7 Man Dies After Live Cockroach Eating Contest
If you’re Bear Grylls and you’re in some rain forest trying to survive on nothing but the land and your own recycled piss, maybe eating some live cockroaches isn’t such a bad idea. If you’re some random guy in Miami, though, not so much.
Edward Archbold was 32 when he decided to enter a pet store’s live bug eating competition. On the menu for the contest: worms and live cockroaches. Archbold bested about 30 other contestants and won the competition’s grand prize, a python.
Sadly, the roaches were apparently not satisfied to be the only ones losing their life in this bizarre contest, and wreaked some kind of havoc in Archbold’s stomach. While all of the other contestants went seemingly unaffected by the ingestion of the strange contest fare, the winner collapsed in front of the store and could not be revived at the hospital.
Maybe next time, if people are thinking about having a contest involving eating foods that will survive a nuclear holocaust, they’ll choose Twinkies instead.
