Warnings Issued about "The Choking Game"
 

I'll never understand why kids do this. WTH is so appealing about choking yourself?

Honestly, I've never heard about this "choking game" before.

Assuming that it involves kids choking eachother to feel a "rush," looool.
THIS IS THE NEW DRUG THAT IS PLAGUING OUR YOUTH~

There are a couple of guys I know who did this a few years back. Two weeks ago, one of them injured his face when trying to do a handstand on a chemistry lab stool, when he can't do a handstand on the ground. The other one is failing every course this term. Go figure.

How long until MADD gets involved. I suppose there's good reason. What if someone tried driving like 2 minutes after having a go at it? It would probably be illegal anyways, cause anyone who would consider playing this game probably isn't old enough to drive.

If you wanna get constant head rushes, just stop eating green vegitables, then lie down for a while. As soon as you get up, you go right back down again. I can't imagine this game being much different.

I've heard something about this... Some girl died in my school just a couple months ago, "The Choking Game" might've been one of the causes. No one is too sure what the cause was though. People have different explanations on what the cause of death was.

I don't get WHY people would do this anyway? Why do something so high risk if it could kill you? If you wanna get high, smoke some damn weed.

I wonder if it is the latest incarnation of the masturbatory practice where people strangle themselves as soon as they reach peak.

There was something similar to this that went around way back when I was in gradeschool called 'Blackout'. It would involve one 4th grader taking a number of very very deep breaths, and then exhaling deeply while another pushed them hard into a wall. The result was a high-like rush followed by a loss of consciousness.

It was stupid then, and shit like this is stupid now.

Why would anyone ever want to do that either? Or, is everyone now a masochist?

Apparently the rush of endorphins, or whatever the chemical is that comes with orgasm, mixed with a lack of oxygen, causes a significantly higher "high."

WTF, I know kids do some real stupid shit but I've never heard of anything like this before. I'm hoping this doesn't take off over here; I don't really feel good saying this but I don't feel any sort of sympathy for this kid.

I hope everyone who plays this game dies a slow painful death. Seriously, just stick to drugs. They're a lot safer.

I'd toss one of these deaths up to Darwin Awards, but... I'm sure it has been done.

See guys? This is further proof that drugs ARE the answer. If someone had just packed him a fresh bowl of bud, he might STILL be alive. For shame... :(

It's obivious these teenagers need to go do motorcross or something, get a rush that won't guarentee some degree of brain damage. Any 14 year old boy who doesn't get enough out of masterbation (and tries choking themselves) needs to get his ass kicked by his dad right now.

Hey congrats class president. Everyone THAT smart knows choking yourself has no potential for harm.

This is just a dumbed down version of autoerotic asphyxia. Soon, when kids figure it out, they'll try to get their rocks off while choking themselves. Pretty sad indeed...

It's seriously so stupid, one of my friends tried it a couple times, but with a different variation. He said something about breathing heavily while the chest is being squeezed or something, i can't remember. It's really stupid he told me to go try it obviously i didn't cuz i've heard of this before and there's really no point getting "high".

Not if you don't suck, also if you wear a helment, you're more likely to break your neck than get brain damage.

I think the message here is to distribute marijuana amongst middle schoolers. I'm sure "The Choking Game" won't be a problem then.

On a more serious note, the same thing recently happened around here, and parents have been in uproar. There have been notices sent out to teachers, parents, and the kids warning of the dangers and telling the parents for signs to look for. The kid who died doing this here was just 13 years old. He attended the same camp I CITed at, although I didn't know him. It's sad to see kids be so fucking stupid over this shit.

I've never heard about this, but reading about it now I'm not surprised people actually do this.

People do stupid things all the time, especially to get a rush or to get "excited" and what not, so you can't really be surprised about it - as sad as it is.

I don't get why do kids "choke" themselves for the hell of it either. Like a heart which stops pumping blood even for a second could cause complications, the brain not having oxygen could also lead to a stroke.

Stupid really. All in the name for a brief blood rush? Give me a break.

It's surprising that anything can outdo the stupidity of inhaling aerosol products. But teenage boredom knows no limitations to stupidity. Case-in-point, those willing to try meth even though they know what it does (they should just drink and smoke instead).

Yes they need to play more Diablo 2 in hardcore mode, that'll teach them that death is a once and final event.

I can just see the ads now:
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But seriously. Sad thing that this is happening, but come on. Where are these people's brains!?! I mean everybody's looking for the next new high, I know that, but why is everyone seeming like they're a masochist now!?! There's other ways to get high if you want to do it. But why must people hurt themselves just to feel ecstasy? That is something I'll never get :/ ....

It's like the evolution of drugs (alcohol->tobacco->pot->cocaine->crack->meth), the teenage model is like such:
rebellion->sex->legal drugs->illegal drugs->inhalants->the previously listed in combination->choking
it's currently a fad to outdo other teenagers with stupidier and more painful things, never mind that sex is more than enough for 99% of the teen population.

I suppose it's all about those teens thinking they're "invincible", can't get hit by anything, can't make them sick whatsoever.

I mean.. how many of us went through that phase of "invincibility" in our teens?

Moral of the story:
Stick to ganja.

Oh come on, just open up his esophogus and then close it back it. Its just as good!



Seriously, what idiots.

It's not actually called the choking game. I love how the media turns it into some HUGE THING. -_-

I know that us girls have been playing this "game" in middle school at slumber parties for years. You get your friend to lean up against a wall, and simply push lightly above her clavicle on the side of her neck. Not PUSH UNTIL DEATH.

Its supposed to make you dizzy and/or black out. Not kill you. If it killed someone, you probably played wrong. Oops.

I've seen kids do this version before. Never appealed to me. The "high", if you can call it that, lasts for seconds. Smoke some weed kids. It's cheap and safe!

Yeah, but how do you explain the belt mark around the neck? It's not like you're likely to be given a hickey by a whale or something.

Well, it's inevitable that something will show up (like bugged out eyes, choking doesn't exactly enhance your complexion).

"The Choking Game"? Geez. When did auto-erotic asphixiation get a new name?

Only the media calls it "The Choking Game". Fags.

I'm surprised that this has suddenly been brought out into the spotlight. My cousins used to do this over seven years ago, but I suppose that kids didn't get themselves killed back then to draw attention. My cousins used to try and get me to play along, but I liked breathing back then as much as I do now.

I was just thinking along the same lines. :)

Wait until some idiot learns he can orgasm better by poking a needle into his eye socket...

Pff. If cutting your foot off gave you a better orgasm, there'd be some idiot somewhere who'd be willing to go crippled for the same of two good orgasms.

Stick with auto-erotic asphixiation. The method of death so embarassing your family would rather say you committed suicide than admit you were choking yourself to get off!

We should tell teenagers college students find out that woking 40 hours a week and paying taxes makes sex so much better.

I heard that chocking yourself during masturbation gives you a feeling of euphoria when you ejaculate. Sounds sexy.

Haha. I have an even better list of ways to masturbate here.

Question. Why are they issuing warnings for this stuff? Just let natural selection do its thing here.

I HEAR THAT. DARWIN, WHUT WHUT

In the spirit of letting natural selection do its thing, I suppose you will never again complain about being single.

It's those evil, greedy and selfish middle American parents who are disrupting the natural order here. Look what they did about offsensive TV back in 2004....

I heard about this retardedness on Oprah. Sass, this is a little different than the thing you're talking about, I think. This actually involves wrapping a belt around your neck.

In the same show they also talked about the number of kids that have died playing that idiotic "Chubby Bunny" game where you shove marshmallows into your mouth and try to say "Chubby Bunny." Sir VG is right, let natural selection do it's thang.

Wow, kids these days are fatalistic, huh?

If they're dumb enough to pull that shit, let them kill themselves. Maybe it will teach others a lesson. Fucking A, man. "LETS HANG OURSELVES at tonight's slumber party!"

Stupid stupid STUPID.

Only in America are kids well off enough to think of how they can get high. I bet there are very little choking game deaths in Africa because the kids there are too damn poor to think about this crap.

The fuck are you on about, child.

They're "too poor" to think about this crap? Because the POOR never commit suicide accidentally EVER, right?

Don't blame America. This has nothing to do with it.

It's true. These little brats have too much time on their hands. Any kid who does this needs a good ass-beating and so many chores they're too tired to do anything but sleep when they get a few hours "off."

I'm syaing that only kids that have the time to get bored are the ones that will try getting high like this. When you're staring and poor, how to get a better high doesn't even cross a your mind (unless you're a drug addict).

Are you implying that the poor never do stupid shit. Seriously. Be careful where you're going here.

DISCIPLINE is in order. Not "GOD AMERICA SUCKS SO MUCH." Kids are stupid. End of the line. Poor, rich, fat, skinny, black or white - anything for a thrill when you're young.

Its the same across the world.

I agree there on it being a world problem, but it seems to happen more often in places like the US, where there's a fat, bored, middle class teenage population with not much else to do but cut the oxygen flow to their central nervous system.

Have you yet considered how large the United States of America actually is? How many different cultures, people, different lifestyles there are?

I think its a pretty gross generalization to say something as outlandish as "Those fucking Americans. Nothing better to do with their time. Would the POOR do that? Hell no."