You can love them too much...
By Jo Best
Published: 11 October 2004 13:45 GMT
Apple's iPods are this year's gadget of choice for techies and consumers alike - and some people are so desperate to get their hands on the music players they're prepared to eat cockroaches.
A contest staged in New York offered locals a chance to win an iPod by eating the most insects with their hands tied behind their back. The winner managed to eat one more bug than his closest rival, according to local paper The Journal News, swallowing 13 of the oven-cooked creepy crawlies.
While winner Shai Pariente reportedly enjoyed the polishing off the pests - telling the paper: "They were good... I'd eat them again" - and got to pocket several hundred dollars' worth of iPod into the bargain, the third place contestant wasn't so lucky. After necking two of the creatures, she withdrew from the contest in order to vomit.
The contest was organised to promote the IMAX film A Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D.
Must have taken them ages to prepare the insects.....
Anonymous
ecat!
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Bet that was easier than going through "freeipods....
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