He wasn't sitting close, his friend was a prat and while playing "bowling" on a games console launched at speed to controller directly at the screen while letting go of it and then dependant on who you believe the wrist strap failed or his friend wasn't using it, panic'd, cut it and frayed it and blamed it on a dodgy wrist-strap.
Which just goes to show how stupid the american's are (there is a picture of his mate somewhere in the thread about)