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Originally posted by amokk
Listen to this man. They can hold their charge for like 1 month. If you have no idea what you are doing in there, leave it... or put the cat in there 
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Most, if not all monitors manufactured in the 90's have bleed-off resistors on both the tube and the flyback. They hold a charge for all of 5-10 minutes, if that.
Still, the problem lies in having the cord still plugged in. With the cord plugged in, caps can be in the process of draining. Now, when you remove the plug, the caps may stop draining.
So you have a tossup, risk that the caps are drained, OR, hope that you don't touch any part of the rectification circuitry while leaving the plug in. Or, you could take a 500k ohm resisitor, an aligator clamp and a pair of leather gloves and discharge the cap yourself!
-SF