I've done some pretty stupid things in my time, but . . .

I wonder if he'll win this years Darwin award?

u have to be a REAL IDIOT! to do that!!! i can understand why he died! and contrary to what the article said it is not accepted to eat bugs!! ....MORONS!

ER so glad I read your post first - that was my thought. As well as hoping this man has never fathered a child.

The article said he was the winner but one look at his photo and my mind screamed LOSER

Angelo R. Contrary to what you may believe, bugs are considered delicacies in numerous countries around the world, and they are consumed all the time!

I'm just guessing, but I betcha the tox screen comes up with something not of insect origin...

I understand that this was a gross thing to do and that it's a disgusting way to die but it's still a fact that this man was a human being and there are people out there who love him and are sad to lose him. Whatever happened to not judging others? Oh wait, that sounds like something Christ may do.

Was he an employee of the Orkin Man?

Im glad my mom taught me not to eat bugs and I didnt have to learn it the hard way. Too bad he wasnt a contestant on fear factor. At least he would have gotten something for his trouble.

staff met Archbold the night of the Midnight Madness sale: “We all liked him right away. ... for in the short time we knew him, he was very well liked by all.”

"Yup, met the guy an hour ago - what a great guy he was"

I just don't see how any one could eat a damn nasty ass, filthy, disease carrying cock roach.

Might be some Darwin's posting above; eat a bug - I'd rather die.

Don't think I would eat ONE cockroach for anything but one thing is for certain; should I ever be tempted, the prize would have to be a darn sight more attractive than a python. This was one dumb dude. :(

Wow, lots of judging going on despite the fact that eating insects is common in some parts of the world and that the article said that these were specially breed insects. Insects are even known to sneak into foods like grains and such, and a certain amount is legally accepted since its sometimes impossible to make food 100% insect free.

Entomophagy

And the irony? The "Darwinian" thing to do if you're caught in a situation with no other food source would be to eat the insects.

the difference between what a man will and will not eat, is about 3 days........given the choice i would have to decline, if i was starving to death i would munch on those bugs like a bag of popcorn at a movie theater. but for a lousy python? you bet your life and lost for for a stupid snake? as mentioned before i hope this guy did not reproduce. a complete and total lack of common sense.

Headline - "Disgusting Showoff Dies Being Vile" Good job buddy, kill yourself being an R-tard and become the butt of jokes for years. The gene pool got a little cleaner today. :(

"u have to be a REAL IDIOT! to do that!!! i can understand why he died! and contrary to what the article said it is not accepted to eat bugs!! ....MORONS!"

Yes it is, maybe not in the USA but in other parts of the world it is very common. Now who's the MORON?

There's a certain 'Zen' quality to this story. Eddie Archbold eats the cockroaches and super-worms one day, ... after which worms and cockroaches eat Eddie Archboldt. Balance in the Universe!

Roaches check in and Eddie checks out..RIP you Crazy Diamond

Darn, nobody told me that the Darwin jokes were still cool! I thought they went out of style from unoriginality and overuse last year... By the way the if we all ate like neanderthals we would be a lot healthier. The real idiots are the ones raiding the frozen food section at the grocery store and eating at McDonalds.

I have seen on tv people from different cultures around the world eating insects, but they have always been cooked somehow, usually boiled or fried over a fire.

I don't think anyone should eat something like this without cooking the heck out of it first.

And yes ... I know about sushi ...

@realitychuck Chuck where ya been under a rock? Darwin jokes are all the rage here in sunny florida...where it has been discovered that reasearch causes cancer in Lab Rats...lol...also popular with neanderthals ,they are not a tough crowd..they chortle at everything..then they hit you and chortle some more...R.I.P. Eddie

FLORIDA !! Again Florida!

@OP

Amen brother. I was thinking the same thing.

The stupid need to die to keep the herd strong!

I find it disgusting; however, if one steps outside of our own little world we live in, there is a vast world beyond our little conditioned myopic view. Many bugs are considered a delicacy in other countries. And if you were raised in that country, you would be eating bugs as well. Thus, it's all in how you are conditioned and where in the globe you grow up. Since many people are uneducated about anything beyond their 5 mile radius which they live, they can't see anything but that which they live in.

Yes, I find it repulsive, but that is due predominantly due to conditioning. Go back 100,000 years without all this mind F*cking we all get on a daily basis, and I bet you would have no qualms about eating a bug because it's just what they did.

Some people may want to pick up a book and turn off the TV.

I'm just thinking of Dave Chapelle's crack addict on Fear Factor, "Cockroaches? mmmm...don't mind if I do."

OK Mr. Flinstone..some folks eat bugs on this planet..but I doubt they have bug eating contests .Eddie did not eat A bug..he ate a bunch o' bugs...put THAT in your bookworm and eat it..with respect Mr.Flinstone

Can't just eat any bug. Probably a toxin or allergic reaction.

Oh @!$* it, I tried to be serious but LMAO, really WTF is going on down there? Something blow in from that last hurricane or what?

This is the result of stupid "Reality TV" contests being done in real life.

"Reality TV" is not reality it is merely unscripted.

Can't really blame this on reality TV. Overeating huge amounts of stuff for prizes has been going on since long before there was TV. Along with beer (or other alcohol) chugging where the end result has been death many, many times.

Best line of the article:

"All of us here at Ben Siegel Reptiles are sad that we will not get to know Eddie better, for in the short time we knew him, he was very well liked by all.”

They forgot to mention they are sad that they will now have to close their doors, because they won't be able to survive a lawsuit after someone dies in their store due to a crazy unheard of stunt.

Depending on the insect, they can be quite good. Some have a nutty flavor, others sort of like crispy rice. They are very nutritious. Others taste like dirt and grass though - not good. It's a relatively common food source throughout the world, and any good survivalist knows that they would be a key part of any diet if food is low. The fact that in modern society we are a bunch of nancy-pants valley girls about bugs only reflects badly on itself, not on the practice of eating them as food.

Now I wouldn't suggest eating any ol' random bug -- some can make you sick, but it's also disturbing to people around you who are not accustomed to such things lol.

But, if this guy died from domestically raised cockroaches - there must be something else. The cockroaches wouldn't kill him on their own if he chewed and swallowed properly. Maybe he choked or something?

It's most likely that he died from over eating and possibly from not chewing the exoskeletons of the roaches. While eating worms or roaches is not dangerous in fact they are good for you, you must chew your food well so you don't become impacted. Which can also happen from over eating. So put the two together and is only a matter of time before someone has medical problems. I'm surprised we don't have more deaths at these eating contest's with people stuffing themselves to the point of throwing up. Also as long as the roaches were raised in captivity they would be safe but wild roaches are tough and may have high levels of insecticides in their systems so eating them is like eating poison.

Ahhhhh! Poor man died before the Ball Morph could kill him.

As far as the Darwin award, the sad part is that he is only a runner up. There are way too many idiots around. And Florida hogs many of them.

He should have known that a large quantity of cockroaches can make you very constipated, and that is probably what killed him. You have to be sure to drink plenty of snake urine when eating cockroaches or they won't digest properly. The worst part is when they drop a few roach turds on your tongue before you swallow them, as they taste like worm poop! However, if you saute them properly, they taste like chicken!

By the way, how did roaches get that funny first name? Hmmmmm???

Will there be a lawsuit? I wonder, he was over 18, signed a waiver and continued to post his actions on Facebook. I wonder, as we all know that cereals contain a certain percentage of "additional proteins" from bugs, if a lawsuit could happen? Certainly this is an odd happenstance but tragic? I wouldn't say so.

Someone should check if he was allergic to cockroaches. One of the big increases being studied with allergies to chocolate is the governments raising the amount of contaminants allowed in it. Cockroach is the highest level on testing of what gets in.

Throwing up and respiratory issues are signs of anaphylaxis! Anaphylaxis is when a body reacts to an allergen being introduced and is fatal without immediate treatment. Can be fatal with treatment depending on the severity of allergy.

one thing bout roaches...they will survive...http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=3lv8pq77Qas&feature=fvwp

Is there something in the drinking water in Florida? That state has cornered the market in lunatics and morons. I wish we'd allowed Spain to keep that swampy territory.

This was a common occurance on "Fear Factor," and I never heard about anyone getting seriously ill from eating any of the...things...they were made to eat on that show. Either this guy didn't chew the roaches enough, or he had an underlying ailment.

I wonder if Joe Rogan was standing next to this guy giving him encouragement: "Just one more...suck it down...keep your eye on the prize."

Ignorance kills.

The Zombie Apocalypse will begin in Florida. Then spread around the world.

for all the idiot mental midgets who keep saying Florida is where all the idiots are, guess what, it's where the country seems to dump its trash,

Florida used to be my home, but all the worthless pieces of crap who have moved there and have only been there for less than a few months, but then claim to be from Florida is what has given Florida the bad reputation.

so for those of you who do have anything to say about Florida, chances are, you are the people in society who have turned Florida into the cesspool it is now.

When I served in the military we spent about a month of survival training in the Alaska wilderness, twice a year. Part of that training included eating insects [bugs] for the protein we needed to live. Some of the posters are suspecting that the bugs he ate were laced with insecticide and I agree.

I never became ill after I mastered the mind set. However, whenever someone turns on a light in a darkened room I have this urge to scurry away. :)

Plain Bob....Thanks for the laugh ! That video is funny as hell !!

Eating cockroaches to win a snake has got to be one of the stupidest things I have EVER heard. ( Kind of like eating a snake to win a cockroach.)

I think ALL eating contests are disgusting and stupid, nevermind the fact he is eating worms and cockroaches, which takes this to a new level of disgusting and stupid.

@moonyraker57

Angelo R. Contrary to what you may believe, bugs are considered delicacies in numerous countries around the world, and they are consumed all the time!

Not raw, which these appear to have been. I've eaten a variety of bugs and the truth is they're really not too bad. But eating a raw bug is like eating raw chicken and I have serious doubts that insects breed for the pet industry are any better.

That being said, a little salmonella or intestinal parasite isn't going to make you drop dead an hour later.

I'm with Backcountry164 on this. He died way too quickly for it to have been bacterial. You wouldn't just keel over dead an hour later, it just doesn't work that way.

It's possible that he had an allergy, although he would show signs of it like swelling and would most likely have died from asphyxiation. It's possible that he wolfed some of them down without chewing and the hard shells of the bugs perforated his stomach. He may also have had an ulcer, making the perforation all the more likely. That would be my guess. Either that or there was one bug in the lot that was contaminated with some chemical. I don't know if they use fungicides or pesticides of some sort to raise these things, but a tox study should reveal it if it was the cause.

And people b*tch about the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on Coney Island every 4th of July...to quote little kids - ewwww!!

SomeStillStupidEnough........Sorry, but I lived in Florida for three years and the crazies I encountered were all natives. Even the "fresh-water conchs" in Key West weren't as nuts as the life-longers. Still, Key West was the sanest place of them all.

Reality Chuck - do your research: most of the fresh frozen fruits and vegetables in the freezer aisle are flash frozen, which is a safer alternative to the produce that is sprayed with chemicals to keep them from ripening in the week - two week lag time between picking and delivery, and infinitely safer than canned produce. Best option of course is fresh local, but not all of us live in climes were this is possible year-round.

Good afternoon, everyone. This weeks nominee for the Darwinian award goes to................

Angelo R. Comment collapsed by the community

u have to be a REAL IDIOT! to do that!!! i can understand why he died! and contrary to what the article said it is not accepted to eat bugs!! ....MORONS!

Does anyone ever get outside of the Box of american thinking ? While eating bugs may seem gross to you, it is a part of life for other people in other countries. What do you think we ate a long time ago, pizza and hotdogs ? People ate anything that was edible for survival. So you can call him a moron if you wish, but I would think about other peoples lives and culture instead of your own.

Marmaduke49,

Agreed.

What we cloistered Americans think of as "food" isn't--and never was--the standard for human nutrition worldwide.

However, when an otherwise healthy young man vomits and drops dead after eating something--cockroaches, worms or even a pizza--I tend to think the cause was what he put down his throat, open-mindedness notwithstanding.

Disgusting? Maybe in our culture. Deadly? Definitely...at least for this guy.

If cockroaches are reptile food, then that is what they should be feeding that beast football coach who got sentenced today.

'The irony of the insects' name is fitting.

panic moon,

the keys have been over run with all the Yankee terrorists, i mean tourists for the past 2 or 3 decades,

there never used to be any curfews on the beaches, but ever since the state was turned into a terrorist site, i mean a tourist site,

the @$$hole Yankees have done every thing to destroy the state and make it as bad as the toilets they're from.

9 out of 10 people in Florida will claim to be from Florida, but ask them where they were hatched, i mean born and then the truth comes out about what, i mean who they really are.

as for the sanest people in the state, you think they're in the keys,

you can't walk down any streets there without seeing two guys kissing and holding hands.

that part doesn't bother me as much, but the whole idea is that if two hetrosexuals were to do the same as what i was subjected to seeing the two guys doing in public, the cops would have been and have been called.

Lots of nutrition in the critters, but there is not a doubt that I would surely opt to die of starvation, instead.

50,000 years ago cockroaches = ok

2012 cockroaches = bad

This is the beginning of the REAL "WALKING DEAD" bury this guy deep!

i have been to the Philippines and was told after i ate some bugs what it was,

it took me to have some beers before saying i would eat them but i did and they weren't all that bad,

but most people don't realize that they already eat bugs on a daily basis if they eat processed food because the FDA has allowances for foreign matter allowed in the process of producing the products and the companies push the limits instead of doing every thing possible to keep all foreign matter out, that would cost too much,

when you buy the juices for example, when a bug falls in the mix, they don't pour it out, the blender just gets turned on a higher speed.

the sources of the Ebola viruses and other diseases in the produce is from the supposed clean filtered water the companies claim to pre wash your produce with,

the produce plant where i worked at, the water was just pumped from the local canal with no filter at all,

the same canal where the migrant workers would let nature call in, both numbers one and two....

the reasons why the package says to wash before eating.

another idiot bites the dust!LMAO

the sources of the Ebola viruses and other diseases in the produce is from the supposed clean filtered water the companies claim to pre wash your produce with,

Try again before you attempt to scare everyone to death. The water may be the source for water bourne diseases such as cholera or dysentery, which can be bad enough, but it is not the source for Ebola. They named it after the Ebola River near where it first appeared. Ebola is transmitted by body fluids and the original source for the virus is unknown.

Infections with Ebola virus are acute. There is no carrier state. Because the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown, the
manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak has not been determined. However,
researchers have hypothesized that the first patient becomes infected through contact with an infected animal.
After the first case-patient in an outbreak setting is infected, the virus can be transmitted in several ways. People can be
exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person. Thus, the virus is often
spread through families and friends because they come in close contact with such secretions when caring for infected
persons. People can also be exposed to Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been
contaminated with infected secretions.

from cdc.gov

Note that transmission is not by drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food. They don't know for sure, but it appears that you must come in contact with an infected animal or body fluids of an ill person.

i might have gotten the virus wrong but the fact remains that what i had posted is the truth.

it is the cholera and other viruses that i meant to put in the post.

and your research doesn't disprove my point, it validates it.

it says the virus is spread by body fluids,

the last i checked, urine is a body fluid

it would only take someone with the virus to urinate in the canal.

Whatever happened to not judging others? Oh wait, that sounds like something Christ may do.

Uh.. Michelle, what the hell are you talking about? And what, exactly, is the premise for your statement?

I don't know about the planet you live on, but here on Earth sane people make judgements everyday.

In fact, our roach-eating friend here, might just be alive today if he'd had the good sense to make better 'judgements'.

And just so that you'll be aware of what 'Christ would have done' - He walked by a fig tree one day that didn't have any figs on it. He told his disciples, in so many words: "A fig tree without figs is unaccaptable - I suggest you take it out."

Christ was VERY clear about what should happen when His creation does not live up to its potential.

Mr. Miller: And just so that you'll be aware of what 'Christ would have done' - He walked by a fig tree one day that didn't have any figs on it. He told his disciples, in so many words: "A fig tree without figs is unacceptable - I suggest you take it out."

Your comment is absurd. You weren't around when Jesus spoke--about anything, much less make a judgement about whether a fig tree was performing up to its ability. What a ridiculous remark. The fig tree might have been in a dormant state, like your brain.

You idiots spouting Darwin all deserve to be culled from the herd. Don't you realize that ALL your food contains bugs. Currently, it is measured and held within "acceptable" levels by the FDA -- but every piece of bread you eat, soda you drink, and hot dog you bite has a certain number of insect legs and other body parts in it. Of course, when Romney guts the FDA and leaves big business to run wild, those levels will skyrocket. It's cheaper to leave the bugs in than pay for all that job killing big brother government regulation.

Somestillstupidenough, you made a very good and valid point about the water; and I'm not trying to sound like a know-it-all. I did know which diseases you meant. I just didn't want people to be terrified of getting Ebola from eating contaminated fruit when Ebola is not a water borne illness. Ebola is a terrible and frightening illness. I can see why it would seem like Ebola could still be transmitted in the water, but the reason someone peeing in the water of a canal would still not transmit the Ebola virus even though urine is a body fluid has to do with the way Ebola is actually transmitted.

After the first case-patient in an outbreak setting is infected, the virus can be transmitted in several ways. People can be
exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person. Thus, the virus is often
spread through families and friends because they come in close contact with such secretions when caring for infected
persons. People can also be exposed to Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been
contaminated with infected secretions.

from cdc.gov

Note that the Ebola virus is transmitted by DIRECT CONTACT with the blood and secretions of an infected person and is often spread when people come in CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE INFECTED PERSON or OBJECTS, SUCH AS NEEDLES which have been contaminated by their secretions. (For healthcare purposes this normally means an actual needle stick.) So far a person has actually had to be in contact with the secretions themselves; merely drinking water where someone urinated or particularly eating fruit processed in water where someone urinated so far has not been shown to transmit Ebola. Also, I'm in healthcare and have been inserviced on body fluid precautions more times than I can count. While I can't say for sure about Ebola, normally when you are talking about transmission of diseases using "body fluids" like this, you don't mean every single fluid in the body. You only mean certain body fluids that transmit certain diseases-and urine is not normally one of those fluids unless it has blood in it. I can tell you that not all diseases are transmitted the same way. Just because a body fluid is in the canal does not mean the Ebola virus is present in that body fluid or that the disease is transmitted to someone else when they eat or drink something that is contaminated by it.

So the guy had worms, Super Worms ever cut a worm in half, it don't die right away?? Just saying, bet it was the worms.

Well, look what happened to a "JackAss" doing 140mph in his porsche with a friend....Gone. Do people in other "civilized" countries like Sweden, Denmark,Germany, France and so on do these "unusually" repugnant things?? Or have We, America, become a Freak show amongst the world's other countries....

@PhantomBeast

You ever heard of the Dudesons?

Of course you didn't mention Finland in your list of "civilized" countries...they must be exempt.

Was anyone surprised this story took place in Florida ? Bath salts cannibals, G.E.D. neighborhood watches,fix a flat body sculpturing, and now a bug eating champion death. Maybe he just got a 24 hour bug !

Phantom, other countries have shows where people do stupid and dangerous things. Some European shows make American TV look tame and classy. Same with South America, and everywhere else.

Broaden your horizons, and tone down your ignorant self-righteousness. Please do not embody the "ignorant American who is clueless about the world" stereotype that you appear to dislike.

America did not invent hokey stupidity and classlessness like you seem to believe.

@Smeredith

It says "Civilized countries like Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France and so on" Just because your country wasnt mentioned by name does not mean we consider them to be caveman. However, this guys IQ might be lower than said un-civilized caveman, and what do you know survival of the fittest has triumphed and he has been deemed unfit.

@jonnybgood-3991381 Like they say Mr.Good..it takes one to know one..just sayin R.I.P. Eddie you will be missed .I'm thinking though it shoulda,coulda been a fair fight where you fatten up the contestants w/ bugs and worms till they writhe in agony Then send in the snakes to finish them off..Now THAT would be a fair fight...Yeah it's late and I'm graspin at straws...

Men in Russia are expected to do crazy stupid stunts.  It's part of male bravado culture there.  Finns and Russians share some cultural traits, and that appears to be one of them.



It says "Civilized countries like Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France and so on" Just because your country wasnt mentioned by name does not mean we consider them to be caveman.

Just because your IQ isn't high enough to look up 'Dudesons' and comprehend what he was talking about in context.... Dudesons are a Finnish "Jackass" like group. He mentioned them (and Finland) in retort to Phantom's "civilized countries don't do this" comment.

johnnybgood, he's not a "wanna be" he IS.

smeredith, he did say,"and so on"

I think the guy caught a bug......

Or, they might cook them.

Florida eh...? I'm shocked.......lol

But people who eat insects know if they are allergic or not. Years ago, it was noted that there are many people with severe allergies to insects, especially cockroaches. Vomiting is the least of it; this can shut down breathing.

Seems like I have heard of people having heart attacks, perforated diaphragms, aspirating food, etc. after eating contests. I don't think it was what was consumed, but rather how it was consumed. The only other thing that makes sense is a severe allergy or one of the bugs was somehow tainted with a pesticide. We'll all know soon enough, I guess.

Maybe he just ate too many and ruptured his stomach.

His mother never told him to chew his food before swallowing it.. so they scurried right after he vomited!

You have to wonder if the hard shelled exoskeleton of these bugs might cause some serious problems. If he was eating these without chewing them much I suspect that some big pieces of this "shell" could cause potential injury to his stomach or digestive tract. With these big giant cockroaches I can imagine that pieces of the "shell" could be very sharp, even the legs too could possibly cut or puncture the stomach wall. Ordinarily, it may be possible that they soften and get digested fairly quickly, but if he ate a large quantity of them stretching out his stomach, it seems like the likelihood for a puncture could be considerably higher. Eating a couple of these is probably no big deal, but "dozens" as the story says, could potentially be hazardous.

..or some nasty chemical reaction when they were sauteed in half-digested worm innards. YUMMMM!!!

"Cause of death: Undetermined"

Most coroners aren't experts in their fields, they are mostly just elected simpletons.

It definitely couldn't be any kind of bacterial infection from the cockroaches - too sudden (acute) of an onset after eating them, unless the bacteria were producing huge amounts of toxins like botulinum. Without knowing any further information about how this poor guy suddenly collapsed, whether he had problems with his throat/airway constricting, etc., it sounds to me like it may have been an anaphylactic (allergic) reaction to one of the bugs he ate, but hard to tell. I suspected some kind of acute poisoning initially, but these bugs are supposedly farm-raised and free of any chemical pesticides etc., so if it is poisoning it must be to some naturally-occurring toxin inside the body of these bugs that perhaps is OK if only one or two bugs are ingested, but cumulative and deadly if dozens are ingested. 1NewDay's exoskeleton hypothesis might be valid, too. It's also pretty likely that his death was purely coincidental and only peripherally related... maybe the excitement and stress of public competition and celebrating immediately afterward was enough to give him a heart attack or stroke.

All of that said, I do feel sorry for him and especially his loved ones and friends.

lol

YUCK... This is a stupid article.

He's just a pretender. The real roach champion would eat roaches coated in liquid nitrogen so his stomach would explode just as a stripper jumps on him off her pole. Now THAT would be a show.

Maybe he was an extra in Starship Troopers?

Well that was KIND OF cute...;)

For one's last meal in life, what a terrible selection.It is amazing at times how some people meet their fate. Of course we never know when we might check out, still as my great grandma used to say, life's a banquet, eat dessert first and your veggies last.That way you get what you love most in while you can and what you don't like you end up either being too full to eat or running out of time. Then she'd wink and give out a second dessert.Too bad they weren't having a cream pie eating contest.Though that might not have saved him either in the end depending on what killed him.But it sure would have tasted a lot better.

Eddie met a bear...the bear was bulgy.. the bulge was Eddie... R.I.P. PEACE OUT Eddie

I shouldn't be laughing at your comment, ZweiStein but...I just can't help myself!

Maybe they had just seen "Men in Black" and thought it was a documentary.

Love it!

The Autopsy may prove that the roaches were given performance enhancing drugs..OH MY..but Eddie he is still dead R.I.P. Bless the beasts and the children.

Good one, Babs. I love it. I cant stop laughing.

Ahhh...those insects were being fed to animals.

I was wondering when the cockroach lovers would show up.

Its such a shame to waste cockroaches.

Would someone actually buy cockroaches? Come on, really?

And the roaches these people ate, where did they get them anyway? Did they just scoop them up from the floor of the Unoco men's room? Well yum, dang it!

Roberto, you called the man a dummy. Is it smart to buy albino rattlesnakes?

@ Mom, actually you can buy roaches as food for other pets. I have a nephew who buys them to feed his pet snakes and lizards.

Time for bed i just read your post a second time. Ratsnakes not rattlesnakes, still a creepy pet.

I wouldn't eat insects or worms if they wanted to pay me a million dollars. No thanks.

Why would you buy a snake in Florida? Pythons, Boa's etc are everywhere in Florida and killing off the native wildlife. If you want one, go out and catch it,,,,,Free! No money or eating bugs required.

What would pet store get for a python like he would've won?

The worms crawl in the worms crawl out.........I just can't finish the ...R.I.P. at least he died doing the thing he loved doing most. TO each his own.

In your stomache and out your mouth!