If there were ever a time to laugh out loud at other people, at clumsy people, that time is now!

Excitable Nintendo fanboys smash TVs with flying Wiimotes

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It seems that some overeager Wii users have gotten a bit too worked up while playing Wii Sports, bowling so hard that the strap of their Wiimote snapped, sending the controller barreling into their TVs. Is there anything worse than bowling for a spare and ending up with a busted big screen TV? As easy as it would be to blame Nintendo for making shoddy wrist straps, let's be honest here: if you're whipping your controller around so fast that it reaches TV-smashing velocity, you're playing the game with a bit too much energy. It seems likely to me that people might have been playing without the wrist strap, got a bit too worked up, had their palmsweat send the Wiimote flying, then snipped the strap afterwards for sympathy/free TV from Nintendo points. Let this be a lesson to the rest of you, wear the strap, and simmer down. — Adam Frucci

I still love the idea of the Wiimote, the remote with the motion sensors of a sexkitten, allowing you to play the games currently off-limits to anyone who doesn't wish to expend numerous hours perfecting their thumb movements (plus, like, I have these nails? ;) . Still, when my father read a similar article to me, the laughter began! :D

Some Youtube videos :)

Awww! Cute Japanese men and smart cars spreading Wii love! I look forward to the many funny tales of injury and mayhem the wiimotes cause.

On a more serious note, I hope it doesn't kill the Wii, there have been calls of foul play and disbelief in the comments of these stories (this and many more have been spread all over the web - check out Engadget for multiple accounts), but there has also been much concern and talk of suing Nintendo. Also, because they're dorks, they started doing math formulas to see with what force the wiimote would need to be thrown to break a TV. My father firmly believes that the Wii will keep going unchecked -"They let go of the remote - not Nintendo's problem," and I hope he's right.
Hey Lawyer dude (yes that's you Matt), how would that go do you think?

Now to get back to high spirits, I want you to repeat after me :

"fanboys...wiimote...fanboys...wiimote...fanboys...wiimote"
and repeat :D