| AudiInProgress |
http://www.knbc.com/news/10761800/detail.html
Yes, I realize this is an older story, but it really got me thinking...
Just how much water must you drink to kill yourself? And does the brain really absorb that much water - that it can expand to the point of death - or the heart?
The one guy said he dropped out after 8 drinks...
8x8oz = 64oz of water.
64oz of water = 1.89L
The contestants were given 10 minute breaks in between each drink...
That means, that you would be required to consume approximately 2L of water, in 90 minute time frame.
That just doesn't seem very difficult to me. In fact, I'm pretty sure I drink more excessively than that at work...
There must be other contributing factors? |
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| polarcivic |
| You're missing the fact that you cannot go pee, thats where it becomes deadly. You may drink a shit load of water, but when your body doesn't need it you piss it out. |
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| AudiInProgress |
Yeah... But it said she died at home hours later...
I presume she came in SECOND PLACE because she ended up having to go piss... So she went piss, or pissed her pants, and then got sent home with no Wii... |
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| RangerMan |
thats fucked
mean like, wouldn't you first think well drinking too much water is dangerous, you hear all the stories when people do..E..
maybe they shoulda did the milk thing, least you puke it up lol |
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| AudiInProgress |
10L of water in 10 minutes... Now that, I don't think I could do, hahahahaha...
So this lady who did presumably much less than that, over a much longer period of time, must have had other factors playing into it. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
It's interesting this happened again.. I remember a story from a year or so ago... sorta similar.. they had you drink water, and keep your hand on a car... last one with the hand on the car won... so if you held your pee you won...
I think some people got sick, nobody died, but a couple people fromt he radio station who put on the contest got fired. |
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| AudiInProgress |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
It's interesting this happened again.. I remember a story from a year or so ago... sorta similar.. they had you drink water, and keep your hand on a car... last one with the hand on the car won... so if you held your pee you won...
I think some people got sick, nobody died, but a couple people fromt he radio station who put on the contest got fired.
Do radio jockeys really have that much leeway? Like... Creating their own contests and shit? I thought for sure that kind of stuff was all written by upper managers or something... |
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| Perilous_Enterprises |
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Originally posted by AudiInProgress
Do radio jockeys really have that much leeway? Like... Creating their own contests and shit? I thought for sure that kind of stuff was all written by upper managers or something...
They are definetly hairbrained ideas comming from big hair DJ's. I thought the DJ responsible for the "Hold your pee for a Wii" contest lost his job and was charged... Don't know for sure what the charges were. |
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| anschutz_93 |
She could have been diabetic as that would have messed up her water retention.
Anyways, I have had water drinking contests with buddies before. It is extremely hard to drink even 3L of water... 10L, fuck me. My buddies used to go last one to not puke wins (everyone ended up throwing up)... We were 12 or 13, probably all ~100lbs and guys started to throw up at 4L. Your stomach felt like a water bed and it constantly felt like you had your finger down your throat.
Right now try to fill up a 4L milk jug with water and drink it in one go.... Its not that easy.
I don't know if you could be charged with anything... It would be like me daring you to hold your breath until you passed out. If you happen to hold your death until you die, I'm not accountable. The contestants weren't forced to hold their piss and they probably signed liability waiver forms as soon as they stepped onto the station's property. I do not think that you could be fired either...
maybe the guy filed charges of wrongful dismissal on his company? |
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| Perilous_Enterprises |
I've been looking around to see if I could find anything about the DJ. I thought he was charged with neglegence or something, but I've found no articles to suggest any disciplinary action was taken.
I did find this interesting statement on Hyponatremia:
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Water intoxication — also known as hyponatremia — is more commonly seen among athletes, usually extreme athletes, although it can happen to anyone who fails to recognize that they are consuming too much water for their body to regulate, causing a critical loss of sodium.
Oddly enough, the majority of Hyponatremia cases resulting in death happen from water drinking contests. Will we ever learn?? |
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| STiPWR |
I almost overdosed on H20 overseas.
I think I averaged a case, 12 600ml bottles a day. Although you sweat probably close to 1.5 litres a day aswell.
One day, after a 24hr patrol in the mountains.... Were we ran out of water for the last 12 hours, I returned to the leger and slammed a crazy amount of water... I really dont know how much I drank.
I felt dizzy, and confused... not being able to remember anything. Almost stupid??
Anyways, the Medics said I drank way to much.
Rob, I found some real cases on wikipedia.... I know Polar civic posted the link, but here are some cases....
# On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii game consoles in KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. No criminal charges were pressed.[6] The Federal Communications Commission has launched its own investigation to determine if the station violated the terms of its operating license.
# On October 12, 2002, 3-year-old Rosita Gonzalez died of water intoxication when her babysitter Nancy Gayoso punished her by forcing her to drink three quarts (2.8 liters) of water in a four hour period.[7][8] Gayoso was charged and arrested for murder in the first degree on March 10, 2003. After being declared incompetent to stand trial in 2004 and 2005,[9] Gayoso was found competent on March 26, 2007.
# Leah Betts[10] died on the 16th of November 1995 after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party and subsequently drinking too much water; the case received mass media coverage throughout the United Kingdom, which focused on the dangers of ecstasy and rather overlooked the actual cause of death.
# In a much-publicized case of fraternity hazing, four members of the Chi Tau (formerly Delta Sigma Phi) House at California State University, Chico pleaded guilty to forcing 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington to drink excessive amounts of water while performing calisthenics in a frigid basement as part of initiation rites on February 2, 2005.[11] He collapsed and died of heart failure due to water intoxication.
# On September 12, 1999, US Air Force basic trainee Michael J. Schindler died of heat stroke, severely complicated by water intoxication, two days after becoming seriously ill during a 5.8 mile march. The Air Force changed its recruit training procedures as a result.[12]
# New Zealand race-walker Craig Barrett collapsed during the last kilometer of the 50 km walk in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in a non-fatal case of water intoxication.[citation needed]
# Other notable fatalities due to water intoxication include Andy Warhol, Anna Wood, [13] 2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero,[14] and Washington, D.C. police officer James McBride.[1 |
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| equlizer |
| should have gone there wearing depends:beer: |
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| Ruiner |
i know from experience that if you drink 2L in less than 2 minutes you get an instant drunk feeling, plus the puking of water.
but at least I won the bet. |
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