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Old 01-18-2011, 08:30 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by WillAdams View Post
Given the danger a small, dense object represents in an accident, that alone is sufficient reason to require that people put the things away.

For those who feel that hardcover books represent a similar danger, try the following experiment:

- take an open hardcover book, throw it as hard as you can at a wall 6' away, observe the size of the dent (if any) which it makes
- repeat that w/ some small electronic device, compare the relative size of the damage

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=128062&page=1

William
I'm not going to start throwing any of my edevices around. I have however been hit with a hardback book and received a black eye from it
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