Woman Dies of Water Intoxication in Contest to Win Nintendo Wii
Tom Zeller Jr. writes in The New York Times about a video game contest that ended in the tragic death of Jennifer Strange.
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A 28-year-old suburban Sacramento woman died of apparent “water intoxication” after participating in a contest — “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” — sponsored by local radio station 107.9 KDND. The rules were simple: Participants competed to see how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The winner would receive a shiny new Wii video game console, the highly coveted, $250 must-have from Nintendo.
She left behind a husband, two sons and a daughter.
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Ms. Strange was apparently trying to secure the Wii game console for her children.
“I was talking to her and she was a nice lady,” James Ybarra, a fellow contestant, told the Associated Press “She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for kids.”