They were behemoths.

That shit is from the 70’s.

These things were still in people's houses into the 90's
- Probably because there was no practical way of getting rid of them.
Yes but I imagine this mammoth of a TV survived to the 80s for this specific person to make the generalized statement of it being a developed fear in the 80s.
- My friend has probably this exact TV in their family home until probably the early 2000s. I bet it was because no one wanted to move it.

With how big and cheap they are and a lot more mounted to the wall I'd be curious how many tvs get left because it's easy to just grab laptops, game systems, etc. It still takes two people to carry those huge thin TVs and they don't really fit in a backpack.

It still takes two people to carry those huge thin TVs

Idk about that, I can reasonably carry up to a 65 inch by myself and I'm not particularly tall (not even 6 ft) so someone taller than me probably could conceivably carry a 75+ tv
- Yeah but then you get into having to worry about how thin they are. Try wall mounting a 65 inch LG OLED by yourself. It’s practically impossible without cracking the screen.
- I don't think I'd try to carry my 55" OLED by myself. I recall it being particularly unwieldy when we were installing it.
I once saw 2 blokes getting on the tram with half a tv. It was a 50" or so tv with the back plastic thing missing. They were both shirtless and both seemed to be completely out of it on something. I sort of concluded they ripped a tv off the wall but didn't have a way to get it home, or to a pawn shop or wherever they were planning on taking it

In the 80s we got a giant zenith that could answer the phone. It was gigantic, but the crt was 28" iirc. As it aged it took more and more percussive maintenance to coax into life.

Hum... Not long ago the local police here arrested a gang specialized in stealing concrete mixers from construction sites.

Odd. The one we had was on wheels. Hidden casters. I used to work for a company that built them

Oh that's interesting. The one I had in the 1980s didn't have wheels.
- Yeah not everyone did that im sure. Might also interest folks to know they werent actually solid wood cabinets either. Made of the same stuff as the floors in mobilehomes

We are there again I think. If someone wants to steal my 50" and carry it down 5 flights of a narrow staircase past some nosy neighbors, be my guest.

Back in my day, that was a TV stand with a sheet over it.

It's true. I broke one down into pieces one time instead of moving it whole. Easier to put down a tarp and destroy it, throw it out the window to the ground floor.