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The New York City area has been rattled by several falling-television incidents recently, the most recent of which involving a 27-inch set toppling over and killing a four-year-old:

A Brooklyn girl crushed by a falling television — the third city child to die that way in six weeks — was laid to rest yesterday by her devastated family.

Dozens of mourners gathered outside Congregation Yeshurin in Gravesend to grieve the loss of 4-year-old Debbie Lerner, who was killed by the family TV Wednesday evening.

“This is every parent’s nightmare,” said family friend Sam Strasser, 27, whose son went to camp with Debbie. “These people are extremely nice and the most outstanding parents. This is such a tragedy.”

A 27-inch television toppled from its metal stand onto Debbie around 6:30 p.m. while her father was in the kitchen with her twin brother, police said.

The Administration for Children’s Services is investigating.

Not to sound too anti-consumerist, but there’s something peculiarly and tragically American about ever-expanding television sets becoming literal instruments of death . . .