Probably the most tragic incident that happened in this week. A 28 year old
woman,Jennifer Strange died from water intoxication after taking part in KDND 107.9’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”, a competition that was held in California. Trying to win the console for her children by drinking as much water as possible and not urinating, unfortunately she felt unwell and eventually died.
KDND 107.9 the radio station that had plan such competition fired five on-air staff and five backroom staffers following the incident, which clearly had shown their stupidity for not taking safety precautions earlier on. Further reading about water intoxication..
Water intoxication (also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning) is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a very rapid intake of water more..
The TV coverage:
Update: I did a search and found out that the Radio Station is being used by the family of the woman.
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January 24th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Ouch, that’s pretty bad
January 24th, 2007 at 8:06 am
yeah, such thing always happen in this life.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:43 am
this is a sad news. Children nowadays is very..(you name it).
April 28th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
what a poor woman do the such thing for her children……
April 28th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
a mother would do anything for their children, nazmi.