Warning sent after kids flirt with death
`In a local manifestation of a dangerous fad, students at Alamo Heights Junior School were caught playing the “choking game,” according to a note sent home to parents this week.
The game’s goal is a fleeting “high” that follows a lack of oxygen to the brain and has teens across the nation throttling themselves with belts and ropes, choking each other with bare hands or pulling plastic bags over their heads until they nearly pass out.
Also called “space monkey” and “flatline,” the risky diversion is thought to have killed at least five children in four states since September and has garnered widespread media attention.’
This is what happens when you declare war on drugs. Instead of wholesome marijuana-related activities, kids are strangling themselves half to death with belts for shits and giggles.
