Our new friend Heydn tries to blame his TV breaking problems on his Mom in this email. I'm not sure whether I am going to trust him this one or not, but I'll let you hear his side of the story before I cast any more aspersions.

"My mother (of all people) has fallen in love with the Wii. When I brought the Wii with me over Thanksgiving, she immediately became obsessed with it. Later, while in the midst of final exams at college, I got a short email from her asking if I was planning on bringing it home with me over Christmas break. She had already invited her girl friends over for what she called a "Wii Party." Too funny.

Well... despite the 'allow adequate room around you during game play' warnings, mom whacked an antique Chinese chest while doing a backhand in Tennis, causing the battery compartment to open. Almost like a sleek, white jet fighter, the missile bay having been opened, the batteries flew-out, locked-onto our 32" Sony LCD television. One of the batteries missed, but the second slammed into the bottom left corner.

Initially, all three of us were looking down to see where the batteries had gone off to. I then saw the screen, now with a nice series of multi-colored stripes across the bottom. All I could do was laugh. I mean, I bought the damn thing for her as a gift so if anyone had a right to laugh, it was me. I kept looking my my mom, who didn't know whether to laugh or cry. -Heydn"

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"

It's not secret that I'm a big fan of the ceiling fan / light fixture type accidents but this one is particularly good. You see in this one, our champion somehow managed to do damage to the Wii Remote that previously I never thought capable. Take a listen to his story...

"As we have discovered, Wiimotes are tough little buggers. They have survived going through TVs, bouncing off walls and smashing into light fittings without receiving a scratch upon them... Well... 4 player tennis + overzealous friend x low ceiling = dented Wiimote. Why he thought jumping for a smash would be a good idea we will never know... But he did and the solid brass and 1/4" glass light fitting above promptly stopped him mid swing. He blew all 3 light bulbs and gave a whole new angle to the usually horizontal light. The deep gouge in the back of my Wiimote shows how much force he hit it with, but if that wasn't enough he actually managed to dent the battery!?! To be honest he is lucky he didn't hit a finger or we would have had to use our Trauma Centre DS skillz to stitch it back on. At least the battery cover doesn't rattle anymore... -Sh4rky"

Here's a small turnabout. This time in the Wii remote vs. TV, the TV actually seems to have won this one. There is always the chance, that this email may have been sent by the television industry in an attempt to save face in light of a small remote being capable of destroying TV's while remaining unharmed. Let's hear what Andrew has to say...

"I was playing Wii Sports Baseball and was actually going through the motions, trying to bat like I normally would, but decided to swap things up a bit and tethered the controller strap to my /left/ hand. I was feeling pretty good about the setup and had 10 homeruns to my name, and on one at-bat I went to swing and the controller launched out of my hand. Now, I'm playing almost two feet from my 27" 4:3 television because of a lack of room space, and had pretty much accepted the fact that if anyone released the remote and it struck the TV, chances are it would go /through/ the screen. Much to my surprise, however, my TV is rather resiliant! The head of the controller slammed into the top left of the glass screen and bounced off, ejecting the battery case and the batteries. The screen is fine, thankfully, and after finding everything again I reassembled the controller and attempted to turn it on...with no luck. I made sure to press every button available and noticed a slight shaking noise coming from within the controller shell. I'm calling killed-in-action on this Wiimote and donating the body to science. -Andrew"

Well here we have a fairly rare case of a broken remote and a not at all rare case of good Nintendo customer service. Tobias regales us all with tales of flying remotes and excellent customer service...

"My friend's first day playing the Wii, and we were playing Wii Sports Tennis. Yup, same way all the stories start. He got sweaty after having played quite a while, as well as riled up. One big swing later, the remote is on the far side of the dining room (us playing in the living room) with the batteries scattered across the floor. The first thing we did was put it back together and make sure it worked. The B button had started sticking some. It happened again while I was there playing and we managed to get it unstuck with a screwdriver.

I contacted Nintendo and talked to a Product Support Rep. He is sending out a new controller, free of charge, and is not requesting the other one to be sent back! Now -that- is good service! I had offered to show the pictures but he said it wasn't necessary, so instead, I show them to you guys. -Tobias"

This bunny's got an attitude. The owner of said hare told us it took to chomping on her Wii Remote cord. Frankly this whole thing reminds of the time when [[insert obvious raving rabbids joke here]], woo! hoo! was that ever funny. Anyway, let's have our girl Josephine tell us all the story...

We have a bunni, he gets to run around the house as all bunnis should. While I left my other half playing tennis on our wii he was so engrossed in the gama that he didn't see sweep (said bunni) wanted to "help out". Here are some pics of the damaged caused by our helpful bunni.

The moral of this story is never let your bunni play video games.

Well this is a new one to me. He actually hit his sensor bar and gave it a crack. Not only did he hit the bar, but he hit it not with Wii Remote but instead opted for the batteries from the remote. They already have the wireless sensor bar, maybe now it's time for some sort spring-mounted, shock-absorbing sensor bar. On the other hand maybe people could just hang onto their remote a little bit better. Our submitter tells the story in his own words...

"my friend was playing Bowling on Wii Sports, one of the teeth on the battery cover ended up breaking. The battery cover came off and the batteries flew out of the Wiimote, one hit the sensor bar and the other almost hit my Wii. The Sensor bar now has one o the plastic cover pieces loose and the Wiimote somehow got scratches and the front end of it is cracked. both the sensor bar and Wiimote still work fine. also, the strap is intact."

If you've got three minutes to watch a video that seems like ten, here you go. These creative fanboys not only give us video of a broken strap and damaged Wii Remote, but they also give us high drama all wrapped up into one video. I'm not going to say it's Citizen Kane, but they did make a broken Wii Remote a bit more entertaining than usual.

My favorite part is of course the obligatory zooming in on a near monochromatic mark on a wall that we can't see. It's just a good ten to fifteen seconds of fuzzy indiscernible camera work. *sigh* It just wouldn't be YouTube without it.

Jessica here is a girl that works in video games, some call that a working girl, but I like to keep my mind out of the gutter. I'm just going to let Jessica from IGN tell her own story...

"This past Thurs I was playing Wii baseball with a friend of mine. I was losing badly and getting VERY angry. Even though I know that I don't actually need to literally pitch in order to get the ball across the plate, I was so frustrated I did just that. With all my might I promptly slammed my hand (and Wii controller) into my oak coffee table. The Wii broke apart, cutting the inside of my finger (that's right-the Wii drew first blood!) and leaving me to gasp in pain (the kind of pain that hurts so bad, you don't even make a noise at first). I seriously thought I had broken my finger. I mean I REALLY slammed my hand. I figured it was broke (especially as it started to swell up and throb in time to my heartbeat.

Apparently it IS possible to damage the Wii Remote. To be clear, I've been very impressed with the Wii Remote's durability. I've seen it tossed through TV sets, glassware, and all the usual things listed on the panel to the right. Usually it comes out with nothing more than a rattled battery back cover. Frankly I think a rattled battery pack cover is right of passage for any sort of remote. It's like a hockey player losing some teeth. Oh sure they say they play hockey, but do you really believe them if they still have all their teeth?

Shawn from down Georgia way explained how a mucho macho game of fast pitch led to a broken B-button...

"we were getting our friends together to play wii sports baseball, when one of them claimed to have pitched a 95mph fastball. the next day, he tried to pitch it at the same speed. moments later the wii remote crashes to the floor, with the strap still around his wrist. the remote does not work anymore. the b button is cracked down the center and can hear a rattling sound when the remote is shaken. i dont think he ever pitched 95mph, and probably never will, at least on my wii."