Taiwanese student dies in steamed bun contest
The Taipei Times has sad news about a steamed bun eating contest:
An eating contest at a local university ended in tragedy on Wednesday when a graduate student died after participating in a steamed bun eating competition.
Huang Te-hsiang (黃德祥), dean of the student affairs office of Dayeh University in Changhua, said yesterday that a 23-year-old student, surnamed Chen, from the Graduate Institute of Bioindustry Technology could not stop vomiting and fell unconscious after he began to feel uncomfortable during the school’s eating competition on Wednesday.
update ETaiwanNews has more information. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
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Rhonda Evans said
October 23, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
That is sad. I hope it doesn’t get generalised to other countries / CE venues.
Anonymous said
October 23, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
My heart goes out to anyone who passes at such a young age, but I have to wonder, did they have an EMT or any precautionary plan in place? You also have to wonder what will be the fall out from this. Because with people like Brad going out and doing insane stunts (especially with a pre-existing condition). We as eaters may unfortunatly have to weather this exact storm.
jumby said (Registered April 10, 2008)
October 23, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
thats really sad 🙁
North Pole said (Registered April 28, 2008)
October 24, 2008 @ 8:38 am
Wow, that’s pretty sad.