Posted on 05/24/2018 12:39:23 PM PDT by Morgana
Whether they're referred to as Internet games or challenges, there's no denying that kids have been seriously drawn to them recently. Sometimes it's for Internet fame while other times children are just curious or want the chance to feel included. Either way, kids in all age groups have been putting themselves in serious danger trying to successfully take part in them and it needs to stop. After one mom found her 12-year-old son dead while playing the "fainting challenge," she's warning other parents about the deadly game that has already taken multiple kids' lives.
On Friday, 12-year-old Tua Muai was playing the "fainting game" -- also known as the "choking game" -- with his friends in his Utah home. In order to partake, they were purposely cutting off the oxygen to their brains in order to get a non-drug-related high or rush.
But shortly after, the boy's mom, Celestia Muai, found him unconscious and immediately called 911. The sixth grader was transported to a local hospital and died later that evening. "He was just playing a game and he didn't think things through," Muai told Fox 13.
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My brother saved an 82 year man at Mass one morning many years ago. He did CPR for 12 minutes all by himself. The paramedics said it might be a record and A brother knight
witnessed it and the local council made him an honorary 3rd degree.
Yep, he’s my hero.
David Carradine and Robin Williams supposedly did the “Blue Haze” exit, as did a fellow worker of mine. Sexual undertones.
Uh-huh
Just how close were you to the fence cuz unless you were right on it, nothing would happen.
(1) electric fence have a 'pulse', it charges and then releases that charge for a 'pop"(2) Unless you are a horse or a fire hose, urine streams aren't a constant flow, allowing the charge to have a solid connection.
Myth busters proved this awhile back. And yes as a kid I and my friends tried this to no avail.
Tide pods and now this?
Yes, my friends were doing this in 1962.
One of his sisters has like 8 kids so she'd top it off with, "replacing you and no one would know"
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