Man Chokes on Fish
<i> Associated Press</i>
BAYOU VISTA, La. —
A man who popped a friend’s 6-inch tropical fish into his mouth as a joke died when it got stuck in his throat.
Steven Hill Epperson, 36, was dead on arrival at a hospital Sunday. He put the Jack Dempsey fish in his mouth at his friend’s house, and it became wedged in his airway.
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