Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home, having overdosed on water while taking part in the Hold Your Wee for a Wii Contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Wii to the winner.
The contest was meant to see how much water a listener could drink without going to the bathroom. Strange died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.
"She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Ms. Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her.
It was not immediately know how much water Strange consumed. Link to Full story.
via Listener Tom
Thank God she didn't say "fuck" or "shit" on the air. THAT, of course, would have been a national outrage.
Posted by: Andrew | January 14, 2007 at 06:00 PM
Talk about saturating your listener base with dangerous content!
Posted by: Ann Fettamen | January 14, 2007 at 07:46 PM
and all Stern ever did was put Gilbert Gottfried on the air
Posted by: Chris | January 14, 2007 at 08:12 PM
This makes me think of the time WKRP dropped turkeys out of a helicopter...only this is real
and sad!
Posted by: Brian B. | January 14, 2007 at 09:01 PM
Did her next of kin get the Wii?
Posted by: Trent | January 14, 2007 at 11:40 PM
This makes me think of the time WKRP dropped turkeys out of a helicopter
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly...
Posted by: Andrew | January 15, 2007 at 08:43 AM
Actually, the turkey incident from the WKRP episode was based on a true story! It happened at a radio station in Illinois. (Google in Steve Bellinger).
Unfortunately. radio contests (even ones that involve risk to the participants) are developed at a 1/2 hour sales meeting and are taken on the streets before lunch.
Posted by: One who should know | January 15, 2007 at 10:11 AM
I suppose we should be grateful Nintendo didn't name its new product the "Poopster," huh?
Posted by: Andrew | January 15, 2007 at 06:12 PM