So, who likes tacos?

[mtrawls]

I'm suprised I haven't seen a thread about this (did several searches). But, I'm just waking up after leaving VCU early, due to food poisioning. I know I saw a lot of people getting sick after eating the tacos at the Science Museum, and 5 or so people on our team were up all night in the bathrooms (severe vomiting, etc.) -- two of which (me included) had to go to the hospital sometime around 1 am. We lost most of our operating team and even some backups! And I obviously couldn't do some critical programming in my condition. It was a very unfortunate situation, that at least hurt my team ...

So, how many of you have horror stories similar to this? Believe me, food poisioning is not a pretty thing ... and three people in 1 room with food poisioning ... well, you get the idea

[Munkaboo]

Originally Posted by mtrawls

I'm suprised I haven't seen a thread about this (did several searches). But, I'm just waking up after leaving VCU early, due to food poisioning. I know I saw a lot of people getting sick after eating the tacos at the Science Museum, and 5 or so people on our team were up all night in the bathrooms (severe vomiting, etc.) -- two of which (me included) had to go to the hospital sometime around 1 am. We lost most of our operating team and even some backups! And I obviously couldn't do some critical programming in my condition. It was a very unfortunate situation, that at least hurt my team ...

So, how many of you have horror stories similar to this? Believe me, food poisioning is not a pretty thing ... and three people in 1 room with food poisioning ... well, you get the idea

I guess it's assumed everyone knows about it...


I don't think it was food poisoning, it's something called the Nova Virus, it was on the news (us getting infected and all).


I think the majority of people who got sick were those who went to the school of engineering. I base this on the fact that one of our drivers went (the only one on the team who went) and he's the only one who got sick. It might've been the sandwiches they were giving out there. All I have to say is I am VERY glad I did not get it. He was hardcore about it too, he continued with us throughout the day, I think he threw up 8 times in total, it got to the point where he just laughed about it. We even brought a bag with us to the drivers station and I was drilled on how to operate the secondary controls in case I had to take control.

[Alex Salomonsky]

Everyone on my team ate the tacos and no one got sick, but none of us went to the school of engineering social, so maybe munkaboo is right.

But just to be safe, I won't go to Taco Bell for a few days until they find the true source

[Joe Matt]

Hell, I'm sick with the flu-like symptoms, and I didn't go to the Engineering thing. I think FIRST is going to have some bad problems with this.

Needless to say, I'm not a huge fan of the Baja Bean Company anymore.

[MissInformation]

The verdict right now is that is a virus, not food poisoning. One of our parents got sick and Wetzel is sick, according to his brother, they are keeping him in the hospital overnight. To my knowledge, Wetzel did not attend the team social or the dinner at the engineering school. I suspect more people may get sick over the next couple of days, I know we saw a worker cleaning up a big mess as we left the competition to come home today...

Heidi

[Marygrace]

I remember when I lived in Vegas I heard a story on the news where a lady ate a breakfast burrito at Taco Bell and there were cockroach eggs in it, (DOnt ask me how, i dunno, jus passin on info) One day her cheek started to swell, and get infected. Turns out, the eggs were maturing in her cheek. This lady was either a full out liar, or needs to learn how to figure out whether or not her food is actually food...i think most of us would be able to tell whether or not we are munchin on cockroach eggs. YUCK!!!!!!

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Marygrace

I remember when I lived in Vegas I heard a story on the news where a lady ate a breakfast burrito at Taco Bell and there were cockroach eggs in it, (DOnt ask me how, i dunno, jus passin on info) One day her cheek started to swell, and get infected. Turns out, the eggs were maturing in her cheek. This lady was either a full out liar, or needs to learn how to figure out whether or not her food is actually food...i think most of us would be able to tell whether or not we are munchin on cockroach eggs. YUCK!!!!!!

That's an urban legend.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by MissInformation

The verdict right now is that is a virus, not food poisoning. One of our parents got sick and Wetzel is sick, according to his brother, they are keeping him in the hospital overnight. To my knowledge, Wetzel did not attend the team social or the dinner at the engineering school. I suspect more people may get sick over the next couple of days, I know we say a worker cleaning up a big mess as we left the competition to come home today...

Heidi

Please send Jeff my wishes for a speedy recovery.

In fact, I hope everyone is feeling better soon! Random illness, especially when you're away from home, is the worst.

[MisterX]

Originally Posted by Munkaboo

I guess it's assumed everyone knows about it...


I don't think it was food poisoning, it's something called the Nova Virus, it was on the news (us getting infected and all).

I think it could be bioterrriorism with Alqeada trying to destroy AMERICA's FURTURE ENGINEERS!!!!!

But, seriously I am sorry to hear about this happening to y'all. I know what a pain it is to have food poisoning ( or whatever it is) but that is just one person it gets absolutly nasty when a whole group gets it (but you all know that now...)

Could somebody put up a link of the news article I would like to find out more about what happened.

I wish you all a speedy recovery and hope you enjoyed VCU of what you could.

[MrsT]

A lady gathered info about the sick & distributed info about the hearty gastro-somthing virus that they suspect is causing the problem. It is fast spreading & she reccomended using the waterless hand sanitizer.....I ran across the street to the store as the Canadian team got the last bottle. lol

About a third of our team threw-up in the last 15 hours...fun trip home on the bus!

Otherwise the Regional was great!! Eliminations were exciting. Robodogs(435) got the well-deserved Chairman's Award & their advisor Debbie Kellogg got the Volunteer Award. The Killer Bee's (33) ball sucker & human player were not to be believed!

We didn't do as well as we'd hoped....but we'll get 'em at Chesapeake

Lisa T

[Mike8519]

I heard taco...

But seriously though, that is pretty bad. Especially in the middle of a regional, that must have hurt a bunch of teams who ate the bad bunch of tacos. I would expect a n-gage to get people sick, but at a science museum, who would suspect a bunch of bad meat. Sounds like a fairly large portion of FIRST participants suffered some rather nasty stomach torture. That really sucks

[kjohnson]

10 of our 26 members got sick Friday night. We all went to the School of Engineering and to the Science Museum but not everyone got sick. We don't think it was the food anymore (sandwiches or tacos) because almost all of our team ate and everyone didn't get sick. And Sparky said that they had some people sick before we went to the museum. I think everyone being in the museum together helped spread it around. I never got sick but our shooter did. We kept moving our driver to different rooms to keep him from getting it and he never did.

Other than that, VCU was prety fun, except for the high-priced food...

[Koko Ed]

I remember last year when the SARS outbreak was making the news and I was wondering if it would effect the competition if it spread worldwide (thankfully, it never quite got to that level). Any kind of contagious illness at such a social event would be disaterous.
Hopefully this will be the last we see of something like this, and any, season.

[Adam Y.]

I remember when I lived in Vegas I heard a story on the news where a lady ate a breakfast burrito at Taco Bell and there were cockroach eggs in it, (DOnt ask me how, i dunno, jus passin on info) One day her cheek started to swell, and get infected. Turns out, the eggs were maturing in her cheek. This lady was either a full out liar, or needs to learn how to figure out whether or not her food is actually food...i think most of us would be able to tell whether or not we are munchin on cockroach eggs. YUCK!!!!!!

Dam that is something for the Mythbusters to figure out.

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Dam that is something for the Mythbusters to figure out.

That same story is in one of the old "Scary Stories" books, but it was a spider, not a roach. I think the VCU stuff was a bug, but not a bug with legs if ya get what I'm trying to say.