^Yeah they were kinda doing the same thing


OH..wait howd u know my name?

It sounds very addicting after reading everyone's comments. Haha. I never played that game in my whole life. I never see anyone did it.

There's an article about this in February's issue of Seventeen. Just got it today.

Retrofied.

I've heard of this before. Sounds stupid. Plus you could really hurt yourself by doing that...or even worse, kill yourself

never seen it or played it, have heard of it in the news. What a WEIRD, STUPID fad! idiots =S

i did that like 2 years ago.
My only memory was that i fainted and fell off the floor..and i was trying to get up but i just kept falling.it was a werid thing...
but i am never doing it again

OYEAH ur radhika! lol

some people are bored
and no, i haven't heard of this game.
but this is sad :(

nope but it is really freaky

some of you guys are saying that its STUPID and that they are LOSERS. but think about it, they are just little kids. when i heard of it i wanted to try it i was in like 2nd grade and i tried it once but not seriously we gave up cause we didnt think it would work. but these kids are curious just like us.

look at it through their eyes. you guys look at them and called them losers but they are just kids they don't know better. they didnt know it could kill them.

Some of them are 13...I think at that age, they know whether they're taking too much of a risk

yea you said "some", the others fall under the age of 13. and who do you think teaches them, their older brothers or sisters.

i am not saying they shouldnt be stopped i just think that calling some of them "losers" shouldnt be the way to solve it especially when we were little curious kids ourselves.

^ Surely, if kids that young could have the ability to understand the human body enough to be able to "faint" themselves as a game, then they would know that it's potentially harmful?

yeah, guys. it was from seventeen.

^ i agree with gigiopolis. what part of "choking game" sounds remotely healthy? yeah, little kids might not really understand (but they do understand we need air to live). but teenagers? in the news clip, this girl was like, "it isn't drugs or something. it doesn't mess up your organs. you just pass out. like on a roller coaster."

i was so shocked. i kinda thought she needed to die. some kids can't have someone to play the game with so they choke themselves by hanging from some strap thing. the strap sometimes doesn't unhook and they literally hang themselves. hello? heard of the gallows?

i played that game ....once when i was at church and when my friend placed his hand on my heart .....it felt soo freaky ...its like you automatically faint ...and you dont remember what happens when you wake up . the 2nd time i tried it wasin the boys locker room during gym when my classmates held the arteries on my neck i fainted .....i woke up having a painful sensation on my stomach and legs ...and i found out that my shoes were missing too ...lol ..i guess they beat me up and copped my shoes while i was unconscious .

Well that's just plain dumb.

hey people do stupid things, just like that vonage commercial

Hmm... far too much oxygen gets you high. I hope many know that.

I don't think I would ever "play" the choking game.
But who knows..

hmm...sometimes when i want to relax i hold my breath for as long as i can and then let it out and i feel pretty good

That's not really the same thing as the "choking game".

Only thing I've ever heard like that is Scarving, and its not exactly something you play with other people >.>

Meh, the kids I know play with real drugs *shrug*

I am paranoid about choking cause I have bad allergies.
I would totally freak out if I saw ANYONE do this.
I'd be like HOLY SH*T CALL AND AMBULANCE.

yea, i read it in my seventeen too.

Woah some kids in my class were actually teaching my teacher how to do it

I have actually never heard about this until now.

Its like taking drugs, I suppose. Its done for the same reason kids sniff white-out and toxic markers.

Yeah.. Sharpies are like elementary school drugs..

You see all htese tiny little kindergarteners running around elementary school brandishing sharpies and yelling "MMMMMM SMELLS SO GOOOOOOD". I swear, one day, it'll be some drug that gangstas (ME!) do on the street.. and then in Health Ed (NO THE TERROR) they'll have to teach children how to refuse Sharpies.

"What do you do if someone offers you a pack of rainbow colored Sharpies?"

"Use the exchange method and ask if they want to do something else!"

i'm remembering this "game" back whenever i was in 3rd grade. some friends were trying to do it one day in my room but did it wrong so it didn't work but yeah...s c a r y

this was on oprah once.

yea..i saw something about this on dr. phil lol - it's really scary and he said it could turn out to be fatal for some people so it definitely freaks me out that people actually do it

lol actually i was backstage at the theatre today rehearsing for a play, and while it wasn't our scene a bunch of friends were like, "hey let's pay the choking game" and they started to choke themselves/each other. and then they came torwards me and I was like ha, no way.
lol yah.

WAH! Why didn't you stop them?

See, I don't understand this. Why do it if you could die?

^ my friend played a different version. she said she got a high off of it. like she and her friends compared the feelings. some said that it felt like any high you can get on drugs. some said it gave them a thrill cause it felt like falling really fast. most of them agreed that after they woke up (after a few minutes of disorientation) that they had so much energy and it felt like they've been sleeping for quite some time.

yea, i remember that being on 20/20 like last year or something and some of them die.

I agree. Judging and labeling these kids isn't going to help anything. I'm sure none of us have engaged in reckless behavior at one time or another. Nope. Not me. No way.

i dont get how you play this.
>>>someone want to explain to me x;
i read thefirst post about it but i didnt really understand when they said..

QUOTE

This was achieved by pressing your thumbs against the carotid artery.

isnt that the artery where you feel your heart beat?...do you just put pressure on it really hard?

and on this one...

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  Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart, thus stopping blood flow.

how would you do that?
>>but im just wondering..im not going to try it or make other people try it.<<

You basically put your hands around your neck and block the air going to your lungs until you pass out. Some people actually half-hang themselves.. that's how some of them died, because they did it wrong basically hanged themselves.

Yeah, and about the blood flow, that would be the oxygen idea, because the blood carries oxygen to your brain. I've never heard of anyone becoming brain-dead because of it, but I bet it's possible.

I've heard that one...and last year someone actually did it in class. I don't know if the guy did it wrong but he didn't pass out when she pressed his heart.

Also...yeah..I hate how people call people stupid when they don't know what's going on in them individually. Like caller cutters stupid or people that do drugs or this "choking" game. I'm not defending them, it's not right for them to do so...I'm just against those who don't understand and then end up calling them "stupid."

Not everyone is as sensible as you...whether you're their age or not. It's like playing tag when you were young...nobody's going to think, "Oh..no, I might trip and fall and hurt myself, I won't do it." Therefore they won't think, "Oh I might die from passing out."

It's like smoking also. I hate people that smoke..but you can understand that those that were curious of it tried it once. ONCE. And then they got addicted. There are those that are just not as strong willed.

It just makes me wonder how people could just call them "stupid." Wow, you've never done stupid yourself...you just happened to pick the right thing to be stupid on, perhaps.

i would never play a game as scary and stupid as that.

stupid white people :P

Wow, they dumb.

I just heard about this the other day on the news. I've never seen it happen or known anyone who does it but it doesn't surprise me. There is a whole subculture of people who cut off their oxygen supply during orgasms to highten the feeling. I've never tried that or the choking game and I don't plan to. I'm usually very supportive of people and openminded but I"m perfectly proud of saying I don't support people who do either thing. I hope they all wake up and stop this.

Pathetic racist people.

stupid white people :P

I heard about this in a show. I dont remember what show thought.
I think this game is stupid.

I saw this on 20/20. Except that version was with shoe laces & you hang yourself. Ugh how creepy .
Two word I think about when I heard this: Stupid, stupid.

OMG.

I hope my sister doesn't hear about this and try it.


She's like A DESPERATE TEMPTATION CRAZY GIRL.

wow did I said that out loud? OOPS.

That's sick&wrong.
Stupid game if you ask me.
&I read in some teen mag. that this girl died cuz she was overly obsessed with the pleasure she was recieving from passing out.

i saw this on geraldo.. i wanted to slap those kids for being stupid

It IS stupid. Honestly, if you want a high, do something nice or get something better to do. Why do it if it's dangerous and you could potentially die, get brain damage, and/or go into a coma from lack of oxygen in the brain?

People these days.