[Spunky]

On the news tonight they were saying BEWARE IF YOU BUY A FLAT SCREEN TV. Apparently some guy (don't remember where) bought one and I think used his DVD player and it sent out some kind of stress signal that brought in the Air Force and other emergency personnel.

He was told to NEVER TO USE HIS FLAT SCREEN TV AGAIN UNDER THREAT OF BEING JAILED.

[Centurion2000]

He was told to NEVER TO USE HIS FLAT SCREEN TV AGAIN UNDER THREAT OF BEING JAILED.

No way ... if it was that bad they should have just bought it from him at retail and told him to go buy another model of TV

[Keith in Iowa]

Flat-screen TV emits international distress signal (Michael Moore on when distress signal started?)

Posted by twntaipan On News/Activism 10/19/2004 12:28:58 AM CDT · 21 replies · 708+ views CNN (from Reuters) ^ | October 18, 2004 EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) -- TV hardly gets much better than this. An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland. The signal from Chris van Rossmann's TV was routed by satellite to the Air Force Rescue Center at Langley Air Base in Virginia. On October 2, the 20 year-old college student was visited at his apartment in the small university town by a contingent of local police,...