An airline passenger was going through security at JFK airport here in NYC, scaring down a ‘Dunkin Munchkin’ donut (presumably in honor of today being National Donut Day), when the glazed munchkin became lodged in her throat. The passenger turned blue, lost her pulse, and passed out. She was then revived by a TSA supervisor who’s also a a CPR certified volunteer firefighter and her husband, who tag-teamed her with chest compressions and and forced breathing until they were able to revive her after a period of 5 minutes. What was almost a grisly scar across the face of ‘National Donut Day’ turned into a heroic tale of a woman overcoming the donut lodged in her throat, and proving that life is worth living and donuts can’t stop us from fulfilling our dreams.
NJ.com has the story:
At a checkpoint in Terminal 1 on Wednesay, TSA Behavior Detection Officer Glenn Davis noticed a commotion in the screening line and then saw a woman choking, the TSA said. He tried to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, but it didn’t work. The agency said the woman’s husband then told the screener that his wife had been eating a doughnut when it got stuck in her throat. The woman went limp and passed out.
Davis, a TSA supervisor who is also a volunteer firefighter in Manorville, N.Y., then lowered the woman to the floor and performed CPR, which succeeded in reviving her, the TSA said.
“The woman started to turn blue. She had no pulse,” Davis said in a TSA announcement of the incident. “We tried CPR. I started with chest compressions and I instructed her husband to pinch her nose and breathe into her mouth.”
While Davis was doing that, his TSA partner, retired NYPD cop Anthony Varvaro, called 911 and the Port Authority Police, and kept the scene clear.
“We worked on her for about five minutes,” Davis said. “Finally, she started to cough,” and regained consciousness.
“It was a good day,” Davis said in an interview Friday with NJ Advance Media.
What Davis learned when the woman regained consciousness was that, technically speaking, it wasn’t actually a donut she was choking on, but a Dunkin Munchkin.
“Glazed,” he added.
How dare they claim the Dunkin Munchkin isn’t a donut? Who are they to say what is and isn’t a donut? Donuts come in all shapes and sizes. Donuts are made using every flavor known to man. Donuts are beautiful, and they need to realize that if the ‘munchkin’ doesn’t live up to their unrealistic donut beauty standards that fault is on THEM. Not the good makers of the Munchkin.
Happy National Donut Day, bros.