Two eating contests = two dead: one man from a donut and one woman from a pancake

[scho63]

These two must have really loved their food to die over it!

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/extreme-ea...212235930.html

A 42-year-old man has choked to death in Denver, Colorado, while attempting to devour a half-pound doughnut in an extreme-eating contest.

Travis Malouff's passing came on the same day as 20-year-old Connecticut college student, Caitlyn Nelson, fatally choked as she tried to speed-eat a pile of pancakes during a charity event.

Paramedics were called just after 1am on Sunday (2 April) after receiving reports of a man choking. Malouff was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to Denver Office of the Medical Examiner, Malouff died from asphyxia due to obstruction of the airway.

Malouff was reportedly taking part in the the "Tex-Ass" challenge, at a Denver branch of the Voodoo Doughnut chain, when tragedy struck.

The challenge sees participants try and eat a monster doughnut six times the normal size in under 80 seconds.

Eyewitness Julia Edelstein told KUSA-TV: "It's too much food for one person, even as the size that he was. That's too much for someone to eat. He was trying to force it down."

Travis's father Curtis Malouff told KUSA: "It's tragic. It's a loss of life that shouldn't be. If a challenge is there -- he'd probably take it."

A spokeswoman for the Oregon-based Voodoo Doughnut chain said in a statement that the company's heart went out for the dead man's family, but that it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Within hours, Nelson, a social work major at the Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, also lost her life in a pancake-eating contest.

The student, who suffered from multiple food allergies, began choking during her attempt. Police say two nurses at the contest tried to save her life until paramedics arrived, but Nelson died in a New York hospital two days later.

Nelson was five years old when her father James Nelson, a New York policeman, died in the 9/11 attacks.

[alpha_omega]

Never understood the fascination with eating contests.

[ChiTown]

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

God damned tragedy.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

Would still do as long as as rigamortis hasn't set in yet. Is that wrong?

[Rooster]

Originally Posted by scho63

Would still do as long as as rigamortis hasn't set in yet. Is that wrong?

It ain't right.

[lcarus]

Good god. Dying in a pancake/donut eating contest. Of all the ways to go...

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by scho63

Nelson was five years old when her father James Nelson, a New York policeman, died in the 9/11 attacks.

Have we considered the possibility that God hates this woman's mother?

Because it seems beyond questioning at this point.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

God damned tragedy.

This just makes me sad. Attractive and liked pancakes? That type of woman is rare.

Also, I should add that I'm pretty sure I could eat a doughnut that's only six times larger than normal.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This just makes me sad. Attractive and liked pancakes? That type of woman is rare.

Also, I should add that I'm pretty sure I could eat a doughnut that's only six times larger than normal.

Depends on whether or not the witness utilized the square-cube law correctly.

And I'd like to thank your crazy ass 'massive animals' thread for introducing me to this concept that I almost certainly don't have right. My guess is that anyone at a doughnut eating contest also does not have it right and as such, if we're talking 6 times the surface area of the doughnut as seen by a layperson, we're looking at nearly 15 times the mass.

Start with an average sized yeast doughnut of about 1 1/3 ounces and suddenly we're looking at a 20 oz doughnut. It seems to me that 20 oz doughnut is far more reasonable for a eating contest and thus we're dealing with an unreliable narrator.

If that's the case, I don't think you could take down that doughnut. But good luck and god speed, sir.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Depends on whether or not the witness utilized the square-cube law correctly.

And I'd like to thank your crazy ass 'massive animals' thread for introducing me to this concept that I almost certainly don't have right. My guess is that anyone at a doughnut eating contest also does not have it right and as such, if we're talking 6 times the surface area of the doughnut as seen by a layperson, we're looking at nearly 15 times the mass.

Start with an average sized yeast doughnut of about 1 1/3 ounces and suddenly we're looking at a 20 oz doughnut. It seems to me that 20 oz doughnut is far more reasonable for a eating contest and thus we're dealing with an unreliable narrator.

If that's the case, I don't think you could take down that doughnut. But good luck and god speed, sir.

Well, that's a good point. Is the doughnut six times the mass or six times the circumference? If it's six times the circumference I wouldn't attempt it unless it was one of those delicious blueberry cake doughnuts.

[KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

That's a funny looking pancake but I'd try to eat it!

[KCUnited]

At least her father will get to syrup in heaven.

[KChiefs1]

There has to be a video of this.


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[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Never understood the fascination with eating contests.

Same here. I find them rather disgusting.