I got this from a Yahoo group called "pullindownstrongholds". They
have lots of good scripture exchange and pearls of wisdom. A person
named Lois posted it to the group. She said it was ok to post it here.
What a senseless loss.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pullindownstrongholds/
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*Hi, I just got word from one of the group owners that I am on this
this is a true story. We need to tell people about this danger and to
let them know Jesus is the ONE they need to enter heaven. I'm
sending this to most of the groups I am on.
Lois
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Very Important Warning_*
PLEASE read this officer's story carefully.

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 won't.

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 I yelled at them for
wasting the 10 dollars I paid for them. On February 28 I went back to
the computer store.
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The y 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 5:30 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 1:00am.

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
can't 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 can't 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. IT'S NOT AN OVERDOSE. It's Russian Roulette. You don't die
later. Or not feel good and say I've had too much. You usually die as
you're 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 eyes were still open.

The experts want to call this huffing. The kids don't believe it's huffing.
As adults we tend to lump many things together. But it doesn't fit here.
And that's why it's 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. It's easy to say hey, it's 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 can't 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 won't talk about it. The other will only
sleep in our room at night. And my wife, I ! can't 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 can't help but
wonder, If I died and went to Hell.
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This Officer is asking for everyone who receives this email to forward
it to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers.