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Family Sues After California Man Dies in Taco-Eating Contest
New York Post ^ | April 6, 2021 | Jackie Salo

Posted on 04/06/2021 1:20:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The family of a California man who died in a taco-eating contest is taking legal action against the event’s organizers — claiming their negligence led him to choke to death.

Marshall Hutchings, 18, alleges in a suit filed Monday that his father, Dana Hutchings, 41, was not made aware of the risks and danger associated with the competition at a Fresno Grizzlies game, the Fresno Bee reported

The elder Hutchings had not participated in any similar events before he entered the amateur competition on Aug. 13, 2019, at Chukchansi Park, the suit argues.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: california; competitiveeating; lawsuits; searchtaco
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To: nickcarraway

Good idea, scarf down as many tacos as fast as possible as they explode into jagged sharp shrapnel when chewed.


21 posted on 04/06/2021 1:45:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Seruzawa
UG ! Why would you post that ?
22 posted on 04/06/2021 1:45:55 PM PDT by A strike (Just Say No to North Mexico )
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To: SamAdams76

Perfectly fried, hot and salty, thin French fries would be my undoing. But I get filled up pretty quick and need a nap.


23 posted on 04/06/2021 1:46:06 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: nickcarraway

This is some ambulance chaser who found an 18 year old kid who lost his father in a stupid endeavor and sees a chance to make a buck. This is “double-stupid”: 1) stupid that the sponsor didn’t get a liability waiver, and 2) stupid that the man even entered the contest.+


24 posted on 04/06/2021 1:46:44 PM PDT by econjack
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To: nickcarraway

when the bell tolls...


25 posted on 04/06/2021 1:47:05 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: nickcarraway
California man

Interesting.

26 posted on 04/06/2021 1:50:54 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SamAdams76

My Italian friend would take a big whole sardine, like 5 inches long (or bigger), put olive oil, salt and pepper on it, hold it above his head and chow it down. I couldn’t do it..the raw head and tail were not edible to me! (let alone everything else) Maybe you should amend your statement saying you would win a canned sardine eating contest. Those things wouldn’t fit in a can. Still don’t know he did it, but them EYE-talians don’t play at chow time!!


27 posted on 04/06/2021 1:50:58 PM PDT by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: Mopp4

It’s a CAPTCHA that you enter on his face to show you are not a robot


28 posted on 04/06/2021 1:51:59 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: nickcarraway

And ignorant suits like this are why this country is screwed up.


29 posted on 04/06/2021 1:52:37 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I was thinking maybe hard-shelled tacos. You try to wolf those down without chewing, and you could definitely choke.


30 posted on 04/06/2021 1:53:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SamAdams76

My wife keeps trying to get me to try “new flavors” like in tomato paste or water or different oil. Just gimme the Moroccan in Olive Oil thank you very much. I’ll eat the skin and bones too but usually get the skinless and boneless. Trader Joe has some at a reasonable price, big in size but a little too dry compared to the Crown Prince.


31 posted on 04/06/2021 1:55:27 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Seruzawa

Are those leeches, or does she just need a shower?


32 posted on 04/06/2021 1:58:46 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: SamAdams76

I am a foody snob, and admit it. I love to cook. I read cook books for fun. I go to the best places I snoop out on Yelp. I spend too much on ingredients. That said, one of the best things I ever found, food related, was 20 years ago, when I was just starting to cook. I think it was in a Bon Appetite
mag and it looked just wierd enough to try. Good Jewish Rye, toasted, fancy sardines, Russian dressing, red onion, slivers of cabbage and some capers. I will never forget how good that was, and I am picky! I made that for a while and now can’t look at a sardine in the eye. Those spines gross me out now.


33 posted on 04/06/2021 1:58:52 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: carriage_hill

Yes. Leeches.


34 posted on 04/06/2021 1:59:24 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Boogieman

Good point. The Dumbo son and the ambulance chaser might win...see the elderly woman that spilled the hot, hot, hot McCafe on her giblets. Settlement. $60,000 to the idjit son, $40,000 to scum bag lawyer.


35 posted on 04/06/2021 2:03:32 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: gr8eman

Canned sardines for sure. They cook them right in their bones but at that temperature, the spines are very edible.


36 posted on 04/06/2021 2:27:40 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: econjack

Yep. Happened in 2019, kid’s now suing.


37 posted on 04/06/2021 2:29:47 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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To: nickcarraway

How sad. Florida man would never do some stunt like this.


38 posted on 04/06/2021 2:30:45 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Mopp4

Chief something?
Mainey I think, but probably wrong.


39 posted on 04/06/2021 2:38:08 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“...Choking on hot dogs is a serious risk.”

Kamala issued a public service announcement saying this should only be done by pro’s.


40 posted on 04/06/2021 3:02:34 PM PDT by PTBAA
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