Man Dies After Eating 30 Roaches, 30 Worms And 100 MillipedesThis is Edward "Barry" Archbold. He died Friday night after collapsing in front of Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Archbold had just won a bug-eating contest, the prize for which was a python.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/man-dies-after-eating-30-roaches-30-worms-and-100
Aren't most millipedes poisonous?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede#Defense_mechanisms
Yup. That's my understanding, too. The next thing you know we'll have people down here trying to lick poisonous toads for fun....Oh, wait, never mind.
From what I read is that there where multiple participants and no one else got sick. Some people may have allergies to these things and not know and that could have caused it. Freak accident more so than Darwinism.
I'm sorry, but I don't feel bad for him at all.
Joey
Dirtybird is right. Lets save the Darwin Award for someone else. Silly? yes. Tragic? yes. Deserving? Not quite.
Joey, I don't feel bad for any dead people. Thats nature.
Sometimes stupid hurts...to death.
Somebody wasn't right in the head. I'm not sure who was the worst, the people who dreamed it up and organized it or the people who said they'd do it.
That's a bad way to go.
It was darwinian. We are evolving a better bug eater.
I guess we now know that the human body can endure 30 cockroaches, 30 worms, and 99 millipedes.
Keith Tanner wrote: It was darwinian. We are evolving a better bug eater.
I'm pretty sure there are cultures around the world where bugs are staples in their diet. In this here Army Survival Handbook I have, it states bugs are a great form of protein and energy.
It wouldn't be evolving into either, it would be devolving. Which I believe is happening a lot out there. Have you seen the latest South Park where they make fun of the Honey Boo Boo show and how the bar has been sunk that low.
Pan fried in chile oil; yes, raw and squirming, no way.
914Driver wrote: Pan fried in chile oil; yes, raw and squirming, no way.
This. I mean what are we, Barbarians?
Anyone know what wine pairs best with roaches?
We have evolved past eating bugs, so my vote is for a Darwin Award. He also did it to win a snake, which are basically free if you walk into the woods or swamp. Darwin.
OK, I posted without reading somebody, beat me to it.
100 Millipedes? That's what killed him, they do contain a poison. In the Caribbean it's well known that in the olden days, women would add just a few of them to a tea or soup to quietly do away with abusive husbands.
1988RedT2 wrote:914Driver wrote: Pan fried in chile oil; yes, raw and squirming, no way.This. I mean what are we, Barbarians? Anyone know what wine pairs best with roaches?
white wine and butter (they are a close relation to the lobster)
DirtyBird222 wrote: From what I read is that there where multiple participants and no one else got sick. Some people may have allergies to these things and not know and that could have caused it. Freak accident more so than Darwinism.
While it may not be Intelligence based "Darwinism", it certainly fits into the mold of "not being able to survive what others can"- which is the heart of evolution. So he could not survive eating something, while others could- the "stronger" survived.
Very much "Darwinism".
Mitchell wrote: I guess we now know that the human body can endure 30 cockroaches, 30 worms, and 99 millipedes.
I got 99 problems and a millipede ain't one of th... (dies).
So what happened to the python? Does it go to the deceased's estate--after all, he did win it...or does the runner-up get the prize?
ST_ZX2 wrote: So what happened to the python? Does it go to the deceased's estate--after all, he did *win* it...or does the runner-up get the prize?
Unfortunately, this being FL, his relatives probably turned it loose. Oh well, I needed a new belt. Time to update my hunting licence.
You'll need to log in to post.
