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Maria Rodriguez of Chicago touches the area near her eyebrows where she was accidentally hit with the control device of a Nintendo Wii video game system as her mother, Joanna Medina, played a bowling game.

Joanna Medina was in full swing, hoping to throw a strike, when her toddler daughter jumped up and took the virtual bowling ball (aka a Nintendo Wii controller) in the face. The 1-year-old was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she received a stitch to her eyebrow. The number of people who are injuring themselves by playing too much Nintendo Wii is starting to increase. "Now, my parents ask her, 'Maria, what happened to your eye?' and she says, 'Mama did it,'" ...

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