Oh noes! The TVs are Falling!
(Image from Flickr user Forty Photographs)
Today NPR found a new bogeyman, since swine flu wasn’t living up to all it promised: children dying from falling TVs. Or, in their own words:
Your drawers and medicine cabinets may be child-proofed, but what about your TV? As it turns out, unhealthy messages on TV may not be as dangerous as the TV itself, if it’s perched on a high dresser or desk.
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who analyzed federal data on injuries estimate that as many as 14,700 children are injured at home every year by falling TVs and other heavy furniture.
Which of course makes me think of Ned’s Atomic Dustbin‘s Kill Your Television (apparently they’re re-uniting? weird). Really, it’s the only choice we have left.
Sometimes I yearn for the misplaced optimism of 1993.
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