{"id":654171,"date":"2010-02-04T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:14:59","slug":"boy-13-dies-after-choking-on-hot-dog-at-san-pedro-charity-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654171","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 13, dies after choking on hot dog at San Pedro charity event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said Wednesday that they were investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who choked on a hot dog during a charity event at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The boy swallowed the hot dog during a contest last Thursday and died several days later after he was taken off life support, said Sgt. Danny Contreras of the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s Harbor Division.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;It was a very unfortunate accident,&quot; said Contreras, who said detectives were conducting a death report investigation.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>He said people tried to help the boy before rescuers arrived. &quot;None of them were able to dislodge it from his throat,&quot; Contreras said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Officials from the Boys and Girls Club were not available Wednesday night for comment. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>But the executive director of the center, Mike Lansing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_14327399?source=rss\">told the Daily Breeze<\/a> that the event was organized to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Lansing said the contest was not to determine who could eat the most hot dogs. Instead, each youth ate a hot dog and bun with whipped cream on it, Lansing was quoted as saying. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Those who ate the hot dogs received a candy as a prize, according to the newspaper.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8211;Robert J. Lopez<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said Wednesday that they were investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who choked on a hot dog during a charity event at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club.The boy swallowed the hot dog during a contest last Thursday and died several days later after he was taken off life support, said Sgt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kb9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755466,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654171\/revisions\/755466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}