This almost sounds like the rhetoric of the “Gun Death” Crowd:
It’s a startling statistic. Every two weeks a child is crushed to death by tipped over TVs, furniture, or appliances.
For the first time, we’re hearing from a valley woman whose 3-year-old son was killed when a TV fell on top of him.
Heather Poole says she thought her home was child-proofed. She had cabinet locks, socket covers, even a pool fence. But the one thing she never thought of ended up taking her son’s life.
Poole is hoping other parents will learn from her mistake.
Thankfully CRT TVs are a dying thing. We’re all flat-panel here at Weer’d Manor, except for the TV I bought out of college which sits at the edge of the cleaning/reloading bench.
My little Nephew attempted to use the drawers of his dresser as a ladder to get some toys early one morning and luckily wasn’t hurt. Also don’t think it doesn’t go through my mind every time I mount or stow my window air conditioners of those things going all air-to-ground.
Its a big damn deal. A big damn deal they don’t give a shit about!
h/t AZRon
Even my flat TV has instructions advising if it’s free-standing to bolt it to a surface or wall. It relied solely on it’s own balance for a week while I scrounged up the $2 of hardware to tether it down.