Comments on: Woman Dies After Holding Wee for Wii Radio Contest

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:30:41 +0000

thats freakin stuiped hold you wee for a wii, its obvious that someone will die. and it happend.

By: david

david — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:07:50 +0000

I like to think I am not on the bottom half of the bell curve, but I have never heard of this. I would of had no clue you could of died from drinking water. The Radio stations liability should come in from them not consulting a physician, other then that I don't see them as done anything wrong. You take a chance in anything you do.. people got shot at walmart camping for a ps3.. people die in car wrecks all the time.. everything you do there is a chance of death.. we just have trivialized those chances to a point we don't think about them anymore.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:28:11 +0000

Why was the contest not stopped once a medical professional called and told the DJ's what could possibly happen? Would the contestants quit the contest if they had heard what the nurse called in and said? I'm not laying blame here, but I agree that it was the responsibility of the radio station and the contestants to know what they were getting in to. I can't imagine what life must be like now for the family, especially the children, of this young woman. Honestly, how many of you, before this happened, would have known that drinking a lot of water could have this outcome? I didn't know that you could drink too much water. I'm just an average woman, and this lady probably was too. I would also think it's safe to say that the former radio station employees feel like crap right now because of what happened to this lady. They did not intend for a tragic outcome. Anyway, just my thoughts and opinion. Thanks for reading.

By: Jones

Jones — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:54:25 +0000

Shes was a hoe anyways!

By: Briana

Briana — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:20:22 +0000

OK....Whenever someone dies, it is human nature to try and find blame even when there is none! Responsibility falls on both parties, this happened for a reason...Never mind with the "what if's" ......all that can be done now, is to learn from this!

By: Danielle K.M.

Danielle K.M. — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:28:14 +0000

No - thats bull.

Waiver OR NOT...that was the stations fault.

OBVIOUSLY NO ONE would have entered the station to do the stupid contest if they knew the repercautions! It is assumed that the Station Employees knew "a lil something" about their own contest.

NOT ONLY THAT but a nurse called in WARNING the station. The contestants could not hear her speak, but the DJ's could....what happened?? Did they call the winner?? No! They egged them on to drink more.

THAT - is the STATIONS duty to see the harmful effects. STATIONS DUTY. Don't make light of a mother dieing! She is dead over a stupid contest and her kids are left alone.

No ONE should be put to shame, because no one meant to kill anyone...but at the same time. There should be some sort of guidlines when preparing contest- This isn't Fear Factor.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:29 +0000

I guess personal responsibilty doesn't come into play. The fact that a grown woman voluntarily participated in a rediculous contest of her own free wiill apparently doesn't mean a thing. Seems people want to put the radio station to blame, when ultimately this woman caused her own death. She signed a waiver for petes sakes...does no one understand that?! No one forced her to participate!!! It's a damn game system - not having one isn't the end of the world. It makes me sick to think that people don't seem to think she holds any responsibility!

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By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:27:36 +0000

Thankfully, all I had to do was show up at Wal-Mart at 5:30 a.m. Which put me 3d in line for what turned out to be 4 Wiis.

Though if I'd had to get up to pee during that time, things could have taken an ugly turn.

By: Steven Plunk

Steven Plunk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:22:12 +0000

I agree with Anderson on this. The station enticed these people with a hard to get gaming system probably meant to go to their kids. Now these kids have no mother.

We are becoming a "jackass" world where stunts, pranks, and practical jokes are broadcast as normal behavior. What they don't show are the things that go wrong and believe me they go wrong a lot. Unfortunately there are some kids in Sacramento who now know how wrong they can go.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:04:09 +0000

Loathsome, and I'm more inclined to blame the station -- the average person not only won't know how dangerous this can be, but would tend to assume that the very fact of the contest suggested it wouldn't be dangerous. Not everyone is going to recall that Tycho Brahe died from "holding his water" rather than leave the table at a feast given by an influential noble whom Tycho didn't care to offend ...

By: anon

anon — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:51:08 +0000

Tragic, but I think the average person on the street thinks of water as being harmless, or even good for you. Remember that doctors are telling us that Americans are dehydrated and that we should all be drinking more water. Then there are all sorts of eating contests, some featured on this blog, that consists of eating mass quantities of hot dogs or whatever.

That being said this was a pretty stupid stunt.

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