Man dies after eating 28 raw eggs for bet

Why?

http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/man-dies-after-eating-28-raw-eggs-for-bet/story-e6frflri-1226543889484

Yeah, I know it’s hard to diagnose from afar - he’s in a different continent than most of us.

However. People eat large amounts of food all the time. Contests, free buffet, July 4th, you name it. 28 eggs is a decent volume, but not 68 hot dogs and buns, or even a 72oz - or larger - steak.

Is it the yolks? Cause this guy can drink some fookin eggs right down. Then another 40 scrambled later in the day. And this lunkhead puts 50 away, and seems to have survived.

Pre-existing condition of some kind? Food poisoning? This is Tunisia, after all.

Maybe he forgot to crack open the shells.

Sounds like the yolk’s on him.

It really doesn’t sound related, does it? 28 raw eggs is somewhat gross, but not a HUGE amount of intake by any stretch. It would be like eating a half gallon of ice cream. No big whoop.

Maybe they were ostrich eggs.

I saw this story on another wire last week I think it was. I had the same question then, did he eat the shells, too? I could see the shells causing a perforation. It’s not obvious from how the story is worded and it’s no clearer a week later (or however long ago that was).

When I was a lad I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.
Now that I’m grown I eat 5 dozen eggs so I’m roughly the size of a barge!

Gaston ate 'em shells and all, whole, raw. This guy was a wimp if he died after just 2 dozen (and change)!

I swear, any time I hear about someone eating raw eggs, I picture that scene. Gaston eating raw eggs, then someone ties a belt around his neck and he flexes his neck muscles and snaps it.

I’ve had 20 [cooked] eggs in one day… this guy is a lightweight

Someone once dared me to eat 12 dozen eggs, but I refused.
12 dozen would just be gross.

I think 12 dozen would be terrible for you… shesh, even 10 dozen, 120 would be very unpleasant

Twelve dozen is equal to 144 eggs… assuming approximately 74 calories per egg, that comes to 10,656 calories!

Unpleasant indeed!

The guy who ate the cockroaches and later died (for another competition), died because he vomited the roaches and sadly aspirated it and died. The vomit went to the wrong pipe, it went to his lungs, and he died by asphyxia.

I wonder if something similar happened here. Large amounts of food eaten quickly, the stomach revolted, and the person sadly asphyxiated in his own mixture of gastric juices and partially digested eggs.

I believe you have both been whooshed…

Thank you, Pitchmeister.

Haha I knew what a gross was… hence why I posted just how bad it would be to eat that many eggs!

I can eat 50 eggs.

What we’ve got here is a failure to rescusitate.

Do you know how surprised I would be to find out that over consumption of alcohol was involved in this event?

Not even a tiny bit.

This never would have happened in France. The French know one egg is un oeuf.