X-treme watersports redux...

[Carleton Hughes]

Let's face it,an occasional golden shower is cool but any good thing can be carried to extremes....somewhat prophetic surname,what?



Woman drinks so much water she dies
POSTED: 10:33 p.m. EST, January 13, 2007
Story Highlights
• Woman, 28, dies of water intoxication, assistant coroner says
• Radio contest required drinking large amounts, not voiding
• Victim was trying to win video game console for her children


SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

"She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. "She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."

It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed.

A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.

John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange's death.

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

Initially, contestants were handed 8-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes.

"They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added.

After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink.

"I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids."

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[mgburg]

Was this one of those "Last One Standing" contests where you win 'cause you're the "Last One Standing?"

How did she do in the contest if she was, supposedly, at work?

Didn't she get eliminated 'cause she eliminated and was sent home/work?

What was the contest depending on? The good nature of the contestant to say, "Hey, I haven't peed today! I'm still in the running!" (Pun intended.)

I think the coroner is looking to pin this on someone.

Victims can't be idiots.

I smell a "Darwin Award" winner here...or at least a contender.

[cmac2012]

OMFG. A guy died at a fraternity in Chico, not too far away, a couple of years back, from a similar forced water drinking ritual, administered as hazing because the frats were being cracked down on for excessive alcohol driniking in similar stunts.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/03/BACADIGEST2.DTL&hw=chico+water+intoxication&sn=002&sc=740

[Carleton Hughes]

If you're going to drink yourself to death use Minwax,you may have bad skin but you'll have a fine finish......

[t walgamuth]

groooooaaaaan.

ha!

tom w

[Carleton Hughes]

Originally Posted by mgburg

Was this one of those "Last One Standing" contests where you win 'cause you're the "Last One Standing?"

How did she do in the contest if she was, supposedly, at work?

Didn't she get eliminated 'cause she eliminated and was sent home/work?

What was the contest depending on? The good nature of the contestant to say, "Hey, I haven't peed today! I'm still in the running!" (Pun intended.)

I think the coroner is looking to pin this on someone.

Victims can't be idiots.

I smell a "Darwin Award" winner here...or at least a contender.

Bottled water doesn't kill people,people kill people....

The D.A.received a stream of complaints and was going to subpoena the D.J's until his aides advised him the case would never hold water.

[t walgamuth]

grooooaaaaaaan!

my pun meter is maxxing out!

stop stop stop you are killing me!

tom w

[TWeatherford]

I wonder if they'll give the kids the Wii anyway.

[cmac2012]

The prosecutor's been complaining about leaks, I understand.