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Copy Clerk Posts: 107 Joined: 9 Oct 2008    | |
On the Record  Posts: 6226 Joined: 10 Mar 2008     | Water poisoning? Really? Well, you learn something new every day. Huh, odd thing to happen... I don't get how people can say that the woman was stupid, the worst thing I would think of drinking a gallon or 2 or water would be that you would have to go to the bathroom for a VERY long time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3200 Joined: 8 Jun 2009     | That's sad... But it is hard to place the blame - the radio station for holding such a STUPID competition, or the mother for partaking. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 161 Joined: 25 Jun 2009    |
Should of diluted the stupidity with a gunshot to the head. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1425 Joined: 10 Feb 2009     | I can't call a mother of three stupid because she died in an ill conceived contest held by idiot dj because she did all to please the children she loved. She and the radio station were ignorant of the danger in the contest and I doubt any one here has ever heard of water poisoning. Parents love their children (most of the time) and will put themselves in terrible "get mauled by a panda" danger just to make the ungrateful bastards happy |
Paperboy  Posts: 25 Joined: 19 Aug 2009   | The Wii Will Never Be Worth That... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 64 Joined: 1 Jan 2009   | On the plus side, I want to say that it's great that she would go so far for the sake of her children and even teach them about bodily limits...on the other hand, there are now 3 children without a mother who learned the lesson that if you do something incredibly stupid and risky, you can get payed for it. If they'd have a contest for the longest survivor of self-inflicted stab wounds, would she have done that too? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1425 Joined: 10 Feb 2009 |
Hey you ever see a kid beg and plead and throw a tantrum just to get whatever the Disney channel told them they need in order to exist. I have no doubt your parents did something stupid just to make you happy and strop the tantrums you would throw. That's why your parents' want you to give them grand kids, so you can suffer as they suffered. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 64 Joined: 1 Jan 2009 |
So just tell those kids that it's fine to be ignorant to the point where it kills you. Tell them that their mother died to get them a toy. And please, this goes beyond ignorance. Bodily functions are the way they are for a reason. Whether or not you know what they do doesn't excuse depriving yourself of them. Just because you average person might not be able to illustrate oxygen's path through the bloodstream doesn't mean that they can't figure out that asphyxiation is a bad idea. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 751 Joined: 2 Mar 2009    | If I recall correctly (and I could be wrong since it's been two years) there was a nurse on the scene who warned the radio station about the possibility of water poisoning but the radio hosts neglected to tell the contestants about the dangers involved. If that was the case, and once again I could be wrong since it's been two years, then that's probably what the lawsuit was based on. Either way, my condolences go to the kids in all of this. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 64 Joined: 1 Jan 2009 |
now, what's the point of urinating? expelling waste from the body. now what happens if those toxins and wastes stay in your body? I knew that before I even took an elementary school science class. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1856 Joined: 9 Jan 2009 | Natural selection hardly warrants compensation. Idiots will be idiots I suppose. But then again the people who held the competition were pretty ignorant of water poisoning aswell. I guess Nintendo has had their console's name bite thm in the ass for another reason then. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 220 Joined: 31 Jul 2009 | Someone please explain to me why the radio station is at fault here. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 158 Joined: 17 Oct 2009   | Both parties fail, imo. The radio station is stupid for not having a "blah blah we are not responsible for blah blah also too much water can kill you!". The woman is an idiot for killing herself. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1288 Joined: 14 Aug 2008    | The fact that contestants had to drink that much without being allowed to urinate only would serve to compound the problem. It reeks of poor decision making all around. The radio station should have warned contestants about possible dangers, and made them sign a liability waiver. Now not trying to make light of what is obviously a tragedy, and I understand water intoxication is something not many people are aware of, but how hard would it be to research something like that and find out for oneself? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1425 Joined: 10 Feb 2009 |
Do you honestly believe that she should have known that not peeing would kill her. We deny bodily functions all the time. Do you defecate in public because you have the bodily need to? No you hold until you an get to the bathroom because you are controlling a bodily function to she just did too long and died because of it. I doubt you sleep at the same time every night and get the exact amount of sleep recommended, wake up and exercise for twenty minutes and only consume 2000 calories of highly nutritious foods low in fat, salt and sugar? I suspect not and few do. We stay up too late, drink and eat too much, some even climb mountains that don't need to be climbed or jump off or out of perfectly good structures and planes. The circumstances off her death was stupid but she as a human was not. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1067 Joined: 15 Apr 2009    | |
Beat Writer Posts: 171 Joined: 10 Aug 2009  | I think, as a lot of posts have stated, it's six and two threes. She (willingly) drank a ridiculous amount of liquid - Her fault She put herself in a very unnatural situation, and when she felt it taking a toll, she didn't go to the hospital. I'm sure most of us would think "Wait, I've just drunk X litres of Y, and I feel bad. Maybe I should go get checked out". There was a nurse there, according to some posts, and she had knowledge of water poisoning. She should have said "Look, go to the hospital", unless Ms Strange refused treatment, at which point it is her fault. I don't think holding the competition was the bad thing, it's a very... out there idea, but it's not a stupid one. The contestants should be clever enough to realise when they've gone too far, or are in danger of doing so. If they continued regardless, it's their own fault. BUT! The radio station should have had something to cover their own backs, whether a waiver or some form of terms & conditions. I don't think one person is to blame, but I'd say it's mainly Ms Strange, followed by the DJs, with the nurse maybe taking some, depending on what truly happened. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 381 Joined: 11 Jul 2009 | WHY DID I LAUGH, i seriously dont know why i did but i found that funny. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 659 Joined: 6 Mar 2009  | Here is proof that it was a bad idea to use the name "Wii". See, Nintendo? Somebody died because you didn't listen to your fans. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 496 Joined: 14 Aug 2009   | retarded? |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 409 Joined: 2 Aug 2008   | Anyone who says water is dangerous because of drowning is just a silly person. Drowning doesn't work like drinking. :0
Unnatural situation, you say? Right now, I'm communicating with someone possibly thousands of miles away by wiring and more SCIENCE. I put myself in unnatural situations every day. It doesn't mean that my family shouldn't get compensation if my car suddenly explodes because the manufacturer overlooked a detail when making it. There's no record of the woman saying she actually felt bad until after the contest was over. She could have very well felt perfectly fine until the end. You don't know if she knew she was killing herself, you just assumed. The radio station was liable. They had people consume a substance for a reward without informing them of the possible consequences. Nobody thinks water is harmful when you're drinking it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2630 Joined: 28 May 2009    | Wait, so: 1/ She was second? So she didn't even win a Wii? |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 6 Oct 2009   | Did anyone here know about water poisoning before this happened? If you didn't, it doesn't seem like you have much of a leg to stand on calling her or the station stupid. |
Muckraker  Posts: 312 Joined: 4 Jul 2009  | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 174 Joined: 11 Apr 2009 | So they release a competition that manages to kill someone just to revive some old childish joke that I hoped would've died down already. Where's that double facepalm picture when you need it? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2225 Joined: 27 Jul 2009    | I pity her, but, me being a "Too Soon" and "Dead Baby" joke fan, I must say this: RUDE JOKE INSIDE! If you open this and are offended, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! DO NOT GET ANGRY, YOU WERE WARNED! She should have just gotten them a 360 or Steam. (Yes, I've become a Console AND PC Fan (Formally Console only)) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 119 Joined: 21 Mar 2009   | I wouldnt know how to feel my mum died but i got 16 million dollars... it would be like a tug-of-war on my emotions |
On the Record  Posts: 5025 Joined: 29 Jun 2008  |
I just had to. OT: I blame the victim, for not knowing that large quantities of water can lead to harm (despite how selfless her intentions were) and the hosts for, as another post stated, going through with the contest despite the warning from a trained medical professional. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 55 Joined: 11 Jun 2009    |
you drink a lot of water which makes your brain cells swell up causing pressure ( thats why she had a headache) eventually the pressure gets too high and you die |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2225 Joined: 27 Jul 2009 | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2393 Joined: 23 Jul 2009    | Ah, I remember hearing about this when it first happened, thought it was one of the stupidest things I had ever heard. Goes to show you that when it comes to contests: Terrible name, terrible outcome. At least the family is getting compensated, not sure why that's such a grand thing, but I guess it doesn't really matter, this merely puts the Incedent to rest. |
Paperboy  Posts: 19 Joined: 23 May 2009  | yeah i heard about this when it happened...Sacramento is right near where i live lol. its so stupid...its like suing for someone choking at a hot dog eating contest...i guess people have to sign wavers for everything now. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 797 Joined: 17 Jul 2008 |
I doubt she knew either, but let me see you drink 2 gallons of water and tell me how you feel about drinking more after that. I guarantee you, you won't be wanting more. It was that sense she overrode, and I'm saying she was stupid for that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1453 Joined: 1 Jun 2009 |
Its the same the world over now. I also think demanding 34 million quid for someone elses stupidity is grossly excessive. I would have given them a tenth of it at most. |
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Holding such a contestt was stupid and irresponsible.
However I don't think the family should have got anything, as at the end of the day it WAS her own stupidity that killed her. The contest organisers just gave her a platform.