Wii Fit has been on a tear lately. Not only is the game selling like crazy, but it is garnering a significant amount of attention from the media.

In May, a story hit the Internet about a young girl who had become upset after Wii Fit classified her as overweight. The situation caused the girl’s mother, and even some healthcare experts, to speak out against the game and its scale-like peripheral.

Some additional concerns were raised, but since that initial story, Nintendo has been able to avoid negative press coverage.

That is until now. The ridiculous details are located after the jump.

Wii Fit is once again leaving a path of destruction in its wake. This time, instead of breaking hearts, the game is breaking furniture.

Apparently, the Brits like Wii Fit. In fact, they like it so much that they lose all ability to control their bodily motions during a “workout.” According to a report by the Telegraph, one in five women surveyed by Sheila’s Wheels has damaged at least one item in their household while playing Wii Fit and doing other vigorous exercise. The survey questioned 1,000 British women and found that the total cost of the damage was around 20.1 million pounds.

“Nearly a fifth of women polled admitted having accidents after getting carried away in the living room – bumping into furniture, banging their head or pulling a muscle, the research carried out for women-only insurer Sheila’s Wheels found,” the report stated.

I think “carried away” is being a tad generous.

Damaging a television is understandable. However, when pets often find themselves in harm’s way, I would say Wii Fit needs to be moved to an unoccupied area of the house.

The numbers in the report both astound and impress me. I, for one, will never see that much money in all of my life. Second, I don’t think I could cause that much damage if I tried. Really hard… Well, I could if put it behind the wheel of a bulldozer. Regardless, 20.1 million pounds in damage is an obscene number (in the absence of heavy explosives).

I find it funny that us “fat Americans” can keep our cool on the Nintendo’s balance board, but yet, the Brits turn to jelly as soon as they step on. Perhaps we have forgone the benefits of Wii Fit and returned to our couch-potato lifestyle. See world? Americans aren’t as dumb as you think. We don’t mistreat our furniture. That is unless it breaks under the weight of our tremendous might, or tremendous weight…

Source: telegraph.co.uk

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