Wow, first a Giant Cockroach eating contest, then a couple of hours later a Superworm eating contest...pretty creepy if ya ask me...

He went out a winner!! That is all that counts, right?

Roaches are abosultely repulsive to me, they make my skin crawl. No imagine eating one? To each his own, oh how could I forget this saying. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Actually, we who are Florida residents are quite aware of the laws against this--even though some choose to ignore them. The problem is people from the North who decide the whole state is their personal playground and they are exempt from all consequences.

I am really sorry about the man who died. What a waste.

Took himself right out of the gene pool....good job!

Is this possibly the first "death by arthropod body parts blocking airway"? I'm betting not in this crazy world we live in. Perhaps the "superworms" decided to hang on by their teeth whilst descending the gullett knowing fully well an acid bath awaited them. Maybe for a million bucks but certainly not for some "bald python".

Archbold vs Arthropod....RIP.

He gets my vote for a Darwin award. This one is right up there. Let's hope he was single with no kids. What a legacy.

2012 Darwin Award Winner!!!

Maybe for a million bucks but certainly not for some "bald python".

Every whore has their own pricing structure.

• The gene pool is improved.

As a native Floridian who has since moved, ToniJ, I can tell you its all the northerners moving south thats wrecking Florida.

haha! victory for the roaches .....& looks like the superworms will be eating him now :P

At least he died doing what he loved? RIP

This is Obama's fault. This is cock-roach-gate.

No its Tony Montana's fault....Coca roacha gate.

Revenge of the Arthropods.

You know you're a redneck when...

He obviously did not learn to chew his food. I wonder how many he just swollowed...then again, I'm getting sick just thinking about it!

The times..they are a changin'

Back in our day the only time you ever heard EAT THE ROACH was when we were getting pulled over by the cops....

Cause of death-asphyxiation by cockroach parts. What a waste.

Change the name of the pet shop to Ben "Bugsy" Seigel's!

A cockroach eating contest? Seriously?

Some people have waaaay too much time on their hands.

This would never have happened if the pet store had provided dog pee to wash down the cockroaches.

Well Kaybeetoys, This fellow's time ran out when the roaches got him back. Choked by anthropod body parts!!??!! Is it a disrespect to Nature by devouring giant roaches??!?? Is this not a bizarre end to his life where his victims, the roaches, ended his life by He ending so many of theirs; As a Man watching these Unusual happenings, this fellow did what his ManSide wanted to accomplish. Me?...Nooo Noooo Noooo I Could NOT Eat what he ate. Really, the world has yet to see more and more bizarre events.....Like in the film "FlashBack" with Dennis Hopper and keifer Sutherland, the Russian Nurse looked and said: "Whatever Floats Your Boat Baby!!!" Guess those Roaches floated his.............

No laws were broken, so I don't know where that argument is even coming from. It isn't illegal to own,sell, trade ball pythons. Do a little research before saying things that aren't true.

Moron!

In this grave I've found my final rest,

Done in by a household pest.

If I'd stuck to pizza and beer,

You wouldn't find me lying here.

Tough way to go. Hate to have that as the cause of death in my Obit.

Why bother with a contest those snakes are all over the everglades just go get a bunch, talk about a waste of life. in a couple of decades that's all that will be living in Florida.

What sucks about technology is that it removed Darwinism, for the most part. Nice to see a motivated dumb ars overcome the technology adjusted weighted odds that were in his favor. lmao.

PJ your comment is as idiotic as they get.

Died from choking on cockroach vomit.

Yummy.

All for a snake.

Some folks will do anything to make a point. I'm so sorry for his family, the point was not worth the price he or they had to pay.

There are no telling what kind of diseases those things carry. The pet store should be investigated as well as any cockroaches that are still alive at the store.

It's funny how Nature has its own ways of correcting its own mistake. The lesson to be learn from this tragic story is.......BE SMART, YOU'LL LIVE A LOT LONGER.

I'm sorry, but nothing is worth that. It's just a stupid snake and if he wanted one that badly he could have just bought the d*mn thing. Sorry he died, I feel bad for his family but geeze.

I still remember Mom saying “Chew your giant cockroach completely before you swallow it”.

Stupid is as stupid does in FL !!!

@ J_P_PatchesPal_1...lol..what about the ebony/ivory beaver..

wow that's a fist..... I agree with J.P..... will wonders ever cease?

heavan, wouldnt matter to me.

To put this in perspective, even Forest Gump would have said "I'm not a smart mayuunn, but I know what a COCK ROACH iuussssss.

Well, at least he made the national news. And now he'll be the basis for some SyFy Channel Saturday night made-for-TV movie.

What next? What will people be putting in their mouths now to win a contest?

I'm afraid to find out.

..and if someone had asked him days earlier: "If you got to choose, how would you prefer to die when your time comes?"... I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have thoughtfully said, "Gee. I think I want giant cockroaches shoved down my throat till I choke to death." And yet his extreme eating got him just that.

Extreme eating/drinking contests are bad news. Remember "Hold your wee for a Wii?".

Simply gotta be a Darwin Award finalist!!! I wonder if his final words were, "Hey y'all! Watch this!!!!"

Betcha can't eat just one?

Xenophobia anyone?

I wonder if his fiance's family is grateful that evolution did it's job BEFORE he entered their family tree?

I wouldn't really call this a Darwin award death. Eating the cockroaches wasn't anymore dangerous then say a hotdog eating contest. If they would have been poisonous, then it would qualify. The chocking was more of a fluke as opposed to the expected result.

For a Darwin award, the expected result should be removal from the gene pool or death. This expected result needs to be plainly obvious such as the result of strapping a jet engine to your car and then trying to stop using the car brakes.

doggysaywhat,

I think a hotdog eating contest is less dangerous. Hotdogs don't have appendages that can get stuck in your throat. It seems like the roach legs and antennae provided a means for successive food to get caught and block the airway.

Either way, it doesn't seem like he had children so that's great. All that for a snake is stupid if you ask me.

A hotdog eating contest may actually be more dangerous. They often dip them in water and swallow the hotdog whole. Very large chocking hazard if the don't swallow it fully or it doesn't compress well in the esophagus.

Many would say there is no future in being stupid...but then, again, there is always someone who disproves this theory.

ThinkingScientist

I wonder if his fiance's family is grateful that evolution did it's job BEFORE he entered their family tree?

You think she planned on kissing him goodnight that night?

Ahhh - the worm has turned.

@doggysaywhat - I think the cockroach eating contest was much more dangerous than a hot dog eating contest. The hot dogs are not alive and the GIANT roaches were and I would just bet that this doofus was just swallowing those bad boys down one after another without chewing so he could win a silly snake. I can just imagine {shudder} those roaches hanging on for dear life and crawling back up his throat. I also imagine I will have a nightmare tonight just thinking about this. What a horror story.

Also, I remember hearing about this when it originally happened and he said (before the contest) that he wasn't all that interested in the snake - he wanted the bragging rights more. Yep, really.

Betcha didn't think being stupid can kill, huh?

I'd hate to be the guy who told his parents how he died.

Are you implying "Suicide by Cockroach"?

No it was pesticide.

No it was the Night Crawler.

I'd call it "insecticide"

As Bugs Bunny would say.......WHAT A MAROON. WHAT A DOPE!!!

An obvious sign he hadn't done enough training for such an engaging competition!

— WATERBUGS! _

Why, to get a free snake, of course! Why else? Sheesh. Florida.

@todd hahahaha!

How about a good old fashioned brownie eating contest.

Simply suffocated by his own vomit. Sometimes happens with alcohol poisoning.

I would rather that not one penny be spent by any business I patronize to support,publicize or sponsor the "competitive eating" disgusting events. Hot dogs,goldfish,brownies,earthworms all the same. Disgusting. Barf.

So david i guess a pu*sy eating contest would also seem gross to you then?

I mean a vagina not a cat.

Pussy eating contest??? It's been a contest since eating pussy was invented.

Hell of a way to make a living..As your mother always said- be sure to chew all your food or it will crawl back up to choke you..

Of course, but that takes time. Makes ya wonder how many went down alive...

Since he didn't die during the competition I'm guessing he died from the ones that got caught in his throat trying to get back out.

EEEWWWWW!!!!!!! :O

He probably inhaled while vomiting and got the vomit stuck in the airway.

MMMMMMmmmmmm,yes..............

Nature's way of recycling.

I'm thinking doggysaywhat has the correct answer. He was trying not to puke, and it killed him.

Yep. Even after nuclear war and global warming they will still be around.

Funny thing. Cockroaches can survive a nuclear holocaust but they can't survive a well placed shoe sole.

this story just wont die.much like cockroaches.just bury the poor guy and move on.

Well, Margie, if you want to avoid reading about things that are nauseating before you make dinner, try not clicking on the link that says "Roach eater's autopsy is out". They pretty much told you what the story was before you ever read it so if you puked over your dinner, it's your own stupid fault. Why do people read stories and then b*tch about them when they don't like the contents even when they've been given fair warning on the headline? About as stupid as eating cockroaches to win a snake.

Oh, but I tried...how I tried. There was just no way to comment on the headline without clicking on the article. I even sent an email to the president of MSNBC begging them to post my comment without making me click on the link. Then I went to their Facebook page. No luck. I would have knocked on their door if they were in town. But I did cover the screen with my hand as I scrolled down to where I could comment, other hand cramming the puke back into my mouth.

I'll assume you employed a similar technique when reading my comment, as it bothered you so.

I wonder how many roaches were alive still?

Very possibly if nothing else a good candidate

I can hardly wait for congressional action. I am sure Lindsay Graham must have an opinion on the effects of cockroach eating on the moral values of American Society. Can you imagine the color of the ribbon for your car trunk. How many people must die before cockroach eating is banned? Where are Mothers Against Cockroach Intoxication? Where are the Directors of Susan G. for the cure on this issue? We surely must have a fund raiser for this issue while it is hot.

Thanks - you are hilarious!

Navy -

I agree! He could just as easily gone down to see obama and gotten a lifetime of meals and handouts.

Obama won. Mittens lost. Let go and get on with your life. Oh, I forgot. Repubs and Tea Baggers never quit whining when they don't get what they want.

My dog somehow manages to.

Eeeeewww!!!

The snake still ended up as the prize. The winners were the roaches - they were what killed him. Of course the loser had to contribute an extreme degree of stupidity - which he seemed to have plenty of.

think m&m,s

Yeah....that's what they tell ya in prison.

uh no, this roach eating guy was way dumber than the people who died trying to save the dog; this is not even close

Sorry, but no animal is worth a human life and what the people did in CA was stupid, plain and simple!

So Lord, you'd rather dive in waters to save an Al-Qaida member, rapist, drug dealer, child beater, etc., then a loving, peaceful dog? I'll save the dog any day over some disgusting human.

I agree FatMan..........I'm glad not all animals think like Lord.......or we wouldn't read about dogs and cats that alert owners to get out of burning houses, dogs that sniff out bombs, dogs that save drowning children, dogs that protect their owners from violent criminals, and many more acts of animals saving human beings......glad animals aren't as selfish as people.

Oh @Wow - there is nothing even remotely similar to the drowning victims story. It was an unfortunate chain of events, the son trying to rescue the dog, most likely not thinking "I might drown." Then the dad went in to save the son but the son was already back on land then mom and son went back in to rescue dad. The similarities of these two stories are nil. One was a family heroically trying to save each other and the other was a nit wit who wanted to have bragging rights for eating the most giant roaches, a "vanity" of sorts, if you will. As similar as apples and road apples IMHO.

I would risk my life to save my three German Shepherds, easily and i wouldn't hesitate for one second. It's only fair my loyalty for them matches theirs. It's no different whether it's your family members or even a complete stranger.

Thank goodness my three dogs can swim like a fish, though.

Wow- many people love their dogs enough to risk their lives for them. I do. I'd also risk my life for my cat.

Dogs will willingly risk their lives to save yours and I would do the same for a dog. Also why isn't there a down arrow for comments like Lord Dirts?