One Boy One Needle

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This post has been translated into Korean (한국), into French (en Français ) and into Spanish (en Español).

This video actually came out a few years ago, but it is still going viral in a pretty big way, or maybe it is just starting to go viral, I am not sure. It goes by all sorts of names. Most of them, other than Heroin Boy, are not memorable.

The story behind the video is very strange, and no one knows if the video is fake or real.

The story behind the video is that a Russian guy wanting to showcase the dangers of drugs arranged the shooting of the video, which involves some young boys shooting heroin in Russia. The boy who gets shot up is 8 years old. The guy shooting the video was actually a drug dealer.

The video supposedly depicts the 8 year old boy shooting heroin and then dying from the heroin. After he shot the video, the dealer pitched it around to Western agencies to fund his drug rehabilitation clinic. He stole all the money and never set up any clinic.

He was arrested by police later. The cops decided that he was guilty in part for the supposed death of this boy. He was imprisoned, and he died in a Russian prison. Cause of death described by officials: "He repeatedly banged his head up against the wall until he died." Yeah right. Looks like he was beaten to death by guards, other inmates, or both.

How do we know all of this? Because another version of this video has Russian dialogue running in the background (I got the less annoying "no dialogue" version). A translation of that dialogue reveals the story I just repeated above.

Anyway, no one knows if the story is true. We don't know the name of the 8 year old boy who supposedly died. Some are saying that he didn't even die, that his supposed death in the video is "just the normal, expected effects you would get from mainlining heroin." We don't have a name of the supposed dealer, nor any proof he got arrested or that he died in prison. In short, nothing behind the background story about this video has yet been verified.

Some say that this video is probably from the 1990's, when Russia was seriously flooded with heroin, and even little kids were taking it. Since then, things have calmed down a lot.

Anyway, fake or not, this video is really freaking out a lot of people who think they are watching an 8 year old boy die from shooting heroin (And maybe they are, who knows?). It's in competition as one of the worst videos on the Net. This video doesn't really bother me because it's not violent. I just tell myself that the kid is going to sleep and not dying, and then everything's OK. Of course it's troubling to watch little boys shooting up.

Unfortunately, the only copy I could find has this stupid semi-literate written dialogue crap at the beginning, written by the moron who runs the King of Cordia's Den website. He's the one who made this video, and my video-editing skills are not sufficient to get rid of his ads and lame illiterate copy in the video.