Man dies after eating extra-hot chilli peppers
The majority of us have, at some point, been dared to eat hot foods that have resulted in burned taste buds, fateful post-digestion trips to the bathroom and eventually, extreme anguish and generally feeling rather ill.
A British forklift driver and aspiring chef met a fate much worse when he recently died after eating a large portion of chili sauce. Andrew Lee, 33, had just passed a workplace medical exam when he challenged his friend to a chili-eating contest.
To prepare for the contest and get some practice in, he ate a plate of pasta laden with chili sauce created from extra-hot peppers specially grown by his father. Afterwards he complained of itchy skin to his girlfriend and then went to bed to try to sleep the discomfort off, the next morning he could not be awoken, having apparently succumbed to a cardiac arrest.
Lee’s sister believes that the chili was the hottest her brother had ever made, but was still in shock. “Who would have thought he could have died from eating chili sauce?” she said. “We don’t know of anything else that could have caused his death.” What are you views on this, do you really think Lee died from eating too many extra-hot chilli peppers, or do you think there were other factors that contributed to his death?
Posted: November 18th, 2008 under Weird But True.
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