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Nintendo's Wii claims its first casualty.

TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta GhostbusterAtlanta, GARegistered User regular
edited January 2007 in Social Entropy++
Article here.
A Sacramento County woman died over the weekend from water intoxication after participating in a radio contest called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii.”
As the name implies, the contest at KDND 107.9 had contestants drinking large amounts of water, and the one that could resist the urge to urinate for the longest period of time would win a Wii.

28-year-old Jennifer Strange died on Friday after participating in the contest. "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said co-worker Laura Rios. "She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."

Another participant in the contest said that Strange told him she was trying to win a Wii for her kids.

A coroner had determined that her death was “consistent with a water intoxication death.”

The AP described the radio station’s VP and marketing manager as “stunned” after the news of Strange's death.

Contestants had to drink an 8-ounce bottle every 15 minutes, but later in the contest, they had to drink larger bottles. It's unclear how much Strange drank.

So, humanity huh?

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  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I hope this happened twice.

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    DUH DUH DUH

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  • PotUPotU __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2007
    U R DUMB LOL

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    edited January 2007
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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    DAMNIT!

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    hey guys anyone want to trade pokemon

    mine are getting kind of loose

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  • skinny87skinny87 Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Well, your title is correct - You read your own posts, just nobody else's...

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    ZOMG I HEERS A WOMENZ DIDE OF DIRKING WAWTAR FOR A WEEEEEE

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Evander's jewish?

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Kantankeris wrote:
    DAMNIT!

    If it is on the internet chances are SE++ already knows.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    skinny87 wrote:
    Well, your title is correct - You read your own posts, just nobody else's...
    Yeah, sorry didn't see that other post about this. To be honest I only scanned the titles for Wii not water.

    Also: Who has the time to read EVERY post?

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The Geek wrote:
    Evander's jewish?

    Jordyn likes Justice League?

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    edited January 2007
    Hunter wrote:
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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    more like nintendo wii claims first temporal causality loop, rite?

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  • intafustedintafusted Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I heard th wii is a sex machine too, is this true?

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    edited January 2007
    hahahaha

    critical failure

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    edited January 2007
    This is why I'm scared to make threads.

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    edited January 2007
    I don't know what to tell you... you're tardy. To the party. And everybody left.

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    edited January 2007
    video games THAT KILL, tonite on Geraldo

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    edited January 2007
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    edited January 2007
    Posting in a legendary thread.

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    edited January 2007
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    edited January 2007
    Bloods End wrote:
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    Sure thing.

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