Games people play: Wii betrays a cheating wife

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Nov 27, 20072 mins

Per the comment below, here is your warning … The following post is off-topic, but worth reading all the same.

Thinking about getting a Wii for a family holiday present this year? Just beware that your machine can be used to spy on the game playing activities of your loved ones.

So it was for one soldier returning from a tour of duty overseas. He is divorcing his wife after discovering evidence on the couple’s Ninentendo Wii that the woman was having an affair with a bowler, Metro.co.uk reports. The solider had been told by his friends that his wife was seen kissing another man. But the wife claimed that the kiss was a one-time deal and that she had not had contact with the man since.

However, when the soldier, identified only as “Tony” fired up his Wii he discovered something surprising – a new “Mii” character he knew nothing about. The new Mii character looked surprisingly like the man his wife had been seen kissing. The man opened the Wii message board’s calendar option and discovered a long list of nights his wife’s Mii had spent bowling with this other-man Mii character. That was all it took for Tony to break it off with the wife.

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