Updated list of eating / drinking contest deaths

updated Dec 12, 2009

1983 North Carolina Marine dies in donut eating contest at the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station
1999 Chicago, a 12 year old school girl dies playing “Chubby Bunny” in an unsupervised classroom. The goal of “Chubby Bunny” is to say “Chubby Bunny” after stuffing one’s mouth with as many marshmallows as possible.
2002 Japan, school boy dies in cafeteria after attempting a stunt seen on a televised eating contest.
2004 Canada man dies after choking in chicken wing eating contest held at Regina bar.
2004 Japan, housewife dies in bread eating contest in Fukusaki, Hyogo Prefecture
2006 Canada, woman dies in “Chubby Bunny” contest held at Ontario fair
2007 Sacramento, woman dies of water intoxication after competing in a bladder endurance contest sponsored by a radio station.
2007 India, man (believed to be epileptic) dies from breathing complications in an idli eating contest
2008 Wales, man dies in unplanned post party cupcake contest to use up left over buffet food. Articles about the contest do not make it clear if the contest was a mouth-stuffing contest or a speed eating contest
2008 Taiwan graduate student dies after victory in a steamed bun eating contest
2008 India, engineer at Nokia Siemens of India chokes after making a pastry eating bet at a company party.
2009 Kaliningrad, Russia Boris Isaev chokes in pancake eating contest
2009 Hyderabad, India Bandu Joshi dies after stuffing 6 laddus into his mouth

Of the above 13 deaths, 7 (Russia, India 2007 & 2009, Japan, Regina, Taiwan, North Carolina) occurred in scheduled conventional eating contests. It is not mentioned what medical personnel was on site at those events.

Comments (4)

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  1. anonymous said

    October 26, 2008 @ 10:28 am

    The question is , do the Sheas truly care about your personal well being when they prohibit you from performing stunts on your own or is all about protecting their interests? Please don’t take the easy way out and say it’s both. It’s either one or the other

  2. Pat From Moonachie said (Registered December 10, 2005)

    October 26, 2008 @ 10:58 am

    <–pours out some egg nog for his Homies 🙁

  3. Pat From Moonachie said (Registered December 10, 2005)

    October 26, 2008 @ 11:01 am

    ..Did I say “pour”? ..I mean’t “Puke”! 😉

  4. "Tiny" said (Registered March 5, 2008)

    October 26, 2008 @ 1:55 pm

    Looks like “Chubby Bunny” is the CE version of russian roulette.
    Thats awesome….. We should turn that into a drinking game………… Or not.

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