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Something has to be done, we need new laws

Nearly 17,000 children were rushed to emergency rooms in 2007, the last year for which complete figures were available, after heavy or unstable furniture fell over on them, a new study reported this month. The study, published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, found that the such injuries had risen 41 percent since 1990.

The increase correlated with the popularity of ever-bigger flat-panel televisions that Americans have brought into their homes in that time, along with the entertainment centers and narrow, less-stable stands to hold them. Injuries from televisions alone accounted for nearly half of all injuries related to falling furniture during the study period — 47 percent.

Like many other childhood bumps and bruises, most of the injuries related to falling furniture were minor. But 3 percent of the 264,200 children whose cases were reviewed from 1990 to 2007 were injured seriously enough to require hospital admission — most of them for head and neck injuries — and about 300 of them died.

When I was 8, I broke my arm because a couch fell on it.

This is a serious problem.

When I was a kid I got pushed by a sibling while a bunch of us were playing chicken* and my head went through the glass front on the bookcase in the living room. Got a nasty gash in my head that probably should've been stitched up, but none of us wanted to tell mom about the bookcase. It was several weeks later when she finally noticed that there was only one glass panel there, and by that time my head had healed up, and none of us knew what might have happened to that glass door.

I agree. Something must be done.

* For those who don't know, chicken is played by getting down on your knees and holding your feet up against your butt so you have to "walk" and balance only on your knees. Then you bump into your opponents and try to knock them down. I am the 2nd youngest of 8, so I didn't stand much of a chance in that crowd.

Man, i haven't thought of Chicken in FOREVER!

I worried about this just yesterday while I left my 2.5 y.o. daughter alone in the family room for a minute. I had that parental moment flash through my mind and had to get to her quick to make sure she was alright. She was, and the flat panel TV didn't look as big as it did in my mind's eye, I noticed, but it still should be fastened to the wall. I pondered how often kids get hurt this way.

Or we can just ban large flat panels, too. They do spew political opinions at times that I do not care to be exposed to, as well. Win-win.

I call for a ban on heavy women, because when they get on top of you it's hard to breathe.

I thought the thread was going to be about someone throwing their back out trying to move heavy things. Heavy house things, not engines, diffs, transmissions etc.

Mike W. wrote:I thought the thread was going to be about someone throwing their back out trying to move heavy things. Heavy house things, not engines, diffs, transmissions etc.

Me too!
I pictured Ray on the floor popping Tylenol.

For everyone with a nice flatscreen: Mount it to the damn wall!
Get a mount from www.monoprice.com and don't worry about it anymore.
All of our lcds are hard mounted to the wall.

I knew a couple who were arguing and the woman backed into a huge tv on a stand and it fell crushing the infant right in front of their eyes. Life is fleeting.

lilpoindexter wrote:I call for a ban on heavy women, because when they get on top of you it's hard to breathe.

BDK Rule #1:

-If I can't lift them, I don't date them.

Velcro them to the ceiling.

1st 5er wrote:Velcro them to the ceiling.

What, the heavy women?

davintosh wrote:

1st 5er wrote:Velcro them to the ceiling.

What, the heavy women?

That's a recipe for disaster.

1st 5er wrote:Velcro them to the ceiling fan.

Now that's a recipe for disaster.

Damn crazy texans, wtf!?

I think the old laws already do a great job with this sort of thing and anything more would just be an infringement on our liberties.

"Fat women don't kill people..." and all that.

ElGuappo wrote:

Mike W. wrote:I thought the thread was going to be about someone throwing their back out trying to move heavy things. Heavy house things, not engines, diffs, transmissions etc.

Me too!
I pictured Ray on the floor popping Tylenol.

For everyone with a nice flatscreen: Mount it to the damn wall!
Get a mount from www.monoprice.com and don't worry about it anymore.
All of our lcds are hard mounted to the wall.

first world problems...

You'll get my big, heavy tube tv and accompanying bookshelf/stand when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands...

davintosh wrote:

1st 5er wrote:Velcro them to the ceiling.

What, the heavy women?

Nooooo.... the kids.

I got a great laugh out of this thread, thanks for posting it Ray!

BDK wrote:

lilpoindexter wrote:I call for a ban on heavy women, because when they get on top of you it's hard to breathe.

BDK Rule #1:

-If I can't lift them, I don't date them.

If you can't lift them how can you toss 'em in the back of the van?

[quote="djazz"]I think the old laws already do a great job with this sort of thing and anything more would just be an infringement on our liberties.

Thanks you,
and I am sure most will see the same with gun laws....
It is against the law to kill people, but it still happens....
how can that be, if it is against the law?
Oh yeah, people don't care if it is.

oldskool wrote:

BDK wrote:

lilpoindexter wrote:I call for a ban on heavy women, because when they get on top of you it's hard to breathe.

BDK Rule #1:

-If I can't lift them, I don't date them.

If you can't lift them how can you toss 'em in the back of the van?

"Are you about a size 14?"

This thread

I call for a ban on banana's. I have a lump on my breast...

shagrath wrote:This thread

I call for a ban on banana's. I have a lump on my breast...

I'm hoping you're either joking or your moobs were cold when you wrote that...

davintosh wrote:

shagrath wrote:This thread

I call for a ban on banana's. I have a lump on my breast...

I'm hoping you're either joking or your moobs were cold when you wrote that...

bananas cause cancer.

shagrath wrote:

davintosh wrote:

shagrath wrote:This thread

I call for a ban on banana's. I have a lump on my breast...

I'm hoping you're either joking or your moobs were cold when you wrote that...

bananas cause cancer.

Life is the leading cause of death.

davintosh wrote:

shagrath wrote:

davintosh wrote:

shagrath wrote:This thread

I call for a ban on banana's. I have a lump on my breast...

I'm hoping you're either joking or your moobs were cold when you wrote that...

bananas cause cancer.

Life is the leading cause of death.

You're guaranteed 100% to die...


...if you keep living. Living is bad because you die...