up to 10 people per week are hospitalized for Wii related injuries

[SpiritAlight 1]

HAL9000 plus kitteh Wii skiing.

A computer and a cat together....mmmm....

Indoor jiggling city.

Wow!

[DeadPoolX 9]

The biggest risk of owning a Wii isn't the injuries to people playing Wii... but the injuries to people standing near people playing Wii... or the TV that is being used... if you look around on google for Wii injuries and Wii damage you'll see some serious black eye's, and expensive TV's destroyed... I'm pretty sure most of the damage caused by Wii ownership is in destroyed plasma/HDTV big screen tv's that had a sweat covered wiimote smash into them...

I just don't understand that. All of the Wiimotes have straps on them. There are warnings about using it without the strap every time a game loads up. If some people are dumb enough to ignore those warnings and/or forgo using the strap, then they deserve what they get.

I know the original straps *or* the piece of the controller that the strap attached too originally was too weak, and they'd break... I heard they had a replacement strap that was much tougher to break. One of the few games I played involved passing the controller around... something like a bop it game but on the wii... obviously straps would not help there though I don't think that game did anything to encourage any crazy movements (beyond passing the control)

I'd like to know how hard these people are swinging their Wiimotes. My wife and I have been using our Wiimotes (with the strip and cover firmly in place) for months now and there's been no breakage whatsoever. In fact, there's no damage at all.

So I have to imagine that these people are either flailing about incredibly hard and wildly or they've simply strapped the remote incorrectly (or possibly not at all).