Your TV Is Going To Kill You

Did you know every three weeks a child is killed from a tipping TV?

If you don't support my ban on High Capacity and Assault Televisions you must hate children and you're an awful person.
 
Seventyfive said:
Did you know every three weeks a child is killed from a tipping TV?

If you don't support my ban on High Capacity and Assault Televisions you must hate children and you're an awful person.
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TVs don't kill people, people and low quality wall mounts kill people!!!
 
Well I guess I should rethink my plans to mount a tv on the ceiling so I don't have to arch my head while in bed.
 
I thought it was the Obesity from all those hours in front of the Devil's Box that was getting everyone :p
 
Looks like North Dakota is the safest bet for not getting crushed by a TV.
 
wow, reading those stories breaks my heart. So many poor small children. No excuse here parents, you need to anchor your furniture down. Seriously.
 
You guys are insane. It's NOT the TV that kills! Shame on you!

It's the type of service it's connected to. :p
 
"Depending upon where you live..." so with that line of thinking if you live somewhere where no gun deaths have occurred everything else is more likely to kill you than a gun!
 
J3RK said:
TVs don't kill people, people and low quality wall mounts kill people!!!
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The problem is not wall mounted TV's (except where someone only mounted it into drywall).
Many of these are old Tube TV's that have been moved into other rooms and set on a cheap TV cabnet or dresser.
 
If I'm going to die from my TV at least its a loved one doing it :D lol
 
Yantelope said:
wow, reading those stories breaks my heart. So many poor small children. No excuse here parents, you need to anchor your furniture down. Seriously.
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When I had a kid, all the cabnets and shelves that had the potential to be tipped over where bolted to the wall. Better safe than sorry.
The problem is in apartments, where poeple don't want to get charged when they move out for putting a hole in the wall.
 
News flash, the crap furniture people buy at Wal-Mart isn't designed to meet specifications, just to be cheap and it's dangerous, more at 11.

And the no shit Sherlock study of the day goes to..
 
Very inflammatory headline considering the site draws no comparisons and has absolutely nothing to do with gun or video game violence.

WHY!?
 
Yantelope said:
wow, reading those stories breaks my heart. So many poor small children. No excuse here parents, you need to anchor your furniture down. Seriously.
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Same. Sad that a TV can kill a child by falling. Seems so trivial. Easy to fix, though.
 
hhhhmmmm....
TV's that kill......Video Drome......long live the new flesh!
 
My state has three red dots... Anyone else want to move into Jersey? Bright side is that we have access to the fastest internet speeds in the country.
 
Easily could see old tube tvs or big screen plasmas on cheap sauder furniture fall on children, makes me cringe just thinking about it. Luckily our new ultra thin led tvs weigh less then a laundry basket.
 
Children Born in the 2000's will not know of the dangers that were inherent with those 50lb TV's we would bring home from Circuit City. After reading some of the deaths, It seemed that human error is what caused most, if not all, of these deaths. So please be gentle and not be so harsh on these large TV's.
 
haz_mat said:
Very inflammatory headline considering the site draws no comparisons and has absolutely nothing to do with gun or video game violence.

WHY!?
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Because [H] has become a click-whoring shadow of its former self. :(
 
nutzo said:
The problem is not wall mounted TV's (except where someone only mounted it into drywall).
Many of these are old Tube TV's that have been moved into other rooms and set on a cheap TV cabnet or dresser.
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Statistics? Or are you just polling this out of your ass? :confused:
I would guess myself that it is due to the thin, small stand, giant TV's that are sold today. Half the people I know just replace their old TV with the new one in the same exact place.
Hell I've almost tipped a 1/2 doz TV's just helping people plug shit in because "I'm the computer expert". Half the time there were dogs and kids running around.
No more of that shit. Lesson learned.
 
With the size : weight ratio of most large TVs these days, I highly doubt one would kill a grown adult. About the only exception I can see to that is if someone has one of those new 80"+ models and has it mounted pretty high up on the wall. As it stands right now, my 55" LED would probably give someone a lump on the head at worst if it tipped over. Young kids are a different story I suppose, especially toddlers.
 
bpizzle1 said:
With the size : weight ratio of most large TVs these days, I highly doubt one would kill a grown adult. About the only exception I can see to that is if someone has one of those new 80"+ models and has it mounted pretty high up on the wall. As it stands right now, my 55" LED would probably give someone a lump on the head at worst if it tipped over. Young kids are a different story I suppose, especially toddlers.
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All it would take would for an adult to be crouching, pulling/tweaking on cables and have a large TV to tip off a 1-2 foot stand and crack on your head.
ZZZzzzzapppp. pow, poooffff! Have you ever met electricity?
Is it guaranteed death, nope. But of the 100's of times a day it happens, guess what.
Now add in Kinect style gaming, family pets, family fights, guess what.
Lock it down dumb-ass!

PS-so glad you are willing to expend the toddlers :rolleyes:
 
I've got my 55" anchored to the back of the tv stand with some steel cable. I've got 3 kids...yes...i am paranoid.
 
funkydmunky said:
All it would take would for an adult to be crouching, pulling/tweaking on cables and have a large TV to tip off a 1-2 foot stand and crack on your head.
ZZZzzzzapppp. pow, poooffff! Have you ever met electricity?
Is it guaranteed death, nope. But of the 100's of times a day it happens, guess what.
Now add in Kinect style gaming, family pets, family fights, guess what.
Lock it down dumb-ass!

PS-so glad you are willing to expend the toddlers :rolleyes:
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I wasn't thinking about electric shock. I was really only considering the blunt force trauma. Oh and seriously, I don't know how you would think a was willing to "expend the toddlers." I was clearly referring to the fact that a large TV falling on a young child is a far different scenario (again from a blunt force point of view) than one falling on an adult.
 
Anyone who doesn't use tie straps on their TV stand is a fool. Yeah it might kill someone, but you run a serious risk of damaging the TV.
 
Fooshnik said:
Anyone who doesn't use tie straps on their TV stand is a fool. Yeah it might kill someone, but you run a serious risk of damaging the TV.
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They make these things called levels..and quality furniture that also eliminates these issues. I know, Crazy Talk.

Personally I just hang all mine on the wall at this point. Of course the inherit danger to this are morons who can't operate a stud finder or understand that if you can't use a stud, plastic drywall anchors are absolutely NOT rated for hanging a 55" TV.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
They make these things called levels..and quality furniture that also eliminates these issues. I know, Crazy Talk.

Personally I just hang all mine on the wall at this point. Of course the inherit danger to this are morons who can't operate a stud finder or understand that if you can't use a stud, plastic drywall anchors are absolutely NOT rated for hanging a 55" TV.
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Like this forum is a place to go to talk about studs or stud finders. :rolleyes:


:D:D
 
Fooshnik said:
Anyone who doesn't use tie straps on their TV stand is a fool. Yeah it might kill someone, but you run a serious risk of damaging the TV.
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Dekoth-E- said:
They make these things called levels..and quality furniture that also eliminates these issues. I know, Crazy Talk..
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It doesn't matter how level it is or the quality of your furniture when your nuclear powered kid or dog crashes into whatever it's sittting on.
 
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