Topic : 12/21 Shocking Teen Trends

I'm not advocating this in ANY WAY whatsoever, but I had to comment that when I was a teenager, the thrill that the other kids were doing was: 

1. seeing if you could cars passing by with rocks (or snowballs) -deadly for the drivers and passengers! 

2. jumping off of bridges into water below where you only have a small clearance of the rocks hiding just below the water -still very popular 

3. I heard of some kids hammering 2x4's into the road under the snow to see if snowplows would flip when they hit them 

4. And even some kids (and a famous comedian) admitted to jumping of the back of a moving truck into a hay bale/ water/ whatever. 

As a matter of fact, my friend has a boy scout handbook from (I'm estimating) the 40's or so that simply scares me with the types of things they were advocating (how to create man traps, for example, or how to twist the necks of animals in such a way as to kill them). 

So what I am saying is that today's trends are horrible, but the "good old days" isn't necessarily what we want, either. 

We did the choking game at my high school, almost 13 years ago.  One day my friend said she had something to show me, and that's what it was.  No one even tried to stop us, teachers or staff would walk by and never commented on it.  It is a shame that the trend grew to this extent.  We only did the game for 2 weeks or so, and it phased out.   

It  is scary that children are dying from it, not understanding what they are doing.  I feel so badly for the woman who lost her son.  I hope she can reconnect with her other son, and start living again.  I plan on talking to my kids about this, so they never do it. 

~Ceno 

I went to high school with a guy that started doing this in order to get a rush, or high. He found a web site and it showed him how to choke himself without killing himself. One day he went too far. His dad walked into his bedroom to find his son hanging from the bar in his closet. He was 16 years old when he died. His dad said that he wished he had spent more time with his son that day and maybe he would still be alive. Most parent feel guilty when this happens. They feel like its there fault when there child either comits suicide or when they pass away doing something like the choking game. I just hope that teens who are involved stop doing this before its too late. 

I am so sorry about your daughter and what has happen but what is it that offends you ?All i wrote was that kids are not aware of the dangers of these games.No i have not found my child hanging in a bedroom !!I found your child!!I have gone to calls like your daughters and to many others as well so don't tell me i don't understand how it feels no its not my child thank god for that every day.But we do have to make the kids aware of the dangers of these games.You obviously never saw my post that i wrote about the three young guys from our community that hung themselves because of this foolish game.all were between 20and 26 i believe were their ages so i don't mean to say just young kids don't know the dangers neither do the older ones either.Sorry for your lost this is not to attack people and if you were offended well i am sorry for that.Don't see what offended you?