Water-drinking contest victim's family sues

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@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 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!”.

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.