No, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t kill people, but people will die for a Wii… This story [<---- that's a link, by the way] is ridiculous… A woman drinks nearly two gallons of water and dies from water intoxication, well, that’s what happens.

Here was the situation for those that don’t want to read the three paragraph article.  A radio station was holding a contest for a Nintendo Wii.  The object was to drink as much water as possible without going to the bathroom.  The last one to go to the bathroom wins the Nintendo Wii.  Well, one contestant (she finished second, by the way, didn’t even win =/ ) died after drinking nearly two gallons of water.  She left work with a headache and people later found her at home, dead.  Yes, you can die from water intoxication (it’s actually called hyponatremia, it’s from a mass dilution of sodium in the body or something like that - We had to learn about it in BASIC).

The Radio Station holding the contest fired the whole cast of the show that held the contest and is investigating it, although the police are not.  All contestants signed waivers releasing the station from any legal responsibility for injury or death…

This brings me to my gripe.  Why have a waiver that waives you from a liability of legal responsibilities (including death) if when someone actually dies you’re going to flip out and fire people?  Why not just have the waiver, that way maybe they won’t hold the contests?  Seems like if you have the waiver, don’t fire people that do what they’re supposed to do and use them.