NEWS: Teen dies playing 'choking game' - Brisbane Times

[junkie skumbag]

what gets me is, you really don't need to strangle yourself to achieve this.

I remember it at school, it was usually a two person affair. But at no point did anyone get strangled - it just involved hyperventilating for about 30 seconds then holding your breath whilst someone pushed on your chest... and you'd like bulb out for little bit, and get up fine. The way it was done, it sounds more like she was trying to hang herself...

I have to admit when i was in highschool we did this alot and just the method you described until one day we were in the lockerooms did it to this bloke a few years up from us ( i was the pusher) and after falling (we caught our friends before they went down) he made a god awful grone and started convulsing the "10 second knockout" became very unpopular after that...........

 

[drug_mentor]

My friends told me I convulsed both times I did it... I have always had shaky hands and shit but have never had seizures or anything, a fair few people that I saw do it had tremors while unconscious but stupidly at the time, after a few convulsers woke up fine it tended to be met more with amusement than concern by most onlookers. In retrospect as an adult it was extremely stupid but at the time the combination of a youthful sense of invulnerability and watching peers do it with little consequence made it seem like a fairly harmless activity to engage in.

 

[Fieldy]

Your right about the Nos Crankinit!!!

 

[junkie skumbag]

My friends told me I convulsed both times I did it... I have always had shaky hands and shit but have never had seizures or anything, a fair few people that I saw do it had tremors while unconscious but stupidly at the time, after a few convulsers woke up fine it tended to be met more with amusement than concern by most onlookers. In retrospect as an adult it was extremely stupid but at the time the combination of a youthful sense of invulnerability and watching peers do it with little consequence made it seem like a fairly harmless activity to engage in.

ahhh the good old days when we were crazy thrill seeking psyco little barsteds with not a care in the world :D

 

[Biscuit]

I agree that when you are 15 you can do some mind bogglingly stupid things and you regularly don't think of the consequences or are unable to because you lack the foresight and common sense. Most of us still do stupid shit, probably less risky, but we are far more aware and discerning of the potential consequences before we embark on something risky or even moronic.

Frankly, many people are just plain lucky. She was very stupid, very naive and tragically very unlucky.

We also did the hyperventilating and pushing chest thing in the early 90's. It became a school craze. Looking back, even having other people around, it seems stupidly dangerous. Turning blue on nitrous bulbs isn't much better. Whilst most sit down, I have seen metal cream dispensers dropped on the heads of people lying on the floor in the vicinity of the "nangee". So one never knows when an accident might occur, and it is not only those partaking in such pursuits that might be at risk of immediate harm.

I agree with the majority of the sentiments directed at the holier than thou cavern of insensitivity. Whilst it is entirely appropriate to describe this girl as an idiot, other more forgiving adjectives plainly warrant use alongside it.