[RedBeaconNY]

Ugg... This was a big deal at the Scout camp I went to a couple of years ago. Apparently, it's really funny to knock yourself out by cutting off your oxygen supply. Fortunately, nobody died, but man was it stupid.

[lefty-lie-spy]

It sounds like kids are getting even more stupid than when I was a young. In my junior high school gym, during one semester, at student assemblies, a few of us would sit around and put pressure on both sides of another guy's neck to restrict the blood flow to the brain and get a buzz, but never were we stupid enough to start choking each other. And when a teacher eventually came by and told us that we might kill each other if we did that, that was enough to shock us back to reality and therefore I never did it again. I think at least some of these deaths are suicides and the parents are just looking for excuses to be able to say "not in our family."