Published: Jul 13, 2005 BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A 10-year-old boy was found dead, hanging from a tree, apparently killed while trying to get high by playing the "pass-out game," authorities said.
Posted on 07/13/2005 8:12:37 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
10-Year-Old Idaho Boy Dies While Apparently Playing 'passing Out Game'
Published: Jul 13, 2005 BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A 10-year-old boy was found dead, hanging from a tree, apparently killed while trying to get high by playing the "pass-out game," authorities said.
Dalton Eby may be the second Idaho child killed in recent months while playing a choking game, trying to cut off the oxygen supply to the brain to achieve a type of "high."
Dalton's mother reported him missing last Thursday when he failed to return home after visiting a friend. Search and rescue crews found his body Friday, in a tree near his Island Park home, the Fremont County sheriff's office said in a statement.
There was nothing at the scene suggesting that anyone else was involved, the sheriff's office said.
"During the course of the investigation it was learned that there is a game that is common knowledge to many of our youth. A game known as the 'pass-out game,' the 'fainting game,' the 'tingling game,' or the 'something dreaming game' - to name a few," the statement added.
Dalton's parents had never heard of the game, and neither had the parents of his friends, the sheriff's office said.
That was also the case three months ago in Nampa, where 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn was found dead after apparently hanging herself in her closet.
An investigation was inconclusive, but Dunn's family believes she died accidentally while playing the game, which was popular with a group of girls at her school. Six girls at the school were suspended for a day after a security camera videotape showed the seventh-graders choking each other in a hallway.
Though the so-called game is new to many adults, it's likely something that children have been doing for a long time, said Connecticut-based child psychologist Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, author of "The Secret Language of Children: How to Understand What Your Kids are Really Saying."
"That's scary," Shapiro said.
In addition to talking to kids about drugs and alcohol, parents should discuss other risky behavior, like the pass-out game, Shapiro said.
"Younger kids don't know that they can die from this, that it's a very dangerous activity," Shapiro said.
Nathan Hoiosen, a school resource officer with the Nampa Police Department, said youngsters think the choking game offers a safe buzz compared to drinking or doing drugs.
"You wish you could just take the kids and shake them and say, 'What are you thinking?'" Hoiosen said.
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10-Year-Old Idaho Boy Dies While Apparently Playing 'passing Out Game'
Did he win or lose the game?
We did this when I was 14. One person stands against the wall, holds his breath and the second person pushed hard on the chest. One of the guys got ill and that scared us into quiting the stupidity.
I bet his parents wish now they got him that Playstation.
All they have to do to get the swimming head and blanked out vision is to lay flat, exhale and then hold their breath as long as they can, and then stand up quickly and maybe even reach above their head as if to grab something.
The blood pressure changes too quickly and down you go.
Prayers for this family.
This is basically the same thing that many sexual predators do to their victims before they die. It apparently provides some sort of weird rush. Scary that the kids are finding out about how to do this........
You can also do it with a figure 8 head swing (Think voodun priestess)....you do about 10 of them and you pass out....
(or trance, if you're into that kind of thing).
I did a search, but missed this other thread. You can pull if you have too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441854/posts
we used to do that too. Squat on the floor, stand up quickly, and person behind you catches you from behind and squeezes, and you pass out.
Crazy I'm still alive - with that, and hitchhiking, and the other stupid stuff I did.
Ouch!
My neck would crick up from that before I'd pass out.
People should pay better attention in biology class.
I never played any 'pass out game'. I did pass out once at high school, but it was during football practice and it was 90 out, and I just keeled over. I can't imagine trying to cause that on purpose.
Takes practice, but it's kinda fun.... you can build up a tolerance :)
Darwin Award Winner.
LOL, I'll stick to my "Oh gee D-sheare you idiot, you stood up too fast and now will pay by hitting the floor" method.
It is tried and true for me.
(Blood pressure of a corpse helps with that one!)
Another pass out game
Drink about a case of beer
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