Death by doughnut
A 42-year-old man in Colorado died after he choked on a giant doughnut during an doughnut-eating contest, KUSA-TV in Denver reported.
Travis Malouff was taking part in the contest sponsored by Voodoo Doughnut on Sunday. Two people tried to give Malouff the Heimlich until paramedics could arrive. He died before they got to him.
It was an outsized doughnut, about six times the size of an ordinary one. The goal was to eat it in under 80 seconds to win a button and a free meal.
At least the people at The Guiness Book of Records saw sense a few years ago and stopped accepting entries for speed-eating and other such stupid activities.
There’s obviously a good case to be made for banning these contests and promotions, but then again, and bearing in mind the guy died for a button FFS and a free meal, there’s an equally good case to be made for natural selection.
Not sure, but this seems to be a fairly comprehensive list of eating contest fatalities.
Yeah, he’s 42 – it’s very possible he had already reproduced. For natural selection to work, it has to get you BEFORE you bring more of your genes into the world.
Or he might have been keeping the stupid gene back for an ‘autumn’ baby.
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At some point, the state has to realise that deaths by stupidity are self-inflicted, and cannot be stamped out. Dying by choking can happen with normal food eating, it is just inevitable that some will occur during events promoting gluttony.
I always found eating contests—in a world where so many go hungry—obscene.
The unfortunate doughnut stuffer is probably still eligible for the Darwin Award—–he successfully removed himself from the gene pool.