Man wins roach eating contest and dies on the spot!

[clamum]

BBC News said they're not toxic to eat, but maybe they didn't do their homework? I dunno either way, just what I read from them.

 

[blankslate]

Its surprising how often this gif gets used on here.

Nope, it's not really surprising all...

Fuck you, from sunny Florida!!...

 

[mxnerd]

I think he probably died by choking.

 

[blankslate]

I think he probably died by choking.

He entered and won a cockroach eating contest....

he was probably going to eventually die as a result of something stupid that he did.

 

[clamum]

Nope, it's not really surprising all...

Oh man, that pic kills me every time I see it, especially since I read it in my head in his voice. LOOOOOL.

 

[preslove]

Given that roach shit is a major environmental hazard for homes, I'm pretty sure they're toxic to eat.

 

[blankslate]

Strange way to die. I wonder what his eulogy will sound like?

It'll probably be like these television funerals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I04DkMEps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vw4TPgPAw&feature=related

^people laughing inappropriately at a funeral.

 

[Number1]

I can't wait to see the "A 1000 Ways To Die" episode.

 

[highland145]

 

[Mandres]

Roach smokes man. So ironic! 😛

Hehe 🙂 Soviet Russia!

 

[Barfo]

eating roaches would be a last resort.

I see what you did there papa.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Eddie Archbold ate so many live roaches he had to cover his mouth with his hand to keep them from crawling out. He swallowed the 3-inch insects faster than he could chew, trying to down as many as possible in four minutes to win a pet python in a most unusual eating contest.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019387586_roacheatingdeath10.html

Pics of roaches he ate. Holy crap that is gross. Enjoy.

Video of them. check out the crunchy crawling sound they do 🙂
Nasty, they are going through hard carrot like butter. I bet thats how they killed him.

http://youtu.be/vIxMAjRWYYw

 

[Ns1]

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man choked to death after downing dozens of live roaches during a contest earlier this year in which the grand prize was a python, according to an autopsy released Monday.

Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach died as a result of “asphyxia due to choking and aspiration of gastric contents,” according to the report released by the Broward County medical examiner’s office. It said his airway was obstructed by the roach body parts, which caused him to not be able to breathe.

Lab tests for drugs came back negative. The death has been ruled an accident.

Archbold died after downing the bugs as well as worms in the Oct. 6 contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, about 40 miles north of Miami.

Messages left with the store’s owner and his attorney were not immediately returned.

Archbold became ill shortly after the contest and collapsed in front of the store. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

About 30 people ate the insects, but authorities said none of the other contestants became ill.

http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/11/26/fla-man-choked-to-death-in-roach-eating-contest/

 

[Gooberlx2]

And that, kids, is why you chew your food.

/gross

 

[angminas]

You know what? I think I'd just buy the snake.

 

[Jeff7]

Eddie Archbold ate so many live roaches he had to cover his mouth with his hand to keep them from crawling out. He swallowed the 3-inch insects faster than he could chew, trying to down as many as possible in four minutes to win a pet python in a most unusual eating contest.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019387586_roacheatingdeath10.html

Pics of roaches he ate. Holy crap that is gross. Enjoy.

Video of them. check out the crunchy crawling sound they do 🙂
Nasty, they are going through hard carrot like butter. I bet thats how they killed him.

http://youtu.be/vIxMAjRWYYw

I can't help but wonder if big roaches like that would taste like shrimp.
A shrimp is just an aquatic arthropod; roaches live on land, and have a bad reputation.

I'd also expect roaches to be a lot easier to care for.

 

[TheVrolok]

Suspected by the thread title that this came out of Florida... no disappointment found. The whole state needs to fall off into the ocean, honestly.

Also, my post count is a palindrome.

 

[bigrash]

lol

 

[keird]

Strange way to die. I wonder what his eulogy will sound like?

Faint scratching sound? Maybe crickets...

 

[SandEagle]

Medical examiner says he choked to death
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...h-eating-contest-choked-to-death-autopsy-says

 

[purbeast0]

Medical examiner says he choked to death
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...h-eating-contest-choked-to-death-autopsy-says

yea no shit...

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34290259&postcount=63

 

[0roo0roo]

He could sign his rights away but what the store failed to realize is you cannot sign other peoples rights away. So his family can sue and claim some kind of compensation.

Lawsuits for sure, it is only a matter of time.

yes..yes you can, if you sign a waiver for jumping out of a plane for a sky dive, there is a risk of death.

no one has a gun to your head.