Post by blacksabor on Jan 25, 2007 7:39:03 GMT -5
This happened awhile back about idk 2 weeks ago? anyways here is the info.....
but i just do not grasp the concept of how one can be so taken to endanger there health or even kill for a console.
this recent launch of these new systems has been completely repulsive, very dehumanizing from the 10 year old with a card board sign selling his xbox 360 for a $1000 on the street corner to people being shot for there ps3 money, human nature has really shined through as a beacon of hope and promise for a long and prosperous future for humanity....
i find contests to be repulsive, lets see how we can get these desperate people to humiliate themselves for some crappy prize, and now another woman is dead.
its despicable.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/
Water intoxication eyed in ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ contest death
Updated: 8:24 p.m. MT Jan 13, 2007
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - 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 know 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 eight-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 kids.”
but i just do not grasp the concept of how one can be so taken to endanger there health or even kill for a console.
this recent launch of these new systems has been completely repulsive, very dehumanizing from the 10 year old with a card board sign selling his xbox 360 for a $1000 on the street corner to people being shot for there ps3 money, human nature has really shined through as a beacon of hope and promise for a long and prosperous future for humanity....
i find contests to be repulsive, lets see how we can get these desperate people to humiliate themselves for some crappy prize, and now another woman is dead.
its despicable.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/
Water intoxication eyed in ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ contest death
Updated: 8:24 p.m. MT Jan 13, 2007
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - 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 know 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 eight-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 kids.”
