New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu saves choking competitor at lobster roll consuming contest: video

Sununu to the rescunu!

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu carried out the Heimlich maneuver on a choking contestant at a lobster roll-eating competitors this weekend — and the person impressively went on to scarf down seven extra rolls.

Video from the Hampton Seashore Lobster Roll Consuming Competitors exhibits one of many contestants on stage, Christian Moreno, begin to sign that his airway was obstructed, however no one round him appears to catch on.

All of the sudden, Sununu seems from backstage like an apparition, wrapping his arms round Moreno and lifting him into the air as he performs a number of belly thrusts earlier than EMTs may rush in and end the job.

“I began saying, ‘He’s choking, he’s choking,’ and I may inform individuals weren’t responding. So I simply moved ahead and instantly began to type of give him the Heimlich,” Sununu instructed native outlet WMUR.

As soon as the rogue little bit of meat was dislodged from his windpipe, Moreno soldiered on unfazed, the spirit of competitors flowing by way of him like drawn butter.

“He went proper again to the competition, which I couldn’t consider. He ate one other seven lobster rolls after that,” Sununu stated. “Proper down the gullet.”

Moreno admitted he had no thought his fast-thinking rescuer was the four-term Republican on the time.

“Lo and behold, the governor was the primary one to note what was really taking place,” Moreno instructed the outlet.

“[I] was simply type of like, ‘All proper, like, don’t freak out. You’re gonna, like, you’re gonna get this out, and also you’re gonna preserve going.’”

He stated his lobster roll counter finally clued him in.

“My counter got here as much as me and, like, made a joke. And was like, ‘Oh, like, I wager no one else can say that they’ve gotten the Heimlich from the governor earlier than.’ And I checked out him, was identical to, that was, that was the governor?” Moreno stated.

First place went to Chris Thurston, of Somersworth, who devoured up a dozen lobster rolls. He took residence the Lobster Roll Champion Belt, the highest prize of $600 — and hopefully, a aspect of Tums.

Though it was his first foray into the world of consuming competitions, Moreno stated it wouldn’t be his final.

“I might be there for my redemption, 100%,” he stated.

Sununu’s act of heroism got here only a day after his mom, Nancy Hayes Sununu, a former first woman of New Hampshire, handed away at age 85. Her husband, Gov. John H. Sununu, was himself a three-term Granite State governor from 1983-1989.

In July, Chris Sununu introduced he wouldn’t search reelection.

“Might I win once more? In fact. However it’s [public] service, and another person must type of take the mantle,” he stated in June.