Author Topic: Hold your Wee for a Wii (Read 40976 times)

WuTangTurtle · « **on:** January 14, 2007, 09:08:09 AM »

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/woman-dies-participating-in-wii-contest-228621.php

Person dies trying to win a wii by holding in her own wee. It's not confirmed but it is most likely water intoxication. Thats right folks, WATER INTOXICATION. People are morons....

Guitar Smasher · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2007, 09:14:38 AM »

She had three kids...

Seriously, there's being a caring and generous parent, and then there's being a responsible adult.

Chode2234 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2007, 09:33:10 AM »

I saw this on Digg last night. If Nintendo would have only called it the revolution all of this could have been avoided. I can't see a radio station contest to overthrow the government for a video game console.

stevey · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2007, 09:36:31 AM »

The radio station should've had a doctor on call to make sure no one kidney poped.

wandering · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2007, 10:09:06 AM »

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People are morons....

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and then there's being a responsible adult.

I agree. The people who held that contest were moronic and irresponsible.

WuTangTurtle · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2007, 10:24:51 AM »

I would blame the radio station and the contest entrants.

First off the radio station should have a doctor or atleast set up a limit of how much water they can drink and how long before things could become dangerous. Secondly the contest entrants for not realizing that they could get water poisoning (basically drowning urself) or physically injuring urself by holding it in too long.

I hope the radio station gets into some legal troubles and jobs are lost.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2007, 10:26:15 AM »

she drank 40 ounceS Of water iN a couple hours Yet cause of death is unconfirmed... fishy.

Shecky · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2007, 01:42:42 PM »

Water Intoxication? Isn't that kidney failure?

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2007, 02:10:28 PM »

Now a person who comment on it, it is when you drink too much water and it causes an imbalence where the cells swell up and explode. By purposly not going to bathroom was one of the problems but the kidney slow down after the urine starts to back up into the Uthra (I think that is what the tubes from the kidney to the the blader is called.) Which spikes the amount of water in the blood which causes an imbalence with the electrolytes in your body and beause of too much water your body starts to kill itself.

So this proves that:
1)Just because it is a public contest doesn't mean its safe.
2)You can really have too much of something that is considered "good" for you.

Also this was carried by the news in my area (Wisconsin), I don't know if they mentioned that it was for a game system because it can cause some anti-gaming feelings.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2007, 04:28:22 PM »

40 ounces of water in an hour really isn't all that much. As long as you go take a piss, or sweat a lot of it out, you'll be fine. When I work out I drink at least that much.

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2007, 05:37:36 PM »

I'm usually a pretty thirsty person and I like to drink alot of fluids. I've almost definitely consumed double that amount in an hour. The old supersize cups at McDonalds were 42 oz and I used to watch people fill those up 2-3x while they ate their dinner or lunch.

I don't know, but something seems off about this whole story to me. Granted, if it is true, I feel very bad for this woman and her children, because it is a truly awful thing to happen, and the radio station is the only one to blame.

bustin98 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2007, 02:08:03 AM »

The problem with drinking so much water is it dilutes the amount of sodium in your system. Sweating it out is not a good idea since you know how salty your sweat is. The radio station could have provided water with small amounts of sodium in it. The sodium helps the body regulate how much water the cells absorb.

Nothing can replace those kids' mom, but that radio station had better make sure they have want for nothing for the rest of their lives. Civil suit will be here in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

KDR_11k · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2007, 02:21:42 AM »

You can have your bladder burst and that is fatal.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2007, 04:00:36 AM »

It just goes to show that video games kill people. Jack Thompson is right.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2007, 07:32:20 AM »

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You can have your bladder burst and that is fatal.

This story makes my heart heavy, and my prostate weak. My bladder is full to bursting...

UncleBob · « **Reply #15 on:** January 15, 2007, 07:43:39 AM »

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Originally posted by: bustin98
Nothing can replace those kids' mom, but that radio station had better make sure they have want for nothing for the rest of their lives. Civil suit will be here in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

Why? Because their mother chose to participate in a contest?

Zach · « **Reply #16 on:** January 15, 2007, 07:49:49 AM »

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Nothing can replace those kids' mom, but that radio station had better make sure they have want for nothing for the rest of their lives. Civil suit will be here in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

Why? Because their mother chose to participate in a contest?

Because the contest was unsafe. The station did not think to take proper medical precautions for such a contest. They should have known that such a thing could happen, and taken proper action to prevent it.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #17 on:** January 15, 2007, 07:52:03 AM »

Chances are she had to sign a waiver. Chances are there will be a lawsuit anyway. Wrongful death, most likely.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #18 on:** January 15, 2007, 08:01:33 AM »

Isn't it also negligence to host a contest involving a high risk of death (I mean, this DOES happen often and there are no real external signs for water intoxication, the subject just feels thirsty when it kicks in and will not feel bad until it is too late so neither the subject's judgement nor external signs could help determine when someone is to be removed), especially without on-site medical staff? They could have used alcohol, at least that has external signs for when you had enough and causes the subject to throw up rather than absorb the OD. But no, they had to pull a stupid word game without knowing the risks. I'd say the station is definitely at fault since the high risk of injury or death along with no external signs for approaching danger (not only water OD but also bladder bursting) and high incentive for contestants to ignore the warning signs of their body basically invites people to misjudge their abilities and get themselves killed.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #19 on:** January 15, 2007, 08:24:30 AM »

"If Nintendo would have only called it the revolution all of this could have been avoided."

I was thinking that too. So the next time Nintendo gives something a really stupid name and people defend it REMEMBER that last time it happened someone DIED.

It's the radio station's fault but it IS very interesting that if Nintendo didn't pick the incredibly horrible name they did the idea for the contest never would have happened in the first place.

I feel sorry for the kids because the mom was trying to win them a videogame system. That's cool. If your parent won you a game system that is something you would always remember fondly. But here we have a dedicated mother doing something special for her kids and she dies because of it. That's just horribly tragic.

I would be so screwed in a contest like this. Whenever I go to the theatre I have like a 50% chance of having to go pee through a large portion of the movie. Two hernias as an infant f*cked my bladder up something fierce.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #20 on:** January 15, 2007, 09:38:55 AM »

I hope the kids at least got the Wii...

matt oz · « **Reply #21 on:** January 15, 2007, 10:18:55 AM »

The woman was stupid. It was no one's fault but her own.

If the family sues, say goodbye to every type of contest involving a physical act. No more 'hands on a hard body' contests, because someone's legs may atrophy. No more pie-eating contests, because someone may go into a diabetic coma.

There is absolutely no personal responsibility in our tort-happy society, so if this family sues, it would set a precedent that anyone holding a contest will be held strictly accountable for the actions of the people in the contest. No one will want to take that responsibility anymore, so no more contests.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #22 on:** January 15, 2007, 11:32:18 AM »

"I hope the kids at least got the Wii"

I don't know if that would be very fun. Every time you played your Wii you would think "my Mom died to give me this". It's not so depressing to think something like that every time you vote or visit the Alamo or something like that but a videogame system?

chris+pie=joy · « **Reply #23 on:** January 15, 2007, 11:53:14 AM »

WOW....i live in the area and i dint hear of this tilll like five minutes ago when i was looking through random threads.....i was probably too busy playing with my Wii....

Strell · « **Reply #24 on:** January 15, 2007, 12:04:48 PM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"If Nintendo would have only called it the revolution all of this could have been avoided."

I was thinking that too. So the next time Nintendo gives something a really stupid name and people defend it REMEMBER that last time it happened someone DIED.

If you honestly believe this, you are retarded in every possible sense of the word.

I thought people were over this name bs by now. No one cares about the name except for a few fanboys, whether they are rabidly for or against Nintendo.

The name has helped Nintendo quite clearly. To suggest it was a bad decision is stupid. Amazingly stupid.

I mean, I have heard some STUPID SH*T in my day, but goodness, this takes the cake. And that includes comparisons to posts where every other word is spelled incorrectly, or have a plethora of !s or 1s.

This situation has NOTHING to do with the name of the system. NOTHING. There have been contests of this nature for a while now, and they will continue to happen. Some guy died in a Toughman contest a few years ago around here, but there are still charity boxing events.

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Author Topic: Hold your Wee for a Wii (Read 40976 times)