Tufts Lacrosse Player Madie Nicpon Dies After Choking In Charity Hot Dog-Eating Contest

[marmar]

A Tufts University lacrosse player choked to death in a charity hot dog-eating contest over the weekend, according to reports.

Madie Nicpon, a 20-year-old junior described by friends as a generous teammate who planned a career in medicine, was competing with other students in the “Play for Pink” breast cancer awareness fundraiser at an off-campus home in Somerville, Massachusetts, Saturday when the accident happened, a friend told NewsCenter 5.

First responders performed “extensive lifesaving procedures,” Tufts said in a statement. Nicpon was pronounced dead a day later at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emails from school administrators confirmed her death, the Tufts Daily school newspaper reported. Around 3,000 gathered Sunday for a memorial at the Gantcher Center and mourners made their way to the lacrosse field, where candles were placed around Nicpon’s lacrosse jerseys, the school paper noted. ...........(more)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tufts-lacrosse-hot-dog-eating-contest_n_61713333e4b010d9330cd00c?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How awful.

[hlthe2b]

2. I hate these eating contests. If those participating really understood the damage done to their body

and the short- and long-term risks that result, I think they'd be banned.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. So that's what happened. WBZ was talking about this. All they'd say at the time was that

the accident did not involve a motor vehicle.

That's awful.

[Tanuki]

4. This is so sad. As a reminder, hot dogs pose a high choking hazard

and account for 17% of choking incidents in young children. The shape makes them a perfect "cork" to fatally block the airway. You can reduce the risk by slicing the hot dog lengthwise.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/a-dangerously-tasty-treat-the-hot-dog-is-a-choking-hazard%3famp=true

[harumph]

5. That's terrible.

Those hotdog eating contests are dangerous.

[RussBLib]

6. maybe this will put a crimp in this absurd "tradition"

a salute to gluttony

people wonder why ericans are so fat?

an ode to excess

[janterry]

7. I remember someone else dying

in a water drinking thing.

Very sad for this family - such a great loss

[pinkstarburst]

8. This is so sad

Every time I read about another person choking and dying at an eating contest, I really wish this particular tradition would be retired. Very dangerous. Such a lovely young person lost.

[Peregrine Took]

9. I'm amazed this doesn't happen more often.

Terrible way to go...I was at an event where someone choked.

[kcr]

13. 4 years ago

in Connecticut, a college student died in a pancake eating contest. It was for a charity for child abuse prevention. Colleges should ban them.

[MagickMuffin]

10. Whatever happen to bake sales for fundraising?

There are so many other ways to raise money than having people stuff their mouths full of food.


Bake Sales

Auctions

Candy Drives

Car Washes



Just a few I grew up with.

[RobinA]

11. Not "Entertaining" Enough

by today's standards. The way I'm seeing it, vulgarity is gold standard these days (see Trump).

[Champp]

12. Women swallowing hot dogs for breast cancer donations?

[Liberal In Texas]

14. These hot dog eating contests need to stop.

I've always thought seeing some video on the local news that this was something I would never want to stand around and watch let alone participate in.

What a terrible thing to happen to this young woman.