"Erotic Asphyxiation" goes PC???!!!
Dec. 6th, 2004 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimon66*rolls eyes*, I can't believe after reading about "The fainting game" in the Sunday paper, nobody has come forward with the "sex" part yet. Who would have thought a dangerous addicting sex habit would get "all cleaned-up and given a cute name".
From Chicago Sun-Times
'Fainting game' warnings follow injuries, deaths
December 5, 2004
BY JENNIFER JACOBS AND KRISTIN HOELSCHER
TOLEDO, Iowa -- Toledo police say a 13-year-old student who suffered a concussion and broken jaw might have been involved in a middle school fad in which kids make each other pass out with pressure on the neck to induce a high.
School officials in other states, even foreign countries, have warned of the activity, which has been blamed for brain damage and a handful of deaths.
The student at South Tama County Middle School was injured Nov. 22 in the school gym when another student placed him in a chokehold until he fell unconscious, police said. The incident was captured on a security camera.
''There is a possibility that this incident may have been part of a craze that is showing up in middle schools around the country called 'the fainting game' or 'flatlining,' '' Toledo Police Chief Jeffery Harnish said Friday.
The boy's father, Jerry Massengale, said school officials told him the incident was ''just horseplay.'' But he demanded to see the videotape, and describes what he saw as a criminal assault.
''This so-called fainting game -- people need to be made aware of it, and it needs to be taken seriously,'' he said. ''It has actually been going on for a long time.''
Supt. Larry Molacek said Friday the incident was a first.
Students say flatlining -- also called the Scarf Game, Space Monkey, Black Hole and the Stun Game -- is a drug-free way to produce a brief high. The activity was suspected two weeks ago when a Des Moines middle-schooler fainted, school officials said.
From Chicago Sun-Times
'Fainting game' warnings follow injuries, deaths
December 5, 2004
BY JENNIFER JACOBS AND KRISTIN HOELSCHER
TOLEDO, Iowa -- Toledo police say a 13-year-old student who suffered a concussion and broken jaw might have been involved in a middle school fad in which kids make each other pass out with pressure on the neck to induce a high.
School officials in other states, even foreign countries, have warned of the activity, which has been blamed for brain damage and a handful of deaths.
The student at South Tama County Middle School was injured Nov. 22 in the school gym when another student placed him in a chokehold until he fell unconscious, police said. The incident was captured on a security camera.
''There is a possibility that this incident may have been part of a craze that is showing up in middle schools around the country called 'the fainting game' or 'flatlining,' '' Toledo Police Chief Jeffery Harnish said Friday.
The boy's father, Jerry Massengale, said school officials told him the incident was ''just horseplay.'' But he demanded to see the videotape, and describes what he saw as a criminal assault.
''This so-called fainting game -- people need to be made aware of it, and it needs to be taken seriously,'' he said. ''It has actually been going on for a long time.''
Supt. Larry Molacek said Friday the incident was a first.
Students say flatlining -- also called the Scarf Game, Space Monkey, Black Hole and the Stun Game -- is a drug-free way to produce a brief high. The activity was suspected two weeks ago when a Des Moines middle-schooler fainted, school officials said.
