Well, here’s quite the alarmist post from WaPo’s “On Parenting” blog:

In recent months there’s been a rash of these deaths in the Chicago area. It has also occurred too many times in the D.C. region. In fact, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says that every other week, a child dies in the United States when a television, a piece of furniture or an appliance falls on him.

Scary stuff, but all true in the Chicago example, where five young children have been killed or injured by falling television sets in recent months, the Tribune reports.

But those D.C. incidents, as TBD’s Ryan Kearney pointed out, are actually just one incident last May in which a baby in Fairfax County was critically injured by a TV that fell off its perch. Not fatal, and not multiple.

Anyway, the Post’s parenting guide also has a bunch of useful tips on how to prevent your television set from killing your child, such as proper mounting on furniture or wall brackets, keeping cords out of children’s reaches, and storing remote controls somewhere else than beside the TV.

So stow your television set carefully, or else!