Just like drugs and alcohol, there's nothing quite as fun/dangerous as mixing internet memes, but that headline was just too much fun to resist. The picture above is apparently the result of a
Wii Sports bowling mishap by a certain Tyler, who we hear can lift small cars with merely his right hand. Tyler, who normally bowls with a clockwise spin, and eats a dozen eggs for breakfast every morning, tried to mix it up with a bit of counterclockwise action, to the disastrous effect as seen above. While we're still pretty dang skeptical of the possibility of such a feat, Tyler's friend is quite adamant about the honesty of the story and the un-stagedness of the picture, so we've decided to take him at his word and write it off as just another
Festivus miracle. Oh, and just for the record: after popping the battery cover back on, the Wiimote worked just fine, continuing the current streak of zero Wiimote casualties in related incidents.
posted December 5th 2006 8:02PM
I dont have a wii so I'm not 10% about this, but shouldn't the controller's back side be heavier because of the batteries? hence shouldn't the batteries side come forward if it flew off? and if it was spinning (highly unlikely) wouldn't it have to hit the tv at a perfect 90 degree angle to crack the case like that, bacause the front side (lighter side of the wiimote) won't have enough momentum?
mmmm... interesting..
clearly fake,
You could through a knife at a CRT TV and not get that type of penetration,
Also, for Wii Sports bowling the controller should be facing up, since you have to do the bowling motion and let go of the B button, that picture depicts a Wiimote that is lodged sideways.
Clearly a gash from some other incident and some guy just jabbed his Wiimote into it probably to get hits to his shitty blog titled "Wii damage".
It seems that with all these Wiimote accidents that the strongest people in the world are the first people to purchase the Wii.
The amount of force that is needed to do that is ASTOUNDING! I wish i was a physics major so I could calculate it.
Hey we have the same entertainment center. haha
This definitely looks fake.
I have to say though, I thought the idea of even losing control of the Wii-mote was ridiculous, and people had to be greased up, per the Penny-Arcade strip.
However, playing recently, I let slip of my controller. The thing was, my hands were SUPER dry. I couldn't hold on to my remote hardly at all, and it was quite... dangerous. If only in a very minor sense.
Just a word of caution to others out there. Maybe you should START greasing your controller up. (probably not though)
I've stopped believing any of these stupid borken tv things if they aren't flat screens. I've hit a TV square to the midle of the class with a bat and the crack was ridiculously tiny... It takes realy stupidity or repeat hits to make some of the cracks i've seen... Coincidently I replicated one of the pictures I saw on a normal Televison... I had to use a BALL HAMMER to do real damage. And I don't even keep the straps on my remotes, how retarded are these people?
Kain,
honestly, you just got through saying you took a bat to your TV, and yet _these_ people are "retarded"??? come on..
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I've stopped believing any of these stupid borken tv things if they aren't flat screens. I've hit a TV square to the midle of the class with a bat and the crack was ridiculously tiny... It takes realy stupidity or repeat hits to make some of the cracks i've seen... Coincidently I replicated one of the pictures I saw on a normal Televison... I had to use a BALL HAMMER to do real damage. And I don't even keep the straps on my remotes, how retarded are these people?
I had a problem with Red Steel except I stabbed the dog - is Nintendo going to compensate me for pain and suffering for the loss of my dog? By the way this is a true story cause one of me mates can verify it.
I bowl and I could not even get a wii remote going that fast unless I underarm pitched... Which is what it looks like. This is FAKE!
Anyone who does damage to anything with a Wii remote is a complete retard! The remote it very easy to handle & is super sensitive. There is no humanly possible reason for anyone to use a Wii remote with such force! People just do this on purpose to gather attention.
TV [===== ]
Wiimote [============ ]
Oh please...
These headleans are absolutely hilarious, but people...I can't believe some of you are taking it seriously!?!
Truly, what kind of drunken tard would you have to be to even let go of the Wiimote in the first place let alone fling it with enough force to break a strap and lodge it in a TV?
I'd like to quite the case of Physics Vs. Fantasy but I suspect most people have made up their minds ;)
Did he strike?
lol, FAKE
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [breath]
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!
I see the problem, Nintendo needs to make the Wiimote out of plastic and not high density carbonized steel. That must be what the Wiimote is made of if it can cause all of the damage it has been causing and still make it through without a scratch!
That would NEVER have been a strike... ;-)
I don't believe this one for a moment. The force required to lodge that remote in the TV is just too great.
On the other hand, I think that it is great when this happens to people. You need to keep control of the Wiimote, it's that simple. Watch the commercial for Wii when the woman is bowling. She gently makes the motion of bowling and doesn't actually put the force behind the remote to send a real bowling ball down the alley.
Each one of these posts about someone damaging their TV/window/wall/child/cat with the wiimote shows us another idiot in the wild. Gizmodo showed the trailer park country bumpkin who was first "featured" as winner of the idiot award for breaking his TV. Engadget had the article also but happily did not subject us to his picture. We even got the video of the idiot swashing the wiimote into the wall where you can clearly see he is out of control.
It's simple; take care when using the wiimote. The strap was designed to help keep control of it but not to permanently affix the thing to your wrist to survive a 300 MPH throw and release of it.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of thermoset polymer behavior knows immediately that this story is... quite false, to put it nicely.
Assuming the remote were thrown hard enough to penetrate the plastic housing, the propogation of the cracks would be MUCH more extensive. Basically, a helluva lot more cracks would be present.
You see, thermosets are much different from thermoplastics in a few key aspects, one of which is deformability. This particular trait goes hand-in-hand with strength, in that lower deformability coincides with higher strength. However, higher strength coincides with an increase in the "brittle" behavior of the thermoset.
So, the energy required to penetrate the case would be so great that it would inherently cause MUCH more fracture propogation than is shown there. The damage evident in the photos indicates the hole was made by a much higher force, lower-"engergy" (i.e. a slow break) action, such as prying or bending.
I wish people would just hold the controller it's not difficult in fact it's shape allows you to hold it losely and still have a strong grip on it. The strap is meant so if you have to do something or you're holding it and you just drop it it'll be fine. Just hold onto it, sweaty hands, dry hands doesn't matter, it's shaped to prevent this.
I'm gonna call crap on this too- no batteries in the Wii-mote... so where's the onscreen message saying it lost the connection with the remote?
FATALITWii!
(i know.. lame. couldn't resist)
Well, you should see the picture I've got of the Wii-mote that accidentally got lodged in my cousin's chest cavity... you wanna talk Massive Damage?!
Seriously folks, unless this dumbass is actually CHUCKING the remote at the tv (certainly not playing Wii Bowling) there's no reasonable way that this could happen. If you're throwing it underhanded then it's going to bounce off the tv, not stick into it.
Ever since it's been revealed that the Wii-strap is the controller's weak point it's amazing how many stories about "broken straps" have come out of the woodwork. I've been using mine consistantly since launch (over 3 hours a day), with multiple partners (;P) and have never had the strap break, even with some close calls (remotes flying out of my hand).
I don't buy it. No one using the system the way it's MEANT to be used (and clearly instructed to) would ever have this problem.
Sheesh.
Hahaha. Whether it's fake or not that is just funny!
Seriously, my 4-year old nephew had no problem bowling and not letting go of the remote. He whooped our asses, too.
Nintendo's build quality has always been top-notch.
Who among us hasn't whipped their original NES controller into/against a wall, on purpose, having it bounce back in perfect shape... my demonic younger self got so upset at the durability of Nintendo Controllers that I took a knife and gouged out a chunk or two... sad that I can't sell them on eBay now.
Though this picture looks like a fake. Get a crappy old TV, whack it with a hammer, jam a Wiimote into it, get a million hits on Flickr. I should start photoshopping now!
I just can't believe the people that can't hold onto a Wiimote, is it THAT hard to grip? Are you unable to wipe off your sweaty hands in between rounds of bowling??? How foolish...
Of course my girlfriend whacked me pretty good in the elbow last night during a match of tennis.
If you look at the full image you'll notice the battery cover sitting, unscathed, on the edge of the TV stand. Now, if I had just tossed a Wii into the side of my TV I would stop to pick up the battery cover and nicely place it on the TV stand before running over to get my camera and take picture so that I could become famous on the internet for being dumb enough to not hold on to an object I didn't want flying around the room. And, if I had done so, I would definitely pick up the batteries too...
And honestly, I'm amazed at how these little plastic remotes are so much more durable then large, expensive TV's with hard plastic and thick glass. Oh, and a blunt object is much more likely to bounce of another blunt object then it is to puncture it. Even if there is a weak spot that happens to be just the size of the first object.
That is funny. Obvious the picuture was exaggerated the issue, do not take it serious, guys. But the designer might not anticipate this will happen. Anyway you learned something new. Next time when you play game with someone you hate, then you can just throw the controller out and then say "sorry",...:)
Does the wiimote have real-time...weapon change?
how convenient that it didn't hit the screen
I used to have a old T.V that when i touched it the plastic cracked and then broke through so i can see this happening,
thats deff. a gutterball.
Note that the TV stand is damaged on the left side.
It seems more likely that they somehow dropped the TV on the TV stand a long time ago, and they took this opportunity to create a website with a faked photo.
It went strait for the Jugular!
I submitted this one to the Myth Busters. I'll let you know if I get a response.
I'd love to see them fire a few Wii remotes out of a cannon at a TV. Entertainment value: Mucho.
I would like to point out that this is 1 of 2 articles that I have read today about the same problem, and the same guy, tyler. However, both articles (which were on endgadget) have different pictures. In this one, the remote is stuck in the tv, in the other, the screen was cracked. I think its pretty obvious that someones messing around here.
You have to get a Cheetah Screen Protector if your a Wii Lover, I finally broke down and got after my last party - dude totally f-ed up my new LCD TV.
Cheetah Screen Protector
http://www.cheetahsp.com/