Help! My TV is on fire!

[Galloism]

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-odd-switzerland-tv-on-fire,0,2309204.story

ZURICH (AP) — It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out.

Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning.

When they arrived, they discovered no signs of fire or smoke.

They found instead that the TV was tuned into a German station that in the early morning hours aired the constant image of a fireplace.

"The fire was extinguished with the press of a button," police said in a statement.

Ok, how bad is it when you think your TV is on fire because there's a picture of a fire? How bad is your eyesight?

Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?

[Mad hatters in jeans]

yeah those Marks and Spencer adverts creep me out.

[Veilyonia]

[quote="Galloism"]Ok, how bad is it when you think your TV is on fire because there's a picture of a fire? How bad is your eyesight?[quote]

How bad is your common sense? If her TV was actually on fire, the entire room would have gone up in flames by the time she finished making the phone call.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

It's probably one of the most mistakable "screensaver" ever broadcast. It makes me think why would the TV station put on footage of a fireplace for so long...

[Milks Empire]

Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?

Two words: Billy Fuccillo.
Admittedly not freaked out as much as very much annoyed.

[Smunkeeville]

Back in the day when I was a kid we had one of those console televisions with the really shiny screens......anywho, my dad was high and he thought there was a little girl in the screen like a ghost or something, only every time he turned around to look she wasn't there.....

I was hiding behind his chair of course when he turned around, then I would pop back out when he looked at the screen again.

[Wiesta Amereka]

I think "Dancing with the Stars" is pretty scary

[Les Drapeaux Brulants]

...
Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?

Freaked out? No, but fooled, sometimes. Orkin ran an ad back in 2000 that featured a very life-like looking roach crawling around on the TV screen. An Orkin man ended the commercial by spraying it, but a number of viewers reportedly damaged their sets trying to kill the roach.

Then, of course, there are the doorbells and door knocks that fool our dogs...

http://www.splendad.com/ads/show/758-Orkin-Fake-Out

[Blouman Empire]

Actually on of the channels on Pay-TV had this once, a fireplace looked nice.

You could buy the DVD of it for only $12.99 +P&H

[Ann Coulters Ideology]

Every time I see Obama on TV.

Terrifying.

[Minnas]

Mexican soaps freak me out. And when those corny opening themes come on, I feel like freaking out and screaming. I hate them.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

*sound of gunshots*

Mr. Carnegie (Public Health Inspector): "God! What was that!?"
Basil Fawlty: "...bloody television exploding again!"

[JuNii]

There was a series of commericals by a nation wide exterminator company. it would be a regular commercial for some inane product (diswashing soap, line of jewery, etc...) when a Roach would walk across the screen. then an exterminator would 'poke' his head into the picture and 'kill' the roach.

the company got alot of complaints from viewers who threw things like shoes and such at the 'roach' thinking it was on THEIR side of the TV screen. infact, they got so much that their website dedicated a section where viewers could say what they did when they saw the 'roach'.

Thank got it wasn't an underwater image... the poor lady might've drowned.

[Pope Joan]

Anderson Cooper

[Saint Johns County]

Full house. *shivers* When I watched that show, I forgot how good I could have it if only I could leave that life behind. But it was so hard. After all, I was in 4th grade.

[JuNii]

Back in the day when I was a kid we had one of those console televisions with the really shiny screens......anywho, my dad was high and he thought there was a little girl in the screen like a ghost or something, only every time he turned around to look she wasn't there.....

I was hiding behind his chair of course when he turned around, then I would pop back out when he looked at the screen again.

you...

are...

Ebil...

and that's why I like you soo much... *zen *

[The Imperial Navy]

Should have gone to Specsavers!

[German Nightmare]

I just wonder which station they're talking about!?!

I know I'd watch a fire on TV. Fire. FIRE!

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I always been freaked out by seeing poltergeist on the screen. Like that film with the blonde, little girl.

They're here!

[German Nightmare]

Booh!

[Farnhamia]

Reminds me of a tech support legend ... Someone calls the tech support help desk and asks, "There's smoke coming out of my monitor. Is there a problem in the data center?"

[Secluded Islands]

Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?

FOX news...

[Milks Empire]

Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?[/quote
FOX news...

Touché... They really are freaky.

Billy Fuccillo is just annoying.

[Dyakovo]

Anyone ever been freaked out by something on TV?[/quote
FOX news...

Touché... They really are freaky.

Billy Fuccillo is just annoying.

Yes, very much so...

[Milks Empire]

Touché... They really are freaky.
Billy Fuccillo is just annoying.

Yes, very much so...

So mine isn't the only state "graced" with his ads?