I learn something every single day

I know water can kill if you breathe it, but just drinking it? I guess moderation is good in all things.

A woman who was found dead hours after taking part in a water drinking contest at a local radio station may have died of water intoxication, a coroner said.

The body of mother-of-three Jennifer Strange, 28, was discovered at her home in Rancho Cordova, California, on Friday after she competed in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest organised by KDND 107.9.

The radio station had promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the competitor who could drink the most water without going to the toilet.

Ms Strange went home after complaning to work colleagues that her head was hurting. "She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her," said Laura Rios, a colleague at the Radiological Associates of Sacramento.

The irony is she was doing this for her kids who are now motherless*.

* Information I picked up in another article, but don't know where.

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