Walter Eagle Tail, a 47-year-old competitive eater DIED during a hot dog eating competition in South Dakota, USA on July 3rd. He died after choking on one of the hot dogs.
Walter was participating in a 4th of July weekend contest when witnesses say he began to choke. Paramedics were called to the scene to help but they were too late; he was already dead
Custer County Sheriff Rick Wheeler told the Rapid City Journal, "There was someone doing CPR when we arrived. Basically, he probably just suffocated. It got lodged in his throat and they couldn't get it out." "It all happened within minutes," Wheeler added.
In the wake of Walter Tail's death, event organizers cancelled a pie eating contest scheduled to take place the following day.
Competitive eating contests are popular in the US during fairs and festivities.
In the same weekend thatTail died, hot-dog eating world-record holder Joey "Jaws" Chestnut managed to eat 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes, eight short of his record, at an annual contest in Brooklyn's Coney Island.
sources: tmz.com and ibtimes.co.uk
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