Woman dies tryin to win a Wii
A mother of three died from water intoxication after a radio station drinking competition, a California coroner said on Saturday. Jennifer Strange, 28, competed in Sacramento station KDND 107.9’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest to try to win Nintendo’s console for her children.
Contestants were handed half-pint bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes for the first hour, and then larger bottles to up the ante.
No need to point out the tragic irony.
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Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
Holy crap. I never knew that drinking lots of water could kill you by any other way than drowning!
Comment by Stephen — January 15, 2007 @ 11:28 am
Well its the toxins that you’re body is holding in from all the water that I think does the damage. Either way, it was pretty irresponsible of the station to hold such a competition. I’m sure the compensation will be huge for this blunder.
Comment by dodger — January 15, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Wee definitely shouldn’t make jokes about this. Terrible, I know., I apologise in advance.
Comment by Bok — January 15, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
people blame E for killing people, usually its the excessive water intake. which of course, the clubs exploited to the full by charging for water.
Comment by krynn — January 15, 2007 @ 1:57 pm
I fucking hope she won
Comment by neil — January 15, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
The radio show in question has been taken off the air indefinately.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/16/radio_death_off_air/
Comment by Stephen — January 16, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Also, she didn’t even win! She was the runner up.
Comment by Stephen — January 16, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Did someone else actually get it? They could have at least given it to her kids.
Comment by Phil — January 18, 2007 @ 12:29 am