Boy, 11, dies after suffering cardiac
arrest during ‘chroming’ TikTok challenge
New York Post,
by
Alex Oliveira
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/7/2024 4:29:40 PM
An 11-year-old boy from the United Kingdom has died after huffing toxic chemicals in a TikTok challenge known as “chroming” — and his devastated family wants the social media company shut down and all others barred from children under 16.
Tommie-Lee Gracie Billington, 11, suffered a suspected cardiac arrest at a friend’s house in Lancaster on Saturday, according to the Times of London.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital just, where he died.
“He died instantly after a sleepover at a friend’s house. The boys had tried the TikTok craze ‘chroming,'” said the boy’s grandmother, Tina Burns.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 3/7/2024 4:42:37 PM (No. 1672808)
Whatever happened to telling ghost stories, tp'ing houses, basketball in the driveway, and making prank calls?
Our society is SO sick...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/7/2024 5:01:41 PM (No. 1672822)
Darwin Awards can go to youths. Huffing chemicals, which can be instantly lethal, has been a past time of ne'er-do-wells for many, many years. Many American children who grew up in the '50s and '60s put together plastic model boats, airplanes, trucks, and cars with Testor's model airplane glue. Everybody who used it caught a whiff of it, knew it was strong, and didn't have any desire to misuse it, or to breathe in its fumes. But that's just one of a thousand substances that shouldn't be inhaled.
Paint is one of the worst, whether spray paint or your typical Benjamin Moore house paint. Thirty years ago I saw a program about young people in some Latin American country who had gotten hooked on huffing paint. They had telltale colorful paint mustaches from slightly lifting the lid on the can and inhaling. Their minds were barren, gone. Flocks of them survived on strong armed robbery. Some idiot somewhere has tried whatever chemical he could find in his kitchen cleaning supplies, and said idiot has an empty cartoon caption balloon where his brain used to be. As Duke Wayne once said, "Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/7/2024 5:06:22 PM (No. 1672823)
Don't let your children have a smart phone until they are 16 years old.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 3/7/2024 5:12:32 PM (No. 1672828)
Will they ever learn? What is taught in Science class about inhaling foreign substances? That doing so can, and will, cause pneumonia or worse? I suppose kids assume that it's just people who want to destroy "fun." I had a girl friend who thought huffing PAM vegetable spray would be a good idea. It wasn't. There is no way to clear the oil from the lungs. A virulent pneumonia set in immediately That lead to two weeks of agony for her family while doctors tried everything to no avail. Her parents were beyond devastated.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 3/7/2024 6:05:36 PM (No. 1672863)
Not only is the stuff dangerous in the short term. Repeated use can cause long-term mental health issues. When I was the city prosecutor in a mid-sized city in flyover country many years ago, several habitual "huffers," as they were called then, came to court. Invariably, they had cognitive problems that grew progressively worse the longer they used the nasty stuff.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/7/2024 6:08:14 PM (No. 1672868)
I'm sorry that this boy is dead, but at all ages.... a person has to be aware of the risks of doing dangerous things.
Is it possible that this kid's parents never mentioned that there are toxic and dangerous chemicals, drugs, etc in the world and you don't breath, drink or otherwise ingest unknown things?
Sad, but parents must train their children to be sensible.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/7/2024 6:51:27 PM (No. 1672899)
Why bother #6. Parents can sue irresponsible producers of needful things for BIG $$ because - !!Challenge!! accepted. tic tic tock.
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21st-century glue sniffing. Social media is guilty of nothing but catalyzing the problem. Any lawsuit or legislation to ban it would be groundless.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/8/2024 5:58:41 AM (No. 1673125)
The world lost nothing and is perhaps better off for this not so tragic event! Anyone who would do such a thing deserves what happens!
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FTA: ~~"Chroming involves inhaling the fumes from common household items like aerosol cans, nail polish remover, paint solvents, and cleaning products to get high, while teens film the process and results to post online." ~~