Wii Damage Toll: TVs Suffering The Most Abuse

Wii Remotes Just a week on from Nintendo’s advice note about how to use the Wii remote control responsibly, I can present one current (reported) list of Wii disasters. It’s not a pretty picture and if I was a TV I’d be setting up a union and calling for Wii danger money right about now.

According to the great Wii disaster watch site, Wii have a problem, where people report their misadventures, like yesterday’s shiner, 13 TVs have fallen foul of airborne Wii remotes. Twenty straps have broken and seven people have sustained a variety of injuries.

What truly amazes me is that no lamps have yet been destroyed by adults leaping around their rooms with abandon and waving their arms like people drowning. Hell, when I was a kid, I couldn’t seem to avoid the damn things.
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