Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest Page: <<   < prev  1 [2]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 11:37:37 AM   
FelinePersuasion


Posts: 4792
Joined: 11/20/2004
Status: offline 		Yup. She did it for her kids. Nice thought really. to bad it turned out so traggically

(in reply to MsPoetress)
Profile   Post #: 21
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 12:40:11 PM   
sub4hire


Posts: 6775
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline 		Question?
Someone has died, was it murder?  Was it an accident?  If the person who chose the contest in the first place had done any research they would have known the potential outcome, which in my mind would be murder.
Common sense tells us they did not know.  Yet, the womans family is going to be mad.  Probably sue.  Is it a criminal case?
Do we send someone to prison the rest of their life because of ignorance?
Does it become a misdemeanor because of the ignorance they possess?

It will be interesting to follow this case as it makes its way through our justice system.  I'm sure someone is going to be held accountable.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 22
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 1:01:12 PM   
MsPoetress


Posts: 1066
Joined: 4/4/2006
Status: offline 		I agree sub4hire. I am interested in the outcome of this as well.

Where does blame lie?

I have worked with the stunt coordinators for Fear Factor, and they do intensive research before having anyone participate in any contest. You would think that anyone who holds a contest as such should be held responsible to do the same kind of research.

Now what we don't know is if the contestants were given any information to state the risks, and if so, they probably had them sign something.

I guess we’ll see what happens.

~poe




_____________________________

~poe

I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad here, it's the fad for many a year, if you think we're crazy my dear, you're right cause I'M mad, YOU'RE mad, we're ALL mad here! - Mad Hatter

(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 23
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 3:40:46 PM   
kisshou


Posts: 2425
Joined: 2/11/2005
Status: offline 		the Owner and I were discussing this case and wondering if she had signed a release before entering and even if she did if it would hold up in court.

like with fraternity pranks, people keep pushing the envelope until it goes too far, I would guess that the station manager would be fired but worse he has to live with the fact that three young children have to grow up without their mother.

(in reply to MsPoetress)
Profile   Post #: 24
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 4:18:02 PM   
Sinergy


Posts: 9383
Joined: 4/26/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Tantriqu

More people die from so-called 'colon cleansing', it just doesn't make the news. 


"He was full of pep.  Must have had his Grande Latte enema."
Edward Norton, Fight Club

_____________________________

"There is a fine line between clever and stupid"
David St. Hubbins "This Is Spinal Tap"

"Every so often you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You cant do that, it is gone, gone forever." J. Danforth Quayle


(in reply to Tantriqu)
Profile   Post #: 25
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 4:34:43 PM   
Chaingang


Posts: 1727
Joined: 10/24/2005
Status: offline 		The outcome is almost certainly this: criminal negligence a.k.a. manslaughter. The contest itself is wrong-headed, like having a kiddie slide on your property with a 200 foot drop into a ravine at the end of it. A lawsuit is a certainty. The contest holders enticed people to do something that was fatally stupid and should have known better.

BTW, most people don't know about water intoxication any more than the average 21 year old knows that you can die of alcohol poisoning when going on those b-day binges. But the holders of the contest had a responsibility to know better - a waiver of responsibility might cover them if it specifically pointed out the fatal possibilities. Somehow I doubt such a waiver was drafted.

_____________________________

"Everything flows, nothing stands still." (Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει) - Heraclitus

(in reply to Sinergy)
Profile   Post #: 26
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/14/2007 6:33:03 PM   
BlkTallFullfig


Posts: 5585
Joined: 6/25/2004
Status: offline 		If I die for something for my lil one, it will be food, health or good education.
Nintendo, nah!     M

_____________________________

a.k.a. SexyBossyBBW
""Touching was, and still is, and will always be, the true revolution" Nikki Giovanni

(in reply to Chaingang)
Profile   Post #: 27
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/15/2007 7:05:35 AM   
sub4hire


Posts: 6775
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

The outcome is almost certainly this: criminal negligence a.k.a. manslaughter. The contest itself is wrong-headed, like having a kiddie slide on your property with a 200 foot drop into a ravine at the end of it. A lawsuit is a certainty. The contest holders enticed people to do something that was fatally stupid and should have known better.

BTW, most people don't know about water intoxication any more than the average 21 year old knows that you can die of alcohol poisoning when going on those b-day binges. But the holders of the contest had a responsibility to know better - a waiver of responsibility might cover them if it specifically pointed out the fatal possibilities. Somehow I doubt such a waiver was drafted.


About how much prison time is that?  Let alone the bad publicity that is going to come from it.
I didn't know about water intoxication either until a few year's back I started seeing about 2 people die a year from it.  When it is plastered all over the news...and if you watch the news at all you learn things.  Perhaps you don't delve deeper into it the way I did.  Though you still learn things. 

Remember any of these?
1995-http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_health5.shtml
2003 This one made major news, http://www.mashinc.org/resources-essay-water.html
Basic Training 1999-http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_199903/ai_n8829718

Then of course the one who also made major news was the child abuse.  They made their child drink copious amounts of water and died...a few year's back.  I see articles on it but nothing firm to add here.
Too much info to go through 1-1 on google.


(in reply to Chaingang)
Profile   Post #: 28
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/15/2007 8:12:01 AM   
MizSuz


Posts: 1881
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

im doing a colon cleanse right now.


Me too.  It's called "The Indian food cleanse."  


Edited for clarification purposes.


_____________________________

“The more you love, the more you can love—and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”
- Robert Heinlein

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 29
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/15/2007 8:42:44 AM   
Lordandmaster


Posts: 10943
Joined: 6/22/2004
Status: offline 		If you're talking about manslaughter, that's a criminal charge, so in that case it wouldn't matter whether there was a waiver of responsibility.  (Think about it: I can't get you to sign some waiver and then blow your brains out.)  I can't imagine a radio station having a contest like this without SOME form of legal protection against civil litigation ("You agree to indemnify" blah blah blah), but who knows.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

The outcome is almost certainly this: criminal negligence a.k.a. manslaughter.

[snip]

But the holders of the contest had a responsibility to know better - a waiver of responsibility might cover them if it specifically pointed out the fatal possibilities. Somehow I doubt such a waiver was drafted.

(in reply to Chaingang)
Profile   Post #: 30
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/15/2007 7:30:25 PM   
MsPoetress


Posts: 1066
Joined: 4/4/2006
Status: offline 		New developments:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/01/new_details_in_.html

~poe

_____________________________

~poe

I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad here, it's the fad for many a year, if you think we're crazy my dear, you're right cause I'M mad, YOU'RE mad, we're ALL mad here! - Mad Hatter

(in reply to Lordandmaster)
Profile   Post #: 31
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/15/2007 7:34:10 PM   
Invictus754


Posts: 521
Joined: 12/16/2005
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: MsPoetress
New developments:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/01/new_details_in_.html
~poe


What is even creepier is the big print "ON DEADLINE" when you click on the link. LOL

_____________________________

You never know your limits, until you push them
If slavery is a gift, the Africans were pretty fucking generous in the 1700 and 1800s, weren't they?

(in reply to MsPoetress)
Profile   Post #: 32
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/16/2007 6:59:03 AM   
sub4hire


Posts: 6775
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline 		Hard to believe she only drank 64 ounces of water and it did her in.  I drink 90 while doing cardio alone.  Another 33 while in the spa...and another 33 while in the steam room.

All in the course of 3 hours at the gym.

Perhaps she had an issue beyond what any of us know of?

(in reply to MsPoetress)
Profile   Post #: 33
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/16/2007 7:04:23 AM   
mnottertail


Posts: 60698
Joined: 11/3/2004
Status: offline 		Taking a piss must rival the preparations for the coming of the queen, ja?

_____________________________

Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30


(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 34
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/16/2007 7:09:24 AM   
sub4hire


Posts: 6775
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline 		hehe, your body uses the water you give it when hot.  Most of the time you don't even pee any of it out for many hour's later. 

(in reply to mnottertail)
Profile   Post #: 35
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/26/2007 2:19:59 PM   
Lordandmaster


Posts: 10943
Joined: 6/22/2004
Status: offline 		They're being sued:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_us/water_intoxication

(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 36
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/26/2007 2:46:07 PM   
Rumtiger


Posts: 2634
Joined: 3/4/2006
From: Vegas
Status: offline 		so.........who got the Wii?

_____________________________

Fuck the Pandas!
-Moi

Mmm, I love me some kickboxers, you know why? Cause ya'll cant take a punch!
- Quentin Tarantino.

If they cant take a joke, fuck em.
-Tucker Max

(in reply to Lordandmaster)
Profile   Post #: 37
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/26/2007 4:52:10 PM   
petdave


Posts: 2479
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sub4hire

Hard to beliee she only drank 64 ounces of water and it did her in.  I drink 90 while doing cardio alone.  Another 33 while in the spa...and another 33 while in the steam room.

All in the course of 3 hours at the gym.

Perhaps she had an issue beyond what any of us know of?



Seriously... after this was in the news i kept track of what i drank over the course of a normal day (zero exercise)... almost 500 ounces! Too bad there won't be any contests like that again.

...dave

(in reply to sub4hire)
Profile   Post #: 38
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/26/2007 5:05:46 PM   
Devilslilsister


Posts: 1262
Joined: 8/3/2006
Status: offline 		Hasnt anyone heard of Leah Betts?

the girl that got sorted....... then distorted?

Died from water.....

Well she took some E on her birthday....... drank some water.. and because of the E she couldnt expell the water and well her body blew up from the water (distorted)


_____________________________

My ability to cope with BS is at an all time low - me

i may look like i'm doing nothing, but i'm very busy at a cellular level

(in reply to Rumtiger)
Profile   Post #: 39
RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest - 1/26/2007 6:41:39 PM   
Hissltviolet


Posts: 44
Joined: 12/19/2006
Status: offline 		...LMAO!!!...

_____________________________

ETERNALLY/INFERNALLY
Lord Bear's violet
(SLRN) 876-742-285
~**~
please, visit Yahoo 360
and
http://www.freewebs.com/fabricconcepts/

(in reply to michaelOfGeorgia)
Profile   Post #: 40
Page:   <<   < prev  1 [2]
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Woman Dies After Water Drinking Contest Page: <<   < prev  1 [2]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.094