Thursday, January 18, 2007

H2O? Oh No!

This is Jennifer Strange.

Jennifer Strange is dead today. She died after taking part in a Radio Contest

The idea of the contest was to see who could drink the most water without having to use the bathroom. Of course, no one told the contestants that drinking that much water can actually kill you.

It's called Water Intoxication

It's usually associated with marathon runners and athletes. Not people taking part in Radio Contests.

When i first heard that a woman was killed taking part in a radio contest I assumed that it was a Fear Factor type stunt that involved a great deal of risk. I assumed there was a GRAND prize associated with the contest. Like a HUGE sum of money or a scholarship for the kids. Even a family vacation.... Anything of "value"

But, no! You know what the "grand" prize was in this contest?

A Nintendo Wii.... A video game system that retails, and is available at every store in America, for $249.

This is what someone drank enough water to kill themselves for!

Holy shit!

Of all the "dumb ways to die" I can think of, this is number one! And she didn't even win! She finished second!

Tombstone to read:

"Jennifer Strange: Failure to wee, cost her more than the wii"

How dumb!

Of course, this is America and some scumbag lawyer has convinced the family to sue the radio station. On what grounds, I'm not sure. She willingly drank the water. No one had a gun to her head. The Water contained nothing but water... No added anything. A woman made a clear CHOICE to drink that water and she died from it... End of story as far as I'm concerned.

The station should offer the family an out-of-court settlement in the amount of $249. No more, no less. After all, that seems to be the EXACT amount she valued her life at....

9 Comments:

Blogger SarahReznor said...

they should'a got a better lawyer... this story is unbelievable...

11:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hate contests like this...they are so fucking stupid! And I do agree that she did this voluntarily but I think the radio station should also give everyone that participated a wii and refrain from doing moronic contests in the future.

11:24 AM  
Blogger March2theSea said...

sweet lord there is so much to be angry at with here. Damn...

12:50 PM  
Blogger JT said...

Yeah, that was stupid. I have nothing else to say.

1:54 PM  
Blogger Gina Thompson said...

It's just a tragic story. Obviously, the radio station didn't know the stunt could potentially kill, but they should have done a little research before starting it. How hard is it to Google "water consumption" and "dangerous" or something like that. And of course, she's not too bright for ignoring the excrutiating pain shooting through her body.

But... the question in our society is: who to blame?

P.S. - I thought the Wii's were defective anyway?

9:26 AM  
Blogger A.S.S. said...

I actually heard that the disc jockys were talking about how some college student died of the same thing during the stunt. Then another one said "yeah but were ok they signed a release". I have to say that the woman was a complete moron. No questioning that, but if you were a complete moron there is a reasonable assumption that you might not know that drinking too much water could kill you. As such there could be a small burden of liability on the radio station to inform people of the risks involved. Annoyed as he reads this is saying "fuck her". Maybe he's right but I think that this type of thing and reality TV has gotten way out of hand. Maybe a multimillion dollar lawsuit or two will put an end to it.

7:12 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

**speechless**

9:50 PM  
Blogger Kari Lee Townsend said...

Wow, what can I say to that, except very dumb.

8:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A really dumb contest, but who knew it could be lethal?!

3:42 PM  

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