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Pneuma  
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 More options Oct 30, 1:24 pm
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From: Pneuma <frank.sp...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:24:31 -0700
Local: Fri, Oct 30 2009 1:24 pm
Subject: Jury Awards $16 mill in Death During Hold your Wee for a Wii Contest.
From the what were they thinking department...

Jury awards $16M in radio contestant water intoxication death

ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:48 p.m. October 29, 2009

SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County jury has awarded $16.5 million to the
family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio
station's water-drinking contest.

Jennifer Strange, a mother of three, died of acute water intoxication
in January 2007 after the challenge to see which contestant could
drink the most water without using the restroom. A Nintendo Wii video
game was the prize for winning the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest.

On Thursday, jurors found Philadelphia-based Entercom Communications
Corp. and its Sacramento subsidiary negligent and liable for the
actions of its employees at Sacramento radio station KDND-FM. The
station fired 10 employees after the death.

During the trial, Entercom argued that Strange should have known the
contest could be dangerous.


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JonesieCat  
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 More options Nov 5, 2:09 am
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From: "JonesieCat" <jonesiecac...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:09:12 GMT
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 2:09 am
Subject: Re: Jury Awards $16 mill in Death During Hold your Wee for a Wii Contest.

"Pneuma" <frank.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:nkmle5lh9f17cm8vog185d08q9kgrtoko4@4ax.com...

Honestly. A single victim who didn't know water could kill her, I can go
along with that. A radio station without the good sense or good policy to
speak with their legal folks, who could have learned in a heartbeat all
about water intoxication. So many imbeciles in the world. I can only imagine
the how the radio folks pumped up all members of the contest, egging them
on... It's a micro-mini version of the sweat lodge ya ask me, except the
poor participants were trying to win something trendy instead of paying for
the priviledge.

jc


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Gordon Burditt  
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 More options Nov 5, 2:29 am
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From: gordonb.or...@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt)
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:29:33 -0600
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 2:29 am
Subject: Re: Jury Awards $16 mill in Death During Hold your Wee for a Wii Contest.

>> During the trial, Entercom argued that Strange should have known the
>> contest could be dangerous.

>Honestly. A single victim who didn't know water could kill her, I can go
>along with that. A radio station without the good sense or good policy to
>speak with their legal folks, who could have learned in a heartbeat all
>about water intoxication. So many imbeciles in the world. I can only imagine

If this is the same case I am thinking of, if the radio station
people didn't know anything about water intoxication, they had
listeners (some with medical credentials) who called in to mention
this while the contest was going on.  They were ignored.

>the how the radio folks pumped up all members of the contest, egging them
>on... It's a micro-mini version of the sweat lodge ya ask me, except the
>poor participants were trying to win something trendy instead of paying for
>the priviledge.

I wonder how well it would go over when another radio stations puts
a bunch of contestants and lobsters in a very large pot filled with
butter and water, with a very large fire under it, and the fire
slowly raises the temperature until the contestants either get out
of the pot (and lose the contest) or get cooked.

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JonesieCat  
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 More options Nov 5, 7:10 am
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From: "JonesieCat" <jonesiecac...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:10:29 GMT
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 7:10 am
Subject: Re: Jury Awards $16 mill in Death During Hold your Wee for a Wii Contest.

"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.or...@burditt.org> wrote in message

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Hang on. No fair. I already mentioned the sweat lodge. :)

jc (removed crosspost)


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