Jeremy…
Nobody ever calls me after they’ve done something smart.
The last time I lived in an apartment, we had a guy move in who started setting the fire alarm off. I was working on a security system at the time, and our security advisor told me that the person was a (real) pyromaniac and once people stopped reacting to the fire alarm, he would actually set a fire.
Sonny predicted correctly - after about a month or two of setting off the fire alarm, he set fire to the mailboxes. I thank God that it was the mailboxes & not one of the apartment buildings. Fortunately they caught him.
A couple of years ago, I lived in on-campus apartments in which the fire alarm was ALWAYS going off. At night. In the rain. (This was in 1997-1998, the El Niño year, when it rained for seven straight months in California.) It sucked, but we all went outside and waited for the fire department to show up each time. Grrr. It makes me feel cold and wet and angry just to think about it.
~Kyla
“Anger is what makes America great.”
If there’s one thing I hate it’s stupid people who set off fire alarms for no reason.
I live in an on-campus building, 96% of the 1252 people here are 1st yr students–their still in infancy some of them.
This year the fire alarm has gone off 2x, once in Dec. that was a false alarm, and then on Jan.16, paper burning, doors set on fire by assholes with no lives and nothing better to do on a Sunday morning at 8a.m.
3 floors were damaged.
Last year Jan. 29th, a room was set on fire, 1:30a.m., there was snow everywhere, probably -15 degrees celcius, there were more people in that building that night than all year, all standing outside for 3 hours, with no shoes, no coats some of them, and blankets didn’t arrive until an hour after the alarm went off.
A friend of mine knew a friend from home in the building behind ours and so we knocked on his window and stayed there until 4:30a.m.
we were the only people who got warm that night.
The person who set fire to that room last year, was the person who lived there, tied himself up with telephone wire, stabbed himself in the pancrease(sp?) and set his garbage can on fire–it was huge, you can see where they’ve washed the outside brick three floors up and down from it.
Want to know the real stupidity? besides this, was that there were still people–sleeping through the alarm, in the building while 4 firetrucks and fire men and went throught the whole building.
Humanity’s stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation
-me
Okay, I’ll admit it. I once set off a fire alarm for no reason.
I was in high school, and in my Computer class. We were doing some sort of project (memory fails me on this- maybe programming or CAD drawing or something), and I had just finished. As I was one of the first people to finish, I did a self-congradulatory stretch- leaning back in the chair and stretching my arms backwards, with the eventual idea of resting my hands behind my head.
Did I mention that I was sitting under the Computer Room’s fire alarm? And that this particular alarm- being recently installed- was hyper-sensitive to motion? As in, it would go off were it even tapped? Say, by someone in front of it stretching their arms backwards?
The good news is, by confessing to my stupidity right away, I didn’t get punished by the administration (and, given this was the third time this particular alarm was set off, they finally bothered to put a plastic case over the damn thing).
The bad news is, since this was the alarm directly in the Computer Room, it was wired to turn off all power to the computers as soon as it was set off.
I had finished my project. I just hadn’t saved my project. Nor had any other student in the class. I was the object of a lot of seething resentment in that class for the next couple of days.
JMCJ
Just confirming that my ass is, in fact, the wisest part of my body.
FUCK!!!
The fire alarm just went off in my apartment building!!
SHIIIITT!!
Wow, that actually wasn’t too bad. It was just a fire drill so we got to come back in fairly quickly. I had to go down the stairs from the ninth story, but I probably need the excercise anyways.
This past weekend my speech team hosted our annual tournament. I’d call it a success, but of course, nothing ever runs smoothly. If anyone can think of anything more horrifying than twice setting off the fire alarm at a tournament Seton Hall is attending, then I don’t want to know what it is.
Actually, if I may contradict this thread a bit, I’m almost hoping that the smoke alarm goes off while I’m in a round. The Prose piece I’m using has a part to it where the character accidentally sets off the smoke alarm while preparing his dinner; it would be kind of cool for real life to cooperate with my interpretation.
Of course, the only way to be certain that would happen is to compete at my own tournament. Smoke alarm evacuations: a Binghamton tradition for two years and counting. :mad:
Mayor of Snerdville, the home of Mortimer Snerd
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
The fire alarm went off twice yesterday, but we were told they would be testing so we weren’t alarmed, just annoyed. However, it’s gone off about 4 times today and no one has bothered to tell us a thing. So we just sat there waiting to see if we were going to die. I tell you, someday we will.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy