[Frank]

Hi - I’m Frank.
I am a Police Officer for a city known nationwide for its crime rate.
We have a lot of gangs and drugs in my state;
At one point we were #2 in homicides per capita -
I cleaned up the streets he says, wiping the slate.
I have a police K-9 named Thor. He’s a German Shepard - Belgian Malinois,
He was certified in drugs and general duty
He retired at 3 years old because he was shot, protecting Detective Rizzuti…
Thor wouldn't allow drugs in my house. He would smell it.
He would tell on you. Rudely.
The reason I say this is so you understand that I knew about drugs -
I had taught in schools about drugs -
My wife asks all our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs
My wife Kathy is a Nurse. Dusty was the oldest at 14.
Dusty loved baseball and played for his school’s team; He batted fourth,
He didn't always play much since it was his first year but I didn't care
My wife would take his uniform, wash it, hang it to clothes pins and watch it drift in the air.
-He also loved playing games on his computer; obsessive, euphoric,
When World of Warcraft was coming out in a beta version he signed up like 200 times to be a beta tester for it.
If you were picked, you got a number and could go to the site and download it.
Well, Dusty signed up so many times he received 2 numbers and sold it.
“For 375.00 dollars” – he said - gloating with pride
You couldn’t wipe his smile off with Castile soap if you tried.

I liked building computers. Occasionally I started building a new one.
I also was working on some of my older computers; sitting in ruins
They were full of dust. Finger tips; Air borne - Gripping pollution
So, on one of my trips to the computer store, I bought a 3 pack of DUST OFF -
Refrigerant coolant
Dust Off is a can of difluoroethane, to deter, they’ve added bitterant to it.
It’s used to removes particles from electronic equipment - swifter than any swifter could do it.
Propellant - disillusion
It gives you a high, for about 10 seconds. It makes you dizzy, you get stupid
..
A few weeks later when I went to use them, they were all used, and
I talked to my kids and my 2 sons both said they had used them
On their computers -
I yelled at them. And went back to the computer store -
Livid!
I’m fuming!
They didn’t have the 3 pack so I bought a single jumbo can, oblivious and aloof, and I went home and I hid it in the room.
That night I left for work at 10 PM; And I didn’t tell Dusty goodnight.
At 11 PM my wife went down and kissed Dusty goodnight
At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy went downstairs to wake up dusty - he’d been missing some school.
He was sitting upright in bed with his legs crossed and his head leaning over pale white, dribbling drool…
She called to him a few times to get up. He didn't move.

“It can’t hurt you Dusty! It’s cool! It’s like whipp-its! It’s like glue!”

A boy who lives down the street said a month before it killed him too.
She went in and shook his arm. He fell over; She went ballistic
A condition called Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome
When you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen, out.
Dead - with the straw from the Dust Off can coming out of his mouth

Rest in peace