NikkiD , you know back in my time it was lsd, i know you are to young to remember and i barely remember the Art Linkletter show, his daughter jumped out of a window of a building thinking she could fly. she was not much older or the same age as this boy. art linkletter went on to make sure everyone was aware of the dangers of lsd. one reason i think wkrg did a great service in bringing this tragic story to the publics attention. it sends others a message. again i am sorry about this young man.

NikkiD, so he just wanted to see what it was like, i am sorry. who taught him how to do this.

I did not really want to post anything on here b/c this kid is dead but I felt like I needed to.  To the “good friends/family” of this boy who are on here “defending” him or whatever, just stop.  It is always hard to lose a loved one no matter the way, but it’s time to face reality, you can’t label this as doing some stupid, you have to label this as something seriously ignorant.  When I was in middle school, 3 of my good friends OD’d on quite a bit of pills, they are still alive and somewhat well today, they just had to go to the hospital and get their stomachs pumped, and let me tell you, when they returned to school, not many people were all that friendly and sympathizing for them, even in middle school, we all knew how wrong and idiotic that was and a couple of us tried talking to them.  I feel bad for his loved ones but HUFFING CHEMICALS, BE IT FIRST TIME, SECOND TIME, OR THOUSANDTH TIME, YOU CAN DIE INSTANTLY. no one is perfect and no one on here has claimed to be, so just stop!

Just to clarify! I was not ever strung out on “HUFFING”! I was more into crack/cocaine, so TRUST ME when I say I know about drug use and ADDICTION. I did experiment with “huffing” as a teen, but the headaches that you acquire after huffing fumes, was enough to steer me away from it. We all all young and dumb at some point. As I previously stated, this could and SHOULD set an example of the dangers of Inhalant Abuse!

To Kandy, I’m far from perfect, I’ve been at rock bottom and strung out, but unlike most, I woke up. Do not compare me to perfection, because I’ve never claimed to be.

To NikkiD, if what you say is true, so be it. If he found the information on the internet, the authorities should be informed of this. Especially if he got exact instructions on how to preform this procedure. I was not in any way meaning to sound disrespectful, but I know many people who have been there before, including myself. I’d say 75% of the time, “HUFFING” is used first as a replacement for another drug, then the addiction begins. I really hope that other children hear about and learn from this tragedy. You and his friends should MAKE SURE to use his loss as an example to inform others his age.

The comments from these perfect people on here just shows you how heartless and pathetic some people are. Andy was a great person that did something stupid and lost his life for it. I bet half of you on here don’t even know what your kids are doing while their at school or at a friends house, I just hope that you watch your kids and I hope nothing like this ever happens to them cause these comments are probably from all of those heartless parents that live in their little bubble thinking their child is perfect!

Rose, I wasn’t there at the time, but knowing them, they were bored and just decided to do it. It wasn’t done because of anything tragic from his childhood, I’m sure. Likely peer pressure or boredom.

Dew, no, you see it wouldn’t reveal more huffing than I realize because I knew him, saw him fairly often and he was also friends with other relatives of mine. But you know, you can easily look up things like that on the internet if you wanted to. They were at someones home who *does* have access to the internet.

Anyway, it’s stupid that I have to sit here and defend a dead boy. People will believe what they want to believe, all I was asking for was some consideration for those that knew him.

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NikkiD , really i am sorry about his death, according to some of the post on here he had a bad childhood. may i ask what drives a child and to me at my age he was a child, to huff. do you know.

NikkiD here’s a reality check, most 18 years olds do not even know where the hell freon is stored in a vehicle, more or less how to successfully release and recover it to inhale it!! So I’m SERIOUSLY doubting this was his first time! So you telling me a 18 year old, with no history of drug use, was sitting on the couch and thought “WHAT A GREAT DAY TO GET HIGH ON FREON” and now is dead! I don’t buy that crap for one second! I know more about drug use and abuse than almost anyone on the planet! I do not know this boy personally, but i have what is know as “common sense” & “street smarts” and I would be willing to bet that a scan of his brain would reveal more of a histroy of “HUFFING” than you may realize!