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Title: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: 240B on December 28, 2012, 06:31:02 pm
By Sara Malm
PUBLISHED: 14:56 EST, 27 December 2012 | UPDATED: 14:56 EST, 27 December 2012
Tunisian man died after eating 28 raw eggs in one go for a bet.

Dhaou Fatnassi, 20, allegedly wagered a friend he could eat 30 raw eggs in a row, for which he would receive an undisclosed sum.
Mr Fatnassi, from Kairouan in north-east Tunisia, managed 28 eggs before he collapsed with severe stomach pains.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253888/Man-dies-eating-28-raw-eggs-bet.html#ixzz2GNASP1tK
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 28, 2012, 07:03:12 pm
Doesn't seem right...  28 is a lot but to keel over and croak?
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: 240B on December 28, 2012, 07:14:31 pm
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on December 28, 2012, 07:03:12 pm
Doesn't seem right...  28 is a lot but to keel over and croak?

Yeah, I know. Maybe the eggs were poisoned? The article mentioned salmonella, but that takes like 24 hours to develop, from what I hear.

Something doesn't seem quite right. I can see him throwing up, but to just keel over and die? There had to be something else in play here.

Twenty eight eggs is not lethal. You couldn't kill a condemned prisoner by force feeding him 28 eggs.
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 28, 2012, 07:35:20 pm
He may have gagged and asphyxiated???
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: truth_seeker on December 28, 2012, 07:40:39 pm
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate"

Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: 240B on December 28, 2012, 07:47:51 pm
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on December 28, 2012, 07:35:20 pm
He may have gagged and asphyxiated???

I think the article is leaving out that the other guy shot him once he got 28 so he wouldn't have to pay up.
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on December 28, 2012, 09:18:01 pm
Darwin Award candidate.
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: mountaineer on December 28, 2012, 11:44:59 pm
(http://johnrieber.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/eating-eggs.jpg)
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: Allegra on December 29, 2012, 12:43:26 am
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on December 28, 2012, 07:35:20 pm
He may have gagged and asphyxiated???

Could be, if he was speed-eating. 

Otherwise, the story on face value doesn't make much sense.
Title: Re: Man, 20, dies after eating 28 raw eggs in a row for a bet
Post by: happyg on December 29, 2012, 12:05:13 pm
Maybe he practised the day before. Or perhaps he ate them with the shell intact? 28 eggs are a lot, and he could have regurgitated, or extended his stomach so much it began bleeding. I wouldn't eat one raw egg, and can't stomach them sunny-side up, either.