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 More options Nov 5 2009, 2:09 am
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime, misc.legal
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.
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"Pneuma" <frank.sp...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:nkmle5lh9f17cm8vog185d08q9kgrtoko4@4ax.com...

> 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.

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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