Damn, what a waste of good ganj! http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2235422 Man chokes to death trying to hide bag of pot in mouth Associated Press FORT WORTH -- A man changing a flat tire choked to death on a bag of mar1juana he stuffed down his throat in an apparent attempt to hide it from police who stopped to help him early today. Cpl. Frank Lott of the Corinth Police Department said officers had no idea Nickolas Sandoval, 24, of Ponder, had drugs when they spotted him on Interstate 35E in Corinth, about 45 miles northeast of Fort Worth. "Officers went from 'Oh, hey, here is someone with a flat tire' to 'Hey, this guy is choking,'" Lott told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for its online edition today. Officers noticed a plastic bag lodged in the man's throat, but it was too far down for them to extract. They kept trying to dislodge it until an ambulance arrived, and medical personnel were able to remove it, Lott said. Sandoval was pronounced dead at Denton Regional Medical Center about 3:30 a.m., said Linda Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office. The cause of death has been ruled as "asphyxiation due to aspiration of plastic bag," she said. Sandoval had been convicted in Denton County of multiple counts of mar1juana possession, a Class B misdemeanor, between September 1999 and December 2001, court records show. He pleaded guilty to the charge in September 1999 and received a deferred adjudication sentence after 12 months of probation. In August 2000, he pleaded no contest to another mar1juana possession charge and was sentenced to 40 days in jail. In December 2001, he was convicted of possession of mar1juana and sentenced to 95 days in jail. Also in December 2001, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to another 95 days in jail.
Whoa...this guy had so much pot that he couldn't inhale. Doesn't he know to stick it in the other end?
I can't figure out if this is as stupid as choking to death on marihuana or worse. Man dies after winning vodka-drinking contest Wed 19 November, 2003 13:43 MOSCOW (Reuters) - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care. "The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk. "Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink." Popov said the director of the shop organising this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 litres of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time. Russians drink the equivalent of 15 litres of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.
Wow, the pot choker incident happened just a few miles down I-35 from me. I could possibly have passed by him on my way home from work when that was going on...
