Did someone kill....

[El_Vikingo]

their mother with a nintendo wii??!

I heard something on the TV about it, but didn;t get the whole story.

[Ferocious_Imbecile]

hunh?

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...3701&q=wii+sex

[[R-CON]MrD]

Sounds like she drank too much water. Clubbers had to deal with this after being told they could die from drinking TOO LITTLE water. It found an average of a pint of water an hour for dancers, to avoid kidney valves and the like rupturing.

Woman drinks so much water she dies
POSTED: 10:33 p.m. EST, January 13, 2007
Story Highlights• Woman, 28, dies of water intoxication, assistant coroner says
• Radio contest required drinking large amounts, not voiding
• Victim was trying to win video game console for her children

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SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

"She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. "She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."

It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed.

A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.

John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange's death.

"We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred," he said.

Initially, contestants were handed 8-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes.

"They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added.

After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink.

"I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids."

[Ferocious_Imbecile]

Not Funny - Nikov

[Animalmother]

Im sorry, but thats terrible.

[dhimmi]

That's really cold FI
It's not excatly common knowledge that drinking a lot of water will kill you so I don't think it would even qualify as a Darwin award.
I just feel bad for her kids.

[El_Vikingo]

too much of anything will kill you!!

[lonelyjew]

Yeah, water intoxication is a real bad way to go...

Your body flushes out all of its electrolytes and as a result the osmotic pressure builds in cells as they take in more water causing them to rupture. I guess it affects the brain and nerves the worst so people become confused, then go into convulsions, and then they die.

I wonder if the station will get sued because they are the reason she died and their carelessness to not research what could happen isn’t really an excuse for the contest.

[dhimmi]

They will get sued and lose big but that isn't going to help those kids for the next 5-10 years until it's settled.
I remember reading about kids doing it to get high some years ago and yeah, common sense says it you drink 4 gallons in an hour you might have a problem.

[trogdor1289]

That is a bad way to go and very negligent on the part of the radio station.