Sunday, January 14, 2007

Please, can the FCC wee on The End?

The name of the radio-station contest was "Hold Your Wee for a Wii." Here's the Associated Press account of what happened:

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

Jennifer Strange's mother found her daughter's body at her home Friday in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova after Strange called her supervisor at her job 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 Friday, 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 bathroom.

Initially, contestants were handed eight-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes."

They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added.

After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink."I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for kids."

IF IT'S STUPID ENOUGH, degrading enough or, now, fatal enough, you can bet it originated in the addled mind of a modern-day radio promotions director. American radio thinks it's making a living off of the fact that morons exist -- and reproduce.

What American radio is doing, though, is slouching off into irrelevance. Run the numbers from the past 15 years.

I sooooooooo hope either the feds or the trial lawyers nail the slimeballs of Sacramento's The End to the bathroom wall.

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