My 6 year old is continually tying things around her neck and is told to cut it out. I think the kid was playing and paid the ultimate price for not having common sense.
Here in Dallas there was recently a 9-year old boy who killed himself because he was bullied at school.
These kinds of stories hit hard when you have kids that age.
The roughest spanking my eldest daughter ever got was for tying something around her neck.
I think I broke the wooden spoon, in fact.