Typically like to bring a bit of humor to these posts, but with this one it is so sad I can't really do that. In a radio station contest called "Hold Your Wee For A Wii" a woman died of water intoxication while trying to win a Wii. Who knew you could die from drinking too much water? One of the saddest things about this is that the woman was doing it for her kids.

From the article:

A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

"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."

It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed.

A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.

Read the full article over at cnn.com