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103-Year-Old Hong Kong Man Dies After Passing Out While Eating Chocolate Cake
AsiaOne ^ | FEBRUARY 10, 2022 | Clifford Lo

Posted on 02/11/2022 2:29:43 PM PST by nickcarraway

A 103-year-old man with a history of heart illness died in hospital early Friday (Feb 11) morning after passing out while eating a chocolate cake at his home in Hong Kong.

Emergency personnel were called to his flat on Sau Chuk Yuen Road in Kowloon City shortly before 12.30am after police received a report from his son.

An initial investigation suggested the elderly man collapsed while eating in the living room, according to police. He lived with his son, daughter-in-law and a domestic helper.

He was taken in an unconscious state to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, where he later died.

A police spokesman said the initial examination did not show any indication the man had choked. He said an autopsy would be carried out to establish the cause of death.

Separately, a four-year-old boy died after he vomited and passed out at his home in Yuen Long soon after 3am.

His mother called police, saying the boy collapsed in the family’s village house in Nam Hang Tsuen on Tai Tong Road, according to police. Officers came to scene with paramedics in tow.

He was taken unconscious to Pok Oi Hospital in the district, where he later died.

A police source said the boy had a fever on Wednesday and was given medication for it. Police said an autopsy would be conducted.


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: chocolatecake; health; homgkong
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To: skeeter

That’s what I was thinking. For a man 103 years old???!!!! UNLESS foul play was suspected. . . .


21 posted on 02/11/2022 2:48:10 PM PST by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: House Atreides

6.5 million of the 7 million people in HK have been vaccinated. If you don’t have proof of that, you cannot ride mass transit.

If you travel to HK regardless of vax status, you have to quarantine in a hotel for 3 weeks.


22 posted on 02/11/2022 2:52:44 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: nickcarraway

Obviously the jab.


23 posted on 02/11/2022 2:54:10 PM PST by ETCM
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To: nickcarraway

I want to die at 103 with my maid close by while eating chocolate cake.


24 posted on 02/11/2022 2:56:11 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember a dessert menu which featured a heavy serving called “Death by Chocolate.”

103 is better than any lesser number. RIP, old fellow.


25 posted on 02/11/2022 2:57:10 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nickcarraway

Nice way to go.


26 posted on 02/11/2022 3:06:24 PM PST by high info voter
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To: nickcarraway

Not my favorite way to pass on, but definitely in the top three . . .


27 posted on 02/11/2022 3:10:13 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: nickcarraway

“He was just getting his life together ...”


28 posted on 02/11/2022 3:24:43 PM PST by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: BraveMan

103 ways to die.


29 posted on 02/11/2022 3:25:12 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s the way I want to go.


30 posted on 02/11/2022 3:25:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Yes. An obvious case of myocarditis. Either that or he died from worms due to ban on horse dewormer.


31 posted on 02/11/2022 3:29:37 PM PST by Atticus
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To: nickcarraway

Was the cake good?
Not a bad way to go, I’m diabetic I miss cake....and Ice cream even more.


32 posted on 02/11/2022 3:32:40 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: House Atreides

It was the chocolate cake variant of covid.


33 posted on 02/11/2022 3:33:02 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: nickcarraway

So what makes this newsworthy?


34 posted on 02/11/2022 3:38:18 PM PST by Data Miner
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To: nickcarraway

So it’s a mystery to the Chinese why a 103 year old died? He was 100 and freaking three years old!


35 posted on 02/11/2022 3:39:36 PM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Must have been a heavenly cake.


36 posted on 02/11/2022 3:43:31 PM PST by Irenic
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To: nickcarraway

Who didn’t see that coming, tine to ban chocolate.........


37 posted on 02/11/2022 3:44:00 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: nickcarraway

He lived right up until he died.


38 posted on 02/11/2022 3:54:40 PM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: nickcarraway
A 103-year-old man with a history of heart illness

Huh???

39 posted on 02/11/2022 4:10:14 PM PST by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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To: silent_jonny

Aspiring rapper?


40 posted on 02/11/2022 4:12:21 PM PST by shotgun
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