I nominate these people for the Darwin award

[Pengwuino]

Anyone ever spin themselves on office chairs? Boy was that fun...

 

[Moonbear]

Anyone ever spin themselves on office chairs? Boy was that fun...

We had kitchen chairs you could spin on, so yep, did that! It was like the home version of the teacups ride.

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

This is unrelated to the death of a boy from autoerotic asphyxiation? I wasn't aware that people choked themselves without also trying to achieve orgasm.

Commonly known as "gaspers". Don't ask me how I know that. Apparently these children got tired of BB gun and dirt clod fights, papering houses, grafitti, making their parents fight, dropping m-80's in school toilets, soaping windows, egging, smoking, and playing slug-bug.

 

[zoobyshoe]

CNN.com - Boy dies*playing 'passing out game,' officials believe - Jul 13, 2005
Address:http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/13/choking.game.ap/


"...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 Langauge 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 with drinking or doing drugs."

 

[BobG]

Anyone ever spin themselves on office chairs? Boy was that fun...

I still do that. But only to demonstrate the concept of angular momentum and the moment of inertia, I swear. I am not addicted to it.

That physics stuff, however, is a different story. It's more addicting than crack.

 

[Entropy]

author of "The Secret Langauge of Children: How to Understand What Your Kids are Really Saying."

They aren't saying anything! What happen to the days when children did something stupid it ment they were stupid?

Man, we need to make it where you need a liceanse to have kids. Stupid children are becoming an epidemic.

 

[Moonbear]

They aren't saying anything! What happen to the days when children did something stupid it ment they were stupid?

Man, we need to make it where you need a liceanse to have kids. Stupid children are becoming an epidemic.

That's because they have all those laws about child-proofing everything. It's relaxation of natural selection, I tell ya! It used to be if you were too stupid as a kid not to swallow things the size of your throat or not to stick forks in electric sockets, you didn't grow up to be a stupid teenager. Bring back those metal toys with small parts!