There is nothing more boring than lying in a hospital room with nothing to do. Television is a fairly painless way to while away the hours, and that may be one of the reasons that you tend to find a TV in each room.
Well, the hospital tried to make the isolation room as livable as possible. It is actually a long room with a 40 inch flat screen mounted on the wall. The television needs to be so large as the patient would be so far away. Honest, it would be nice if it were hanging on the wall at my home, and I guess that I was not the only one thinking this thought.
There was a patient who decided that it would be a nice parting gift. It is different than when you are at hotel where you grab an ashtray or bottle opener. The first thing is it was mounted to the wall but more than that it would require two people to carry it away. So that is exactly what they did, they pulled it out of the wall, and carried out of the room possibly past one or more hospital staff and out the emergency exit.
The isolation room actually never got another television after that.