Kevin Lipsitz

"Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz is a competitive eater from Staten Island, New York, and is affiliated with IFOCE, the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Known for his bear hat and charismatic eating style, Lipsitz has competed in events across the country, and appeared on the Gutbusters television special, which aired on the Discovery Channel in 2002. He is the former American pickle eating champion.[1]

"Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz (left) and Mike "Top Dog" Leonard pose together after the two competed at a Nathan's Famous qualifier at Zoo Atlanta in 2002.

In 1997, Lipsitz was convicted on fraud charges in New York, stemming from his spamming of Usenet newsgroups with advertisements using AOL.com as a "Reply-to:" address.[2] He resumed spamming in 1999.[3]


References
  1. Getlin, Josh. "To the Glutton, the Gold". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  2. Jonathan A. Zdziarski (2005) Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification. No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, USA. ISBN 1-59327-052-6 (p. 15)
  3. "Overview of spam from Lipsitz" Rahul.net


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