Win a Wii! What do you mean shes dead!?
Man there are some weird stories out there, but this recent one is really out there. I will paste the article I found from cnn.com:
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.
Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.
"She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. "She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."
It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed.
A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.
John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange's death.
"We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred," he said.
Initially, contestants were handed 8-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes.
"They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."
Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added.
After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink.
"I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids."
There should be limits to certain things; I mean she probably could have bought a wii in a couple weeks from a store without drinking water till she died from it. I wonder how much she actually consumed? It’s a sad thing to see, I feel bad for the family but man that’s too crazy, died from overdosing on water…
Speaking of the Wii, I picked up a new game “Rayman: Raving Rabbids” its basically a bunch of mini games where you use the “wii-mote and nunchuk” to do various things from shooting plungers at attacking rabbids, to a ddr style rhythm game. Overall its very fun and worth checking out if you have a wii, it gives you a good idea of how the controllers can be used. Wii Sports Bowling however still owns my time, this little console is very fun to play.

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