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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:51 pm 
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Wow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6261509.stm

A Californian woman who took part in a water-drinking contest to win a video game system has died of water intoxication, tests have shown.

Jennifer Strange had taken part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" game run by KDND 107.9 radio in Sacramento, which promised the winner a Nintendo Wii.

A work colleague said Ms Strange had reported her head was hurting hours after the contest and was going home.

Ms Strange, 28, was found dead on Friday at her house in Rancho Cordova.

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Local assistant coroner Ed Smith said initial tests showed death was "consistent with water intoxication".

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.

"She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids," Mr Ybarra said.

One of Ms Strange's work colleagues, Laura Rios, said: "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad.

"She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."

The station said its staff were stunned at the death.


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so do her kids get a wii or not?

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Can you imagine having to explain that your mother died of water intoxication from competing in a radio station contest.

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Who knew water could kill you?

So she basically drowned from the inside?


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So, do her heirs sue KDND and/or Nintendo and/or God?


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They sue the bottlers of water for making it portable.


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wikipedia to the rescue

water intoxication

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A person with two healthy kidneys can excrete about 1.5 litres (0.39 gallons)[citation needed] of water per hour at maximum filtration (other studies find the limit to be as little as 0.9L/h (0.24 gal)[2])
water intoxication


Clearly they have never had a hangover as bad as some of mine.

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In addition to heatstroke, users of ecstasy have died from over consumption of water:

http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugxtc1.html

http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/ecstasy/dangers.htm

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what a retarded contest

of course you can die from water - youre basically diluting the electrolytes in your body, which means your cells cant fire an electrical signal anymore

if she had been drinking isotonic sprts water drinks she probably would have been ok


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timmyjoe42 Wrote:
Who knew water could kill you?


me + many others on this board + other random people + doctors


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that's fucking hilarious.

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what a retarded contest

of course you can die from water - youre basically diluting the electrolytes in your body, which means your cells cant fire an electrical signal anymore

if she had been drinking isotonic sprts water drinks she probably would have been ok


obviously.

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