She should not have drunk the water.
"They keep telling me that it's the water. That it will tell my head to hurt and then it will make me puke," she said.
"This is what it feels like when you're drowning," responded one of the DJs. "There's a lot of water inside you."
Eventually, Strange gave up and accepted the second-place prize, tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert.
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Sympathy and best wishes to the family. She definitely met a fate worse then tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert, unfortunately.
Gee. What a surprise.
No case, she drunk the water of her own free will - NOT because the DJs held a gun to her head.
Darwin Award contender for '07 - NOT a cause celebre for a civil suit!
When I was a bartender I would offer "Bladder Busters" where all draft beer was 25 cents until someone went to the bathroom. Usually about 40 minutes was the norm. I probably would be sued today.
Who ever forced her to drink that much water should be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law!!
Oh, she did this of her own free will?
The it's (almost) a Darwin award!
(yea - call me a callous jerk but anyone who risks theor life for a $250 game console is an idiot. Unfortuantly, she already reporduced)
I do feel horrible that the kids have to suffer for their moms stupidity. What's Daddy have to say about all this? Oh..nevermind..
Stupidity all the way around for everyone involved, including the deceased woman.
I nominate her for the Darwin Award ....
I should have put a "Please try not and be too callous when you post your comments" disclaimer at the start of the thread. A mother of 3 children is dead after all.
Without a contest , no one dies.
Even if a waiver was signed, there was no obvious forethought for medical emergencies that could arise and the fact that a student died a year earlier should have made the likelihood of allowing such a contest to go forward all the more the reason not to proceed with it.
Thanks.
Bottom line: the DJs will be fortunate to avoid prison time, and the radio station will be out well in excess of $1 million. And rightly so.
Predictable jackpot justice shyster scam. This Darwin Award candidate died of terminal stupidity.
The main question is....did they get the Wii?
At least she didn't have to go to the Justin Timberlake concert...
Seriesly, if these idiots said over the air that they knew the stunt was dangerous, and they knew of the previous fraternity hazing death, they're going to face serious consequences. They are moving beyond civil liability into manslaughter territory.
In other words, we personal injury lawyers have sensitivies, we allow for the body to get cold first.
We need more regulation of human water ingestion. For the children.
As I mentioned when this first appeared on FR: The family should sue for the 2007 Darwin Award - this woman deserves it.
In any case, she has met all the requirements for getting the award, including removing herself from the gene pool.
Pity about the children though - they'll have to suffer for mom's incredible stupidity.
How about they give them a Wii and call it even?
Isn't she kind of old for that?She'd be out of place in a crowd of pre-pubescent little girls,which would be the make up of the audience.