If you don’t reside in America, but have been there, then you’ll doubtlessly know that you only have to sit through a commercial break while watching regular TV to know that America seemingly exists on lawyers, lawsuits, and medication. It’s an outsider’s view looking in, but given the sheer amount of lawsuits issued against videogame companies to siphon money from them, it’s difficult to think anything else.

Supposed ‘good guy’ Green Welling LLP has filed a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of Nintendo Wii owners against Nintendo of America. Yes, folks, it’s all about that dangerous, deadly, murderous snapping Wii strap. According to the suit, the strap can occasionally break, causing it to leave the user’s hand and hit a nearby—unprotected—nuclear warhead launch button, or something, and this is causing no end of distress to Wii owners. Puuulease!

As we’ve covered numerous times already on GamerSquad, the Wii Remote strap ‘can’ break if users are (stupidly) over exerting themselves, but it’s also been met by Nintendo with a proffered replacement program that delivers a thicker, stronger strap. These people guilty of flinging the Remote around at 90mph with sweaty hands in order to serve in Wii Tennis—let’s just say they puzzle us. As yet we’ve had no Wii strap breakages here at GamerSquad, or any other kind of breakages come to that—and we’re enthusiastic players. It seems that most of these incidents are being blown out of all proportion. Call us cynical, but let’s bear in mind that a Wii injury is going to gain lots of hits to whatever site posts injury pictures, so who knows how many are real and how many aren’t.

Now where’s that TV with the smashed screen we have laying around? We’ll break a spare Wii Remote and imbed one in the other...just to jump on the sensationalist bandwagon.