Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Last week it was road kill. This week it is cockroaches! It seems there is no limit to what people will eat for fun or profit. Here is a perfect example of how a person can be a winner and a loser at the same time.

According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Edward Archbold, of West Palm Beach, Florida and several other contestants signed up to eat a variety of insects at a reptile store in Deerfield Beach. After eating dozens of giant cockroaches, Archbold was declared the winner of an ivory-ball python.

Apparently he did this just to prove to whoever cared that he was a badass, because he had also entered a superworm-eating contest earlier in the night.

But after winning, Archbold felt sick and started vomiting. He then collapsed in the store and was later pronounced dead. The medical examiner's office is conducting tests to determine a cause of death, according to the sheriff's office statement.

While the consumption of insects is usually safe and widely accepted throughout the world, and none of the other contestants felt sick, there could have been other factors like allergies that contributed to his death. Or maybe it was the combination of worms AND roaches in the same night. Kind of like how you're not supposed to combine wine and beer.

If you'd like to see the legend in action we have a short video clip for you here Man Dies After Roach-eating Contest.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Runners marry during marathon in Oregon --*
PORTLAND, Ore. - Two old friends who reconnected during the Portland Marathon in Oregon five years ago held their wedding at the 20-mile mark of this year's race. Katie Holmes and Eric Johansson, friends who began dating and had a son after getting together at the 20-mile mark of the marathon five years ago, said they decided to wed Thursday after running the first 20 miles side by side, KPTV, Portland, reported Monday. Holmes was dressed in white with a veil-bearing baseball cap while Johansson ran by her side in a Dri-Fit tuxedo shirt. They stepped off the course into Columbia Park at the 20-mile mark, where they greeted their waiting family and friends. "It's wonderful, the best day," Holmes said. "Very memorable. The most memorable marathon ever, I think." The couple completed the last 6.2 miles of the marathon after completing their ceremony. "I think it'll be a little easier now," Holmes said before departing for the last leg of the run. "I've got a little adrenaline going through my body right now."

*-- Juggler accidentally burns props --*
CHESTERTON, Ind. - Firefighters in Indiana said a juggler using lit torches accidentally set fire to his props at a public park. The Chesterton Fire Department said Aaron Rossetti, 36, was practicing his juggling Saturday night at Thomas Centennial Park when the burning portion of a lit torch broke off and landed on the table where he was keeping his props -- which included an open can of camping fuel, The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana, Merrillville, Ind., reported Tuesday. Rossetti told police the can of fuel caused his props -- which were mostly made of plastic -- to ignite, so he threw them to the ground, where the fire spread to the rest of his props. He said the plastic melted into the park's paving stones. Firefighters responded and extinguished the flames.

*-- READER COMMENTS --*
About the man that a-salted his wife with a sandwich; was that a club sandwich? Certainly not a hero sandwich. That Po-boy! One food fight and the police gets jalapeno business with pepper spray! I'll stop here and not mention the bread it's going to cost him...
[Or all the salad tossing he is going to have to do in jail.]

When I lived in Tennessee they passed the "road kill" law which made it legal to take anything you hit on the road home and consume. Apparently the Governor was tired of seeing all the "waste" on the side of the road. -Brenda

We should have Big Bird for President. He would be completely bipartisan. He is richer than Mitt Romney which should make him perfect for Republicans. And he is on welfare which should make him perfect for Democrats. -John
[If Romney gets into office he is going to cut Big Bird's funding...so there goes his welfare.]

Hello Lewis: Back in the 1980s I hit a deer on the highway driving my 1976 Chrysler to bible study. The guys with me said stop and pick up the deer. I did not stop. Now here in 2012 I have learned that the leader of the bible study had a butcher shop in his barn as he killed and butchered his own cattle and anything he hunted. -J T
[If God did not want us to eat animals He would not have made them out of meat. And if He did not want us to eat road kill He would not have made the '76 Chrysler.]

*-- END OF READER COMMENTS --*
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