When People Die Stupid...
January 23, 2006
SOMEWHERE OVER TEXAS AT 35,000 feet.- I’m getting sick of pointless lawsuits. When are we as people going to be held accountable for their own actions?
Did you hear the one about the lady who died in a radio station contest after drinking too much water? --- Hilarious.
Not because the lady died, anytime kids are left without their mom it’s a sad story. It’s the public’s reaction to her death that makes me laugh.
Too lazy for links, here’s the cliff notes summary,
So this radio station Sacramento has a contest where listeners have to drink 8-ounces of water every 15 minutes without going to the restroom. The last man standing gets a Nintendo Wii video game system.
This lady drinks a lot of water quits after a headache, and later goes home and dies from water intoxication.
Immediately people are blaming the radio station for her death and holding them responsible. The radio station big wigs fired 10-employees as a result of this including the ENTIRE morning show. Everyone is screaming lawsuit for the woman’s family saying that the station FORCED her to drink the water.
She wasn’t FORCED. She wasn’t pledging some sorority. The lady signed a waiver stood in line and hoped to be chosen for the opportunity to take part in this contest. It sucks that she didn’t know her own water tolerance but is that the station’s fault? Is it the station’s fault that she didn’t know when to quit?
Assuming that this lady was informed of the dangers of this contest then um...what's the problem?
This young lady on the airplane proceeded to argue the point with me that the station knew the contest was dangerous and they shouldn’t have held such a dangerous stunt.
Or maybe 8-ounce shots of liquid laxatives. Last person to not shit their pants wins the video game system. A little messier than urine, but hey that’s why you have interns and janitors, to clean up that kind of mess.
I may as well get some entertainment out the deal. The only thing I would’ve done differently in the water drinking contest is not allowed the losers to leave the room. The psychological effect of seeing other people piss their pants would’ve been more than enough to make the others quit sooner and maybe this lady wouldn’t have died.
What sucks is that she came in SECOND PLACE. She died, and didn’t even win. At least give her kids a Sega Genesis as a consolation prize.
Quit holding corporations responsible for crazy people being crazy. If a station held a “Who can stay in the pool the longest after we throw a toaster in the water” contest. Let them have it.
If adults show up… SIGN A WAIVER and proceed to subject themselves to being electrocuted then so be it.
Russian Roulette, shoot up heroin, stabbing contests, whatever people want to do for a pair of Jay-Z tickets, why shouldn’t they be allowed to do it? The radio station fired the jocks because people were outraged, not because the lady died. If the lady died and no one said anything those jocks would still have their jobs.
SMACK FEST VIDEO 1 SMACK FEST VIDEO 2
People got mad about that too. Mad why? Why are you mad? Two Grown adults WHO SIGNED WAIVERS agreed to do whatever the hell the want to each other’s face in exchange for some item they can’t afford. What’s wrong if people like me want to watch it?
Possibly. But I’m of the belief that crazy people are going to be crazy whether or not they have an audience. Don’t sit here and tell me that if this radio station doesn’t have this ‘Smackfest’ that these people would be at home doing something productive.
That’s like saying that if American Idol wasn’t on the air then the people who get on there and make an ass of themselves would be at home studying Organic Chemistry. SPARE ME.
They’d be at home doing crazy stuff in private.
Why not give these people a treat in exchange for our entertainment.
The people I can’t stand are the people who fake crazy. Like this
chowder head…..
The above Chowder head’s name is Marti Strel. He plans to swim the ENTIRE length of the Amazon river( 3,375 Miles).
The feat will be broadcast live on www.amazonswim.com .
Now at first, I got excited at the thought of another human being doing something crazy on live television. The Amazon is full of crocs, snakes, piranhas, and even fresh water sharks. I’d give this guy 3-4 miles at best before being bitten by something. But as you get further down in the article you learn that support boats will ride ahead of him throwing animal blood into the water to distract the creatures of the river.
That’s cheating.
He also plans to wear a special wetsuit that protects him from electric eels and the barbs of stingrays. He’s also being trailed by a team of doctors, river guides, and surely some dude with a shotgun to shoot critters that get too close. Um… can someone please explain to me how this is still dangerous?
Don’t expect me to marvel at something “dangerous” and you have all these safety nets in place to protect you. Swimming down a river behind boats throwing out blood, while wearing a protective suit, with a team of doctors behind you, and a man with a shotgun near you isn’t impressive to me.
You want to impress me swim down the Amazon butt-naked without that military escort and see if you make it to the other end.
But it does prove one thing… This man isn’t crazy. He says he doing this for world peace. I seriously doubt that what he’s doing will create a cease-fire in Iraq but if he makes it, the least we could do is give him a Nintendo Wii.
"It's just my thoughts. Right or wrong just what I was feeling at the time."- Jay-Z
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