Manny Laureano

Just got this.

I checked it out, it's not urban legend.
>> READ THIS......
>>
>> Dust Off (or a variant of the product) is available everywhere
>> there's a
>> computer.
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> First I'm 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 wont.
>>
>> I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one
>> 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 one of them they
>> were
>> all used. I talked to my kids and my two 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. Just before midnight 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 propped 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. Its just
>> compressed air. It cant hurt you. His best friend said no.
>>
>> Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a
>> propellant called R2. Its 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 cant 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. ITS NOT AN OVERDOSE. Its 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 eye's 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 its 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.
>>
>> Its easy to say hey, its my life and I'll do what I want. But it
>> isn't.
>> Others are always effected. 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 cant 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 wont talk about it. The
>> other will only sleep in our room at night. And my wife, I cant 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 heard, it wouldn't have 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 all seem to 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 cant help but wonder If I died and
>> went to Hell.
>>
>>
>> This Officer is asking for everyone who receives this email to forward
>> it to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers.

ML