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Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 26 Oct 2009     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 5 Feb 2008     |
I would think it would, but you would have to get to some saturation point. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2234 Joined: 15 Apr 2009     |
Wonder if you can pop your lungs... |
Copy Clerk Posts: 80 Joined: 5 Feb 2008 |
Blood/oxygen saturation level, and yea if you have someone stick a hose down into your lungs... lol |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2234 Joined: 15 Apr 2009 |
Yet another human-bomb idea. Damn, I'm on a roll. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 107 Joined: 27 Jan 2009     | Do you think the family bought a new Wii with the 16 million they got? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 857 Joined: 25 Mar 2008    |
Fun fact: EVERYTHING is poisonous if you take in too much of it. And wasn't water poisoning some sort of execution back in the middle ages? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2234 Joined: 15 Apr 2009 |
What's fun about dying from too much anything? I don't know, actually. Did they know enough about the body to have that be a form of execution? If so, why not? |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 857 Joined: 25 Mar 2008 |
It's just a figure of speech, don't take it too seriously, sheesh -.- |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3317 Joined: 1 Nov 2007   | I understand this is a tragidy for the family, and I'd like to apolagise for the fact that I laughed when I read this artical. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 20 Oct 2009   |
Yeah it can funny that heh Our blood has evolved to capture the oxygen we breathe in and bind it safely to the transport molecule called haemoglobin. If you breathe air with a much higher than normal O2 concentration, the oxygen in the lungs overwhelms the blood's ability to carry it away. The result is that free oxygen binds to the surface proteins of the lungs, interferes with the operation of the central nervous system and also attacks the retina. Contrary to popular myth, hyperventilating air at ordinary pressures never causes oxygen toxicity (the dizziness is due to CO2 levels dropping too low), but breathing oxygen at pressures of 0.5 bar or more (roughly two and a half times normal) for more than 16 hours can lead to irreversible lung damage and, eventually, death. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 167 Joined: 17 Jul 2008 | Most of the other contestants probably left the contest and actually used the toilet. I drink alot of water each day, but I also use the toilet when my body tells me to use it. I remember hearing about this back when it happened and thinking that nobody should have been fired from the radio stations in the first place. It's like how water parks get shut down because one idiot decides he wants to do it 'his way' and gets himself killed. Then the family goes and sues the park for everything they have. Does this really make sense? This is the perfect example of the tyranny of the minority ruining everything for the majority. I like water parks. I don't like that some have been shut down because of statistical anomolies on the far end of the bell curve bringing down the whole thing. Likewise, if a radio station had a contest where they have the contestants smoke as many cigarettes as they can in an hour, they shouldn't have to tell you that it is bad. A non-smoker shouldn't try out for this contest. Anybody who dies of cancer SHOULD NOT blame the radio station for their own stupidity. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 870 Joined: 4 Jun 2008   | Water intoxication isn't common knowledge so the mother wasn't stupid for not knowing about it. The radio station was at fault for not finding out was the contest safe and for not stopping the contest even though a nurse had warned them about water intoxication. |
Paperboy  Posts: 23 Joined: 1 Jun 2009  | This is just beyond fail |
On the Record  Posts: 5630 Joined: 14 Sep 2008   |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity Anything can kill you in high numbers. Sugar, coffee, water, oxygen, even sex. Probably. |
Beat Writer Posts: 204 Joined: 27 May 2009 | The makers of this contest should have read up on the implications of drinking copious amounts of water and then not letting your body do what comes naturally. It's like filling a balloon with too much air and trying to see if it explodes or not. It isn't capable of holding that much air, so it pops. In the same way, humans are not capable of holding that much water. The cells in her body couldn't distribute the water fast enough, so they quite literally exploded by the thousands. She essentially drowned, one cell at a time. I think the family had every right to sue, and I'm glad they got that good of a settlement. The makers of the contest did not do their research, and put many lives at stake because of it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008    |
Nothing if it is her fault she died. If she was killed because of negligence of a company then yes, the money should be awarded. But she CHOOSE to be in the contest. She KNEW she was feeling badly. I died because of her choices.
This may be true. We will never know if the mother knew the dangers or not as she is dead. But one thing can be concluded. She must have been feeling pretty badly as time went on. But she kept going on with the contest. If a person is doing anything and starts to feel badly it is a good idea to alert someone about the fact. Then is things go south that person should go to the hospital. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 54 Joined: 26 Oct 2009 | It is possible that she thought she was feeling bad due to something unrelated. Regardless, if a radio station is going to hold a contest like this, it is their responsibility to make sure it's safe. From a legal standpoint, the family had the right to sue them because they did not give a warning. And technically, yes, she died from her choices, but even so she did not have the information needed to know she was making a bad choice. I would not have associated headaches with holding myself, and I don't think she did either. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3354 Joined: 9 Sep 2008    | A human life is not worth 16 mil. Not even you, Mr. Funk. I'd give them 100,000. Tops. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1609 Joined: 28 May 2009  | All for a Wii as well... what a waste. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 54 Joined: 26 Oct 2009 |
How true. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2567 Joined: 29 Aug 2009   | Okay, really, who organises that type of competition? Feckin' Prick... |
Muckraker  Posts: 309 Joined: 30 May 2009    | Ugliest. Family. Photo. EVER. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 20 May 2009    | She came SECOND and DIED? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 158 Joined: 27 Jun 2009 | I hope the family recovers as best they can. Let us never forget that nintendo named a toy after a bodily fluid. Lest we forget... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 363 Joined: 3 Dec 2008  | Now they can afford a Playstation. |
Beat Writer Posts: 201 Joined: 19 Mar 2009  |
Not too much music! |
On the Record Posts: 5630 Joined: 14 Sep 2008 |
You can go deaf. Or crazy and kill yourself. Or lose balance and fall from a building, landing dead. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1047 Joined: 14 Mar 2009  | Oh... That's so sad... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2234 Joined: 15 Apr 2009 |
So, oh, let's say, O3 could kill you? Earth is either a deadly fucking planet, or humans are wimps. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1457 Joined: 19 Jun 2009  | Well no blame attached to the radio station, the woman was not forced to drink, her greed led to her death, i wouldn't give her family a dime. |
Paperboy  Posts: 38 Joined: 3 Apr 2009  | Christ what the hell is this? No family should be awarded anything because their daughter decided to be the most unintelligent person in the world when she grew up. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2069 Joined: 11 Jan 2009  |
Blame both. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 68 Joined: 16 Jul 2009    | it is sad that people would do that for a wii. |
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Well, enough pure oxygen can get you high, so I don't see how too much can't kill you.