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

[Dark Jaguar]

Hard enough to stop the impacts that were happening, duh. (If that was supposed to be clever, you didn't think it through. The answer is obvious if you just thing pragmatically instead of in terms of who's to blame.) Check into that history man. There's a reason lots of vehicles are designed with safety in mind. All accidents are caused by human error, sure, but that doesn't mean they should just be ignored. In fact that's not much of a reason for anything except fines and laws set up for it.

The strap should be strong enough to prevent it breaking when people go nuts like this. I don't expect it to be strong enough to resist Sam and Adam setting up a machine specifically to fling wii controllers to test the myth, and the REASON I don't expect that is because people setting up machines to fling the remote around is not the issue at hand, nor is it a common occurance. Though, oddly enough, it may have been a good idea for Nintendo to make such a machine for internal testing... like a crash test dummy for gamers. We lock our doors because people do steal things, not because we're at fault when things get stolen.