"We have been introducing [Casmobot] to the professional workers at the municipalities and the minute they got this Wiimote in their hands and started cutting grass, they were smiling and laughing all the time so I guess I’m not the only one that thinks this is a very good idea."
Because, honestly, we are all too lazy to cut the grass the old fashioned way.
You may have seen this around the Internet or on TV, but apparently we have reached a whole new level. I'm not sure what is more crazy, someone killing their dog while playing Wii Bowling, or that the neighbor came over and gave the dog mouth to mouth to save it. Looks like the dog will survive but still has some brain swelling that may be permanent. Well, at least her wrist strap didn't break.
Oh how we love this woman, not just because these photos make her look like she's turned on by that huge shiner. But because she's not a blonde - no offense to blonds - well, ok, yea we meant offense. We love her because this photo alone is what motivated us to go back to posting all the awesome Wii related injuries we've received over the last few years. Too bad we check our email like once every two years or we would have posted this earlier honey. Here is what she had to say about this "Remote to the face" injury...
These photos follow the after math of a night of Wii Tennis, some drunk a-hole swung back, into my face. When it initially happened, I just felt this influx of pain to my face, I wasn't even sure what had just transpired, because we had had the Wii for 3 months and no accidents or injuries had occurred.
I ran to the bathroom where my eye proceeded to gush blood for about 5 - 10 minutes, it was totally sexy.
So here are some silly and stupid photos of me and my black eye. Coincidentally I was between jobs at the time, and going on tons of job interviews, and yes, I had to explain my eye to a lot of people. :) because even some interviewers wouldn't ask, and I would just have to be like "Look, I know you are staring at my ridiculous shiner, however there is a plausible explanation, no, my boyfriend doesn't hit me, no I was not in any sort of car accident, and no, I did not 'walk into a door'..... Do you know what a Wii is?"
Rock on baby, we love the attitude. You can swing by later and we can take some more recent photos for our private collection.
A new product is due soon that should protect your precious HDTV, even if you should manage to demolish every other object in your living room during a fitful round of Wii-ing. Looking at it, it seems nice enough, but given the erratic world of Wii controller airborne trajectories, it doesn't seem to be particularly ricochet-proof.
On your fifth HDTV since buying a Wii? Yeah, we are too -- maybe it's time to get your display a little something designed to protect it against the occasional glancing blow from an errant Wiimote. Sketchy though the Taiwanese company's site may seem (apologies in advance, we're not clear on any US distributors), LCDArm claims its impact-resistant Safety Shield passes through 98% of light, reduces UV, and, of course, is the ideal candidate for protecting your high-def investment from your decidedly low-def motion-sensitive console, whose controller has been occasionally known to fly out of the hands of adoring fans with truly horrific results.
Next up...a Safety Shield 'glove' that protects your five-digited fleshy investment against those decidedly motion-inhibiting coffee table edges...
They didn't mention this practical use for a Wii controller in the operator's manual, evidently.
In times to come, there will doubtless be reports of roving gangs of Wii controller-armed heavyset thugs lurking around gaming stores and threatening PS3 and X-Box players with wtfpwnage headshots unless they renounce their fanboyism. Jack Thompson will love it.
I like this picture of a perfectly undamaged orb of glass. Just the foreshadowing of it being shattered into slivers by a Wii remote gets me all tingly.
"Playing tennis on the Wii requires a lot of space. Clearly I didn't have enough space for playing tennis. The Wii remote control is fine, no scratch at all.
My friend just lost a game of tennis to his wife. Then he played against the computerplayer - and didn't wanted to lose against it.
My lamp came in the way. Now it looks like a cheap version of the deathstar.." -Claus
I don't want to be too critical of Claus's storytelling abilities, but I could have used more information on how his friends fingers are doing. Surely you can't put your fist through that ball and think you can get away from it without a scratch.
This video is one that was put together with the best of intentions. It's supposed to be a Wii related public service announcement. All the usual trappings are there... Official sounding voices, etc... I don't want to give away the ending for you, but some guy gets hit in the face with a Wii remote. Wii movies are starting to get like Terrance and Phillip cartoons to be honest.
So far, this is all pretty standard fare, until out of nowhere our URL shows up. For me, this was the surprise ending of the century. Let's be clear, I am not a vaguely Asian guy with a smooth and dulcet voice. I don't even know these guys, but I like their patronizing effort to seduce me with a URL reference.
When animals attack! Except, this is in reverse. More like, when people beat the living piss out of animals with a Wii remote. Innocent girlfriend Bobi explains...
"My boyfriend and I just bought a Wii and new leather furniture. While my boyfriend and I were playing Wii, our roommates's cat, Cracker, jumped up and clawed the back of the new furniture. My boyfriend went to grab Cracker by the scruff of the neck and toss him off so he wouldn't hurt the furniture. Unfortunetly, my boyfriend forgot that the Wiimote was attached to his wrist. When he grabbed Cracker, the Wiimote did a complete 360 around his wrist and smacked Cracker on the leg.
Cracker was limping and whining, so we called the vet and after x-rays found out that Cracker needed surery for a broken leg. The ball inbetween his joints had to be removed and fitted with one the vet had made for him.
A partially shaved cat, stitches ,an Elizabethan collar, and $512.00 later, Cracker is on a six week road to recovery and will be good as new afterwards. The Wiimote is undamaged, as for our household Wiitards, well let's just say wii are a lot more observant."
Cracker seems to be shaking it off ok. Five hundred bucks for hip replacement seems a little much though. Last time I checked you could replace the whole damn cat for a lot less than that.
The French are known for many things, and this particular French woman is trying to make a name for herself as a violent Wii player. Observe what her husband has to say...
"This moody girl is my wife. I guess she looked like this because instead of beating me on the wii tennis court, she blew up by accident the " happy cows" glass she has just bought two hours before. I have to say she always had a wrenching backhand... and an iron fist ! The wiimote didn't touch the glass at all. It has been desintegrated by the back of her fist. Pieces of glass flew through the whole living-room. She hasn't been hurt and dindn't feel anything. She uses to say she'll hit me hard if I ever betray her one day. Frightening !
You can see the bottom of the glass which remained exactly where it was shattered by her hand. A karate master wouldn't have done better. Blown up by a powerful backhand. We can barely see the rests of some once happy cows on the three biggest pieces remaining." -Christian
I'm not 100% clear on what the "Happy Cows" are. Maybe something French, maybe an advertising ploy for the California Dairy Association. At any rate, I think it's safe to say that their influence in this particular French home has suffered a setback. All thanks to the wicked backhand of a woman possessed of Wii passion.
The Danes are continuing the break stuff as is the rest of the world. Today it's their own fingers being damaged. That's right, the nation that reminds American white trash that Copenhagen is more than just a brand of smokeless tobacco, has sent us pictures of a broken lamp and finger.
"I've had my Wii for 3 weeks now. I've been playing just long enough to discover that you can do some cool moves in Wii sports, tennis. High underhand balls, smashes and screw-balls. I was practicing the screw-balls with great empathy and excitement. Suddenly I bang the Wiimote up in my ceiling lamp which is made of glass, and cut my index finger all the way to the bone.
God thanks my girfriend was home when it happened. She's a nurse and managed to stop the bleeding within 20-30 minutes and got my finger stitched back together with some medical staples/strips.
Right now the only regrets and frustrations is caused by the fact that I'll have to wait for my finger to get well enough to start playing again." -David from Denmark
Dave, that sounds dangerous, and I too am glad that your medically affiliated girlfriend was on hand.
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