Jennifer Strange

Jennifer Lea Strange was a 28-year-old woman who died of water intoxication on January 12, 2007 after taking part in a Sacramento, California, radio station's water-drinking contest. Strange, along with twenty other participants, took part in a contest held by "Morning Rave" show called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii," where the winner would win a Wii, a popular but at that time difficult-to-obtain Nintendo video game console. The winner was the one who could consume the most water without urinating. Strange came in second place; it was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed, but other contestants speculated that Strange drank up to two gallons (7.56 L) of water
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Her mother found the body in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, California, after Strange called her supervisor at her job to say she was heading home in terrible pain. Preliminary autopsy findings have ruled the death was due to water intoxication.
During the contest, a nurse identified as Eva called the show and gave an on-air warning that drinking too much water is hazardous and potentially deadly. The disc jockeys rebuffed the nurse, saying the contestants had signed waivers. (According to a contestant, the waivers addressed only publicity issues and made no mention of health or safety concerns.) In addition, the DJs ridiculed the contestants, making fun of the severe discomfort of the participants and offering no assistance. According to one contestant, they heckled another contestant on the floor whose teeth were chattering. They also made reference to the 2005 case of Matt Carrington, who died of water intoxication in a fraternity hazing incident at Chico State University, but they also shrugged off any significance to this contest. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office considered criminal charges against the DJs and producers of the show, but on April 2, 2007, the Sacramento County District Attorney said no criminal charges would be filed.
On January 25, 2007, Jennifer Strange's immediate family, a husband and three children, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court against KDND's parent company, Entercom, and employees and managers involved with the contest.

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