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 More options Nov 5 2009, 7:10 am
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
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

news:TaqdnXxURsrgt2_XnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@posted.internetamerica...

>>> 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.

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

jc (removed crosspost)


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