First wii fatality.

Hobbes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6261509.stm

JPA

Read about that earlier. It's just plain weird.
Nintendo will be sued for choosing a silly name now!

tman

Horrible piece of news
You've gotta feel for the kids... they'll have the guilt of their mother dying trying to get them a Wii hanging over them now.

"water intoxication"?

JPA

tman wrote:

Horrible piece of news
You've gotta feel for the kids... they'll have the guilt of their mother dying trying to get them a Wii hanging over them now.

"water intoxication"?

It's like drowning apparently

Crash

iirc its what a couple of the last few E attributed deaths in Ireland have been caused by.

Tricity Bendix

JPA wrote:

Read about that earlier. It's just plain weird.
Nintendo will be sued for choosing a silly name now!

Perhaps the radio station could be sued for not taking the necessary precautions/being so bloody stupid, but Wii and Nintendo are blameless.

K!LL!@N

I'm living here in Sacramento and actually listen to that station from time to time in the car.
Incredibly stupid on their part to hold such a contest without checking out the possible consequences.
Especially considering there was at least one similar death at Sac State University due to a fraternity prank/contest.

You still can't walk into a store here and buy a Wii, just goes to show the lengths some people will go to.

Killian

Rew

tman wrote:

"water intoxication"?

You will die for extreams of pretty much anything, too much water is as bad as too little.

peepsbates

Rew wrote:

You will die for extreams of pretty much anything, too much water is as bad as too little.

i think it flushes or dilutes the essental salts from your system*




*maybe wrong

Rew

peepsbates wrote:

i think it flushes or dilutes the essental salts from your system*




*maybe wrong

I think your right

Victor

peepsbates wrote:

i think it flushes or dilutes the essental salts from your system*

*maybe wrong

Basicly, then you end up with tissues burst in your brain and suffer brain damage.

sofireland

no coincidence her name was ms strange

still its tragic, its always sad when kids are orphaned.

Zombrex

Very sad news, the poor woman. And very very stupid of the radio station not to clear this promotion with a doctor, or have an ambulance on site. :mad:

As peeps says it dilutes the balance of your bodies fluids causing a shift in electrolyte (particularly sodium) balance. Cells can stop functioning, burst, or die. If this happens in the brain it is very bad news.

When you hear of people dying while on Ecstasy this is likely what actually happened to them. Ecstasy disrupts the bodies normal system of "thirsty/not thirsty", causing the body to crave water it doesn't need and turns off some of the warning systems that make you stop drinking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

I would point out that this isn't really anything to do with Nintendo or the Wii. She could have been in the contest for anything. When I read the thread title I imagined someone had been killed by a flying Wii-mote

DarkJager

That really really sucks. Imagine how her kids must feel. Its a sad indication of how far some people are willing to go to get their kids what they want.

Garret

Absolute disgrace, and the radio station should be held criminally responsible. The fact that she told them that she had a terrible headache and was not feeling well before leaving and they didnt get her medical attention is unbelievable.

I honestly cant believe that not one person connected to the competition would not have seen the risk of water poisoning when forcing someone to drink obscene amounts of water in such a short period of time

Rew

I remember reading about a guy in Russia who died in a Vodka drink competition to win a bottle of Vodka, equally pointless death.

Owen

Well, did they get the Wii?

1huge1

^^ im sure they'll get more than that

jesus thats terrible

electro.ie

They had a "vodka drinking olympics" competition in Russia with big media attention a couple of years back and the winner died, 2nd place ended up in intensive care, as far as I remember the organiser got convicted of manslaughter.

1huge1

^^ im suprised the competition was let happen in the 1st place

Cake Fiend

Garret wrote:

Absolute disgrace, and the radio station should be held criminally responsible
...
...when forcing someone to drink obscene amounts of water in such a short period of time

Yes, these competition organizers, who physically held this woman down and forced water down her throat using a hose pipe and a pump, should certainly be charged with murder.

Oh, wait, that's not what happened at all, is it...

:rolleyes:

Darwinism in action.