Calling All Sleuths For The Case Of The Flying Wii Remote!
Who’s up for a mystery? I need your help in solving ‘The Case Of The Flying Wii Remote’.
The Damage:
The horror!!!
As I tweeted yesterday:
The aforementioned teenager swears that she wasn’t wearing the wrist strap while playing ‘Skateboard Arena’ on the Wii Fit, and accidentally slipped. I need your help in determining whether there is any truth to this, or if there are more holes in her story than a pound of Swiss cheese.
First: Research
A quick search on YouTube will give you plenty of chuckles at people throwing their Wii remotes, verifying that such incidences have and will occur. Such as:
…or my personal favorite, from a ‘professional’:
So yes, Wii remotes can become projectiles if handled improperly. Although, through these and countless other examples on YouTube, the remotes are primarily launched into TVs, since that is what you are looking at when you are playing Wii.
The Scene of the Crime:
As you can see, the hole in the wall is nowhere near the Wii and television.
Above, you will see the approximate proximity of the Wii balance board to the television.
An approximate triangulation of the relative position of the board and the hole in the wall.
The teenager (name withheld until guilt is proven) claims that she ‘slipped’ and the remote fell out of her hand. The accused also claims to have been leading with her left foot, or in skater terms, she was ‘goofy’. This state of ‘goofy’ was relayed to me when I played the same game. Apparently, it is cause for ridicule, so would she really be goofy as she claims? Furthermore, she claims that the remote was in her left hand, the hand closest to the TV.
The accused, though calming down as she gets older, has been known to occasionally throw things when frustrated.
Well? What’ll it be, Gumshoes? Where does the fault lie? Was this, as the accused has claimed, an ‘accident’? Or was it intentional?
You decide!
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There is no way that remote hit that wall with that much force from that distance without being tossed pretty hard. Notice, it’s a straight line trajectory from the height of an average persons hand if thrown side armed. If it had been an arch, as in a slip and a tossed errant remote, it would not have hit the wall with much force, and it would have looked more like a chip out of the wall (divot) rather than a straight line dent. She was either playing some seriously vigorous skateboarding or that remote got chucked. It also looks like she may have been aiming for the couch but missed. That’s my analysis of the situation given the evidence
Keith Wilcox´s last blog ..Alan Thicke is a Famous Television Dad for Whatever that’s Worth
That’s what I had deduced as well, Watson!
I absolutely love this LOL… Pictures and all. I also agree with the previous poster. And, doesn’t your remote have the rubber sleeve on it? Yikes!
Yes, that happened with the sleeve!
I totally believe her! I can throw thing accidentally at all weird and not sensible or logical angles from my body!
Ha! Looks like there’s more evidence of her ability to do that in the opinions below!
I refuse to answer on the grounds that the said teenager may incriminate me..teehee
She’s a teenager. Trust me, you’ve already been incriminated…
i’ve seen my daughter do something similar but not out of frustration, her arms (all womens elbows) have a higher tolerance when stretching outward, which could definately explain the trajectory.
my girl basically got excited while playing and snapped her arm backwards and the remote went flying,
If you look at the impression in the wall, you will see the ‘deeper inset’ is coming from an angle where she would be standing in front of the t.v.
and the angle thats not so inset if you match that with the remote you will see that its angle appropriate
so yeah, innocent mistake
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)´s last blog ..ComicPress 2.9 Changelog & Features
Frumph! Good to see ya man! OK, I could possibly see that it could maybe have been a mistake…
The day I was getting married. I was on the cell phone with my future wife. She pissed me off, I threw my phone at the couch. It missed and hit the wall.
I’m just saying the couch looks nice and soft to absorb the projectile.
But since she didn’t tell you. A Silent Confession.
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Suppose it truly was an accident. It’s the fact that she didn’t tell us. She didn’t even vacuum the dust off of the couch. For that alone, she’ll have some sort of punishment. What do you all think? No computer? Cel Phone? Landline phone? EXTRA time on the Wii with greater supervision (and only the yoga parts?
)?
Good thing Dad was not sitting right there!
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Wow. I hadn’t thought of that! I could have died!
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says:
I once threw the Wii remote. Damn bowling game and lack of a strap. Almost knocked a man out. Rather embarrassing to say the least.
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