The flava:Over a year after 20-year-old Sacred Heart University student Caitlin Nelson died from choking in a charity pancake-eating contest on campus, her family is suing the school for her alleged wrongful death.
Rosanne Nelson filed a lawsuit against Sacred Heart University on Monday in Superior Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut over the death of her daughter.
The lawsuit alleges that Sacred Heart was at fault for allowing the pancake-eating contest to happen, claiming that the university “failed to investigate the safety of a pancake eating contest before granting approval” and did not have “adequate and appropriate medical personnel” who could respond to a choking at the contest. . . .
The article:
https://people.com/food/caitlin-nelson-death-sacred-heart-university-pancake-eating-contest-lawsuit/
America seems so peculiar sometimes: contests to see who can eat a hundred hot dogs the fastest, who can eat the most pancakes, who can swim through a big tub of maggots on national television, which football players can slam their heads against other people the hardest, who can haze their closest friends to the point of almost killing them--or actually killing them.
ReplyDeleteBy comparison, my life is pretty "dull." And I'm ok with that.
...and yet no contests to see who can fill the most food trays at the shelter or give away the most blankets....
ReplyDeleteAnd that would be for the same reason that financial-aid resources get poured out on athletes who are supremely unprepared for college, rather than on the truly promising students who really need the help. The purpose of college is entertainment, didn't you know?
ReplyDeleteIn the context of traumas (previous post) a dull life at Batshit U is all I really want. I'm more than OK with dullness.
ReplyDeleteI've never understood eating contests...never saw / heard of them growing up in the UK.