How on earth could a strangely thin piece of thread be so weak?

[Great Rumbler]

The problem, as I see it, is that there are certain members of the videogame-owning community who have NO IDEA HOW TO HANDLE THE WIIMOTE PROPERLY. Things break when you apply a certain amount of pressure to them, that's an unassailable physical law. So, why is an enormous amount of pressure being exerted on the strap that holds the Wiimote to your wrist? The answer is as I said above, some people have no idea how to handle it. Period. Even when I really get into Wii Sports, I don't suddenly relax my grip on the Wiimote and let it dangle from my wrist only to them throw it about until the string is torn in two by extreme forces. Under reasonable circumstance the string is just fine and probably not even necessary. BUT, again, some people are just idiots and throw the Wiimote around until the string, innevitably, snaps. The string isn't the problem here and, when you get right down to it, isn't nearly as necessary as Nintendo claims it is. Or at least it shouldn't be...