Three-year old smashes TV after losing Wii Sports

by John Bardinelli { May 25th 2007 at 6:59PM }

Anti-video game pundits, here is your proof that video games are the violent tools of the devil. After playing outside on the trampoline, UK resident Brian McConnell left his three-year old alone to play Wii Tennis while he fetched the boy a drink. While in the kitchen, Brian heard two loud bangs. He returned to find Adam using the controller to smash the 42-inch plasma TV screen. Needless to say, Adam won't be touching a video game console for a very long time, and his father will be keeping an eagle-eye on the boy from this day forward. Not even a beefed-up wrist strap could have saved this poor TV.

[Via Engadget]

Tags: broken, news, nintendo, smashed, wii

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Grey Fox @ May 25th 2007 5:12PM

Was the kid trying to play the game or does he just have anger problems?

Grog @ May 25th 2007 7:12PM

Parenting rule number 1:
Children should never be left unsupervised with anything valuable that is not made of titanium.

Justin U @ May 25th 2007 7:13PM

I dunno about that... I let my 6 year old little brother's play my Xbox 360 in my room without hovering over them and watching. They seem fine...

The Wii is the true devil's instrument, I guess.

Arturo @ May 25th 2007 7:14PM

that's one scary looking kid lol

GaryM @ May 25th 2007 7:16PM

When is dad's murder trial?

Mrhorseshoe @ May 25th 2007 7:17PM

Future wife beater!

Rubang B @ May 25th 2007 7:19PM

Is it too late for an abortion?

Poisoned Al @ May 25th 2007 7:25PM

3 year olds were little c**ts long before video games were invented.

fredrik dunder @ May 25th 2007 8:01PM

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!

Vince UK @ May 25th 2007 7:45PM

Kids get like that when they're bored.

Tavis @ May 25th 2007 7:45PM

I hope that dude got an extended protection plan on the boy so he can exchange him.

Drew @ May 25th 2007 7:50PM

Anger management anyone?

Steve @ May 25th 2007 7:54PM

If that was my kid, the University fund would be getting spent on a new TV AND he would be able to sit down for a week.

XGamerX @ May 25th 2007 8:21PM

lol soon he will be on xbox live.

http://gamergeddon.com/

Rich @ May 25th 2007 8:25PM

I like how unrealistically thin the Wiimote is and how fake the crack in the screen is. :)

Dan @ May 25th 2007 8:41PM

"UK resident Brian McConnell left his three-year old alone"

Wtf, this is why people should be made to take IQ tests before they are allowed to reproduce.

jSn @ May 25th 2007 9:01PM

Regardless of the fact that he shouldn't have left his kid alone. I woulda killed the kid. Nobody messes with my plasma BIATCH.

Diskoboy @ May 25th 2007 9:06PM

Word of advice: If you have kids under 7, don't buy expensive hardware!

You know there's gonna be a hole in it sooner or later.

My sister learned the hard way when she came home, one day, to find her 4 year old hanging from their wall mounted LCD. She screamed so loud, I thought the neighbors windows were gonna break.

mike @ May 25th 2007 10:40PM

whats with kids nowadays. When I was 3 I got my very first console for christmas (an NES). I played and beat the entire game of mario brothers at age 3. 19 years later and my mom is still impressed, although she hates how I play games nowadays and thinks I should work more. MaybeI should work more so I can afford to move out? The point is, I would never even consider doing something like that when I was 3. What did they teach this kid?

orAngeMicro @ May 25th 2007 10:53PM

Diskoboy
lmfao thats a crazy image dude

n_revolution9 @ May 25th 2007 11:19PM

>>15 Dude, that's the TV remote.

kid6488 @ May 25th 2007 11:28PM

Well, it looks like SOMEONE is going up for adoption...

Dismeeir @ May 25th 2007 11:36PM

@ mike
yeh seriously how neurotic are little kids nowadays, i mean, when i died in mario i tended to start again instead of going bat fucking crazy and breaking the tv. even at 5 i had that logic.

Steve @ May 26th 2007 12:16AM

It's an LG TV it's not like he lost anything good.

Au @ May 26th 2007 12:42AM

" When the games console was released at Christmas, a number of customers reported smashing windows and televisions after over-zealous play with the handset, which can be used as a bat, sword or gun pointed at the screen.

Nintendo recalled many of the consoles in order to beef up the wrist strap on the controller. "

HOorah for retarded news-mis-reporting

pickleman77 @ May 27th 2007 1:24PM

...that doesn't look like a wiimote when you look at it more carefully... it's too flat.

SYN @ May 26th 2007 12:57AM

so because the video game controller was the weapon of choice for the dumbass 3 year old, he is preventing the kid from playing video games? when the little bugger beats a cat to death with a baseball bat, no more baseball for daddys little angel.

GWolf @ May 26th 2007 1:49AM

Little Damien Thorn needs a little ass whoopin. It's better than seeing him getting killed by electrocution.

Sidepocket @ May 27th 2007 2:41AM

Two Things:

1) More proof that Americans are not the only ones that are dumb and that UK people are not the smartness saints.

2) Hear that? That is Jack Thompson orgasming.

shaoron @ May 26th 2007 4:05AM

this little kid has anger management issues...

FSK405K @ May 26th 2007 9:20AM

What's with the Photoshopped pic, Joystiq?

Viridium @ May 26th 2007 10:45AM

mike - "Maybe I should work more so I can afford to move out?"

Well, I hear that chicks totally dig a guy in his 20s living at home with mom. I left home at 18 when I went to university and I didn't go back. Who wants to live with their parents???

And my 8 month old daughter is going to stay far away from the Xbox 360 setup until she's old enough to not break it; I'm assuming that it'll be obsolete by then though.

GunForHire @ May 26th 2007 11:34AM

Man if I had a kid and he did something like that I'd be tempted to dropkick his ass out the nearest window.

And WTF sort of punishment is banning him from the Wii for 2 weeks? If I did that as a kid I'd be banned from the thing for months!

Imadogg99 @ May 26th 2007 2:31PM

FSK405K: "What's with the Photoshopped pic, Joystiq?"

That's the exact pic given in the article... except for the evil demon eyes of course.

Aberu @ May 26th 2007 3:37PM

@3 Nothing broke because like most systems that go way back when don't require you to swing your arm around like a madman making a fool of yourself and causing injury to others. I guess some of us like some civility in how we play from time to time.

Not telling you my name. @ Jun 20th 2009 6:06PM

It's probably not anger management.
I think he was just trying to play tennis and got too close.
People these days just look for excuses to protect children.

Aberu @ May 26th 2007 3:55PM

Wow banned from the system for two weeks. Big punishment there hitler. While your at it, don't let him use his video iPod for a day. And send him to his room for an hour when he shits all over the walls and screams bloody murder.

Incase you don't get it, I think his punishment was a little soft for breaking a huge expensive piece of hardware.

Not telling you my name. @ May 26th 2007 3:56PM

I mean using excuses to get away with teaching their children bad stuff.

wackyban @ May 26th 2007 4:48PM

I let my nephew play Halo 2 all the time. Hes 6 years old. I probably shouldn't let him play it, but my sister doesn't care, as long as she doesn't have to chase him around the house and keep him out of trouble.

Hes getting pretty damn good. Maybe he'll grow up to be one of those professional gamers.