I'm on record as being a big fan of ceiling fans, and it is with good reason that I am. The mental imagery of people sticking their hands into swirling blades of sharpness is just great. Eric and Michelle take some sort of rare double-team tactic in the retelling of this particular story. Please observe...

"There we were just having a few people over at the house and one of friends micro brought over his wii and we immediately started bowling. I told everyone look out for the ceiling fan and for the most part everyone listened. Not our friend Vise during the second or third game bowling going for the gold he lost his mind and nearly his finger with a huge swing and the pictures tell the rest. Thanks to Michelle for the quality photos and thanks to Vise for unknowingly being the next victim... and surely not the last. -Eric and Michelle"

Let's all have a big round of applause for Sean. You see Sean here thinks that his little disaster isn't as big or as bloody as some of the other kids, but he still gave what he could. Here at www.wiihaveaproblem.com every injury and bit of damage is special. We're not here to judge based on the scope of your damage, we will make fun of you and call you a toolbox no matter what. We offer a brand of ridicule that is unconditional. Sean tells us his own special story...

"This is pretty mundane compared to the broken joints and lacerated fingers already seen. I was demonstrating Wii Tennis to a friend, and I'm only able to get the power serve when I actually move my arm up and down, as opposed to hitting A and flicking the Wiimote. Well, lo and behold, I get the better of myself and extend my arm a little too high and smacked one of the fan blades on my ceiling fan clean off (while it was spinning), which left a noticeable dent in the wall but my Wiimote and my hand unscathed. I still won the match, but I had to take a trip to Home Depot to buy a $15 fan blade arm kit. D'oh! -Sean"

As we can see here broken glass is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only do you get the initial fun of shattered glass and bloody fingers, but you get a whole host of little surprises buried in the carpet ready to bring the fun to bare feet. CJ is going to give us an example...

"My friend and I were at my house playing Wii Sports when my older brother dropped by to play with us. He had a grand old time playing tennis, getting fully into the swings and everything. After a while his wife (anti-video-gamer) even gave it a shot. They had so much fun that they invited her brother over to play as well. He showed up with two other friends, one of which is really really tall.

By this time, my friend and I had pretty much lost all control over the system and spent most of our time watching everyone else play. At one point, the tall friend of the brother of the wife of my brother was up to play tennis. My brother kept on telling him to swing like he was really playing. One of his first suggestions was to jump and swing down like you were really going to spike a ball. I jokingly commented off to the side that he probably shouldn't because he was right under a ceiling fan and he might shatter a light bulb and slice his hand open or something.

Talk about ironic. Suddenly we all heard a loud *pop* and glass flew all over the room. It was like one of those old-fashioned fire safety sprinklers spewing out glass. Not only did tall friend slice his thumb open, but later that night as I was swinging my baseball bat, my heel found a tiny shard of glass that the vacuum missed."

There is nothing like waking up in the morning to find that some kind soul left you a ceiling light fixture injury email in your inbox. I'm telling you it's the very best way to wake up. This is clearly one of our more gruesome posts that we've had here and I'm going to let Justin tell you all about it.

"My friend Jason was playing Wii Tennis and getting a little too over aggressive. With forgetting it wasn't actually real tennis, Jason vigorously attacked the ball. The score was tied up, a duece, a beauty serve was made by the opposing team, Jason takes the initiative to hop high into the air to attack the ball, disregaurding my low basement cieling and shattered my glass light fixure into oblivion. The glass proceeded to slash Jason's fingers like Jaw's teeth through Quint. As you can see from the pictures, it wasnt a pretty sight. The Christmas Eve staff at Mountainside Hospital were quite amused at this Wiitastraphy, the first reported Wii injury to that emergency room. -Justin"

Seems as if it is light smashing day around here. Do all of you hate your light your light fixtures and are just using the Wii as an excuse to do some redecorating? Our friend Andre Wiigasi here has a tale to tell.

So my alter ego Andre Wiigasi was serving up some rockets over the net in a tennis match with my wife (aka Skitch) and I whacked the chain pull on the fan which in turn swung up and cracked the globe on the fan. You'd think we would rethink our living room arrangement but I think I'm gonna move the fan instead. I mean ample gaming room takes precedence over decorative design any day, right? Off to Lowes...

Bringing us all the very latest in medical technology is our newest friend Dave. Dave got his hands on a Wii and started playing away when he had a mishap with a light fixture. All of this we've seen before, but the cherry on top of this sundae of a story is his repair job. Not to a strap or anything, but to his hand. I've heard some people use band aids on their injuries, but Dave here is beyond that. As you can see, Scotch tape is where it's at for Dave. I'll let Dave tell you a little bit about his story...

Yeah, I cut myself pretty bad while playing tennis on Wii Sports... I actually cut myself just about an hour ago. Pretty much, I was playing Wii tennis and the ball went high. I was pretty into the game at the time and jumped for the ball. My right hand and controller when crashing into the light fixture on my fan. The fixture and bulb shattered to bits. The inital jar out of my game was pretty bad... I looked down and my hand and blood was pouring out. I cut my wrist pretty badly actually.

It doesn't look so bad now, but it is still bad enough where if I clench my fist it will reopen the wound. I wish I had some superglue so I could seal it shut(ghetto first aid) instead of the scotch tape that I'm using right now. This however is a learning experence because now I will be more aware of my surroundings...

It might take a few silver bullets to slow this lycanthrope down when he's playing Wii Sports. I'm supposing this hairy boy is counting on these impressive pictures to carry his story because he doesn't reveal a lot to us...

I was playing an intense game of Wii sports and had my first run in with the warning message about "watching for objects around you when playing"

The best thing about a ceiling lamp shade type accident is that you get to share the pain with everyone. Just like running for President or something, balloons fall down all over the crowd. Except in this case it's a hail storm of glass shards that rain down from the ceiling, slicing into the flesh of your family and other assorted loved ones.

Not that I "love" all my gaming buddies. I just sorta... you know share a bond with them. Wait... Why are you staring at me like that? ... Dude, I'm not gay. Just come back here and finish the game. ... What?!? No, I'm not going to hug you.

I agree with Pete in the video. That glass is really thick. This is just another example of the super human feats we're all capable of accomplishing when we're doped up on Wii. If Police were trying to stop a Wii user, they would be at a loss. You can trying to stop someone, but when their high on Wii... Watch out, because they are just going to play through the pain. They will not be shut down. Well I suppose pulling the power cord would shut them down, but other than that... Un-freakin-stoppable.