Hold your wee for a Wii - woman dies

[webby]

A preliminary autopsy states that a woman died of "water intoxication" following a water drinking contest for a Nintendo Wii. News10 in Sacramento reports Station 107.9 The End's "Hold your wee for a Wii" contest had contestants doing exactly what the title says. The winner was the person who didn't release their bladder the longest. According to the woman's co-worker, after the contest, "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad ... she was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her." The co-workers contacted the woman's mother later on to check up how she was doing and she discovered the body. No word yet on how much water the woman consumed.

The youtube video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLNrIu7kx4

[Nomar06]

Thats crazy!

[marc-o-lishuz]

Hold your wee for a Wii

People are dumb.

[acetech808]

Not good. who ever held that contest may get sued.

[DNieves]

First people destroying the tvs with their Wii remotes, sore joints, people getting held up and now this! Seems like you can't launch a new videogame platform without a ton of controversy associated with it!! I suppose if she to urinate and drink istonic water & gaterade on the way to the hospital she may have lived.

[MordeKyle]

Originally Posted by acetech808

Not good. who ever held that contest may get sued.

MAY get sued???... they WILL get sued... faux real

[Gonzo]

It's things like this that worry me about people.

I guess the creators and participants of this event have never heard of a little thing called osmosis.

[Jaranath]

It's resurrecting an old thread, I know, but I figure folks might appreciate some additional info.

Originally Posted by DNieves

I suppose if she to urinate and drink istonic water & gaterade on the way to the hospital she may have lived.

Unfortunately, the lack of urination had nothing to do with this specific case--she simply drank too much too quickly for that to matter. Also, she probably did urinate before leaving the station (I can't imagine not given her bladder's likely state).

Originally Posted by Gonzo

It's things like this that worry me about people.

I guess the creators and participants of this event have never heard of a little thing called osmosis.

That's just it...they DID know. It's become very clear that the DJs and the radio station management knew there was a risk, and were even specifically warned this could be fatal. Recordings of the show and comments from participants make it very clear that they didn't treat the risk seriously (to the point of joking about it), despite asking participants to sign waivers.

It's bad, and sad, enough that this happened at all, with no hints of a risk. I would consider that some form of negligence by itself. There is an assumption of safety in something like this that a reasonable person will hold, and the station did nothing to investigate or mitigate any potential risk. But worse, they neglected this investigation when they knew there was risk.

There's plenty of blame to go around here...Strange takes some of it, certainly. But given the circumstances, the station takes the lion's share, and I very much hope the station and the individual employees involved are successfully sued. They are probably also criminally liable, but I don't think I'd press it quite that far. Bankrupting them is enough.

You can read some more details about what happened to Strange in medical terms here, and some more general detail about the case is here.

[Civic4u]

The contesters sign an agreement. It wouldn’t have a chance at all in courts. That depended on what on the agreement. Most or everyone sign something like a waver.

[Fargone]

Ya, I thought a lot of news was just the media spinning out a story until I heard the clips of the radio show for the contest and wow ... I wish we could sue people for being stupid.

[Special Ringpop]

The problem is that no one called a paramedic or a doctor when she said she wasn't feeling well.

Shame on them, I hope they get sued for all their worth, but that's not enough to bring her back.

[Jaranath]

Originally Posted by Civic4u

The contesters sign an agreement. It wouldn’t have a chance at all in courts. That depended on what on the agreement. Most or everyone sign something like a waver.

Based on a couple lawyer's opinions I've read, and speaking from some more general randomly accumulated knowledge that in no way makes me a lawyer or legal expert...that probably doesn't matter. Indeed, I've been told by one lawyer (unsourced anecdotal evidence, yay!) that nearly all waivers offer no protection.

And in this case, I wouldn't want it to. The victim did not understand the risk she faced, and the (at least partially) responsible parties failed to investigate and mitigate the risk, despite having some knowledge of it and being warned of it. They even sought to downplay the contestant's fears.

[darna]

last thing i heard, the radio station management cancelled the morning show, fired the station manager, producer, staff and all the hosts of the show.

a mother who only wants to win a wii for her 3 children was killed coz of this stupid idea.

we are all in unity in saying..

SUE these SOB's...

[ominous8204]

haha, a friend was telling me about this today