# CRT TVs...more dangerous than you think. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 15, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273 "2009-12-15T15:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/1 "2009-12-15T15:19:02Z")
> [@Gizmodo.com](#): > > _Yesterday I published an article on how [kids are dying because of old CRT TVs falling onto them](http://gizmodo.com/5426363/number-of-kids-dying-under-tvs-increasing-as-flat-tv-sales-go-up). Today, reader Russell Warren sent to us this scary photo, and the terrifying story about how a Magnavox set almost killed him:_ More “detailed” photo and story below: [http://gizmodo.com/5427119/how-a-tv-opened-my-scalp-like-a-banana-peel](http://gizmodo.com/5427119/how-a-tv-opened-my-scalp-like-a-banana-peel) ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/2 "2009-12-15T15:24:01Z")
bet he never did that again… ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/3 "2009-12-15T15:26:41Z")
Up until this day,I’ve never known or heard of anyone having a CRT TV fall on them. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/4 "2009-12-15T15:28:31Z")
> [@Jon](#): > > Up until this day,I’ve never known or heard of anyone having a CRT TV fall on them. I knew of one…I won’t mention names though 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/5 "2009-12-15T16:19:44Z")
just spent the extra $60-$100 on a wallmount. those stands are sketch ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/6 "2009-12-15T16:44:26Z")
> [@Jam](#): > > just spent the extra $60-$100 on a wallmount. those stands are sketch lol id like to see a wall mount crt. ---
**Author:** ![38stang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/38stang/32/7479_2.png) [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/7 "2009-12-15T16:49:34Z")
Happened to me when I was 3 or 4. I was getting up from putting a tape in the VCR and used the open cabinet doors to pull myself up on, the cabinet that the tv was on, and it came at me. Lucky the TV did a perfect front flip and the top landed squarly on top of my head and then bounced off. I only ended up with a bump on my head. That TV actually still worked 10 years later when we gave it to my uncle lol ---
**Author:** ![Viper966](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/viper966/32/7268_2.png) [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crt-tvs-more-dangerous-than-you-think/77273/8 "2009-12-15T16:51:23Z")
We used to have to secure teh CRT tv’s to teh walls at circuit city because one fell and killed a kid a couple years ago… He grabed the top of one on an endcap and a 400lb sony XBR tube fell fwd and crushed him… Kind of sad… Nobody ever used the straps though, they were a PITA