# Water-drinking contest victim's family sues

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**Created:** [January 26, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-drinking-contest-victims-family-sues/389613 "2007-01-26T20:09:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-drinking-contest-victims-family-sues/389613/21 "2007-01-31T05:51:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]  
I’m not sure if people mentioned this case in the other thread, but there was a very well publicized case of a kid dying in a fraternity hazing [incident](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/04/HAZING.TMP) in 2005 at Chico, which is only a 100 miles or so away from Sacramento. Granted, the situation was exacerbated by hypothermia, but I think the root cause of death was water intoxication.

I remember when I heard of the radio contest death, I thought, “Shit, not again!”.  
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Not only was it mentioned in one of the other threads, someone in the studio even mentioned it before they started the contest. There was a link to an audio file of the broadcast which made it pretty clear that the staff knew of the danger beforehand but tried to play it down.

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