Yikes, this contest was just for fun... Damn

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I'm glad you posted this, Nicole. Choking deaths from gummy candy, fluffy candy, and candy related games are sadly very common. Even the act of squirting an aerosol can of whipped cream into one's mouth is potentially dangerous. Candy needs to not be a toy, or a game ... and if that makes me a pooper, so be it. Your life or your child's life isn't worth the momentary act of "fun" of cramming marshmallows into a cavity that leads to a narrow tube that cannot accomodate both the candy, and air. Just the IDEA that marshmallows would be crammed into one's mouth cavity is appalling to me.

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If she was choking on the marshmallows, why'd she wander off as if nothing had happened? The linked article is rather sketchy.

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I wish I would choke on a marshmallow

F . T . W




HaHa

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ALL FOOD CONTESTS SHOULD BE COMPLETLY BANNED. WHEN EATING AT SUCH A FAST PACE ,IT PUTS SUCH A STRAIN ON THE (faster ) BEATING HEART. IMO, IT TAKES A FOOL TO WANT TO PUT THEMSELVES IN A POSSIBLE HEALTH DANGER, SUCH AS AN ASININE >>> (I CAN EAT MORE PRODUCT.... AND FASTER THAN YOU CAN ) CONTEST !!!
AND THE WAY THOSE MORONS LOOK AS THEY EAT....DISGUSTING !!!
HUMANS JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO TO ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES...... THIS CARNIVAL TYPE SHIT NEEDS TO STOP !!! PLAY GAMES, AND STOP THE EATING CONTESTS.

DIDN'T A CHILD DIE STUFFING MARSHMALLOWS , WHILE PLAYING THAT STUPID GAME IN SCHOOL ?? SUCH A NEEDLESS DEATH !!!!

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This does not shock me, it does not shock me because people who are foolish with the Good Lords Blessings are often taken away!

This woman tempted herself she thought she could do what she knew she shouldn't.

I'll say a little prayer because God always has his reasons, Gods plan for each of us is His plan not ours our courses were laid out long before we were born! There are no accidents in Gods Kingdom everything happens because He God designed it this way!

Nonbelievers, are here for the same reason that believers are here? Gods purpose is clear, you get to make one choice the right choice is for God the wrong choice is against God!

The punishment for the wrong choice eternal death!
The reward for the right choice Eternal Life!

Have a great day and remember the choice is yours, but the timing is Gods!

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I've always found those contests disgusting, now I see that they can also be deadly.

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WOW! 32 years old....RIDICULOUS!!!

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The article is very vague and deserves reiteration. How was she able to walk backstage and reach the point of suffocation (where she had no vital signs)? I guess we are to assume that she was choking the whole time but too embarrassed to draw attention to herself? Either way very sad ...just curious.

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I thought everyone knew that these marshmallow contests were deadly. I can't believe that someone was still holding one. This is by and far not the first people to die from it. Even children have died from this same contest!

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OMG!! Come on, she was just trying to have fun, and choked! We have all choked at one time or another in our lives! Eating contests are common!! Theres nothing like making a mountain out of a mole hill now is there?

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I was one of the paramedics on-site when this happened at our annual fair. This woman had consumed a hot coffee just prior to going on-stage to compete. She bowed out of the event before it was finished, walked backstage and was talking with someone. She sat on a chair and began to 'turn blue' if you will and then passed out from the blockage in her esophagus. The paramedics tried to suction her esophagus but it was all very sticky marshmallow. My guess is that she swallowed one/some of the mallows, then it reacted with her hot stomach contents and expanded back up her esophagus. I suppose understanding more how things work (like hot liquids, stomach acid and marshmallows react) might have helped this poor woman survive.

I think today we (society) are too cautious and are so afraid that anything might happen that we've forgotten to have a little educated fun. You can still have eating contests if people would put down their iPods long enough to educate themselves. I would still enter a Chubby Bunny contest, personally.

To each their own, I suppose.

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** That marshmellow should be given the electric s'more.

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Every time I read about an eating contest I cringe - yes, the whole idea is disgusting to me, but it's the danger that really freaks me out. Especially hot-dog eating contests! I believe hot-dogs are the #1 (food) choking hazard? I am printing this article out to read to my children so that they are never tempted to enter such a foolish contest at camp, school, wherever!

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It's sad that the woman died, but eating contests are terrible. They're just another way to waste the resources we have and could be using to feed hungry people.

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How many of us had pounded into our brains "don't talk with your mouth full". It was bad enough that such nonsense goes on but having to speak while doing it compounds the situation.

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THIS IS AMAZING, JUST UTTERLY AMAZING, YOU HAVE PEOPLE STARVING ON THE PLANET AND THIS IDIOT, CHOKES TO DEATH ON MARSHMALLOWS. WELL THIS IS ANOTHER HOLD TRUE ADAGE,, "STUFF THINGS IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOU ARE APT TO CHOKE TO DEATH" ..

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Like Cat, I also find the idea of an eating contest disgusting because it's just pure gluttony. I cringe every time I see one.

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A child at a local elemantary school, choked on a hot dog and died last week. Food is not a toy, and adults should know better, It's really sad that the this happened (in both cases). But when will we learn?

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In our swim team's scrapbook I saw a pic of our teen members playing chubby bunny ... I almost choked when I saw it! There were even pictures of police officers taking a video of the event. I immediately sent to all our membership links to articles about choking related deaths from this game and asked parents to talk to their kids about the game. I also had heard that one of our Girl Scout troops played the game at a camporee event ... I talked to the troop leader about the game and she spoke to the girls about it at their next meeting. The more in touch we are with our kids, the longer we'll have them around.

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