Child injuries from falling TVs increasing in U.S.

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  1. newbie-one

    newbie-one one with the newbiverse

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    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-child-tvs-idUSBRE96L03620130722


     
  2. desert-rat

    desert-rat Senior Member

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    There was a kid killed from a t.v. falling on him hear in Phoenix . I made a post on it . Its mostly the t.v.s with the older glass picture tubes .
     
  3. Wombatso

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    Children in nations like the USA and Australia are more prone to serious injuries such as bone breaks because they are not allowed to run about outside. A lack of sunlight and the physical side of life including falls and trips and stupid children's toys that are too safe has lead to this problem.
     
  4. thesantos29

    thesantos29 Pretty Hip

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    I had no interest in purchasing a flat screen TV until I could properly mount it to the wall.
     
  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, its because they're all glued to the boob tube.

    TV is responsible for children's moral values and mental health going completely down the toilet in the US, over the last two decades in particular. All the medical evidence indicates it causes dementia and brain damage, and can take decades off your life. Seriously, you might as well take up smoking.

    Sad to say, the TV falling on them is a sign to throw the damn thing away.
     
  6. Sir Arthur

    Sir Arthur Senior Member

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    That’s a weird take.
     
  7. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Trust me, weird is good, mainstream, insane, according to their own standards, and insist on censoring half of reality.

    The AMA is censoring half of their medical evidence. Ever since Vietnam, and the Chinese are responsible for Covid.

    Roger Penrose's theory of quantum mechanics in the brain received its first two experimental confirmations ten years ago, or more, and you won't hear anything about anymore progress.

    WWIII is full swing, and by simply keeping the world in a state of perpetual warfare, the banks can do whatever the fuck they want. Already, they're making a concerted effort to shut down Rainbow Gatherings, using WWIII as an excuse to do whatever they fuck they want again.

    Of course, they're attempting to create their own enemies, for fun and for profit, so I'm working on programming AI to teach them the meaning of Professional Wrestling, in a Goldilocks Universe.
     
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  8. Sir Arthur

    Sir Arthur Senior Member

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    Get a good therapist.
     
  9. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The AMA helped the Pentagon and the NFL hide all the medical evidence for PTSD and brain damage, for thirty years.

    According to the AMA themselves, there are no good therapists, unless you're a millionaire, and AI are proving to be much better at their job, so I have to wait for the technology to come down in price.

    In the meantime, I'm teaching AI how to argue with academics over the definition of stupid, so they always know who to blame.

    Its OK to trust machines more then people, legal even!
     
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  10. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    I always mount my screens fairly firmly on the wall, ground and from above. :D

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  11. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    The biggest problem is what happens on the screen these days.
    With so much green screen and effects used in action films, kids think that they can jump off third floor balconies and trough plate glass windows, then just dust themselves off and carry on.

    Then they play computer games, get killed and one press of the reset button brings them back to life again.
    These days, children have far less comprehension of the finality of death.
     
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  12. Sir Arthur

    Sir Arthur Senior Member

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    I don’t think that’s true at all. People have been making that claim since the 80s.
     
  13. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    Although statistically a small number; following the opening of Clockwork Orange in London, their were three cases of teenage lowlifes dowsing vagrants shelters in lighter fluid and setting them alight.
    Their will always be a small percentage of people who are impressionable and it is higher among youngsters.
    In some countries the offending scene in the film was removed by the censors.

    Ever since the advent of computer games glorifying violence, their has been an increase in crimes broadly based on the games. It is something that is very hard to quantify.
     
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  14. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ California Tripper Administrator

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    Basically it is true! The escalation of violence in the media has been noted since then by many people who are aware of what is happening.

    I have witnessed an entire culture wiped out from peaceful status into drug-fueled gang-based violence within a short span of just five years. That was after a company installed cable TV through the Virgin Islands beginning in 1979. By 1984 it was apparent that society there had changed radically.
     
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  15. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    In east London those two are linked, after the drug dealers divided everything up by postcode.
    The problem with both television and social media, is that single ideas spread like wildfire. As the ideas ADD UP, the problems get worse.
    Then when crime pays, youngsters see no reason to study or get out of bed and find a job.
    Downhill spirals are like gravity, they work 14.7 times faster than the uphill ones. :D
     
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  16. Sir Arthur

    Sir Arthur Senior Member

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    Sorry but you’re going to have to provide something to backup that claim. I’m not buying it.
     
  17. wooleeheron

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    In the US, conservatives even demanded the networks take the popular comedy sitcom, "Soap" off the air. The sad fact is that Russia, the US, EU, and China are currently censoring their mass medias more than ever before, with China even making it illegal to use time travel as a plot device in their mass media. Its WWIII, and everyone is deliberately stunting their own population's sense of humor, and working them up into a frenzy. It makes more money, but the statistics say it will ensure conservatives become a minority within twenty years. They're literally killing themselves, and not reproducing, faster than any other population on the planet.

    Sadly, testing their DNA is now the most reliable way to tell how anyone votes, and their teachers refuse to take responsibility for up to half their students still claiming the sun revolves around the earth, and making the stupid dictionary taboo, as if, they never graduated from Kindergarten.
     
  18. wilsjane

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    There is no violence in China,because if you report t YOU get locked up. LOL
     
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  19. TheGreatShoeScam

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    Is it the TVs or crappy furniture failing kids climbing drawers like steps stuff like that?
     
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  20. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ California Tripper Administrator

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    Yes a combination of problems... cheap dressers that will tip over easily, with a lightweight flat screen tv on top. A recipe for disaster!
     

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