Why Are So Many TVs Falling on Chicago Children?
There’s a menace coming after your kids.
The death toll is now at four and rising, with two injured. Who is it? What is it?
Television, just like parents have always feared! Well, television plus gravity.
A 2-year-old Aurora girl was hurt when a TV sitting on a bookshelf toppled over and landed on her, reports CBS. Ouch. But hang on, this exact same thing just happened on February 8. And again on February 7, killing a 1-year-old. A University Park 4-year-old died from a falling TV in January. Ditto this poor 3-year-old and this 6-year-old.
Unless there’s a serial TV tipper breaking into Chicago-area houses and dropping televisions on kids before climbing up the chimneys and flying away, this string of injuries is pure bizarre coincidence. Hell, maybe this is just the average TV-injury rate in metropolitan cities. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to stop the boob tube from falling, and that’s bolting it to your wall. The TV that fell on the Aurora toddler was on top of a cabinet and unsupported, CBS reports.
Arvey Levinsohn of A&H Childproofers gave this physics lesson on CBS Morning News this month:
“The center of gravity has changed on a dresser when a child pulls drawers out, and they try to pull the drawers out so they can get an item that mom and dad took and put up so the child doesn’t play with it, and then they leave the child alone for five seconds, and he opens the drawers and the center of gravity is changed,” he said.
If President and First Lady Obama really are imposing a Chicago-style Nanny State as the right-wing echo chamber would have you believe, they sure are doing a terrible job of it.
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