01/25/2007: 28-year-old Jennifer Strange died competing in an event that was senseless and reckless.
Any serious distance runner knows of the dangers of hyponatremia, a potentially fatal swelling of the brain cells caused by over-hydration. Every year, a couple distance runners die from it.
While I do not expect a DJ–a group whose intelligence ranks slightly higher than pigs–to understand what hyponatremia is, I do expect them to perform due diligence with their station before engaging in such contests.
At any rate, if someone with knowledge warns them, they need to take it seriously.
Unfortunately, when a caller informed the DJs that participants–who were competing to see who could drink the most water without urinating–were risking their lives, they made light of it.
Drinking such high amounts of water is almost as dangerous as playing Russian Roulette with a semiautomatic.
As for the DJs, I’d like to have them work as target holders at the gun range.
In all seriousness, I hope they get jail time for this.