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Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the natural-selection dept.

snuffin writes to tell us that a local radio competition to "hold your wee for a Wii" has ended with a Sacramento woman dead from water poisoning. From the article: "An Associated Press interview with another contestant, named James Ybarra, claimed that contestants were initially given eight ounce bottles of water to drink every fifteen minutes, with larger bottles being used once contestants began to drop out. According to Ybarra, 'They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk.' He described the victim as 'a nice lady' and that 'she was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids.'"

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  1. Re:Mmm... by x2A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    crap joke maybe (I thought it was amusing), but offtopic?!!

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  2. In the information age... by thanksforthecrabs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this happened two days ago...yawn...next tragedy, please?

  3. Re:Mmm... by EinZweiDrei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) There were obviously no tags at the time of the first post.
    2) It added little to the discussion. There's a discrepancy.
    3) It had little merit on its own. Again, discrepancy.
    4) What does that have to do with anything?

    I've certainly had more incisive things to contribute to discussions before than one-liner Propagandhi lyrics, but I consider a -1 score for my post to be, beyond reasonable doubt, haywire moderation.

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  4. isn't Overrated even easier? by doti · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't remember ever seeing an "Overrated" mod when I'm meta-moding.
    Don't these get meta-moderated?

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