Sarah has a photo collage of problems her circle of friends caused with their Wii. I'll let her narrate them for you...

"All of these pictures are from the same party I was at over the weekend. All i had was my razr on me, so the pictures aren't too good quality. All of the pictures are a result of Wii Tennis. The bleeding thumb was from a serve that went wrong. My friend hit his hand off of the ceiling and drew blood. He went to the doctor a few days ago and found out that his finger was slightly fractured. The other picture is from a tennis shot that didnt quite make it. My other friend wasnt using the strap on the Wii-mote, and accidentally let go of it towards the wall. The basement of the house was just recently finished and painted. Good job Wii Sports for damaging even more stuff." -Sarah

All from the same party? How swank. I suppose this way everyone could draw lessons from the mistakes of others. You know, watch closely when person No. 1 makes a mistake, that way person No. 2 could know exactly how to make the same mistake a few minutes later.

When I saw these pictures my first thought was "Wow! The remote got stuck in the door." Then my second though was "Wow! That room is craptastically awful." John tells us...

"Well... I said I would never do something so stupid but here I am, I recieved my Wii recently (It's beeen on order since November!) Anyway, I bought with it a copy of Red steel because I've been looking forward to it since I first knew it existed, anyway I was in a katana fight with the first boss, I'd made two good swipes and swung back for my third, on my third throw I noticed the remote was no longer in my hand, it didn't smack into the TV or the mirror, so I looked round wondering where it was, to find it lodged in the door (It's a plastic door, really rubbish too) It dosen't matter much, my rooms a portal to the realms of hell anyway." -John

It's cool that the remote is stuck in the door and all, but I can not get over the state of that room. A big part of me has that sinking feeling that he broke into an abandon warehouse to give us some pictures. Maybe some sort of meth lab flophouse type place. Do they have those in the UK?

A dented wall and a loss in "status" a sad day all the way around for our friend here. He explains that it was a combination of Rayman and Bowling that caused his downfall. Well mainly it was his friends inability to behave like a human being instead of one of the raving rabbids, but Rayman and Bowling are in there somewhere...

Me and my buddy were playing Wii Sports Bowling just after a rousing session of Rayman (so our arms were pretty tired). It was only the first frame when my friend managed to chuck the Wiimote into the wall above the TV. All I saw was a little white bullet with a vendetta against my wall. The strap is utterly toast. Thank god I have a replacement since I got one of the Wiimote covers. Oh, that game of bowling was pretty well cursed: I lost Pro status because I scored too low.

Snapped strap? Check! Dented Wall? Check! Wii remote still working even though you just threw it at the side of a dwelling? Check! The durability of the Wii remote shines through again.

The Italians strike again! This time it's a wall instead of a lamp, but the fuzzy pictures are consistent with our last submissions from the Romans. Andrea gives an account of what happened in English that can be described as better than my Italian.

"Here are some photos of the "little" problem we had playing tennis! My friend Roberto (aka furious grizzly) after a violent stroke, have throw his wiimote against the room's wall! One photos is better than 1000 words! Happy new year by Andrea, Roberto and Cristina"

Since the story said that they threw the Wii remote against the wall, I'm slightly confused by the covering of the face that goes on in the picture featuring our two Wii owners. Maybe this half-face look is some sort of Italian hand gesture that I'm unfamiliar with. I'm told they have lots of them.

The subject of this email was "good picture", but I think a better title would have been "disturbing expression on friend's face." Seriously, that man has a bit of a funky look on his face. Oh yeah, apparently they also broke something. I'll let Justin tell you about it.

"Yet another problem while playing Baseball. My friend JP was pitching and the remote just flew out of his hands. It hit the door to the room as well as the door frame and dented both. The door itself has a metal cover on it! But give it to Nintendo at least, the remote still works fine. He finished the game but was hesitant to swing hard or pitch fast. -Justin"

Once again the indestructible Wii remote pulls through completely unharmed. I'm fairly certain that if you threw me across the room into a metal door and bounced me off of it into the wall, I wouldn't want to get up a play some more.

Apparently grip sleeves are no guarantee when it comes to hanging on to stuff. Travis here accepted a grip sleeve from his Grandmother in good faith, only to later throw the Wii remote in a fit of excitement. *sigh* Kids these days...

"I don't even know what you'd call this thing, but My grandmother got it for me for christmas. It's the green thing on the outside of the Wii Remote in the picture. Anyways, I was playing Red Steel (New one, huh?) when the Wii remote, (Grip Glove thing and all) goes flying out of my hands on a sideways slash. It pops free from the nunchuck, and hit the wall. (The two pictures of the wall included in the e-mail) The "glove thingy" was ripped, but no damage to the remote or nunchuck. And as for the wall, my dad has some spackle in his garage. Oh by the way, 1. I wasn't wearing the wrist strap, although it was attached to the remote, and 2. It hit the wall with the bottom left corner of the remote. -Travis"

At least Travis was man enough to admit that he wasn't wearing the strap as has been advised on numerous occasions. Although, judging by the size of the dent in the wall I can't imagine that the strap would have held up to that sort of nonsense anyway. I did think it was interesting that he tore the sleeve when it hit the wall. Maybe that is something that we've overlooked in our thoughts, more padding the on the Wii remote. Maybe if we encased the Wii remote in some sort of plastic bubble it would bounce harmlessly off of things. Like one of those bop-em sock-em gloves you see kids running around with. These are the sort ideas that pop into my head and usually are followed with people telling me to never ever think again.

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"

Epo, Epo, Epo... I going to spare you all the warnings that I'm sure you've heard before about not swinging like a wild man, or any of those usual things. I'm not angry with you for breaking things... I'm just disappointed. *sigh* I don't know what to do with you anymore.

Not only do we have multiple accidents with multiple photos, best of all, we have multiple photoshopped arrows telling us what's what. To be clear I think this is really pretty spectacular, rare indeed is the occasion that somebody takes this sort of effort before they send me a picture for all of us to take a gander at. I'll let Lawrence tell you what happened...

"My girlfriend started a tennis game with our friend and the score was tied in the best of 5 when the catastrophic event happened! As she was executing a strong forehead, the wii remote left her sweaty palm, the strap broke and the remote landed in my beautiful 42'' Panasonic Plasma HD TV. We all sat down, not saying a word, in disbelief of what just happened while looking at the tv, and just feeling incredibly lucky that there was not one scratch on it...Thank God!!!

After taking a 15 minute break to calm our emotions down a little, we decided to restart the Wii and play another sport with less risk of breaking anything, for instance Bowling. Even though the strap of one of the controller was broken, we all agreed that playing bowling was pretty relax and that there wasn't any real danger....that was only until my girlfriend decided to join us in a new game! Well without a strap, the remote slipped again and ended up creating a hole in our ceiling! In the end, we are glad to end up with only a broken ceiling and controller and, gladly, a functional TV! To everyone that got your TV smashed by a Wii remote, I feel your pain! -Lawrence"

That's a fine and dandy story Lawrence, but the real cream is the well documented photographs you've provided for us. It's not everyday that we get pictures that accurately outline the "playing area" or any of the other points of interest along the way. I'm now seeing the world in an entirely different manner, everywhere I go little pop out arrows point to things in my apartment and label them saying "coffee stain", "fridge of rotting food", "empty friends list", and of course "dead hooker in bathtub."

Everybody gather round and take a good look at this. We may have seen similar cases before, but this one's a might different solder. Fred here will fill you in a bit...

"Swinging the controller in WII baseball. I had the strap on and the controller simply slipped out of my hand. The strap broke and the controller flew into a wall, luckily not in the direction of my 55 inch plasma tv!!! Why does the strap become so skinny at the end? It should stay thick the whole way through. -Fred"

Now I'm appropriately thankful that Fred didn't break his TV, just like you are I'm sure. But aside from all of that, there is something funny about the way this guy's strap broke. His broken strap looks like it's the pulled out part of a dissected onion ring. I don't know if this cat has been tying fishing line to his controller and just didn't tell us about or what. If there hasn't been any post-accident monkeying with the strap fragments, it's pretty cool that the strap broke in two places on opposite ends.

Another baseball mishap is what we have here. All the classic signs are plainly visible. Sweaty palms, friends asking you to do something "harder", and of course a flying Wii remote.

"I was playing Wii Sports: Baseball and do a really poor job when my friend tells me to "Swing it harder!" Well I do and since I had been playing a while my hand was sweaty and the Wii Remote slid out of my hand breaking the strap and flying into a nearby wall. The Wii Remote still works great, but I don't let anyone play baseball anymore now. -Gavin"

The part of Gavin's story that should interest all of us the most is the part where he takes a Monk-like oath to never again play baseball. Ordinarily I would board a jet plane, fly to house, and talk him out of this nonsense. Luckily for all of us, Gavin doesn't have the self control to even hang on to his Wii remote, so I don't think we have to worry about this particular vow lasting too long.