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[Serious On] Tragic Wii related death
Zarcath
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The Radio Station
Their website doesn't even say anything about it like how sorry they are. Everyone should send in an e-mail to the station manager and tell them how retarded they are. Using a family entertainment object for such a retarded ass contest.
Personally I hope that the radio station is sued out of business and Nintendo does some sort of donation gesture to the family, maybe free products or a college grant.
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
The Radio Station
Their website doesn't even say anything about it like how sorry they are. Everyone should send in an e-mail to the station manager and tell them how retarded they are. Using a family entertainment object for such a retarded ass contest.
Personally I hope that the radio station is sued out of business and Nintendo does some sort of donation gesture to the family, maybe free products or a college grant.
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Worst name for any commercial product ever. It's now literally killed people.
PS3 and Wii sound awfully alike. If Sony had produced more consoles the radio station had a 50/50 chance of promoting that instead, and if they had been giving away a ps3 she wouldn't of died, because it's a piece of shit.
Also, they could of named it jaguar and then the woman would have been eaten alive by a jaguar.
Jaguars eat people, right?
"Hold your wee for a PS3". Hm, it has a certain sort of poetry to it.
This is just nature's new way of "thinning the herd"