Tue May 21 14:12:01 SAST 2013

Man dies after cockroach, worm eating contest

Oct 9, 2012 | Sapa-AFP | 51 comments

EISH: The prize was to win a snake

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Oct 9, 2012

MommaC

Maybe Darwin was right after all
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Oct 9, 2012

Milk-Shake

Aaaayi, this is sick man!! So on his death certificate what will be the cause of death?
He ate roaches and bugs which had Doom so they were poisonous.For a SNAKE nogal!!! Haai, re tla reng..RIP.
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Oct 9, 2012

RobinH

Many years ago there used to be what was called the Royal Show in Pietermaritzburg. At this show I once saw a man bite the head off a live white rat and eat it, in order to win a car. He did it without vomiting and won the car. I have seldom been quite so disgusted.
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Oct 9, 2012

ApelMankotsana

He must be featured in " 1000 Ways To Die" in SonyMax. Or on "Scare Tactics".
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Oct 9, 2012

Mellow

Man dies after cockroach, worm eating contest drumrollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssss and "The prize was to win a snake"
Wow what do you know taht s#it kills afterall #rolling-my-eyes

RIP
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Oct 9, 2012

Seja-Bana

some people are sick, anyway le kgale that python was gona kill him after winning it.
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Oct 9, 2012

DJ-Winner

ha ha ha...people sometimes hhayi hhayi...Sad, but funny. Why are people eating cockroaches in the first place?
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Oct 9, 2012

malemaforpresident

Americans are devils dying for a python and the reptile is still alive
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Oct 9, 2012

MGEEZ

Indeed foolishness abounds in the world we live in!!!
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Oct 9, 2012

Shredder

Eat the roaches and worms to win a python?
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Oct 9, 2012

Blackstone.lebs

Tjo! kokoroto
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Oct 9, 2012

Papage

"to win an exotic python"

he must have swallowed poisonious something, if that is the case the owner must be arrested for murder, was this competition ligal, how do you compete by eating stuff like that, does the Competition Regulating Board agree to such competitions? to win an Exotic python, things we do to satisfy our women I believe, now he is dead.
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Oct 9, 2012

MophemeKoPitori

I'd rather enter an Ugly contest like in zimbabwe! Maybe if the dude ate mopani worms not decomposing worms and roaches.

People from Soweto need him; there's plenty of cockroaches ko soweto especially Diepkloof
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Oct 9, 2012

RobinH

lol @ mopheme!!
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Oct 9, 2012

Tibub

Dumbest thing i have ever heard since i was born
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Oct 9, 2012

Mosquer

Aowa banna!!! ke dilo mang tše! O ja mafene gore o wine noga ya noga!!!!!!!!!!
If there was a punishment for dying a lame death you will be the first one.
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Oct 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

Edward Archbold, 32, had eaten several dozen roaches and worms on Friday as part of the contest to win an exotic python.
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all this in the name of a freaken animal, which is supposed to be raoming fr.ee in the wild and constrained in a glass cage

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Oct 9, 2012

Tabza325is

Cockroachs are the culprite on this one, I suspect he didn't properly chew one because those things can survive anywere, even with thier head bit off they can still live for days, one must have survived his eating frenzy and crowled it's way in his stomach and did some damage from the inside. Beside I suspect his neighborhood is now a safe place to live in since he is gone...
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Oct 9, 2012

candilious

Mellow
Man dies after cockroach, worm eating contest drumrollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssss and "The prize was to win a snake"
Wow what do you know taht s#it kills afterall #rolling-my-eyes
______________________________________________________Lol hehehhhehehheh drumrolls
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Oct 9, 2012

midastouch

Typical American over the top b*lls**t !!
Death to west!!!
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Oct 9, 2012

D-liciousLips

ya neh, fear factor style. n shem u were still so young, 32. rest in peace
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Oct 9, 2012

themadam

stupidity.....
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Oct 9, 2012

Mfan'omnyama

Then you expect me to say RIP. I mean, the guy invited his own death for a python. Who knows he was still going to be killed by the very same snake had he won it.
Ag, voetsek, go to hell.
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Oct 9, 2012

picccolo

mxm death was calling him
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Oct 9, 2012

Vongsta

Ja neh.......
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Oct 9, 2012

DJ-Winner

Mfan'omnyama
Then you expect me to say RIP. I mean, the guy invited his own death for a python. Who knows he was still going to be killed by the very same snake had he won it.
Ag, voetsek, go to hell.
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ha ha ha ha ha...sometimes the thinking of some people is questionable...I agree that this guy was going to die anyway even if he servived cockroaches...
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Oct 9, 2012

Tsar-Rasputin

He ate the worm first, What goes aroung comes around

The worm is laughing " is my turn now"
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Oct 9, 2012

RobinH

midas: How dof can one be? The incident I described, which is not much different, took place in SA.
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Oct 9, 2012

mokudubete

ja neh what people can do for fame,i wish people can be passionate about things that can transform life and make it a better place to live on it.
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Oct 9, 2012

thandizinqe

It happens everryday in Limpopo , whayt's new .
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Oct 9, 2012

paracute

it's all about guinea's world book of records or Nobel prizes. there he died for a snake and killed by cockroaches, those were deliberately poisoned ke Ben10 wa vrou ya hae.
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Oct 9, 2012

Mdeeva

Stupid stupid stupid. all that for one poisonous creature
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Oct 9, 2012

thathakonke

Thank God we have no such foolishness here in South Africa.The problem with most Americans they think they have super powers to do anything and frankly they do not
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Oct 9, 2012

G-ruff

May his soul Rest In Peace.
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Oct 9, 2012

KingOfHearts

Lmao... they should have added drinking cow pee to wash down the roaches and worms...he would still be alive
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Oct 9, 2012

babyfats

akgaaaaaaaaaaa neeeeeeeee siesssssss
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Oct 9, 2012

leShandiis

- Timon and Pumba eat bugs
- well it was either the bugs or the prize snake, gues the bugs had a strong effect
- R.I.P
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Oct 9, 2012

MommaC

Mdeeva

LOL
You silly Americans. If you were from Africa, you'd know that pythons aren't 'poisonous" as they are constrictors. You'd also know that no snakes have toxins and not poisons :) Come over to Africa some day and we'll teach you
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Oct 9, 2012

I.n.c.o.g.n.i.t.o

leShandiis
- Timon and Pumba eat bugs
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LOL...yeah....but Timon and Pumba are a meerkt and warthog respectively - and cartoons nogal!!!


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Oct 9, 2012

Msiphos00

Thanx God I thought one of our female bloggers would comment that MEN NEVER LISTENS
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Oct 9, 2012

G-ruff

Its a wake up call. people take risk especially fro money but this is a very funny n dirty game.
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Oct 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@Msiphos00
Thanx God I thought one of our female bloggers would comment that MEN NEVER LISTENS

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Oct 9, 2012

skwamasamabele

A sandwich short of a picnic. I am trying to work out what he is going to say to his Maker: 'sorry Father, you gave me Life, the cockroaches took it, Hic!!!' Idiot
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Oct 9, 2012

rraselepe

he swallowed the bugs alive then they chawed his stomach poor fellow
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Oct 9, 2012

Flemza

This is a bit stupid or should I say silly
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Oct 10, 2012

Kgaitsedi-ya-Genaro

Aag man this is pure rubb!sh yerrr maAmerika. And why perform the autopsy when they know very well that the worms & roaches are the main course of his death???? Who the hell in his right mind would go eat digagabi mara......mxcm
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Oct 10, 2012

Mzabalazo

Now I can take the this saying "another man's meat is another man's poison" literally.
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Oct 10, 2012

Mzabalazo

OCT 9, 2012
thathakonke
Thank God we have no such foolishness here in South Africa.The problem with most Americans they think they have super powers to do anything and frankly they do not
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Watch National Geography/ Bizzar foods, you would be amazed what are other nations have for dinner, Vietna#mese eat dogs, Chi#nese eat almost everything that moves, roaches, bugs, snakes, dogs etc.
Jap#anese eat a certain fish that is known as a k#iller dish, some people who eat it may be their last meal forever and the dish is very expensive prepared by special licensed chefs.
Even here in Africa you will surprised what other people have for dinner.
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Oct 10, 2012

Mzabalazo

As a competition wow, but eating roaches, donkeys, and dogs is something familiar with other nationalities, the Americans and the west also do not understand why we eat tripe and intestines, and most of them will be shocked to discover that we also eat caterpillars.








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Oct 10, 2012

somaartakeit

I don't know which is more scary than dying eating worms and roaches or be suffocated to death by a python, things ppl do *SMH*
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Dec 31, 2012

ONEMAN

Hierdie mense speel k@k met julle liewe vir net om die slang te wen thats bullsh!t.
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