Comments for "Wii Remote Accident" Video at VideoSift.com

By vairetube

vairetube (http://www.videosift.com/member/vairetube) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:14:10 -0800

it's ok.

By cybrbeast

cybrbeast (http://www.videosift.com/member/cybrbeast) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:42:13 -0800

Good reaction on the part of the mother, there's no need in freaking out the kid even more. That thing should have an arm strap, or the kid should use it.

By wingnut

wingnut (http://www.videosift.com/member/wingnut) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:09:52 -0800

"Just the other day, a coworker of mine captured one of the fabled "Wii Remote Smash" accidents on video at a birthday party. Enjoy! EDIT 12/22 11:50PM - Comments are now disabled for this video. From the 240-odd comments generated over the past two days, I've determined that YouTube users: - Think that everything in the world is fake, from gravity to the Sun - Are going to be physically abusive parents with a completely nonexistent fuse if the world is unlucky enough to have born unto it their spawn - Think than anyone who uses words that cannot be abbreviated to three letters and/or numbers is a "fag" (guilty as charged!). - Failed second-grade spelling - Failed third-grade reading comprehension - Probably try to water their plants with Brawndo - (are sometimes actually nice enough people) Idiocracy? It's not a movie. It's real life."

Via Youtube.

By chilaxe

chilaxe (http://www.videosift.com/member/chilaxe) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:50:11 -0800

I hope she has a heavy belt.

By theaceofclubz

theaceofclubz (http://theaceofclubz.videosift.com) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:24:22 -0800

*requeue

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:24:22 -0800

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 12:33am PST - requeue requested by submitter theaceofclubz.

By mas8705

mas8705 (http://www.videosift.com/member/mas8705) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:39:09 -0800

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:52:35 -0800

Yeah- kudos to the calm mom.

By Imagoamin

Imagoamin (http://www.videosift.com/member/Imagoamin) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:35:04 -0800

Upvote for the disclaimer about the comments section on the youtube page.. Has nothing to do with the video.. but its exactly what I thought when I first saw this video and made the mistake of scrolling down a bit too far.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:48:57 -0800

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Wii, remote, accident, TV, birthday party' to 'Wii, remote, accident, TV, birthday party, oops, thats alright' - edited by calvados

By millertime1211

millertime1211 (http://www.videosift.com/member/millertime1211) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:22:02 -0800

You can see the wrist strap hanging there. Spending two seconds putting it on would have been way easier than shoveling driveways to pay for the broken entertainment center. (It broke the glass door on the entertainment center, "right outside the TV border", not the actual tv.)

By Thylan

Thylan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Thylan) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:35:19 -0800

The mom's worth an upvote.

By Chaucer

Chaucer (http://www.videosift.com/member/Chaucer) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:48:47 -0800

I dont think it hit the tv. it hit the glass cabinet door next to it.

By Rifter

Rifter (http://www.videosift.com/member/Rifter) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:58:00 -0800

I think you are right, Chaucer. That was my take, too. It looks like all the glass is to one side of the TV.

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:23:11 -0800

I was given a Wii last spring. The kids do not play it for this reason. They can play the xbox or playstation.

By Alak

Alak (http://www.videosift.com/member/Alak) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:45:34 -0800

I had a Wii strap break on me before they recalled them when they came out.

But like my brother says: "Guns have safeties and people still manage to accidentally shoot themselves."

By HaricotVert

HaricotVert (http://www.videosift.com/member/HaricotVert) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:27:29 -0800

Or you just have to remember that you don't have to swing like the major leaguers to hit a homerun...

FINESSE PEOPLE! FINESSE!!!

By roguewrx

roguewrx (http://www.videosift.com/member/roguewrx) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:37:25 -0800

These "Wiimote accidents" are absurd in my opinion...

This hapens for one of many reasons...

1) Where the Wriststrap... Its there for a reason, not to humor you...
2) You have to keep in mind that your not suppose to go crazy and swing hard like that... a simple movement has the same response as swinging like that...
3) It seems rather odd that every movie we see of this kind always has it fly right a the screen... Do you know how accurate you have to be to it a TV like that? If anything, the majority of the time, if this actually happens, the wiimote would fall right outside the TV border rather than fly right into the screen...

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Could you be more of the typical YouTube user they're talking about?

1) WEAR.
2) YOU'RE. And you need to still swing relatively quickly, if not "hard."
3) To "it" a TV like that? I don't know, it's a huge TV standing in front of you, so not very accurate. But you'd have to be pretty accurate to hit the glass door on the home entertainment center NEXT to the TV, which is what this kid hit.
3.5) So you're saying that sometimes people miss the TV? So? Sometimes they HIT the TV. Having had a Wii for a year now, we've had some near misses. I always insist people wear the wrist strap for this very reason, it's been the only thing to save my equipment from a Nintendo missile more than once.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:09:47 -0800

Considering this may not actually be the mom talking from behind the camera, "Oooops" and That's alright." .....Don't know if you can give her kudos for a suitable reaction....the kids have a plastic guitar hero there on the floor, (fuck it, step ion that and crack it, I dinna buy it) a Wii, she sounds like she's on anti-depressants....the above reminders of reading directions.....

Fuck all, I was outdoors from dawn till dusk at that age!! That game would be in the closet for a month, and he'd be putting in time for a new TV-

By lee99

lee99 (http://www.videosift.com/member/lee99) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:11:53 -0800

kudos i whould of shouted my head of on him
good vid

By legacy0100

legacy0100 (http://www.videosift.com/member/legacy0100) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:01:42 -0800

Holy crap. Can't believe how calm the mother is. Level 79 parenting skillz.

If it were upto me, I woulda whipped out my belt and started whipping the kid silly until his back bled.

Nahhh just marks, just marks.

By mas8705

mas8705 (http://www.videosift.com/member/mas8705) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:04:35 -0800

in response to roguewrx...

You have to agree that the majority of people who claim the Wii broke their TC are either not wearing the wrist strap or believing that the harder they swing, the better the shot it is...

Long story short, I have had the Wii since it was released and I never had to use force to register my movements, and the times I had to was in broken games and the only time this almost happen was when my friend thought the wrist strap was stupid but then almost put one of my Wiimotes through his TV...

Either way, that is one of the many reasons why I downvoted this after it was sifted...

By sirex

sirex (http://www.videosift.com/member/sirex) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:25:49 -0800

that was very cool i was expecting at least a few broken bones from the mothers rage

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:50:06 -0800

Yes, mother is calm... I'd like to see the clip though when dad sees it.