This year's fashionable Wii injury: Wii knee
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Dec 23rd 2008 at 8:13PM }
'Tis the season when people buy a lot of Wiis, which can mean only one thing: a 29,392% increase in ridiculous Wii scare stories from British newspapers. Over the last few days, in a bid to squeeze a story from thin air, at least two UK publications featured articles about how playing on a Wii can cause physical damage to users; you know, in the same way that any physical motion whatsoever could conceivably hurt somebody, somewhere.
The Daily Telegraph was first off the mark over the weekend, describing how brilliant young doctors at Leeds Teaching Hospital have "discovered" what they call "Wii knee." Alas, this exciting development for medical science isn't actually mentioned beyond its name, because all of a sudden the newspaper is too busy getting a scary quote from a hand doctor (eh?).
Not to be outdone, The Sun followed up today with its own piss-poor take on the WII IZ THE END TIMES angle, pointing out that ten Brits are hospitalized through Wii injuries each week. It then wheels out that 2007 favorite, "Wii-itis"/"Wii-itus" (choose your own spelling -- The Sun couldn't), before also referring to Wii knee, all while I weep for my once-proud nation.
Source: The Telegraph kicks things off ...
Source: ... and The Sun follows.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PixelHustler @ Dec 23rd 2008 8:58PM
I really think they both just wanted to write articles that included the term "Wii Knee", and then get as many people as possible to say "Did you read the Wii Knee (weenie) article?"
ZaxCG2 @ Dec 25th 2008 2:36PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGinoKH_iKY&feature=channel_page
Just... watch the whole thing...
rodjoh @ Dec 23rd 2008 11:31PM
What about people getting injured playing real sports? Baseball doesn't get bad rep due to that. Of course, those stories don't make good news either.
If only, this only means the Wii is a true success :) Let them talk bs. :) we'll just giggle and move on.
Bagels PSN:WolfLogic @ Dec 24th 2008 11:01AM
Speaking of Baseball, I think that he actually got beat up by some Yankee fans after talking trash and is using the Wii story to cover it up... CUZ THEY WAZ LITL GRLZ!!
brbarnhart @ Dec 24th 2008 12:27AM
I am the guy who once sprained his ankle celebrating a Vikings touchdown. Then there was the time I fractured my wrist playing badminton. Yeah, I am a huge klutz. Yet, even I have managed to stay injury free playing my Wii.
Ultima_Thule @ Dec 24th 2008 12:33AM
On behalf of Britons everywhere, I'd like to take this time to apologise for our newspapers. Sorry.
Still, could have been worse. Could have been The Daily Mail trying to convince the great unwashed that video games lead little children to become murderers and rapists. They must have had some actual news to report this week.
Gendreavus @ Dec 24th 2008 12:31AM
I hope that shirt is referring to the baseball team, and not Americans in general. This clarification could decide whether I think he deserved his "Wii-knee" or not.
Jrzshore @ Dec 24th 2008 2:33PM
It's a Red Sox shirt, look at the font.
I'm glad he hurt his knee!
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Find Nintendo Wii @ Dec 24th 2008 1:09PM
I think that all computer games are in some sort harmful.. and it's nonsense to write about wii's damaging features. Like other computer games, Nintendo Wii is also in this range.
Haohmaru @ Dec 24th 2008 7:56AM
lol, "Yankees suck."
Nathew @ Dec 25th 2008 4:32AM
so bad that they have to buy their way into a championship.
Rory Miles @ Dec 24th 2008 10:13AM
Since one of the stories is in the Sun the stories are likely to have been worsened. Also, the types of people who read the sun are also the types of people who are likely to hurt themselves playing the wii, i.e ditsy people.
FantomRedux @ Dec 24th 2008 11:43AM
Why?! Leave the Wii alone damnit. Why is it only our newspapers which report made up Wiinjury facts? Sad Brit is sad Q_Q
Flick @ Dec 24th 2008 6:42PM
All I can say is... read Ben Goldacre's book called 'Bad Science' and you'll never look at what journalists write about science in the same way ever again - even broadsheets. ;)
Abbii @ Dec 26th 2008 3:18PM
And here you are writing a blog when you could be causing your reader carpal tunnel and eye fatigue!