For real.
They plastered it all over the Home and Garden section.
You can read the whole story here, but it's basically a long variation on this:
Do not be fooled. The coffee table means your children harm. And when it attacks, results can be ugly.
Last year, 143,070 children age 5 and younger visited emergency rooms after table accidents, according to estimates from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. Coffee tables, in particular, turn up in more than a quarter of the accident reports, in the commission’s sample count.
The safety commission recommends that parents install bumpers on the corners and edges of their tables. Do they work? Who knows? Perhaps style-savvy children can be repelled by things that are ugly and made of foam.
Coming next week: It's all fun and games until somebody pokes their eye out!
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