Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha.
Not that there’s anything funny about nut-related anaphylactic shock.
But aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Sometimes you feel like a nut!
Sometimes you’re in anaphylactic shock!
OMG I crack myself up.
I also like how when you’re talking about David Lee Roth almost dying from “a nut,” there’s the vague connotation that he entered cardiac arrest during orgasm. I considered playing on that angle, but it’s 2 am and I’m lazy.
Should I actually tell you guys the news story I’m referencing?
Okay.
Two Ontario police officers have been credited with saving the life of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth – after he suffered a severe allergic reaction.
The rocker was pulled over on a stretch of highway in Oakland, Ontario on June 8 for speeding, and when cops approached the vehicle, they realized the star was in anaphylactic shock.
Roth has an allergy to nuts and was suffering a severe reaction after coming into contact with a contaminated substance.
The officers called an ambulance and kept Roth calm until paramedics arrived on the scene.
Okay, okay, okay.
Now I’m going to get lectured about how peanut allergies are very serious things. And they most certainly are. But in the David Lee Roth context, please, you have to admit it’s kind of totally hilarious.
Update: Roth is denying that this was him, saying that it was actually an impostor and that he’s not allergic to nuts. Weird!!!
I can see the humor. A freakin nut almost killed him instead of booze and drugs.
At the same time I’m so glad hes alive. Love him. But do not love the picture of him that you posted. He looks like a molester.
I just kind of wonder how he came in contact with a “nut contaminated” substance while driving.
…HAHAHAHA OKAY I COULDN’T KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE FOR FIVE SECONDS AFTER TYPING THAT. NUT CONTAMINATION INDEED.
Oh my god, no! I would have been so gutted Beet! He’s an absolute Legend!! Funny wee face :3 but i have to agree with Kelsey on this particular picture!!!!
Take away the hair plugs and,the Just For Men Beachcomber bBonde and it’s a younger but not much Larry King. Holy Christ, Dave, you are my youth, you have to stop this immediately. Uber uncool. Take the money and run. And by run I mean get lost.
Ohhh, a NUT! *grumble*
I am terrified of that picture.
beet, peanut allergies are very serious things. (had to oblige…but seriously they even warn you on airplanes that they serve snack bags with peanuts that can get into the air from other people chewing them)
Whoa. At first glance, I thought that was Karl Lagerfeld.
I’m uber curious as to whether he’s allergic to legumes (peanuts) or tree nuts (all others). Close call!
Ignore Chris, Dave and VH. Take the money and make more. The show in Cleveland was unreal. Even without the patented DLR sreams and varsity kicks, Diamond Dave is still the man and VH is still THE band.
He looks like the scary old guy always sitting at the end of a shady, run down bar. @ Adru, Legumes, Tree Nuts or Testes? Not sure…
I used to think that these nut allergies were just overly dramatic moms with a lot of free time making up some fictious issue for their children in order to get attention. I was so over them, until my 18 month old son used the drawer pulls to climb up onto my mom’s kitchen counter and ate one peanut. but really, believe jamie lynn child rearing is the easiest thing in the world!
5 minutes later my mom and son were in the emergency room while my son’s head was swelling and his airways were closing. the crazy thing is we now have to read every freakin label to see if a product was even manufactured in a location that might or might not process peanuts. so no jolly ranchers for our kid and halloween is a bummer.
so to all the mothers out there that i previously doubted and internally scorned, i’m sorry.
we carry an epipen with our son at all times now. you just never know
what’s in your food. i wonder why, since he had such a severe reaction, dave didn’t have an epipen too, you gotta think he’s not afraid of needles. i’m just saying.
He looks so much like my family doctor, it is wierd…
It was in fact not David Lee Roth, but someone who looked like him.
I probably know who this is, he does look very much like David Lee Roth. Sources have confirmed Roth was in New York.
Update: This was an David Lee Roth impersonator.