JoelP
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| posted on 28/12/08 at 07:20 PM |
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falling tv's
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7802194.stm
Watch out for this one peeps, seems to be happening quite often. 
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Danozeman
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| posted on 28/12/08 at 07:38 PM |
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It does happen more often than you think. My cousin once pulled the tv over. My uncle just caught it in time.
Dan
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/12/08 at 08:15 PM |
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My 32" Sony LCD TV came with a couple of screw-in eyelets so that it could be fastened to the wall behind, plus instructions in the handbook on
how to deploy them - not fitted by me, as it wouldn't be practical.
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RickRick
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| posted on 28/12/08 at 11:32 PM |
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i wondered about this, job for tomorrow, saftey straps incase niece/nephew try anything!
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 28/12/08 at 11:42 PM |
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Our son pushed our TV off the wooden cabinet when he'd just learnt to walk - we found that it slid very easily on the wooden top. It now has
holes drilled through the cabinet top and screws into the threaded bushes on the bottom of the TV.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 07:57 AM |
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Yeah even my heavy old fashioned one that I can hardly carry will easily glide off the stand if bumped, fortunately we only have dogs at the moment
but I can see it being a hazard for kids.
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 11:07 AM |
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Our tv is on a piece of non slip mat like
this but I will say now, don't panic till you find out the full details of what happened.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 11:22 AM |
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The large LCD ones are a bit easy to pull over - they're quite light and, although the base is quite large and stable, it wouldn't take
much effort to pull it forward. A 2 or 3 year-old could easily manage it.
Sony obviously consider that it's a risk, else they wouldn't put so much effort into warning people and providing tethering points!
Mind you, I'm one of those people who consider it more important to educate the kids, rather than wrap them in cotton-wool.
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BenB
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 11:29 AM |
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Well it ain't a problem for my 28" CRT TV cos it's blooming heavy and bolted to an even heavier stand. I think all in the thing
weighs 60kg... Don't think a kid would be able to pull that over (the huge amount of gubbins hanging over the back of it would counter-balance
it)...
but it's a good thing to be aware off!!
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 02:27 PM |
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Full details are now on the BBC news site. It was a tragic accident which was not the tv being
pulled or falling over.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 02:47 PM |
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Sad - he shouldn't have been carrying it by himself, but a tragedy all the same. A dreadful event for all the family.
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JoelP
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 02:51 PM |
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bloody hell thats a bad one
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