A Wii Catastrophe

This Morning I read on the BBC news site that Nintendo is recalling the wrist straps to its new Wii game console. The games are played by paticipants swinging the controllers around in the air as tennis rackets, nun-chucks, etc. They have a wrist strap that is intended to keep the controller from flying across the room. Unfortunately, the straps have broken on several enthusiastic players and caused some interesting damage. The story has several readers' comments on their experience, but this one is the best, or should I say, most tragic:

I got one of the first Wii but after a few minutes playing the strap broke and the controller shot off and hit my partner in the face resulting in two broken teeth. She slipped at the same time falling into the TV set and smashing the screen. The TV was plugged into the surround sound system and consequently pulled it over and smashing into my CD and DVD collection. I advise anyone to be careful of the wii.
Jenny Howard, Beijing China

Read the story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6182013.stm