That's one expensive telly!

Paris, 'cos she'd pay $5,000,000 for a 52-incher

Where does the $5m claim come from? Surely the very best she should hope for would be the cost of repair or replacement of her TV, and then only if she could prove that it wasn't caused by her or her son's own stupidity.

And i am a complete retard who throws my controller at my plasma. I also think its a good idea to let go of it so hard that it breaks the telly. I think i will sue sony because i am a bit of a biff. Who's with me? (by joining me you agree to be viewed as a similar retard).

At best this is a case for small claims court. You have a 52 in Samsung valued at less than $2000 dollars and you are suing for $5,000,000. I think someone is looking for a payday.

At the end of the day it is lawsuits like this that gum up the legal system. If anything I believe this woman should be fined and jailed for even wasting the legal systems time with this crap.

It is high time that the the courts be used for more useful things... Um let's saw actually enforcing the law rather than being the pathway for some white trash mothers financial windfall.

I guess she did not take advantage of Nintendo's gel cover for the Wii controller. I guess her young son is a pretty strong kid to break a tv with a 3 ounce piece of plastic that should have been wrapped in soft silicon.

I don't understand this problems. My family has had the Wii since it first came out and we have never had a problem of a remote go flying.

Why do people let go of the remote in the first place? I don't even use the wrist strap as I can count on not letting go of the remote to keep it in place.

And there I was thinking you were meant to hold on to the Remote. Surely you are doing it wrong if you a flinging your arms around so hard you let go of the remote and it manages to break a TV...

Paris manages to hold on even in the most energetic situations...

If you're too stupid to be swinging the Wii remote around like a mad [wo]man, you deserve for your TVs to be broken. I have a Wii, and don't even use the stupid strap, because once you realize that the motion sensor works better with smaller movements than large movements, you're no more likely to have it flying toward the screen than with any other control input.

1) My idiot child broke something / I tripped and fell into the TV.

2) I don't have contents insurance / They wouldn't pay up.

3) I want money to prove it wasn't my fault / Waaah! Pay me, pay me, I'm not a retard who can't read instructions...

$5m would buy a seriously impressive TV. WTF was it made of, diamonds?!

Most of us here have played Wii bowling. You do *not* move your arms fast enough to send a wiimote hurtling at such a speed to break your TV.

I suspect terrible parenting * e numbers resulted in a temper tantrum and the stupid bitch is just trying to cash in.

So, let me get this straight. This woman is suing Nintendo because her son doesn't have the wits to not let the wii remote go?

If he's that negligent, I'd be willing to bet he wasn't even wearing the strap! (Have fun proving that!)

And while 52" TVs are expensive, isn't $5m just a tad overkill?

This is stupid. Might as well claim that Samsung didn't make the TV strong enough, or that the Wii remote should be made of felt.

Please let this grasping woman lose and have to pay court fees.

I'm now just waiting for someone to do something really stupid and then try to sue some religious organisation since whatever god they believe in obviously made them that stupid.

So she wants to sue for $5M. For a broken telly?

Or is she suing for something that hasn't happened, but possibly might happen at some point in the future?

No TV is worth $5M, and if she's that worried perhaps she shouldn't use the Wii? It's not something she NEEDS... it's a games console, not a kidney dialysis machine fer chrissakes!!!

Seriously, how can she be taken seriously? Why not sue shoe manufacturers too? I'm sure if you flung your shoe at full force at the telly repeatedly while holding onto only the lace, the lace would eventually break.

Does that mean the shoe manufacturer broke your telly?

And 5 million dollars?? For a broken telly?? Seriously. When can we build that wall to stop them getting out?

Is it just me that wishes I lived somewhere that had liberal laws on gun ownership when I read of these lawsuits?

Her child broke her TV while swinging a console controller around and she wants 5 Mil from Nintendo?

/me loads shotgun and then wanders off muttering "I am the angel of death and the time of purification is at hand".

gee is that how much a Samsung telly costs these days...

Not being funny but isn't the strap a second measure to actually holding the controler in your hand in the first place, grip it's a magical thing.

Don't get me wrong - smashing up a new TV would irritate me but IIRc the wii's accelerometer only registers up to 3g - which wouldn't scratch the TV with such a lightweight controller - she should teach her son to use some restraint instead.

And just why are people relying upon the strap? I would suspect that a person would HOLD the remote firmly. From my own experience and observation, if you are putting out so much force as to project the thing away from you, then you probably have special needs.

Paris, she has "special needs."

...designed by a Scotsman?

Even if I didn't use the strap I wouldn't put the controller through my television, because I don't throw it around. The Wii strap isn't defective, the gamer is.

...and blowing a telly justifies $5m because?

The strap really doesn't come into play if you remember DO NOT LET GO OF THE FECKIN THING.

Anyone dumb enough to swing the remote around on just the strap alone is asking for trouble, as they used to say when I was a kid "you'll put someone's eye out with that".

Okay, I can imagine being pissed off that my 52" TV got killed by a Wiimote. But why does that give her the right to sue for £3 million? I can see getting a new TV, something on top for time wasted and legal costs. But surely that's only a few thousand pounds??

Or does it mean if she wins the case she buys everyone else with a broken TV a new one?

Then you're probably stupid enough to try and sue someone else for your own incompetence.

And stupid enough to be an American where they'll probably uphold it.

Paris - because she's stupid enough for a lot of things...

I own a WII and first thing is if you are going to swing something around then make sure you grip it. Second who is her son, the worlds strongest man to bust the strap and cause the wiimote to fly into a TV and bust it.

Definite con to get money.

Ahh just another 'concerned' parent jumping on the bandwagon. I'd be surprised if the wrist strap did actually break, and in any case, she should have made she she had one of the FREE silcon covers that Nintendo were giving away to Wii owners (and which are included with every Wiimote now anyway).

I've had friends over playing with my Wii (2nd generation wrist strap without the silicon cover) and I've not had a wrist strap break at all no matter how hard I fling the thing about. The only way I'm likely to do any damage is either if I stand too close to the TV and hit the screen (but if I'm that close the Wiimote doesn't work as it can't pick up the sensor bar) or if someone else is standing close - I haven't hit anyone yet although I have been hit by my daughter playing Wii Sports.

Maybe Nintendo should supply a cat with every Wiimote and have a notice on there - if you can't swing the cat in 360 degrees successfully without actually hitting something, then don't use a Wiimote. :-)

Rob

P.S. I really do love cats, I have 7 of them!

Don't buy or use a wii. If you've bought one then take it back.

The consumers are not the 'victims' here. They choose to use the wii, so fuck them.

I'd like to see companies in America start sueing consumers for 'being defective'.

Oh my straps broke because I'm violently swinging the remote at the TV.... hmmm... it's not my fault. I'm a victim. I could make some $$ here and buy some more hamburgers to fuel my McDonalds-created fat-arse... (nothing to do with me eating all this food. McDonalds made me fat. I'm the victim... I should sue them...).

Dickheads.

Wow, americans will sue for just about anything these days. If you choose to buy games that cause you to swing the wiimote then you risk slipping it one time or another. and if you are swing that thing so hard that it would cause the strap to break, then maybe you should rethink your gaming habits. You don't see baseball players suing bat companies for bats that go flying out of there hands when they swing, why should this be any different.

Nintendo should just put out an at your own risk terms of use and have people accept it on there machine to play it. if they choose not to the wii should restrict certain games until it's accepted. also they need something stating that no liability will be held against them if such an accident occurs. Come on people, stop buying shit if you think it's faulty. Give the gaming companies a break.

Go play kick the can

maybe lititard?

Is it really so hard to work out how to *not* fling a "wii-mote" through your tv?

Obviously it must be Nintendo's fault that your uncoordinated kid flails his arms about like a mentally deficient orangutan and can't hold on to the controller.

I've played on the Wii plenty of times, and never used the strap, but I have used the big condom Nintendo gave out.

Give Nintendo a break. Why doesn't she sue the manufacturer of every single item in her house that isn't bolted down, since it's a possible projectile. If you're throwing the damn wiimote so hard and have such a loose grip on it you toss it with force to break your TV, you're an idiot and Nintendo should hold no responsibility. Oh, and DANGEROUS? There's no way in hell the strap is dangerous.

I see a lot of comments that $5m is expensive for a telly. Let me explain:

It's a class action.

In USA, lawyers often work on a percentage - e.g. 33% of the damages awarded. For a (say) $2000 TV, her lawyer might get $700 - not really worth his while for such a longshot case. (The Mom would get $1300, and I think she might have to pay court costs and maybe expert witness costs too, so she might get less or nothing).

But if you make it a class action then you're suing on behalf of everyone who's thrown their Wii remote through their telly, so if you think there are about 2500 similar people then you can sue for $5m. This gives the lawyers $1.7m, and as "lead plaintiff" the Mom might get a cut in the $x0,000 range. Everyone else who's bust their TV due to throwing their Wii remote through it might get $1300 or so (or maybe just a new wriststrap and a free download of a Wii game "worth $49" - no-one really cares about them). It's still a longshot, but if it works at least it's a lucrative longshot. And since the risk to Nintendo is much higher, there's a much better chance that Nintendo will settle and pay some money rather than risking going before an unpredictable jury.

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