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Nintendo's Miis Help Solve Crime
You may think of the Mii character creation system as a cute but superfluous addition to Nintendo's Wii system to help it appeal to a wider audience. Not so fast, though. Your Mii could help save your system from burglary.
Fox 30 in Jacksonville, Florida, brings us this true crime report on a Wii stolen from one Meg Witherspoon along with a 19-inch television. Police were able to track the television to a pawn shop via the serial number, but they had no such serial number to go off to help find the Wii, which had been pawned at a different location. Cold case, right?
Not quite! Police discovered a Wii sold to a nearby pawn shop around the same time as the television and were able to identify it as Witherspoon's by looking at the Miis on the system. Witherspoon's family and friends had created a whole army of virtual characters that looked like them, confirming it as their console.
I look forward to seeing the CSI or Law & Order episodes sure to spin off from this story.
[via Kotaku]
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