{"id":598,"date":"2007-01-15T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/01\/water-kills-woman-in-wii-competition\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T10:45:00","slug":"water-kills-woman-in-wii-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/01\/water-kills-woman-in-wii-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Kills Woman In Wii Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was strangely moved by this article about Jennifer Strange,<\/a> the woman who died trying to win a Wii in a bizarre radio station competition, “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”. Like Lea Betts<\/a> the ecstasy-taking British teenager, she died of hyperhydration<\/b> – excess water in too short a time created the disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits.<\/i>(Wikipedia)<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

What struck me as particularly sad was that the woman was poor, taking part in what she thought was a harmless activity and trying to win the gaming console for her family. One of the other contestants Mr Ybarra is quoted as saying, “She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids.”<\/p>\n

The ramifications are endless. I would hate to be the bright spark who thought up this particularly stupid stunt – he or she will have this death to contend with from now on, attaching itself to whatever they do. I foresee someone exiting the radio industry soon, perhaps finding a job in social welfare work. <\/p>\n

What will happen to the woman’s children? Will the radio station have to run ads advising caution for anyone taking part in their competitions? Will Nintendo now be forced into slapping labels on their consoles advising that too much water all at once can kill you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was strangely moved by this article about Jennifer Strange, the woman who died trying to win a Wii in a bizarre radio station competition, “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”. Like Lea Betts the ecstasy-taking British teenager, she died of hyperhydration – excess water in too short a time created the disturbance in brain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}