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Undated photo of Edward Archbold and his fiance, Natasha Proffitt.
A man who collapsed after winning a cockroach-eating contest last month at a Florida pet store choked to death, according to a Broward County Medical Examiner report released Monday.
Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, and several other contestants signed up to eat a variety of insects at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach on Oct. 6. After eating dozens of giant cockroaches, Archbold was declared the winner of an ivory-ball python.
Florida man dies after winning cockroach-eating contest
Earlier in the night, he had also entered a superworm-eating contest.
But after winning, Archbold felt sick and started vomiting. He then collapsed in the store and was later pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office conducted tests to determine the cause of death, which was revealed more than a month later.
According to the report, the death was deemed an accident as a result of "arthropod body parts" blocking Archbold's airways. The autopsy tested negative for toxic substances.
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Well perhaps people will think twice about damaging there bodies with not only foul insects you could choose to eat. But takening yourself off this earth that way. Sorry for your girlfreind and family who have to endure this reason for there son's and husbands dead.
Too bad it wasn't the other kind."In other news,this dude got really really high,choked,then died"
Andrew Zimmern this guy is NOT!!!
I bet his mother is proud of him? Can you imagine having to tell someone that you know a guy that died of eating roaches? Come on NBC deadheads...can you find something...anything better than continuing to "dump down" your readers of BS trash reporting like this?
Something tells me this guy was not long for this world anyway.
Oh, he only choked to death. Well I'll sleep better knowing that!
He is not a candidate for "Raid Man of the Year"
We can now answer the question How many roaches and superworms does it take to kill a man.
So why did you break up with your last boy friend? Oh he did what so he could get his snake out?
Correction: Florida man died of stupidity. This is a Darwin Award winner if I've ever seen one.
If anyone in your family ever died from eating too many roaches... you might be a redneck.
Roach went down the wrong pipe.. coff coff
it had to be in florida, right?
Stupid, from every angle.
Roach 1 dude 0
who got the snake?
I've known people to eat the roach before but it was a pot roach not a cockroach, This will probably be a new episode on 1000 ways to die.....
the things we do for love
Bugs can sometimes move even if they have been partially dismembered. Sounds like they were trying to crawl out.
Ohhhh, the irony!
The Night Crawler won!
perhaps it is just a very serious sign that our economy is so messed up, that some of us will do extraordinary (and stupid) things to make a few extra bucks ...
The prize was not money, it was a snake.
...and his fiance was thinking, "Yes, THIS is the man I want to marry"... Ohhhhkay.
And the Darwin award goes to.....
...and in other sports news: Cockroach - 1, Archbold - 0
how stupid, didnt his mother teach him to chew his food before he swallows??