CNN) -- A 32-year-old man downed dozens of roaches and worms to win a python at a Florida reptile store, then collapsed and died outside minutes later.
Edward Archbold was among 20 to 30 contestants participating in Friday night's "Midnight Madness" event at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, authorities said.
The participants' goal: consume as many insects and worms as they could to take home a $850 python.
Archbold swallowed roach after roach, worm after worm. While the store didn't say exactly how many Archbold consumed, the owner told CNN affiliate WPLG that he was "the life of the party."
"He really made our night more fun," Ben Siegel told the station.
Soon after the contest was over, Archbold fell ill and began to vomit, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
A friend called for medical help. Then, Archbold himself dialed 911, the store said in a Facebook post.
Eventually, he fell to the ground outside the store, the sheriff's office said. An ambulance took him to North Broward Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Broward Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy and are awaiting test results to determine the cause of his death.
No other contestant fell ill, the sheriff's office said.. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-roach-eating-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 (http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-roach-eating-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t3)
This one is an idiot! :eek:
I think he paid a visit to the "roach hotel" were they check in, but they don't check out!
They were probably laced with terminex, and he poisoned himself.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on October 09, 2012, 09:00:27 AM
I think he paid a visit to the "roach hotel" were they check in, but they don't check out!
They were probably laced with terminex, and he poisoned himself.
Or he breathed in and drowned in his own vomit. :puke:
Quote from: Palehorse on October 09, 2012, 08:51:11 AM
This one is an idiot! :eek:
And he lived right here in South Florida no less.
Quote from: Locutus on October 09, 2012, 01:39:50 PM
And he lived right here in South Florida no less.
:biggrin: I caught that part right away. . . :biggrin:
Quote from: Palehorse on October 09, 2012, 07:21:29 PM
:biggrin: I caught that part right away. . . :biggrin:
I've never denied we have some fuckin' crazies around here. ;D
Quote from: Locutus on October 09, 2012, 08:00:26 PM
I've never denied we have some fuckin' crazies around here. ;D
It does seem as if you have a healthy share of them. And the one's we have tend to run there when they hit the radar of the local authorities. . . :icon_twisted:
Quote from: Palehorse on October 09, 2012, 08:15:18 PM
It does seem as if you have a healthy share of them. And the one's we have tend to run there when they hit the radar of the local authorities. . . :icon_twisted:
:yes: :icon_evil: