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The description of the tape here looks bad, but I wonder, if everybody there heard it, really why should the DJs be more responsible for stopping the participants than the participants themselves, in a criminal sense, at least?
These are people who aren't in the care of the station; they are voluntary contest participants.
Imagine
A: "Hey, you want to be in my dumb contest?"
B: "Sure."
Someone else: "That contest could hurt you.
A: "You want to be in my dumb contest?"
B: "Sure."
Why is A more responsible than B?
It amazes me that anyone who knew of a water intoxication death would allow people to guzzle enough water to kill themselves but it still seems goofy to say they were more responsible that the folks who chose to do it. Can one of you legal folks explain it?
I think it's interesting that at first they had to wait between bottles of water. It seems to me that they could have safely done this dumb-incredibly-poor-taste contest simply by making it about how long people could wait having consumed a uniform amount of water.
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