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- And a 22-year-old New Jersey man died this morning after falling into a vat of chocolate.
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Death by chocolate, what a way to go. Poor kid.
That dude got a lot of nerve walking around in that outfit - and I'm not talking about the one in the Batman costume...
Which is worse: dying in a vat of melted chocolate or dying in a pool of cold sewage?
Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop!
Augustus Gloop! So Big and Vile!
So greedy, foul, and infantile
It's getting harder and harder, what with all those filthy Batmen lurking around.