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Hold your wee for a Wii

From the current issue of The Week magazine:

Sacramento
A watery death
A woman who entered a water-drinking contest to win a video-game console for her three children died last week from water intoxication. Jennifer Strange, 28, was a contestant in the "Hold your wee for a Wii" contest held during the "Morning Rave" program on Sacramento FM radio station KDND. The station offered a $250 Nintendo Wii game console to the person who could drink the most water without a bathroom break. Strange drank 2 gallons of water in three hours. Several hours later, she was found dead at her home by her mother. KDND took the morning program off the air and suspended the three DJs who host it. Excess water consumption can disrupt the body's internal chemistry and cause fatal swelling of the brain.

Comments

Have you heard the audio from the radio show? She asks if this can be harmful, and the djs say that it can't, that her body would just throw up the water and they would be fine. But even if they're not, that is why they signed release forms, so we can't be held liable. It was really eerie, listening to that woman talk about how she didn't feel right, and they just kept encouraging her. If you haven't heard it, you should.

The audio is here.

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