Family of "Wee for Wii" Victim Awarded $16m

[orangebandguy]

Natural selection hardly warrants compensation. Idiots will be idiots I suppose.

But then again the people who held the competition were pretty ignorant of water poisoning aswell. I guess Nintendo has had their console's name bite thm in the ass for another reason then.

 

[infinisynth]

Someone please explain to me why the radio station is at fault here.

 

[asdasdasdasda]

Both parties fail, imo. The radio station is stupid for not having a "blah blah we are not responsible for blah blah also too much water can kill you!". The woman is an idiot for killing herself.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

The fact that contestants had to drink that much without being allowed to urinate only would serve to compound the problem.

It reeks of poor decision making all around. The radio station should have warned contestants about possible dangers, and made them sign a liability waiver. Now not trying to make light of what is obviously a tragedy, and I understand water intoxication is something not many people are aware of, but how hard would it be to research something like that and find out for oneself?

 

[Rigs83]

I can't call a mother of three stupid because she died in an ill conceived contest held by idiot dj because she did all to please the children she loved. She and the radio station were ignorant of the danger in the contest and I doubt any one here has ever heard of water poisoning. Parents love their children (most of the time) and will put themselves in terrible "get mauled by a panda" danger [http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2009-01/09/content_17079732.htm] just to make the ungrateful bastards happy

So just tell those kids that it's fine to be ignorant to the point where it kills you. Tell them that their mother died to get them a toy. And please, this goes beyond ignorance. Bodily functions are the way they are for a reason. Whether or not you know what they do doesn't excuse depriving yourself of them. Just because you average person might not be able to illustrate oxygen's path through the bloodstream doesn't mean that they can't figure out that asphyxiation is a bad idea.

Do you honestly believe that she should have known that not peeing would kill her. We deny bodily functions all the time. Do you defecate in public because you have the bodily need to? No you hold until you an get to the bathroom because you are controlling a bodily function to she just did too long and died because of it. I doubt you sleep at the same time every night and get the exact amount of sleep recommended, wake up and exercise for twenty minutes and only consume 2000 calories of highly nutritious foods low in fat, salt and sugar?

I suspect not and few do. We stay up too late, drink and eat too much, some even climb mountains that don't need to be climbed or jump off or out of perfectly good structures and planes. The circumstances off her death was stupid but she as a human was not.

 

[Fniff]

Should've diluted the water with beer.

Or Brawndo. (Thank Yahtzee for watching this in the office and reminding us about our ELECTROLYTES)

Oh,what is have Yahtzee as a coworker like?

 

[UnravThreads]

I think, as a lot of posts have stated, it's six and two threes.

She (willingly) drank a ridiculous amount of liquid - Her fault
The DJs didn't notify contestants of the risk (as some people said) - The DJs' fault, NOT the company's.
The nurse didn't step in - The nurses fault
The lady didn't go to the hospital - Her fault

She put herself in a very unnatural situation, and when she felt it taking a toll, she didn't go to the hospital. I'm sure most of us would think "Wait, I've just drunk X litres of Y, and I feel bad. Maybe I should go get checked out". There was a nurse there, according to some posts, and she had knowledge of water poisoning. She should have said "Look, go to the hospital", unless Ms Strange refused treatment, at which point it is her fault.

I don't think holding the competition was the bad thing, it's a very... out there idea, but it's not a stupid one. The contestants should be clever enough to realise when they've gone too far, or are in danger of doing so. If they continued regardless, it's their own fault. BUT! The radio station should have had something to cover their own backs, whether a waiver or some form of terms & conditions.

I don't think one person is to blame, but I'd say it's mainly Ms Strange, followed by the DJs, with the nurse maybe taking some, depending on what truly happened.

 

[UltimatheChosen]

Here is proof that it was a bad idea to use the name "Wii".

See, Nintendo? Somebody died because you didn't listen to your fans.

 

[Gebi10000]

retarded?

 

[Flos]

Anyone who says water is dangerous because of drowning is just a silly person. Drowning doesn't work like drinking. :0

She put herself in a very unnatural situation, and when she felt it taking a toll, she didn't go to the hospital. I'm sure most of us would think "Wait, I've just drunk X litres of Y, and I feel bad. Maybe I should go get checked out". There was a nurse there, according to some posts, and she had knowledge of water poisoning. She should have said "Look, go to the hospital", unless Ms Strange refused treatment, at which point it is her fault.

I don't think holding the competition was the bad thing, it's a very... out there idea, but it's not a stupid one. The contestants should be clever enough to realise when they've gone too far, or are in danger of doing so. If they continued regardless, it's their own fault. BUT! The radio station should have had something to cover their own backs, whether a waiver or some form of terms & conditions.

I don't think one person is to blame, but I'd say it's mainly Ms Strange, followed by the DJs, with the nurse maybe taking some, depending on what truly happened.

Unnatural situation, you say?

K, so, I live in a box made of wood, insulation, and metal. I get in this giant tin can to drive to go to another, larger box made of wood, cement, and metal. In that box, I learn about a number of things, including how to apply numbers to situations, how to form sentences, and how to record my voice on a machine made of metal and SCIENCE. I then get in my moving hunk of metal and return to my first box.

Right now, I'm communicating with someone possibly thousands of miles away by wiring and more SCIENCE.

I put myself in unnatural situations every day. It doesn't mean that my family shouldn't get compensation if my car suddenly explodes because the manufacturer overlooked a detail when making it.

There's no record of the woman saying she actually felt bad until after the contest was over. She could have very well felt perfectly fine until the end. You don't know if she knew she was killing herself, you just assumed.

The radio station was liable. They had people consume a substance for a reward without informing them of the possible consequences. Nobody thinks water is harmful when you're drinking it.

 

[Woem]

Wait, so:

1/ She was second? So she didn't even win a Wii?
2/ There was someone who hold his/her urine longer than that, who didn't die, but did get a Wii?

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Did anyone here know about water poisoning before this happened? If you didn't, it doesn't seem like you have much of a leg to stand on calling her or the station stupid.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Should've diluted the water with beer.

Or Brawndo. (Thank Yahtzee for watching this in the office and reminding us about our ELECTROLYTES)

It's just not powerfirst though.

 

[Fudgo]

So they release a competition that manages to kill someone just to revive some old childish joke that I hoped would've died down already.

Where's that double facepalm picture when you need it?

 

[Tairan]

I wouldnt know how to feel my mum died but i got 16 million dollars... it would be like a tug-of-war on my emotions

 

[Hazy]

The one thing that will come out of this? More warning labels on liquids.

My condolences to her family though.

Spoiler

"Warning: May Cause Death. Do not consume if tasked by a DJ."

I just had to.

OT: I blame the victim, for not knowing that large quantities of water can lead to harm (despite how selfless her intentions were) and the hosts for, as another post stated, going through with the contest despite the warning from a trained medical professional.

 

[911 fox]

Water... Poisoning? What is that and how does someone go about getting it?

you drink a lot of water which makes your brain cells swell up causing pressure ( thats why she had a headache) eventually the pressure gets too high and you die