| Tragically, the contestant, Jennifer Strange, 28, died after the event from what a coroner described as "water intoxication." Man, the things people will do for a Wii... I told everybody to preorder. But as usual, no one listened to me. As a sidenote, the contest's winner, pictured at right, had no comment. |  |
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Dying for a Wii
Just read an interesting report out of Sacramento on MSNBC. Unfortunately a wife and mother of three competed in radio station KNDN's contest called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" which entailed massive water consumption followed by competitive bladder control, all for the hottest console around, the Nintendo Wii.
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This is very sad. People expect the possibility of dying over/for a PS3, but not a Wii.
I'm not going to go into whether this lady should have known better, whether the radio show should have known better, etc.---'cause you could go back and forth arguing about those things all day---but I'm not sure why the competitors were asked to drink so much water. Couldn't they have just downed 2 or 3 liters and then had a holding-it competition?
Anyway, this is the saddest outcome of a pissing contest EVAR.
Honestly, in does seems like one of the more benign radio contests with which I am familiar. Oh, human physiology, we hardly knew ye.
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