Posted on 01/18/2007 10:47:09 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck
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.
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I remember the Chico case. Carrington was forced to drink the water and then do calisthenics.
I don't think anyone forced the radio contestants to drink. Several reportedly left early on.
Luckily, it's also chemically impossible
In that case, they forced him though. Maybe could bring charges, but I question whether they'd win. If I tell you to jump out of a tall building, and you do it, have I committed a crime?
Actually I dislike all these How much can you eat/drink contests.
My stepson just won a vindallu curry eating contest.
Heaven knows what that did to his alimentary canal.
I doubt that the contest release would exonerate them. In most states, those releases are held invalid when you are dealing with bodily injury. Sometimes an assumption of risk argument works, but you better have a pretty clear disclosure of what the risk is.
I don't see that much of a difference between the frat and the radio station.
The difference with your question is that almost everyone alive knows that if you jump off a building you will die. I doubt many people know (and the contest kind of proves this) that you can die from drinking too much water.
I think I read that the contest release was more geared toward a publicity release anyway.
Bet the promoters of all those all-you-can-eat contests will be following this one?
I've often wondered after watching that guy down 52 dogs what legalities would reign if in fact something ruptured internally...
True, but it cuts both ways. If she signed a release, then the implication is that she knew it was dangerous. And if she was listening to the station when the nurse called in, she heard what they heard. If she knew everything they knew, but did it anyway, then where does that put them?
She worked at at Radiological office, but not sure if she was an RN.
1. One of the other contestants said that they could not hear the callers from the booth they were in.
2. I believe the release had to do mostly with publicity.
Also, another interesting thing that I heard was that the djs were discussing the Chico case while on the air...It seems that there is a fair amount of ammo that a defense attorney for the djs may have to contend with...we'll see what happens here.
Let's start suing people for being stupid. How come we can't sue lefties, then?
Really? Maybe if ALL the contestants died, sure. Then we can say that such an activity is dangerous. But one person? Out of how many?
Was she the winner? If not, then others drank more than she did! And they didn't die, did they?
How is the radio station supposed to be at fault? Personal responsibility, people.
The interesting thing is that she did stop drinking and still died.
How is the radio station supposed to be at fault? Personal responsibility, people.
And where is this "personal responsibility" you speak of on the part of the DJs at the radio station? Are they not required to have any for the purpose of ratings?
***The station (FM 107.4 out here) is a hip-hop outfit; I was surprised at her age, RN background (if true) she participated.***
Three things that should have prevented this from happening to her are her age, her education level,
and her income. Looks to me from the pic that they were a family that could afford a Wii. She doesn't seem to fit the hip-hop demographic, either. Very strange indeed.
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