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Depending on where you live, you are more likely to be killed by your TV than guns and/or violent video games. Well, unless you are playing a violent video game when the TV falls on you.
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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.
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.
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.
TVs don't kill people, people and low quality wall mounts kill people!!!
wow, reading those stories breaks my heart. So many poor small children. No excuse here parents, you need to anchor your furniture down. Seriously.
wow, reading those stories breaks my heart. So many poor small children. No excuse here parents, you need to anchor your furniture down. Seriously.
Very inflammatory headline considering the site draws no comparisons and has absolutely nothing to do with gun or video game violence.
WHY!?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
They make these things called levels..and quality furniture that also eliminates these issues. I know, Crazy Talk..