youtube.com — Someone has posted a six-minute tape of excerpts from a Sacramento radio show from the morning it held a now-famous "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest. The excerpts are amazing. At one point, a female voice asks, "Can't you get water poisoning and like, die?" and "Maybe we should have researched this."
Jan 22, 2007 View in Crawl 4
nipgripJan 23, 2007
"But I earrrrned that!! Noooooo.."
habemusJan 23, 2007
>"A woman who continues to drink water, even after hearing and discussing it might kill her, ... died as a result of mistakes they were warned against the consequences of. "She was never told it might kill her. She was told that she would throw it up before it would kill her. She clearly is concerned enough to keep asking the intern of the risk, and it is downplayed by being told that "she will throw up" before anything bad happens and when the DJs are told she could die by a nurse, they never relay that concern from the nurse to her, but dismiss it by saying essentially "it's OK if she dies, because she has signed a release." The radio station will lose in front of any jury in the country. They might as well admit guilt and reach a settlement. Otherwise I predict it will be the largest punitive damage award ever.
wiifan1975Jan 23, 2007
To prove my point, here's another typical sin being exibited... Greed!<a class="user" href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/22/nintendo-might-be-named-in-wii-wrongful-death-lawsuit/">http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/22/nintendo-might-be-named-in-wii-wrongful-death-lawsuit/</a>This family and legal counsel is just being outrageous now to even consider mentioning the thought of suing Nintendo over this woman's death. I'm not even a religious fanatic and I could swear I see an end to the world just over the horizon. Reminds me of an old joke... What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start. :)
jsayaJan 23, 2007
So sad... I made sure I checked <a class="user" href="http://forums.slickdeals.net/forumdisplay.php?sduid=98602&f=36">http://forums.slickdeals.net/forumdisplay.php?sduid=98602&f=36</a>
weenisJan 23, 2007
That's not what the FCC does. That was never supposed to be it's function. Please do not not make the phenomenally misguided, shortsighted, and stupid mistake of actually advocating that a useless govt bureaucracy like the FCC be give more power. This is an issue for local legislatures, not the FCC.
sam10685Jan 23, 2007
sickening. some people are going straight to hell...
linduhJan 25, 2007
In cases like these, I think everyone is a bit responsible, but yeah, i think the radio station should be held most responsible. The first place winner took more water than her yet people put more blame on her because of the fact that she died.It's sad that she died when just wanting to please her children. :(
frypropAug 4, 2009
The FCC does require that these types of contests be aproved. However this one was never submitted for approval