Please tell the police too <| sep |> I help out a charity that find housing and supplies furniture , home goods , and appliances to people getting back on their feet . They will not take any TV or computer display that is not a flat screen . People get pissed when they try to drop off their 55 behemoth that still works ! , and they are turned away . You are not helping someone who ' s just making it by saddling them with a TV they can ' t afford to get rid of . Literally . A lot of towns don ' t allow them to be put with with the garbage , recyclers won ' t take them , even during the garbage free day in my town we won ' t take the huge TVs . These people struggling to make ends meet end up having to pay to have someone take it when it dies or they leave it taking up a quarter of their living space and put a new TV sitting on front of it . The last thing any poor person needs is junk . Junk furniture , junk appliances , junk TVs . They are better off without something than having something that will break or cost them money . Honestly , you weren ' t doing your friend a favor , you were trying to pass off a TV you can ' t get rid of any other way .