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  • Radio Station Behind Fatal Water Stunt Fires 10

    01/16/2007 7:36:59 PM PST · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 29 replies · 852+ views
    CBS 2 LOS ANGELES ^ | 16 JANUARY 2007 | AP
    (AP) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento area radio station Tuesday fired 10 employees -- including its three morning disc jockeys -- after a mother of three died Friday following an on-air water-drinking contest at the station's studios. The hosts of KDND FM's "Morning Rave" program were fired a day after the station announced it was suspending the show and investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 28-year-old Jennifer Lea Strange. Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by seeing how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. Strange...
  • Sacramento sheriff investigates death of radio station contestant ("Hold your Wee for a Wii")

    01/17/2007 7:32:59 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 63 replies · 1,238+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/17/07 | Juliet Williams - ap
    Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 28-year-old mother of three who died after taking part in a radio station's water-drinking contest. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department decided to pursue the investigation Wednesday after listening to a tape of the Jan. 12 morning radio show obtained by The Sacramento Bee, sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran said. On the tape, disc jockeys on KDND-FM's "Morning Rave" show joke about the possible dangers of consuming too much water, at one point even alluding to a Northern California college student who died during a similar hazing stunt in 2005. During the show,...
  • Sheriff orders probe of radio contest death

    01/18/2007 10:47:09 AM PST · by GoldCountryRedneck · 115 replies · 2,457+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 1/18/2007 | Christina Jewett - Bee Staff Writer
    Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness assigned two homicide detectives Wednesday to investigate the apparent water-intoxication death of a Rancho Cordova woman who competed in a radio-station stunt to win a Nintendo gaming console.Jennifer Strange (deceased), her husband, and children.
  • Family to sue radio station over water death

    01/18/2007 5:09:34 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 131 replies · 2,101+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/18/07 | Aaron C. Davis - ap
    Lawyers for the family of a woman who died after drinking nearly two gallons of water in an on-air radio contest said Thursday they will file a wrongful death lawsuit to make an example out of the station and attempt to curb the recklessness of shock jock radio. "We believe we can get a judgment that people across the country will have to pay attention to," said Roger Dreyer, a personal injury lawyer who accused radio station KDND-FM of knowing of the dangers of the water-drinking contest but continuing anyway. He charged that the contest that preceded the death of...