i heard about that... how sad

Yeah...When I read this I didn't know why the guys didn't stop when the nurse called. I thought it was sad for the family.

wow, for 250 dollar game system.

She died from 1/2 gallon or so? Strange and sad!

yeah 1/2 gallon, kind of strange, ive drank that much beer in that time period too, better slow down...

that is horrible...We almost did die for a Wii though, waiting in the crazy train station in downtown philly at 5 am while nutty people cursed us out and threw things at us, while we waited for the mall to open.

please note, that i am not making light of this poor girl, just saying, i actually turned to skylar and said "we're going to Die for this Wii!

1/2 gallon of water = Death??? Must be some other factor involved.1/2 Gallon of water all at once aint gonna kill me,Ive done it multiple times....what gives? 1/2 G = 64 ounces ...2 freakin Big Gulps of water....R.I.P. sister.

that has to be a bad estimate... just 1/2 gallon of watter? maybe she was petite?

speaking of drinking alot.. anyone ever try drinking a gallon of milk?

More than you need to know about water poisoning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_poisoning

I saw an episode of Inked where the kid drank a gallon of milk.

He ended up tossing it after a few also.

Didn't some show like "Jack ass" or something like that do a milk drinking contest where everyone just peuked all over the place?? That was gross.

I puked up a bunch of water one time. I used to be into bodybuilding, and I tried to stay hydrated at all times. I overdid it one night though...

water during afternoon lift + water at dinner + water while trying creatine for first time = PUKE

The idea of the challenge was to drink as much as you can and not pee, thats what caused the problem.
You can easily drink a half gallon of water with no problem as long as you can 'let it pass' or its in recovery from heavy cardio like running or biking...

redhanded

I am sympathetic to the family she left behind, but my sympathy for the mother only goes so far. I thought everybody knew about water intoxication. She worked at a medical facility. The staff and contestants were apparently even warned on the air by someone claiming to be a nurse that it was dangerous:

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/18453

And if she lived, and won, she only would have taught her kids that it was okay to do stupid things like this to get game consoles.

No one was thinking here.

10 people at the station have been fired. It's probably some kind of a record. Less people than that were fired in the wake of Opie and Anthony's Sex for Sam contest.