Therefore, one should be extremely careful not to break it with a too strongly thrown clothing-iron or a stone vase (if the iron keeps bouncing off the glass, try with the steel part of a vacuum-cleaner's tube, frontally, the strongest you can).

Accidental rafall from your household's machine-gun can also bring serious damage to the monitor; so can a poorly aimed hand-grenade.

Because of all of this, it is strongly recommended that you protect your monitor's front side with a thick plate of bullet-proof steel.

Of course, the visibility of the screen will be thus somewhat diminished, but with a little Do-It-Yourself trickery, you can easily avoid that problem too:

Cut a round hole in the plate, cca 4-5 cm in radius. Borrow a binoculars from a neighbour, take it apart (experience you got with the screw-diver on a keyboard can be useful here - if that too won't do, try banging the edge of your desk with binoculars, using strong, shoulder-based swings), take the ocular part out, attach it to the hole in the steel with a tin- or plastic cylinder, and lo! just lean your eye of choice [l/r] to the ocular, adjust the focus, and you can continue to peacefully work in your favourite application, sure that nothing poses a threat for your monitor's glass any more. (you may occasionally want to alternate the eye you're using, thus even reducing the usual overall strain on your eyes in half!)

It should also be said that a computer-monitor is extremely un-suitable for cutting with a chain-saw. It is made from hard plastic which squiggles and wiggles and tears and breaks during the procces, so the cutting edge is hardly ever a perfect one. Espec. when you dip your chainsaw into the front-end glass, skweakage and breakage will go beyond description. It is therefore a good practice to use protecting glasses because a small piece of plastic (or glass, or metal) can quickly end up in your eye. For the same reason, cutting a computer-monitor with a chain-saw is not recommended for children under 3 years, because they can easily swallow or inhale smaller parts!