Random: Nintendo Extracts Customer's Missing Wedding Ring From Their Wii U

This is why you can't let kids have nice things

Nice, my friend snipped the Wi-Fi wires when she took apart her Wii U. I stripped both ends of the wires and twisted them together, and the Wi-Fi works good as new. But use an iFixit kit to take it apart, and it's less glamorous. When I cleaned out and repasted my cousin's old 360, it red ringed a decade before. I cut myself and bled on the board when I saw dried blood. The X clamp for the heat sink said fixed Oct something 2007, and I could tell I was not the first one inside. Flux and more dried blood was around the CPU they had to reflow, and a dead spider friend was behind the power button. Repairing things is cool. I fixed stick drift on multiple controllers by cleaning the potentiometers or soldering new ones on. A different friend soldered a hard drive into his Wii for Project M, was a fun dumb project to use the university labs for before corona hit.

Glade he got his wedding ring back HAPPY DAY.

How did the kid fit the ring in there?! She must have really forced it!

Wii take U to be our lawfully possessed console.

This is why you can't have kids

Educate your kids, and bloody hell don’t give them your wedding rings lol

I once had a customer bring in his PS3 to GameStop because the drive wouldn't take discs. Turns out that his little one had managed to stuff three games in the drive. Got it fixed, but we all had a good chuckle. Kids are weird. And the folks that say they can't imagine it, bad kids, blah blah; you were a child once, and probably did comparable things

This is why I won't raise a kid. They're cute, but a mess. How did my parents deal with me?

Imagine if a child uses the Wii U to hide the heart medicine...

that kid needs to learn some lessons before she tries to break another console. (would be nice to have a wii bank)

I am glad his spouse didn't leave him for being irresponsible.

My ex-fiance's sister was terrible about losing her wedding rings. She lost her first one, and her husband bought them a whole new pair, so that their rings would still match. Then she later lost the 2nd pair, and he bought a 3rd pair, again so they would match. She lost the 3rd ring, then the 4th, and then the 5th. So he told her that that was it, he's not buying anymore sets. Said he's never lost his ring once, so he can't understand how she keeps losing hers. He said if she loses her 6th ring, then he will take off his ring on purpose and refuse to put it back on until she finds her ring. As he's tired of saving up money for stuff he plans on doing or getting or what not, but then have to spend that money on a new wedding ring set. So he was done buying her rings. He bought 5 sets in almost 4 years, give or take. Shortly after getting her 6th ring set, like maybe 2 or 3 weeks after that, she took her 6th ring off when painting her bedroom, as she didn't want to get paint on it, and put it on the dresser, but her 3yr old son climbed up and grabbed the ring and threw it, and they couldn't find it, and the husband, who was at work when the ring was lost, was furious when he got home and found out that she lost it again. So he purposely stopped wearing his ring, and refused to buy a 7th set. Things didn't go well, as there were other issues. But she kept insisting that he wear his ring, and that he buy her a 7th ring. He refused, to both. But she kept asking him to buy her another set and to put his ring back on. It didn't end well. They later got divorced, maybe 2 or 3 months later. But her losing her 6th wedding ring was the beginning of the end for them.

Also, as a side note, she didn't like video games, and wouldn't let him have any. Maybe, just a thought, if she had let him have video games, perhaps they could of found at least one of her rings in the console. But alas, no such luck, as there were no video games for them to search in, as she refused to allow video games in her home.

@HobbitGamer I'm old enough to have grown up watching VHS tapes. You can't stick three of those in the player! (though sure, other things might have fit in them. And maybe I might have, if not for that I had a terrible human of a babysitter (to keep it within acceptable language) who I'm sure blamed me when her own younger child stuffed bologna in hers.)

Though the niece did stick a bunch of my PS1 discs I had in a CD wallet in a DVD player. If the used copy of Brave Fencer Musashi wasn't already scratched, it was then. (excuse to buy another copy, and complete! )

Later we find out the guy who took the time to clean it got a warning for wasting his work hours.

@Lawnachaun I mean, only one of those missing rings were explained with witnesses... That's a lot of rings to "accidentally lose".

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At least they never found any of these in any consoles.

Surely if you’re going to offer a ring symbolising lifelong commitment to a games console the Wii U isn’t the console you should be choosing?

Great story but why was the console in reach of a child anyway? My mom made sure I couldn’t really reach anything until I hit 4 feet. Which was like 6 or 7 I think?

@Jayofmaya @Ooyah

Oh, I know exactly why they got divorced. There's definitely more to that story and situation. But this isn't really the time or place for that story. This article just reminded me of the story/situation. So I tried to keep it relevant to the ring situation.

As for how she lost so many rings, I'm not 100% certain. Without going into too much, she was a 'mamas girl' who refused to move out of her parents home. So yeah, she was married, with 3 kids, BUT, still lived in her childhood bedroom out of her parents house, and refused to move out. Yes, he lived in her bedroom, with the 3 kids, all out of that one bedroom, because she refused to move out into an apartment like he wanted to do.

As for "controlling", that was definitely her mom's thing. His mother-in-law was the controlling and demanding one. There's more to the story and that living situation (a lot more), but I'll leave it at that, since this really isn't the time or place for it all. This article just reminded me of the situation. So I was trying to keep it to just the relevant parts, with all of the missing wedding rings.

But yeah, there were definitely other reasons that also contributed to the divorce. And as far as the missing rings go, again, I'm not 100% certain how/where they were lost, given the living situation and circumstances, and knowing how seldom she left the house, and never had guests over. So, who knows for sure.

@Ryu_Niiyama A better question would be why the ring was in reach, since that's an actual (choking) hazard for a child. Messing up a device is a small problem in comparison.

@LinkSword @Ryu_Niiyama

Because depending where you live, it is not possible to make EVERYTHING save and put Things in unreachable Positions.
The Child of this Article has to be about two Years old to comprehend that you put Things in that Slot.
In that Age i also went to the sleeping Room of my Parants and played around with Stuff there, also the little Thingis.
In that Age you are not longer taking everything in your Mouth as younger does.
Take a Look at your Kids and be Careful, but don't be a Helicopter Parant that treats'em like they will brake from everything and don't be a Klugscheisser that knows everything better.

When my 3DS had a software error, they gave it a clean like it was brand new! Wasn't even dirty and less than a year old!

Nintendo brought stability back to the household

This is a cute little article.

As someone who has a four year old and a two year old, living in the same house as me, I've definitely had a few thoughts, about my consoles getting ruined.

Reminds me of the time someone told me their youngest, at about 2-3 years old, messed up the family Wii by sticking coins into the disk slot (He also thought it was a piggy bank). They sent the Wii in for repair, and it came back in top shape! Nintendo also sent back all the coins in a plastic bag.

I'm glad this had a happy ending. Makes me wonder about the craziest repair stories Nintendo's repair technicians can tell....

Maybe I should send Nintendo my ex-gf so they can get my wiimote back?

Aww. Nintendo really does go above. Glad they got their U fixed and found their missing wedding ring.

The real story begins after him trying to tell his wife that's where his wedding ring went.

@Heavyarms55 Particularly for it to not just fall out.

@Silly_G Take my like, you fool.

That's nothing. My little brother once put a slice of bologna into the disk drive of our old Macintosh computer because he saw an Oscar Mayer commercial on TV. XD

Something similar happened to me. I seldom used discs in my wiiU and so when I recently tried to play Wind Waker HD I noticed discs could not be read. They would spin just fine but then show “disc cannot be read”. I originally had it in my entertainment center from late 2015 til about mid 2016. Since then The wiiU had been relegated to video streaming duty in my son’s room so I figured dirty lens as it was at the top of a cabinet that was seldom dusted. I decided to open it up to see what I could do. Turns out there was a coin in the drive. Right over the laser assembly. It was probably there since 2016 when he was a toddler. Coin gone, works perfectly.

@Giygas_95 : This silly fool gratefully accepts. 😉

@Lawnachaun She was obviously pawning the rings!

Hahaha, I was like "How?!?" And then "Oh, kid... yep... been there..."

Did Nintendo repair give them a ring to tell them the news? 😉

Probably left out the fact that Nintendo most likely charged more for the repair than a Wii U goes for these days. So yeah, so much for the friendly neighborhood Nintendo narrative.

"Wii U Marry Mii?"

we you marry me?..no?..bad joke?

Yeah, but the bad news is, they got a Wii U.

I'm sorry what? Put the ring in where?
I can't imagine it fitting into the disc drive... did the daughter open up the Wii U and place the ring inside it?

We all know Daddy saw a hottie walking by playing Pokemon and he HAD to do something with his ring, right?