How unfortunate!

[Golf_Novice]

I just read this on www.news.com.au (http://www.news.com.au)

Lightning kills five at football match


November 20, 2006 12:46pm

A BOLT of lightning killed five people at a football match in north-eastern Colombia and left another 28 injured, local authorities said.

The lightning struck a tent where 60 people had sought shelter from a heavy rain during the match in Abrego in the Norte de Santander province bordering Venezuela.

Ten of the injured were children, who were taken to hospital with first- and second-degree burns.


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[Ducky]

Your title oozes sarcasm.

[Golf_Novice]

Drinking water kills woman


January 14, 2007 11:00pm
(http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21060308-954,00.html#)

A WOMAN has died of water intoxication after taking part in a radio station's water-drinking contest.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" competition, trying to win a Nintendo Wii game system.

Sacramento Assistant County Coroner Ed Smith said yesterday a preliminary investigation had found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death".

Strange's mother found her daughter's body on Saturday at her home in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, after Strange had called her work supervisor to say she was heading home in terrible pain.

"She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento.

"She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."
Earlier on Saturday, Strange took part in a contest at radio station KDND 107.9, in which participants competed to see how much water they could drink without going to the toilet. Initially, contestants were handed 220ml bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes.

"They told us, 'if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk'," said a fellow contestant.

"I was talking to her and she was a nice lady. She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for the kids."

Water intoxication occurs when the body takes in more water than it can get rid of, causing a dilution of crucial electrolytes.

[Grunt]

WOW In the states that radio station is in a fair bit of Trouble now aren't they.

[just]

Bollocks! That radio station would have covered themselves adequately in a legal sense beforehand. If this is true the woman is a classic nominee for the Darwin Awards.