South Florida Man Wins Live Cockroach-Eating Contest, Then Suddenly Dies

AP ^ | October 9, 2012 | SUZETTE LABOY

[TurboZamboni]

There are plans to make this an annual event, once they work the bugs out.

[TexasTransplant]

He doesn’t have Tiger Blood!

TT

[This I Wonder32460]

oooh they were probably trying to chew their way out of his stomach ugh.......

[verga]

The runner up gets Monty.

But was it the full Monty?

[verga]

Unfortunately Dad accidentally left the roach tub outdoors during one of our rare frosts, resulting in a roach catastrophe.

"Accidently" That is the story he is sticking with?

[dglang]

Roaches are very hardy, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he died from accumulated poisons built up in the roaches and worms bodies.

[AZLiberty]

Yes, the hissing cockroaches really do hiss, mainly when disturbed. It's definitely audible, about as loud as you can imaging a 3-inch hisser hissing.

As far as leaving the roaches outside, I had put them outside just because I was getting tired of having them in the house. I figured the kids would notice and drag the bin back inside at some point. A week or more passed, however, and then we had a cold snap. By then, I guess, everyone had had enough of the vermin.

A few years later, after moving to another house, we found an ex-cockroach inside an old sofa. This was Bertha (as big as her name), who had gone missing before her siblings met their demise.

[Lera]

You buy the propaganda that animals can not be bad and that humnans are the problem .This is from the same scientists that brought us the hoax of global warming. guess you belive global warming, Peta, greenpeace. don’t make me laugh. roaches are filthy, bacteria is ALL around us , EVERYWHERE.

Lol no I don't buy the propaganda . Did you know that the UN wants us to give up producing beef and replace it with insects ? People all over the world eat insects (I'm not one of them . I happen to like my steak )

Did you happen to look at the roaches ? Have you ever seen a roach like that running around anyone's house or garbage cans ? NOPE cause they are NOT native to the United States . The roach he ate is native to South America . That means it was raised in a lab and fed on fruits and grains . A roach eating garbage and running through filth is going to carry all kinds of bacteria ... one lab raised isn't going to be carrying the same thing .

If you take cows and feed them grain they are safe to eat . If you take cows and feed them sheep parts you get meat that can give you mad cow disease .
Pigs raised on slop have trichinosis , pigs raised in clean pens and fed grain do not .

Ever see a soldier with a Jungle Expert patch ? They had to eat some pretty gross stuff to earn it out in the jungles of Panama .
Ever eat anything with red dye in it ? It's produced in a lab and it comes from a BUG . So if you have ever eaten anything with artificial red coloring you have eaten a bug.

The guy who ate the roach did not die from any bacteria he got from that roach . He died to quickly .
He could have had an allergic reaction to it just as some have reactions to eating a peanut . If he swallowed it whole without killing it there is even the possibility that it could have perforated something on the way down as this genus of roach does burrow (that's his stupidity). Doesn't mean the roach was infected with anything. Is he dumb to eat such things for a contest ? Yes .

[b4its2late]

For sure. LOL