about that. Kids are stupid anyway.Ya I guess we can be!!!

I played that game with my friend Chris... And one time he slept over and we both choked each other!! (Put our hands Around our necks)

But luckily we didnt pass out,thats crazy to do that!!!!!!


I miss Chris,I wonder where he is now?? (I think they moved from the house they lived in then)


EDIT:

Wow reading the REAL STORIES on this page is quite sad!

http://web.archive.org/web/20060215212540/http://deadlygameschildrenplay.com/en/stories-intro.asp