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Moments in Wiitard Nation: First idiot to break his TV with Wiimote photo

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it seems there already is an idiot who broke his TV while playing the Wii. Direct from the brain-dead drone:

We brought the Wii home and played it pretty much nonstop for the past 24 hours. At 12:10am, during a slower couch-sitting game of Wii Sports: Bowling, my Nintendo Wii got angry with me.

My buddy Troy reels back to roll his ball as he's done about 300 times tonight suddenly feels the controller slip from his hand. (THANK GOD for the wrist strap right?)

Nope. Wrist strap snaps. The Wiimote flies across the room impaling my 60" rear projection TV square in the upper left corner.

Be warned: Sweaty hands + faulty Wiimote wrist strap = broken ass TV.

Know anyone else that can't keep their Wiimote in their pants? 


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juDDz's Avatar
juDDz at 11/20/2006 12:51
Is your sweat composed of vaseline or baby oil?
Oni's Avatar
Oni at 11/20/2006 12:59
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Oni at 11/20/2006 13:00
Shit. I didn't realize it was quite that huge. Sorry :(
World Famous's Avatar
World Famous at 11/20/2006 13:08
it's ok, it's funny.
Fana7ic's Avatar
Fana7ic at 11/20/2006 13:09
LAWL We can use images now? Didnīt know that :)
Gotta be careful and watch out for people that are going to spam the frontpage
Azguard's Avatar
Azguard at 11/20/2006 14:14
WIIMOTE SURVIVES! Now that's Nintendo quality.
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keener at 11/20/2006 14:18
i call BS. the way the wrist strap is attached it doesnt appear as though it would snap that way. and holy shit, you have to be bowling pretty fuckin hard for the inertia of a slipped wiimote to apply enough force to snap that little nylon string. if anything it seems like it would rip out from the bottom of the strap before it would shear somewhere in the middle. if there were sharp edges where it attached to the wiimote maybe, but they appear to be round enough.

learn to play like a normal human being, jeeze.
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Detry at 11/20/2006 15:42
I call Shenanigans

Why would both parts of the strap break at the same time?

Tv was already broken ass to begin with.
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c--b at 11/20/2006 15:49
Yes, I too call bullshit. I'll admit that I've never even so much as held a Wiimote (Oh how I want to), but the world just doesn't function the way it would need to for a Wiimote (That is reputed to be incredibly light I might add) to fly out of somebodys hand, pull the wrist strap taut (Which would slow it down I imagine), break it and then still continue on with enough force to break the TV without getting redirected after the wrist strap is pulled taut. How do you even do this while bowling anyhow? How is the wiimote even directed near the TV while bowling, isn't it mostly a downward swinging motion?

Now even if by some fluke this did actually happen, the guy is a fucking moron.
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Dexter345 at 11/20/2006 16:36
If it did happen, it happened because he wasn't using the wrist strap at all, but he didn't want people to be like, "OMG you moron you should have been using the wrist strap." So he embellished the story a bit to include the wrist strap breaking.
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Mabec at 11/20/2006 16:48
IGN had the same experince: http://media.wii.ign.com/articles/745/745202/vid_1742357.html
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