"Hold your wee for a wii" kills one!

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WTF? The ultimate wiinjury:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=155259

Madness!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

RIP and all, but really, that's one for the Darwin Awards.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/886/jerryseinfeldjp5.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

dying for a wii etc etc etc

― ampersand, spades, semicolon (cis), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

She had three kids!

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

poor wii things

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

they also disqualify her from winning a darwin award.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

This saddens me.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe a woman actually died because of a shit pun.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Commence lawsuit

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Actually she died because of a wee pun.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

surely this didn't actually happen and she's really taking the piss?

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say urine trouble if you're suggesting that's so.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

the irony is that she won the contest. she's number one.

― m@p (plosive), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

rest in pees

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

water bad pun :(

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

THEY OVERSATURATE HORSES WITH WATER, DON'T THEY?

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Onimo, if bad puns can kill I consider you Hitler.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

I never would have started this thread had I all known you were just going to take the piss...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

no ifs, ands, or butts about it

― Wrinklecause for Applause! (Wrinklepaws), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

oh wrinklepaws

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

does wee come out of Wrinklecause for Applause!'s butt?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

rjg, i envision you holding up your hand for that high five for a very long time.

― Wrinklecause for Applause! (Wrinklepaws), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

check out what you posted

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Garu G to thread.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

"We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred."

Um, you made her drink a lot of water then not go to the toilet?

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'd be more likely to uncontrollably piss my pants than die, but maybe that's just me

― PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

Welp, I guess she pissed away her chances of winning.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'd be more likely to uncontrollably piss my pants than die, but maybe that's just me

-- PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsoun...), January 16th, 2007 1:03 PM. (later)

Well, have you got a Wii?

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

well, no.

― PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

Her kids are going to be fucked in the head for life.

"Mommy died trying to win us a Nintendo."

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

She totally woulda passed her drug test tho, SCRO.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

"Mommy died trying to win us a Nintendo."

They can console themselves with the prize.

― onimo is going to hell (onimo), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

no way, imagine feeling wracked with sadness and guilt everytime you want to play Zelda

this is a really depressing story.

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

on so many levels

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah regardless of the stupidity of the whole thing I find it hard to be all LOL about it. If it was some childless 19 year old geek, maybe. She just wanted to be a cool mommy! :'(

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

childless 19 year old geeks just wanted to have a wii :'(

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't this how most "ecstasy deaths" happen?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

that's 19 year old geeks too innit

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

kind of

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

any chance of someone pasting the story here? i'm blocked at work

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

'Hold your wee for a Wii' competition kills woman
Monday 15-Jan-2007 10:16 AM Woman competing in Wii radio competiton dies of water intoxication
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A woman has died by water intoxication after competing in a 'hold your wee for a Wii contest'.

The competition hosted on Californian radio station, KDND 107.9, had contestants consuming large amounts of water, then holding off using the toilet for as long as they could, the winner being to last not to have relieved themselves.

But after competing for the Wii, 28-year-old Jenifer Strange complained of headache and was later found dead in her home in Sacramento California. The coroner found the cause of death to be water intoxication.

Staff of the radio station involved were stunned at the news. John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento - the station's owner - said: "We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred."

This is so sad. :-( But kinda... why the fuck would you hold your urine for that long? Just for a Wii.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

This is insane. Can her family sue the people who ran the competition? Legally, did they murder her? Manslaughter?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

unfortunately, the weirdest part of the story is the guy who gave up after five 225ml bottles (1 1/4 litres) over a period of an hour and a quarter?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Contestants were first given eight ounce (225 millilitre) bottles to drink every 15 minutes.
Contestant James Ybarra told Associated Press news agency: "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

Mr Ybarra said he quit after five bottles but remaining contestants started on larger bottles.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

I would be that guy.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

nick i don't think it's the radio station's fault.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

nick i don't think it's the radio station's fault.

If they didn't explain fully the possible dangers of doing this, and have contestents sign a disclaimer, then they're bound to get sued to shit though.

Also, she's called Jennifer Strange. Or was.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's completely the radio station's fault. It was a ridiculous and unsafe contest that was almost certainly conducted without adequate health and safety provions, and should never have been allowed to go ahead in the first place.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Can her family sue the people who ran the competition?

Uh dude, she WILLINGLY drank all that water. She's (or rather was) 28 yrs old. You should know that you can get an overdose from drinking too much water. Isn't it the oxygen that causes death if you drink too much water? Can't remember.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

How drinking too much water kills you - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6263029.stm

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

You should know that you can get an overdose from drinking too much water.

But if you don't? I think it's fair to say that anyone taking part in something like this would naturally assume that the organisers had done their homework, and would not be putting the contestants at any risk.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I would argue that many, perhaps most people are not aware that you can "overdose" on water.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

they probably relied on people's common sense too much.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

You would have they would have consulted at least one medical professional. That their insurance might have required them to do such a thing in fact.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

"They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

That doesn't sound like the organisers knew too much about water intoxication either.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I never thought about that: the organisers should have known (and warned people in advance). Or even thought about sth else. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

ledge totally OTM here. I find this story very sad, and yeah, i'm kinda surprised if this sort of thing is legal. Clearly it wouldn't be hard to come up with stupid examples of similarish contests that surely wouldn't be, anyway.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Wee for a wii -

who can deliver the greatest volume of piss in a four hour span?"

would keep the gross pun and probably not endanger anyone. Although I'm certainly no urologist.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think that the danger lies in consuming too much rather than not pissing enough. Maybe wanking is the way to go next time?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's your answer to everything.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I do find it quite a useful rule.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Putting health at risk for a video game = retarded. I'm not sad but quite a bit angry at everyone involved with this, including the idiot mom.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

everyone at the station got fired.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

good

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

Even the people who didn't work this show/promotion?????

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

i hate it how this thread is at the top of the new answers list every time i have to pee.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

everyone at the station got fired.

They should've sewed their assholes closed and kept feeding them, and feeding them, and feeding them...

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

It's Official: Wrongful-Death Suit Will Be Filed Against KDND

The attorney representing the family of JENNIFER STRANGE officially announced this afternoon (1/18) that a wrongful death suit will be filed against ENTERCOM Top 40 KDND (107.9 THE END)/SACRAMENTO for sponsoring the water-drinking contest, "Hold Your Wee For A Wii," that allegedly resulted in STRANGE's death.

"This family has been devastated by a shameful, irresponsible and negligent act of premeditated recklessness," said ROGER DREYER, senior partner of the SACRAMENTO law firm of DREYER, BABICH, BUCCOLA & CALLAHAM. "The station knew this was a dangerous and potentially deadly stunt, but flippantly dismissed the dangers. Now three young children have lost their mother, and their father has lost his wife, because a radio station wanted to boost its ratings and increase its advertising revenue by taking advantage of a young woman who simply wanted to win a prize for her family."

DREYER said the suit should be a "wake-up call" for other stations sponsoring similar stunts. "Outrageousness at any cost has become the industry standard -- the trashier and more humiliating, the better," he said. "It's time to stop this recklessness."

As ALL ACCESS reported yesterday (NET NEWS 1/17), the SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT is launching a criminal probe and formal investigation into the death because of the now-dismissed MORNING RAVE's on-air comments, which seem to indicate awareness of the dangers of drinking too much water.

"Hearing the tape, it's very clear they knew of the dangers and could foresee that this could lead to JENNIFER's death," DREYER said. "They knew the health risks of drinking too much water, they knew JENNIFER was feeling ill, and yet they let her leave the station without warning her to call someone for help or seek medical attention. Their brazen disregard for her personal safety is numbing and inexcusable."

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ten Dismissed At KDND Over Water-Drinking Contest Death
Following the unfortunate death of a KDND (107.9 THE END)/SACRAMENTO listener (NET NEWS 1/15) attributed apparently to drinking too much water during a "Hold Your Wee For A Wii" contest last FRIDAY (1/12), ENTERCOM/SACRAMENTO VP/Market Mgr. JOHN GEARY has released a statement: "Effective immediately, the Morning Rave program is cancelled and ten employees are no longer with the station."

ALL ACCESS has learned that among those exiting are nine-year Station Mgr./PD STEVE WEED; Morning Rave members LUKAS, MANEY, TRISH SWEET, FESTER and CARTER; morning show producer LIZ DIAZ; Promotion Dir. ROBIN PECHOTAl; and two others. For more on this from the SACRAMENTO BEE, just click here. (dead link)

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/109101.html

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

this thing is really fucking sick.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah I just heard some of the audio from the show, I fucking hate djs.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 January 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

haha teeny are you holding out for Colbert too?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 19 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

But yeah that recording really creeped me out.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 19 January 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

So I was at the Atlanta airport, returning from vacation and waiting to board my flight when the overhead TV was showing this story on Larry King. He interviewed the girl who actually won (but survived) and she was stone-faced/emotionally blank the whole time, it was pretty awkward. King also played a lot of audio from the radio show, which was awful (you could even see nearby passengers wincing a bit). There was a woman who called in saying "please be careful, people can actually die of overhydration" and the DJs just laughed it off ("anyone dying in there?"). It's all so sickening/depressing to think about.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

"and two others" = interns?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit.

DJ: "Let me ask Carter if anybody's died. Hey, Carter, is anybody dying in there?"
Carter: "We got a guy who's just about to die."
DJ: "Make sure he signs the release."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds like criminal negligence AT THE VERY LEAST. Probably involuntary manslaughter.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Female caller named Eva: "I want to say that, um, that those people that are drinking all that water can get sick and possibly die from water intoxication."
DJ: "We're aware of that."
DJ: "They signed releases, so we're not responsible. It's OK."

This may call for vigilante justice, if the law can't provide the necessary compensation to this woman's family. That tape makes these guys sound pretty much like murderers.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, all the ex-DJs have MySpaces, and the comments...

"OMG! It is Bull that they blamed you guys! its not right! When i found out the morning rave was gone ... i cryed!!!"

― chrisco (chrisco), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

i hate wacky/controversial morning DJs, especially in when they're in teams. i can't think of a more worthless bunch with the possible exception of howard stern.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

This is true. I've never understood why people like being shouted at in the morning!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

STEVE WEED

Unlike that poor woman. Hmmm? HMMMMM?

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

"Wee for a wii -
who can deliver the greatest volume of piss in a four hour span?"

would keep the gross pun and probably not endanger anyone. Although I'm certainly no urologist.

"get into your ex's box for an x-box"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

"couples: pee as one for a ps1"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Second one bites the dust:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029685/Schoolboy-hanged-father-confiscated-new-Wii.html

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 29 June 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Jake_Roberts

― slecked, Sunday, 29 June 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

This one is sadder to me somehow

― Will M., Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

W.I.I.P.

― am0n, Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

gotdamn slecked.

video game players have a slot of time on their hands, huh.

― banriquit, Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3158/180pxjake2qo3.jpg

― libcrypt, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

My question is this; where do these kids get the knowledge of how to hang oneself and why is it the favoured way to commit suicide these days...?

- Wendy, Belfast, 26/6/2008 11:29

― libcrypt, Monday, 30 June 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

W.I.I.P.

-- am0n, Sunday, June 29, 2008 9:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

omg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 June 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

An ambulance was called and Jake was rushed to Scarborough Hospital, but he was pronounced dead two days later as a result of hanging.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 June 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

probably eventually succumbed to severe brain damage from lack of oxygen

― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 June 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://blog.pennlive.com/pennsyltucky/2007/09/Columbo.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 30 June 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

more like

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/43/92/0000034392_20061020195244.jpg

― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 June 2008 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

I think we need to need to know which game it was that was worth suicide over.

― S-, Monday, 30 June 2008 05:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Avatar_Wii.JPG???

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.mywii.com.au/img/game/super-monkey-ball--8.jpg?????

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.argos.co.uk/wcsstore/argos/images/208-5685640SPA68UC415728M.jpg ? ? ?

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YYqOodOZL._AA280_.jpg??

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:47 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMiRFJzIKA

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:53 (sixteen years ago)

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