Here's another round of overseas strap breaking. Once again, it's on purpose in the name of science...

"After hearing all the stuff about Wiimotes smashing tvs and injuring people, I figured i'd need a couple of stronger straps, just incase. I reveiced my straps today so I thought, "lets test the old one!" and I snapped it (fairly easily I might add) then my older brother had the idea to test the new ones so I did. it didn't break. so i handed it over to my older brother to test out and him being stonger than me he... well, just look at the pic attached... -Alan and Stephen in Scotland, UK"

Damage with artfully composed pictures, how nice. Usually I don't like taking damage stuff from other peoples sites, but this guy asked and he seemed like a decent fellow so I'm going to make an exception.

"I visited wiihaveaproblem.com, I laughed. Then karma came around and hit me right back in the face. During bowling, the wiimote slipped from the tiny 9-year old hands of my niece, breaking the first version straps (already requested the thicker ones from Nintendo, but still haven't received them) and *whoosh* past my 32" inch LCD-TV (*pfew*) right through the window."

So if you thought people breaking the original strap was silly, this will take the cake. This pair decided to "test" the new and improved strap by yanking on it. I'll let them reveal their findings to you...

"Earlier this evening, my friend Andrew and I got bored and decided to test out his new wiimote strap. Him and I both tried flinging it in the style of wii sports games (ie, letting it go while doing the bowling motion, letting it go while baseball pitching, ect) and it never broke, or even showed a sign of loostening up. Eventually I just pulled it apart with my arms. Here's the result. It broke Andrew's wiimote and STILL HELD ON! We couldn't stop laughing. Hope this shows everyone that the new wiimote straps are really as good as they should be. -Jamie"

Since this guy broke his Wii remote and strap on purpose instead of being careless it doesn't seem right making fun of him at first. But then when I thought about it, it seems even more appropriate to make fun of him. Oh sure, I appreciate the research he's done, but at what cost did we get it? I'm going to stick to playing video games on my Wii instead of treating it like a crash test dummy.

"Ok, so the other day I received my new Wii-straps. I thought that I would try and break my old Wii-straps, just to see how much pressure they could take. I had them still tied to the Wii-mote and wrapped around my wrist. I gave them a good, long, slow pull and it snapped.

Since I received four new straps from Nintendo (the max that they allowed), I thought I would test them as well. The result? I grabbed firmly on the controller and wrapped the Wii-strap around my wrist and gave it a good slow pull..... SNAP! I then looked down expecting my fresh new Wii-strap to be broken. But to my surprise, it wasn't the Wii-strap that was broken, it was the Wii-mote that was broken. Right where you stick the Wii-strap in and around, the Wii-strap totally ate up that piece of plastic. So now I am left with a Wii-mote that is Wii-strapless from now on. For anyone wondering, I had to use a little more oomph with the new Wii-strap."

The sad destruction of Wii related equipment is going international again, from Belgium specifically. This isn't the first one by any means, but I like it when our friends across the sea break things and then tell me about them. It gives me a sense of global community in way that the U.N. could never do. Maybe it's just the Christmas season but I'm feeling oh-so fraternal at the moment. I'm going to let my global brother Epo tell you what happened, after that I will turn on him and call him names for breaking a Wii Remote, but until then it's all about the global fraternity.

"Today, my first Wii accident occured. While playing Wii Sports Tennis with 4 people in a small room, I was about to smash a ball really hard. Unfortinately, since we were playing at such a crowded place, I was forced into the back. The back of that room is a little lower than the rest of it, since it's the room in which we watch TV. I raised the Wiimote, and hit the wood just above me pretty hard, causing the Wiimote's black sender to break. As far as I know, I'm the first person to make this happen! ;-) The Wiimote works perfectly. Photo's of this accident attached, one very clear pic of the Wiimote, and one lesser pic of the room it happened in, with marking of the place of impact. -Epo"

A combo move is what we call this particular situation. Not only did this Wii Sports Hero collide with a household object, he chain-reactioned a throwing of the remote across the room, and ended with a triple flip and nailed the landing. Our international panel of judges would usually give this high marks, but our judge from Greece wasn't really paying attention and only gave him a 9.2 which is going to drag Eric's composite down. Now that I'm completely off topic, I'm going to let Eric tell you what actually happened...

"We were bowling, when my friend was kinda getting in my view of the tv, so i kinda repositioned myself to another angle of the room. I forgot to check for objects around the room that might mess up my swing. I took a pretty hard swing and ended up hitting a chair. Because my swing was so hard, the wii remote slipped out of my hand, strap breaks, and the controller ricochets off four walls, including the ceiling, leaving a trail of batteries, batteries, battery case, and the top of my wii remote. Luckily, I just missed his tv, but my controller doesn't work anymore. It doesn't sync up with the Wii at all. -Eric"

Oh good golly geez this looks terrible. According to Zack some ants launched some sort of Trojan horse operation to get into his house via a Wii remote. I dunno what sort of asshat ant leader decides to make a piece of electronic hardware his home, even for a little while, but the pictures would suggest that somewhere along the line they thought it would be a good idea. Below is Zack's version of the story...

"Yeah so I'm willing to bet you haven't got this one yet. My friend was playing my Wii today when low and behold he felt something crawling on his arm. Does your dog have fleas he remarked? Ummm no.... Are there nociems in your house? (tiny bugs that bite really hard, they seem to be all over South Florida for some reason) No... So he looks down and there are ants pouring out of the Wiimote on to his arm. So we rip the battery doors off the Wiimotes and discover an entire colony of ants living in each one! The pictures don't do it justice. There were THOUSANDS of them.

Why these ants decided to use my Wiimotes as a home? It's simple, they love Nintendo! The Wii does rock and of course The Ant Bully was a launch game. So these ants obviously knew this and decided to make the Wiimotes their home. And of course my friend was being the Ant Bully by waving the Wiimote around and wrecking their colony. Right? Now the only question is, how the hell do I get the ants out of my Wiimotes? They chose an expensive home. Smothering in a plastic bag is the only thing I can think of. Any ideas? -Zack"

So many stories are submitted that don't get posted. Typically the pictures are too small or out of focus, or worse yet, there are no photos! This wii user seems to have an voyeur quality zoom on his camera, look at that focus range! But the reason it was posted is because this one struck me as a bit funny, not like funny ha-ha, nor funny like queer, but rather funny like as a detail doesn't seem believable. The user claims he was just walking and the strap broke...

I was playing my Nintendo wii the other night, and the wrist strap broke while I was just carrying the controller by the strap. It then hit the tile floor and the battery compartment tabs that hold it to the controller is broken. However, the controller still works, as usual a Nintendo product is built like a tank. I was wondering if i may be sent a replacement battery compartment and wrist strap? I've been told other My Nintendo members have theirs replaced.

This fellow named "Moritz" sent us some pictures claiming that his Wii Nunchuck cord was discoloring after being used. I have one word for Moritz... "Cheetos". Seriously chief, I would like to join you in fussing that there is some sort of electro-statawhatical charge that was causing discoloration on your Wii Nunchuck, but I'm thinking a little handwashing before play would clear most of this nonsense up.

Oh sure I suppose there is always the outside chance that you're living near Chernobyl or something along those lines, but I'm thinking that you're cord problems have less to do with Nintendo and more to do with Frito Lay.

This time it's not a Nintendo strap but a third party version. Even though the strap was thicker this group of youths managed to break it and then blamed it on their Dad. Ah parents, always there when you need to blame your problems on someone else.

"I remember seeing all the broken wrist straps and smashed TVs on your site and thinking 'That'll never happen to me. My sister and I don't play actively enough for any of that.' I was right. We don't. But my dad does. Today, we were playing Wii Sports Tennis. My dad had already played some, so his hands were sweaty, I guess. Anyway, the Wiistrap snapped and the thing went flying right into the floor like a plastic meteor. It was like the shot heard 'round the world. It was all fixable, but we only found one battery afterwards. 10 years from now, we're going to be cleaning out that room and we're going to find that battery.

The funny thing about the strap is that it's a third party thing; it came with some gel covers that we never bothered to put on the Wiimotes. The strap part is actually thicker than on the original Wiimote strap. And no, we have not gotten the thicker straps yet :P I'm pretty sure we are going to now, before something important breaks. Like our 10 year old TV, god forbid.