Radio Station Encourages Woman to Drink Herself To Death

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

Comments

[Andrew]

Thank God she didn't say "fuck" or "shit" on the air. THAT, of course, would have been a national outrage.

[Ann Fettamen]

Talk about saturating your listener base with dangerous content!

[Chris]

and all Stern ever did was put Gilbert Gottfried on the air

[Brian B.]

This makes me think of the time WKRP dropped turkeys out of a helicopter...only this is real
and sad!

[Trent]

Did her next of kin get the Wii?

[Andrew]

This makes me think of the time WKRP dropped turkeys out of a helicopter

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly...

[One who should know]

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.

[Andrew]

I suppose we should be grateful Nintendo didn't name its new product the "Poopster," huh?