Children killed by falling TVs April 30, 2006, 4:11 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) _ Three New York City children have been fatally injured in the past two months by televisions that fell off of stands or furniture _ a rare type of accident that usually occurs only a few times a year nationwide.
The latest death came Wednesday, when a 27-inch set resting on a rolling stand toppled on top of a 4-year-old Brooklyn girl, police said.
A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed in a similar incident on April 7, possibly as he was trying to reach a VCR perched on top of the television.
A two-year-old was killed in March by a 37-inch television that fell off a dresser.
The deaths have prompted a plea by some grieving mothers for new laws that would mandate warning labels about the potential danger of top-heavy or poorly placed TVs.
"If there were warning labels, or if there was any awareness that this could be a danger, believe me, the kind of mother I am, I wouldn't have even let my son have a TV in his room," Michele DeMeo-Bonsangue told the New York Post.
Her 8-year-old son was killed in 2005 while playing a video game on a 19-inch television.
The National Consumer Product Safety Commission said about six children are killed by falling televisions in the United States every year.
I think we seriously need to consider IQ testing potential parents now.
Come the fuck on. Who doesn't know that putting a heavy anything on a small crappy table is a bad idea!??!
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I'd be shocked if the television owners manual didn't already contain this warning.
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