Strange

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- 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 told the station that she was doing it for her three children.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN)

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) -- the annual Las Vegas-based trade show in its 40th year -- serves as a peek into the future of high-tech gadgets and gizmos.

No matter what new products are presented I’m sure none of them can rival Nintendo for the strange extent that someone will go to…in order to own one of their “toys.”

Let’s talk lawsuit for a second.

The radio station, the disk jockeys who thought up the stunt and Nintendo will all be named.

I have a strange feeling that her three children will be able to buy a few video games after the dust settles on this strange story.

The fact that somebody named Strange should die in this manner just reinforces what is going to take place this coming Wednesday in Washington. D.C.

From Times Wire Reports
The keepers of the “Doomsday Clock” plan to move its hands forward Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.

The symbolic clock, created in 1947 and maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, currently is set at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe.

I assume 53 minutes have ticked off the clock in the last 60 years.

I do know that Jennifer Strange does not have to worry about the “Doomsday Clock” anymore.

I wonder if any of the new “contraptions” introduced this week in Las Vegas, come with a “Doomsday Clock indicator. “ Imagine having to pay for that service.

Imagine wanting to pay for that service…..now that would be STRANGE.

Michael Timothy McAlevey