Holding on too long
This Christmas I was given a Wii. Well actually because there are none to be had for love or money, I was given a gift card FOR a Wii. So ever since Christmas I have been stalking the stores trying to find one. They have been highly Elvis like - constantly rumored to have just left the building. But I keep on hinting them.
Some people are however, apparently MORE determined than I.
Consumerism gone mad(der)? Or maybe radio stations should be banned. At the very least, a top contender for the Darwin Awards this year†.
Apparently a 28-year-old suburban Sacramento woman died of apparent “water intoxication” after participating in a contest — “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” — sponsored by local radio station 107.9 KDND. The rules were simple: Participants simply competed to see how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The winner would receive a shiny new Wii video game console, the highly coveted, $250 must-have from Nintendo.
†Actually this is a somewhat unexpected outcome, and very sad because she left behind a husband and three kids, who presumably she was trying to win the Wii for. You would think the radio station would have checked that there was no likely harmful outcome - but given some of the radio competitions that have been suggested here in Australia - Celebrity Sperm Donor springs to mind - its not all that weird.
Imagine the fall out from that one, the conversations with an 8 year old child explaining that Mommy never met daddy and in fact the genetic material had been won as part of a radio show.
Now there's family values for you.
The question for me though, is who wil the family sue? The radio station, Nintendo or both?
