"Competetive Guy" Drinks Himself To Death During Contest

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"There was basically a drinking contest between a small group of friends, " said Berkeley police officer and spokesman Kevin Schofield. "There's no signs of foul play."

Saucedo, a junior, transferred to UC Berkeley in the fall of 2003 from Pasadena City College, said Cal spokeswoman Janet Gilmore.

Saucedo's roommate, Robert Tinoco, 22, said Saucedo's cousin and four friends from Los Angeles arrived Thursday to spend the weekend. They decided to have a drinking contest Thursday night, and Saucedo served as the bartender, doling out shots of tequila, vodka and whiskey, Tinoco said.

"Steve was a competitive guy," Tinoco said. "Whenever he would hang out with friends, whether it was bowling or whatever, he wanted to win. This time it was a drinking challenge."

Tinoco, a student at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, has known Saucedo for 13 years. Tinoco said he spent most of the night in his room because he was not on spring break and had homework to finish. He said he last saw Saucedo alive was when Saucedo, who appeared quite drunk, came into his room and accidentally squished the clay statue he was sculpting.

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the gene pool is saved.

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Sometimes a name says it all :eyes:

Maybe the guy did something stupid. But it is a death. You guys could be a bit less mean about it.

Back in around 1975, sailors in a bar near Great Lakes Naval Station were having a drinking contest. One guy around my size (fighting lightweight class at the time) drank 18 (i think that was the number) shots in about an hour. About 30 minutes later, big commotion all of a sudden, and he's down on the floor turning blue. Ambulence shows up (not sure if there were paramedics back then or not), and they tried to revive, couldn't, tranported to hospital. Next day in Chicago papers, we read he died. He was 20. (A year older than me at the time.)

Too much alcohol all at once shuts down the autonomic system and the body doesn't know to keep the heart beating and the lungs breathing. Hard to survive that way.
The Professor