Family of "Wee for Wii" Victim Awarded $16m
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Blood/oxygen saturation level, and yea if you have someone stick a hose down into your lungs... lollwm3398 said:
Fun fact: EVERYTHING is poisonous if you take in too much of it.lwm3398 said:
And wasn't water poisoning some sort of execution back in the middle ages?
I understand this is a tragidy for the family, and I'd like to apolagise for the fact that I laughed when I read this artical.
Yeah it can funny that hehlwm3398 said:
Our blood has evolved to capture the oxygen we breathe in and bind it safely to the transport molecule called haemoglobin. If you breathe air with a much higher than normal O2 concentration, the oxygen in the lungs overwhelms the blood's ability to carry it away. The result is that free oxygen binds to the surface proteins of the lungs, interferes with the operation of the central nervous system and also attacks the retina. Contrary to popular myth, hyperventilating air at ordinary pressures never causes oxygen toxicity (the dizziness is due to CO2 levels dropping too low), but breathing oxygen at pressures of 0.5 bar or more (roughly two and a half times normal) for more than 16 hours can lead to irreversible lung damage and, eventually, death.
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Most of the other contestants probably left the contest and actually used the toilet. I drink alot of water each day, but I also use the toilet when my body tells me to use it.
I remember hearing about this back when it happened and thinking that nobody should have been fired from the radio stations in the first place. It's like how water parks get shut down because one idiot decides he wants to do it 'his way' and gets himself killed. Then the family goes and sues the park for everything they have. Does this really make sense? This is the perfect example of the tyranny of the minority ruining everything for the majority. I like water parks. I don't like that some have been shut down because of statistical anomolies on the far end of the bell curve bringing down the whole thing.
Likewise, if a radio station had a contest where they have the contestants smoke as many cigarettes as they can in an hour, they shouldn't have to tell you that it is bad. A non-smoker shouldn't try out for this contest. Anybody who dies of cancer SHOULD NOT blame the radio station for their own stupidity.
I remember hearing about this back when it happened and thinking that nobody should have been fired from the radio stations in the first place. It's like how water parks get shut down because one idiot decides he wants to do it 'his way' and gets himself killed. Then the family goes and sues the park for everything they have. Does this really make sense? This is the perfect example of the tyranny of the minority ruining everything for the majority. I like water parks. I don't like that some have been shut down because of statistical anomolies on the far end of the bell curve bringing down the whole thing.
Likewise, if a radio station had a contest where they have the contestants smoke as many cigarettes as they can in an hour, they shouldn't have to tell you that it is bad. A non-smoker shouldn't try out for this contest. Anybody who dies of cancer SHOULD NOT blame the radio station for their own stupidity.
Water intoxication isn't common knowledge so the mother wasn't stupid for not knowing about it. The radio station was at fault for not finding out was the contest safe and for not stopping the contest even though a nurse had warned them about water intoxication.
The makers of this contest should have read up on the implications of drinking copious amounts of water and then not letting your body do what comes naturally. It's like filling a balloon with too much air and trying to see if it explodes or not. It isn't capable of holding that much air, so it pops. In the same way, humans are not capable of holding that much water. The cells in her body couldn't distribute the water fast enough, so they quite literally exploded by the thousands. She essentially drowned, one cell at a time.
I think the family had every right to sue, and I'm glad they got that good of a settlement. The makers of the contest did not do their research, and put many lives at stake because of it.
I think the family had every right to sue, and I'm glad they got that good of a settlement. The makers of the contest did not do their research, and put many lives at stake because of it.
Nothing if it is her fault she died. If she was killed because of negligence of a company then yes, the money should be awarded. But she CHOOSE to be in the contest. She KNEW she was feeling badly. I died because of her choices.Amenta Kaiser said:
This may be true. We will never know if the mother knew the dangers or not as she is dead. But one thing can be concluded. She must have been feeling pretty badly as time went on. But she kept going on with the contest. If a person is doing anything and starts to feel badly it is a good idea to alert someone about the fact. Then is things go south that person should go to the hospital.Unknower said:
It is possible that she thought she was feeling bad due to something unrelated. Regardless, if a radio station is going to hold a contest like this, it is their responsibility to make sure it's safe. From a legal standpoint, the family had the right to sue them because they did not give a warning. And technically, yes, she died from her choices, but even so she did not have the information needed to know she was making a bad choice. I would not have associated headaches with holding myself, and I don't think she did either.
