New Hampshire's Republican governor, Chris Sununu, recently helped rescue a man who began choking during a lobster roll eating contest.
On the weekend, the annual Hampton Beach Seafood Festival The location is near Hampton, New Hampshire, a town of about 16,000 people located along the Atlantic coast just north of Massachusetts.
“Joey Chestnut, I've let you down.”
On Sunday, the festival hosted a lobster roll eating contest, which Nashua resident and competitive eater novice Christian Moreno decided to participate in.
As the contestants munched on their lobster rolls, Moreno suddenly began signaling that something was wrong. WMUR-TVHe leaned forward and began to smack himself repeatedly on the chest.
Seconds later, Governor Sununu, who was apparently nearby, noticed Moreno's distress and ran onto the stage to help.
“I started saying, 'He's choking, he's choking,' and I could see that people were not responding,” the governor told WMUR-TV. “So I stepped forward and I quickly started administering kind of the Heimlich maneuver to him.”
Sununu stabbed Moreno in the abdomen at least four times before Emergency personnel arrive at the scene Eventually the strange piece was removed from his trachea.
Apparently a fierce competitor, Moreno quickly got back in the running and, according to Sununu, downed several more lobster rolls before the time was up.
“He went right back in, it was unbelievable,” Sununu said. “Then he ate seven lobster rolls, down to the back of his throat.”
Unfortunately, those seven rolls were not enough and the other contestants Chris Thurston The Somersworth player won the first place prize of $600.
Moreno also doesn't know who the rescuer is. Incident It's over.
“The guy at my counter came up to me and he was joking and he said, 'Oh my gosh, no one can tell you that I've ever received the Heimlich maneuver from the governor,' and I looked at him and I thought, 'Oh, that was the governor,'” he recalled.
“To my surprise, it was the governor who first realised what was actually going on.”
Moreno and Sununu reunited after the event and posed for several photos together, including a humorous reenactment of the choking scene. Moreno posted the photo on his Facebook account The message read: “Joey Chestnut, I'm sorry I let you down.”
Another Facebook PostMoreno thanked Sununu and the emergency responders for saving his life and warned viewers, “Everyone, remember to chew your food well.”
He also insisted to WMUR-TV that he will compete again next year.
“I'm 100% there for redemption.”
However, after four terms as governor, Sununu, 49, will not run for governor again, announcing in July that he would not seek reelection, The New York Post reported.
“Can I win again? Of course. But [public] “The service needs someone else to take over,” he said in June.
The Blaze-News has reached out to the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the seafood festival, for comment.
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