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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:08 AM Oct 2012

MAN DIES AFTER LIVE ROACH-EATING CONTEST IN FLA.

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n this frame grab made from video on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, and provided by John-Patrick McNown, Edward Archbold celebrates winning a roach-eating contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Archbold, 32, died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday, Oct. 8. Authorities were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death. (AP Photo/Courtesy John-Patrick McNown)

MIAMI (AP) -- The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.

About 30 contestants ate the insects during Friday night's contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach about 40 miles north of Miami. The grand prize was a python.

Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach became ill shortly after the contest ended and collapsed in front of the store, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office statement released Monday. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death.

"Unless the roaches were contaminated with some bacteria or other pathogens, I don't think that cockroaches would be unsafe to eat," said Michael Adams, professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, who added that he has never heard of someone dying after consuming roaches. "Some people do have allergies to roaches," he said, "but there are no toxins in roaches or related insects."

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MAN DIES AFTER LIVE ROACH-EATING CONTEST IN FLA. (Original Post) xchrom Oct 2012 OP

Yeah, I died a little bit just reading that. renie408 Oct 2012 #1

LOL!! All of a sudden I'm not in the mood for breakfast either. BlueJazz Oct 2012 #2

To an Athlete Dying Young Bucky Oct 2012 #3

So twisted. So wrong. On so many levels. TheManInTheMac Oct 2012 #8

Four legs good, six legs bad. NoPasaran Oct 2012 #4

Paging Dr. Darwin, Charles Darwin, You have a call on Line 2... catbyte Oct 2012 #5

The grand prize was a python. Raster Oct 2012 #6

He must have caught a bad bug. Ikonoklast Oct 2012 #7

worms are good if dried and used as stock. roaches i am not sure of loli phabay Oct 2012 #9

Insecticide? PADemD Oct 2012 #10

CALL CONGRESS RIGHT RUCKIN NOW treestar Oct 2012 #11

We used to smoke our roaches occasionally...but we never ate them. N/T titaniumsalute Oct 2012 #12

renie408

(9,854 posts)

1. Yeah, I died a little bit just reading that.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:10 AM

Oct 2012

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

2. LOL!! All of a sudden I'm not in the mood for breakfast either.

Reply to renie408 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:12 AM

Oct 2012

Bucky

(54,013 posts)

3. To an Athlete Dying Young

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:13 AM

Oct 2012

To an Athlete Dying Young

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields were glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

--A. E. Housman

TheManInTheMac

(985 posts)

8. So twisted. So wrong. On so many levels.

Reply to Bucky (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:51 AM

Oct 2012

NoPasaran

(17,291 posts)

4. Four legs good, six legs bad.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:13 AM

Oct 2012

catbyte

(34,390 posts)

5. Paging Dr. Darwin, Charles Darwin, You have a call on Line 2...

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:14 AM

Oct 2012

I'm sorry, but I just can't muster up much sympathy. Eating a live anything is just plain sick.

Raster

(20,998 posts)

6. The grand prize was a python.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:40 AM

Oct 2012

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/florida/howwework/stopping-a-burmese-python-invasion.xml

Halting the spread of Burmese pythons out of the Everglades and into nearby conservation lands is the goal of the “Python Patrol,” a program where regular citizens are taught to call in snake sightings and wildlife officials are trained to capture the snakes. It is all part of The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to prevent the spread of a breeding population and protect the often-rare animals these snakes feed on.

The Python Patrol was launched by The Nature Conservancy in the Florida Keys in 2008 when Burmese pythons were found eating rare Key Largo woodrats.

Success in the Keys has prompted the Conservancy, with support from the National Park Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to expand the program to mainland sites around the Everglades National Park—infested with a population that some estimate at between 30,000 and 100,000 snakes. The Everglades problem started more than a dozen years ago because of escaped or released pets.

Today, more than 200 python capture responders have been trained.

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Just what Florida needs, more pythons!