Here's an odd piece of publicity for the Nintendo Wii: Drug cops in Lakeland, Florida stormed the home of a local drug kingpin and found "marijuana, meth, weapons, drug paraphernalia and over $30,000 of stolen property." Something else they found was a Wii hooked up to a rather large television. The officers then spent 9 hours on the premises, presumably cataloguing material, but a secret camera said drug kingpin had in his living room also captured the officers...playing lots of Wii. As CNET describes it:

One male officer is so consumed with glii after he knocks down some virtual pins that he looks like Kevin James celebrating the fact that he's met a girl who finds him attractive. It could not be described as either rhythmic or aesthetically appealing.

One lady drugbuster is cataloging evidence, but is overcome by her need to Wii several times.

Naturally, this footage has caused a few people to be somewhat bowled over. Defense attorney Rick Escobar, for example, seems to believe that the officers violated the terms of the search warrant. However, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, while acknowledging that the bowling was not good behavior, told WFLA: "We executed that search warrant appropriately from a legal sense."

Man--does this prove the grass is always greener, or what? I mean if you lived in a small town where the only entertainment was a bowling alley, you'd probably get yourself a gaming system and spend your evenings playing cop games, blasting bad guys with firearms. Real cops armed with real guns, meanwhile, apparently just want to bowl.

via cnet and cbs news