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Originally Posted by compucat
I wonder what kind of TV it was. I doubt it was a black box. Three years of being on twenty-four/seven would cause the picture tube to rot off at the neck.
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I never heard of anything like that. Department stores have TVs on all the time (perhaps not all day and all night as you mention) for display purposes while the stores are open, and have no problems with the CRTs. I can't imagine why that would cause a CRT to rot at the neck unless the glass overheats and destroys the vacuum seal, or some such.
Are there any documented cases of this sort of thing actually happening?
BTW, that woman
must have been incredibly alone for an incident such as you describe to happen. I can't imagine why someone, somewhere, didn't suspect that something was amiss when her mailbox became full to overflowing, or, as was mentioned in a previous reply to this post, when the landlord didn't hear from her when the rent came due.
Sad. Incredibly sad.
