Winner dies after roach-eating contest in South Florida

[Baitball Blogger]

DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida — Broward County authorities say the winner of a roach-eating contest died shortly after eating dozens of roaches and worms.

Several contestants ate insects to win a python, the grand prize of the Friday night contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach.

The Broward Sheriff's Office says the winner of the challenge, Edward Archbold, 32, became ill soon after and collapsed in front of the store. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Sheriff's Office said Monday it was waiting for an autopsy report to determine a cause of death.

No other contestants became sick after the contest.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/os-roach-eating-contest-death-20121008,0,5042843.story

[2on2u]

1. A python? A python? Fer crissakes you can just go west of Miami or Lauderdale and catch one

for yourself.... if you don't mind the possibility of being eaten or killed.





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[Lex]

2. Darwin wins.

[hrmjustin]

3. +1

[malaise]

5. Indeed

What a waste of a life

[Zalatix]

9. Someone dying over eating cockroaches is not funny.

I expect to see this kind of pointless gloating over someone's death on a Tea Party site.

I mean, really, was this guy Andrew Breitbart?

[Lex]

13. LOL. Now THAT is funny.

[SpartanDem]

12. Only if this idiot did not procreate

[Lex]

14. He won't anymore

if he has.

[jsr]

4. Allergic reaction

probably.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. If they find toxins in his system, it's possible the idiots who sponsored the contests picked those

roaches from apartment complexes.

[Zalatix]

11. +1,000 for choosing investigative thinking instead of making insensitive Darwin jokes.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. One Could Make A Darwin Joke But It Would Be In Bad Taste.

[Lex]

8. Beat ya to it.

[itsrobert]

10. I thought the roaches were in bad taste

n/t

[Nye Bevan]

15. Reminds me of the Russian dude who died after winning a vodka-drinking contest.

Yes, all deaths are sad. But in this kind of case there are some small crumbs of comfort in the gene that makes people want to do this stuff being eliminated from the gene pool.