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EE_
8th October 2012, 07:17 PM
Jewish Ben Siegel's Reptile Store gets goyim Edward Archbold to eat bugs n' shit to win a snake.
Only in Florida! Oy Vey!

Florida Man, 32, Dies Shortly After Winning Pet Store's Roach Eating Contest
October 8, 2012

A Florida man died Friday night after consuming "dozens of roaches and worms" during a contest held by a pet store, police report.

Edward Archbold, 32, collapsed after winning the repulsive contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store. Archbold, who was competing for a free python, was stricken outside the Deerfield Beach business, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators reported that Archbold "wasn’t feeling well and began to regurgitate" shortly after the contest's conclusion. "He had consumed dozens of roaches and worms," a sheriff’s spokesman noted.

Archbold was pronounced dead after being transported to an area hospital. An autopsy was conducted, and the Broward County medical examiner is awaiting test results to determined Archbold's cause of death.

Archbold is pictured above in a mug shot taken in 2004, following his arrest for disorderly conduct and indecent exposure (for which he was convicted).

The roach eating contest was part of the reptile store's October 5 "Midnight Madness" sale. Contestants had four minutes to devour the most discoid roaches, which can grow up to three inches long. "Oh yeah, any vomiting is an automatic DQ," the store cautioned in a Facebook post prior to the revolting competition.

Another promotional piece referred to the upcoming event as "the soon to be infamous 'Eat Bugs For Balls Contest.'" The python for which Archbold competed is known to curl up into a ball as a defensive reaction.

In a Facebook update yesterday, the store stated that, "Although we just met Eddie the night of the sale, we all liked him right away. 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."

Asked about the python won by Archbold, the store reported on its Facebook page that, "The snake is being held in his name and is full property of his estate."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/man-dies-eating-roaches-587314

vacuum
8th October 2012, 07:31 PM
They can bite


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKCdyNIHzIY

Santa
8th October 2012, 07:42 PM
My hens love cockroaches, especially the big palmetto bugs.

ImaCannin
8th October 2012, 08:15 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MT3CihStFQ

willie pete
9th October 2012, 08:13 AM
Darwinism at Work

midnight rambler
9th October 2012, 08:14 AM
If anyone ever deserved a Darwin Award it would be this guy.

Santa
9th October 2012, 09:00 AM
Fool. He should have chewed em up better. :)

gunDriller
9th October 2012, 01:46 PM
i hate it when that happens !

i know the secret - you start out real slow.

wait a year or 2 between cockroaches, then build your way up.


this guy made the same mistake as Mark Foo, sort of. Foo jumped into Maverick's thinking he could handle it because he was a Hawaiian big wave surfer. problem was, Foo's first time out at Maverick's, it was a BIG day, the buoys were 20 feet plus.

he over-estimated his ability - just like the cockroach eater trying to win the python.

DMac
9th October 2012, 02:02 PM
When I read through the comments of the article some folks claimed he may have had a shellfish allergy. Shrimp, lobster, cray/crawfish are insects of the sea. He might have been allergic to roaches and didn't know it.

So freaking gross regardless.

Katmandu
9th October 2012, 02:18 PM
They can bite


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKCdyNIHzIY

That background music did not go well with that video; it was like a strange combination of confusion and vertigo.

gunDriller
9th October 2012, 02:21 PM
When I read through the comments of the article some folks claimed he may have had a shellfish allergy. Shrimp, lobster, cray/crawfish are insects of the sea. He might have been allergic to roaches and didn't know it.

So freaking gross regardless.

it's grosser if you sneeze while you're eating them.

DMac
9th October 2012, 03:00 PM
That's nasty gD :D