Woman Dies In A Wii Contest
January 14th, 2007 Posted in News
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A radio station in Sacramento California held a contest dubbed “Hold your Wee for a Wii,” in which contestants were given water to drink and had to hold their bladder to see who could do it the longest. A preliminary autopsy reports that a woman died of water intoxication a few hours after the contest had ended.
January 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
ouch, that mustve hurt…well she’s dead so…
January 14th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Some people are so dumb they deserve to die. This might not be one of those times though, it seems innocent enough.
January 14th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Man that SuX. The radio station er.. huh Prolly ClearChannel better do something about this. Thats F**ked UP!!!
January 15th, 2007 at 1:53 am
The media is overreacting in this case. It’s so rare that people die from drinking too much water, she probably had a problem before she entered the competition. Either way, it’s sad indeeed, but I doubt Nintendo or the radio station is losing sleep over this.
January 15th, 2007 at 2:28 am
WTF the things as cheap as dirt… the cost of a life is infinite.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:35 am
wow our teacher just taught us about water intoxication last wow this is just wow….
January 15th, 2007 at 6:28 am
You’re both right, and your both wrong, chances are that someone will try to sue station, but they wouldn’t win.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:44 am
i think the station will orbably get sued. they were telling people to do something that resulted in one person dying, who knows if anyone else died as a result…or if she even died from it though.
January 15th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Everythings all fun and games until someone gets hurt or in this instance killed.
January 15th, 2007 at 7:52 am
This whole isn’t remotely connected to the Wii itself! People do stupid things all the time. It is not the smartest publicity stunt and most likely this will result in a lawsuit. Whether win or not remains to be seen. But if a woman can make a mint off McDonalds because of spilling hot coffee on herself, then some 3rd cousin of the woman will be driving around in a custom Ferrari soon!
January 15th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Yeah, it’s just a game until someone is killed, then it’s a sport.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Sucks to play anything that says nintendo this days in everyway possible,lol!
dont u just look gay as hell but it can kill you too.i mean the xbox 360 can burn down your house due to overheating problems but this can even kill you OUCH!kidtendo sucks.
January 15th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
If she was someone who ate very little salt she only would of had to drink about half a gallon of water to die from water intoxication. It can occur in as little as a few hours.
Here is a piece from another article:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/15/2003344902
“Initially, contestants were handed 225ml (8 oz or 1 cup) 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, California. “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 kids.” ”
Jennifer Strange is the woman who died.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Shaka I’ll give you my PS3 to get your fanboy rocks off over all you have to do is drink water until you die.
Fair?
I’d be willing to part with the PS3 to never have to read any more of your incoherent babble on here.
Someone stupid enough to drink themselves to death makes me worry for the future of the human race, but that thought that you might some day reproduce scares the shit out of me!
January 15th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Thank goodness the Wii competition on this website is not dangerous in the least. Say what you will be given this type of promotion of the Wii DigitalBattle got it’s contest 100% right. I just feel very badly for her kids she left behind. How devasting is this going to be for them … very sad.
January 16th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
the heck was she thinking??? those poor kids..
January 16th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
thats a very sad story , its scary to think you can die from drinkin to much water when its suppose to be the most cleansing sh*t to drink . I think I almost croaked trying to clean my system out ! but I started readin and bam thats where I found out about dieing from water. I dont think its none of Nintendo’s fault. I think its the stations partly and humor error since most people dont know you can get water poisoning
January 17th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Too much of anything is bad.
Have some respect.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:14 am
could you imagine what that would be like if they had to drink beer instead? WOW.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:23 am
I cant believe she didnt know water could kill her.It happens in hazzing on a yearly bases.She wasn’t forced by law to drink the water so how are you going to sue.This makes america look bad and shows that we are the stereotypical sue for anything type of people.The woman died,sueing wont bring her back.Thats just being either greedy or a revengful bastage.If people were educated in common sense at school the world would be a better place.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Sueing is just a legal way to get revenge.