US woman dies after water contest - "Hold Your Wee for a Wii

[Bounty Hunter]

Some people are crazy!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/amer

I'll just wait a couple of months! (For the Wii that is)

Tom

[Mr Beckerman]

Darwinism in action.

[scorp]

Mr Beckerman said:

Darwinism in action.

But of a stupid event to organise really, did they not know that drinking litres of water in a short space of time usually ends in tears?

Edited by scorp on Monday 15th January 10:09

[Mr Beckerman]

I think a certain level of dumbness on all parts, organisers and participants.

[jazzybee]

Strange. She gave up after 5 quarter litre bottles over an hour and a half. Hardly an extreme amount.

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe she only had a Wii bladder.

[RobPhoboS]

ROFL.

[off_again]

Can you really get "water intoxication"? And what the hell is it?

[FourWheelDrift]

I think it's the politically correct phrase for drowning.

[JonRB]

www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/15/wii_death/

"Healthy kidneys are able to excrete about 1 to 1.5 litres of water per hour. Problems occur at greater volumes when the narrow range of salt concentrations they must maintain are upset. Commonly, water intoxication causes death by lowering the concentration of sodium in the blood to a dangerous level, causing cells to rupture as water swells them by osmosis."

[Vesuvius 996]

JonRB said:

www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/15/wii_death/

"Healthy kidneys are able to excrete about 1 to 1.5 litres of water per hour. Problems occur at greater volumes when the narrow range of salt concentrations they must maintain are upset. Commonly, water intoxication causes death by lowering the concentration of sodium in the blood to a dangerous level, causing cells to rupture as water swells them by osmosis."

Fvck me I bet that hurts.

[spidydude]

Mr Beckerman said:

Darwinism in action.

beckerman...

i could not agree more

off_again said:

Can you really get "water intoxication"? And what the hell is it?

this is why we have wikipedia

Edited by spidydude on Monday 15th January 21:15

[FourWheelDrift]

spidydude said:

this is why we have wikipedia

Surely you mean Wiikipedia

[scorp]

[redacted]

[JonRB]

FourWheelDrift said:

Surely you mean Wiikipedia

Subtle - I only just noticed that.