Hold Your Wee for a Wii.... and Die

[PrincessPeach]

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.

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Wow... just... wow...

 

[NFBuck]

"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."

 

[sandgk]

In other news the station intends to continue with plans for a contest where contestants show how long they can urinate on a full bladder working title "Pee S Free for a PS3."

 

[exhawg]

"water intoxication"??? I always though that was called drowning. How much water do you have to drink for that to happen?

 

[BUCKYLE]

Hopefully, she won. That way her kids will not have lost their mother for nothing.

 

[Dryden]

"water intoxication"??? I always though that was called drowning. How much water do you have to drink for that to happen?

On average it'd be about 3 litres worth or greater if inactive. The problem comes when it's not excreted. The threshold would be much higher for someone engaged in physical activity, since a healthy person could sweat out nearly 1 litre worth of fluids in under an hour.

 

[Steve19]

It always amazes me what people will do to themselves for something so incredibly meaningless in retrospect.

 

[Flocka]

Hopefully, she won. That way her kids will not have lost their mother for nothing.

As long as they get Wii out of it I'm sure they won't mind.

 

[Taosman]

Sad..................:(


"Kids don't try this at home!"

 

[scooter1369]

Very few people understand that too much of anything, even water (a requirement for life on this planet), can be very bad for you.

In boot camp, they used to make us drink water until we puked. It sucked.

 

[Jagdaddy]

"water intoxication"??? I always though that was called drowning. How much water do you have to drink for that to happen?

My understanding is that before you drown you dilute your blood to where you croak from cerebral edema. Now and then an ecstasy user dies from drinking too much water.

 

[tibor75]

Darwin at work.

 

[Flocka]

Darwin at work.

Or the body that God created at work.

 

[PrincessPeach]

Hopefully, she won. That way her kids will not have lost their mother for nothing.

As long as they get Wii out of it I'm sure they won't mind.

Well, I read a follow-up article...

She placed...

second.

 

[Flocka]

Well, I read a follow-up article...

She placed...

second.

They should at least give them a Gamecube. lol