Man dies after live roach-eating contest in Florida

MIAMI (AP) — The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.

About 30 contestants ate the insects during Friday night's contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach about 40 miles north of Miami. The grand prize was a python.

THE ROACH - EATING CONTEST, QUITE POPULAR IN MIAMI

                            

Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach became ill shortly after the contest ended and collapsed in front of the store, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office statement released Monday. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death.

WINNER OF THE ROACH- EATING CONTEST, ARCHBOLD

                               

"Unless the roaches were contaminated with some bacteria or other pathogens, I don't think that cockroaches would be unsafe to eat," said Michael Adams, professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, who added that he has never heard of someone dying after consuming roaches. "Some people do have allergies to roaches," he said, "but there are no toxins in roaches or related insects."

None of the other contestants became ill, the sheriff's office said.

There was no updated phone number listed for Archbold in West Palm Beach.

"We feel terribly awful," said store owner Ben Siegel, who added that Archbold did not appear to be sick before the contest. "He looked like he just wanted to show off and was very nice," Siegel said, adding that Archbold was "the life of the party."

ARCHBOLD CHOKING

                      

Siegel said Archbold was selling the exotic prize to a friend who took him to the contest.

A statement from Siegel's attorney said all the participants signed waivers "accepting responsibility for their participation in this unique and unorthodox contest."

The bugs consumed were from an inventory of insects "that are safely and domestically raised in a controlled environment as food for reptiles."

MEET THE SEXIEST WOMAN ALIVE

Esquire has bestowed its annual "Sexiest Woman Alive" title on Mila Kunis.
The magazine described the actress as "the most beautiful, opinionated, talkative, and funny movie star that we've all known since she was nine."

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Kunis, 29, is known for her role on "That '70s Show" and in films like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Black Swan," "Friends with Benefits" and "Ted." She also provides the voice of Meg on "Family Guy."
"What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be," she said in an interview with the magazine. "What happens with people is they lose sight of who they are, and they become either who they want to be or who they are perceived to be."
She added, "I think that if I bought into the hype, I would lose all sight of who I am, and so much of who I am is what my parents went through and instilled in me. And I never want to lose that. Ever. Because I would be so disappointed if I didn't make them proud."

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Kunis, who appears topless (with her back facing the camera) on the Esquire cover, also discussed politics, coming to the U.S. from Ukraine when she was 8 and her feelings on living in New York and Los Angeles.
The "Oz: The Great and Powerful" actress succeeds Rihanna, who was Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" for 2011.
Kunis' interview and a video from her cover shoot can be found at the magazine's website.

Dale Carman Gets 4-inch Nail Stuck In Heart While Mowing Lawn

When it comes to bizarre injuries, Dale Carman really nailed it.

A four-inch nail penetrated his heart while he was mowing his lawn.

The painful injury happened five years ago at his home in Stony Brook, N.Y., but Carman recounts the incident on "I Was Impaled," a TV series devoted to bizarre accidents that airs Saturdays on Discovery Fit & Health.

"I had already made one run on the property and just started on the second round and something hit my chest," said Carman, 78. "I just thought, 'Well, it just threw up a stone or something,' and I kept on moving."

But Carman soon started seeing red -- literally.

"I looked down and my shirt was just covered in blood," he said. "I thought, 'Gosh, that must have been a very sharp stone, and it must have cracked a rib or broke the skin at least."

Despite having a shirt that looked like a crimson Jackson Pollack painting, Carman kept calm when he went into the house. His wife, Louisa, wasn't as placid about his plasma-covered garment.

"I got nervous," she said. "I saw a little hole in his shirt the size of a small pebble. I thought something might have penetrated his skin."

Louisa demanded Dale go to a hospital and would have preferred he take an ambulance, but he thought it was a minor issue and insisted they drive themselves. When they got to the Stony Brook Hospital emergency room, Dale's injuries didn't look serious compared to the other patients so he had to wait. This made Louisa's blood boil.

"Dale is very fit, very strong and always has been," she explained. "I said to the nurses, 'Please don't look at his chronological age; he is a very strong, fit man and he's getting weaker and weaker.'"

But her husband wasn't having any of it.

"I told her, 'Shut up! There's other people in here with sprained ankles or scratched their finger or something.' She wouldn't give up." he said.

Good thing she didn't. When he finally saw a doctor, he was sent for a CT scan and finally recognized he might be in trouble.

THE SCAN SHOWING A 4 INCH NAIL IN HIS HEART

                              

"I had to put my arms up over my head and, when it did, it felt like it was pulling my chest apart." he said.

Dale's doctor, cardiac surgeon Dr. Todd Rosengart had a sharp reaction to the scan images.

"I looked at the CT scan and there, sure enough, was something that really did not belong in anyone's heart," he said. "It looked like a spike or a nail."

Five years later, Rosengart is still floored that the nail was able to penetrate Carman's skin without any visible signs from outside.

"I didn't believe it was for real," he said.

Two hours of surgery were needed to get the spike out, but Carman survived and lived to tell the tale.

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HOW I ALMOST GOT HIT BY A TRAIN. PT 2

Hi peeps! I must say  Kryss got alittle  greedy now said I should maintain a space on his blog.

And so I gave it a thought said that’s A-Okay. And why wont it be A-Okay when I have gist for you .

 Oh plenty gist like seriously o.

Well ,I hated it when I watch the Nollywood films with part one and two and …….. Please, this is not like that I must admit that events just happened and I feel I must keep you up to date on it.

Well, remember, how I told you my dearest baby boy (my ex) dumped me after almost two years relationship and proposal. Yea sure you do remember right ? Ok ,something else happened and I couldn’t help to wonder.

I had been chatting with this friend of mine some weeks back and she was asking me GD I heard R.Kelly (In my dream right? lol .but not his real name sha) how he dumped you to marry this other chic.

At first, I felt like denying it, but seems like she was reading my mind and right there and there she said big sis don’t even bother saying anything o cos it’s a known fact o that R.Kelly dumped you to marry someone else.

I was dumfounded at how direct she was ,then I had to own up to her how it all happened .And she began to laugh and I was shocked at her unusual behavior .I then asked her why she was laughing only for her to explain to me that the other day she had been at the spa with some friends and there came my ex’s newly wedded bride . And , the  ladies gist began .

My ex-fiance  wife telling them all how her man friend (aristo) paid for her wedding , from the 2 cows bought to even the rent of the house the are now living in . And ,the man even paid their tickets to honeymoon in the Caribbean and she had to tell her husband that she used part of the money from her inheritance  to buy the tickets and pay their bills for their honeymoon.

As my younger friend began telling me ,I felt like screaming , but again I realized that what is done is done. Wow! interesting so our wife isn’t a saint as I was made to believe after all.WOW! I exclaimed and said to my friend “come don’t you think I should tell him (R.Kelly )about this “?

She jumped up as if  she was been bitten by an insect  “eeehn what do you mean , haha see this woman o?”

“ what are you talking about ,you want to tell him …….. she began to stammer.Ok that what?.That his wife is a hooker or that she is still seeing her man friend? Please , what exactly do you intend to tell him?”

I began to stutter “so what are you saying “I said.

“See if you love yourself don’t you even try it. He has made his choice and that choice isn’t you. Its not in your place to help him. When the time comes he will find out by himself, believe me.”

“Besides  ,if you tell him he will see you as a home breaker and he wont believe you” she further explained.

“Alright ,alright ,you’re right I agree with you”

Since, I found out its really been a big question on my mind and am wondering wont I be saving  the man I once claimed to love from a terrible disaster? Or  should  I just let him find out and let him too have a taste of what it felt like when he left me cold standing all alone in shame.

Lol maybe that wont be exactly a  bad idea ,what do you think?

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off northwest Mexico: USGS

LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck in the Gulf of California off the Mexican coast early on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with initial reports suggesting it caused no casualties or significant damage.

The quake was centered 57 miles southwest of Los Mochis in Sinaloa, Mexico, at a depth of 6.3 miles, USGS estimates showed.

                                                

According to Mexico's national seismology institute, the quake measured 5.7 and was centered 99 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of Ahome, Sinaloa. It struck at 1.26 a.m. EDT.

"We felt a tremor, the building shock and we went outside, that was all," said a local police officer in Los Mochis. "There is no damage to buildings and everything is normal." He knew of no injuries.

"We felt it hard, and it shook the building like we've never felt before," said Rafael Ines, an editor at Los Mochis paper El Debate. "It was a pretty hardcore shake."