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Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old boy from Worcester, Massachusetts, died after attempting the One Chip Challenge. The One Chip Challenge is a popular challenge in which you eat an extremely spicy chip (made by the brand Paqui) and wait as long as you can before drinking anything.
At around 4:30 p.m. on Sep 1st, 2023, first responders received a call concerning the 14-year-old. When they got to his house, they found him unresponsive and not breathing. At the hospital, he was pronounced dead.
The brand Paqui sells these chips and they come in individual packaging for roughly $10.00. The chip is made with two of the world’s hottest peppers, the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper. The Carolina Reaper is currently one of the world’s hottest. The chip comes in a coffin-shaped package which hints to its extreme spiciness. The label on the packaging states that the chip is meant for adults only and children should not come into contact with the chip.
A spokeswoman for Paqui, Kim Metcalf, said that the company was “deeply saddened” by Harris’s death, and “express[ed] our condolences to the family.” The chip is supposed to be off the shelves by now but a reporter in Boston said he found a chip in a store 10 minutes away from Harris’s school. On Amazon, the chip is not available but there are similar products using the same peppers. The autopsy report hasn’t been completed yet but hopefully, it will give Harris’s grieving family answers.
Have you ever tried this challenge? If you haven’t, don’t do it.
Eloise Hubbard • Nov 29, 2023 at 3:57 pm
Wow never doing that.
Molly McDermott • Nov 27, 2023 at 2:32 pm
yeah
Charlie T. 6th grade • Nov 13, 2023 at 9:24 pm
Many kids at my school had to go home from school from eating the chip, 1 even went to the hospital. Now at my elementray the 1 chip challenge is banned!
Sydney Levy • Oct 31, 2023 at 2:23 pm
I’ve heard about that before its so crazy