posted
If the University's "Public Safety" people ever figure out who did it, there are going to be several hundred irate college students who were abruptly awoken at 6:10 this morning by a very loud, very annoying fire alarm.
Who the fuck thinks that kind of thing is funny, to wake people up prematurely and send them dashing down the stairs of a 16-story apartment building out into the cold (40�F) morning air? And then had to wait around while bleary-eyed University Police officers wandered in to figure out what was going on.
I haven't heard anything yet, but I assume -- I *hope,* actually -- that it was a prank. I heard someone else commenting later that they'd heard it was some malfunctioning sprinkler that set off the alarm -- and in that case, I will be *very* pissed at the University instead.
Damn, I need some more sleep, and Mondays are my LONG class day, too... I've got an Astronomy lab until 8:30...
-------------------- “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha
Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
Maybe it was triggered by accident. It happend to me on the UCLA campus before.
-------------------- "It speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow, it's not all going to be over with a big splash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans." -Gene Roddenberry about Star Trek
Registered: May 1999
| IP: Logged
Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
Member # 256
posted
"very loud, very annoying fire alarm"
There are quiet, unobtrusive fire alarms?
Registered: Nov 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Our Dorm Leader guy and his senior assitants pulled the fire alarm at, like, 1 in the morning one night because they "wanted to get everyone's attention". He wanted to reprimand everyone for some particularly disgusting pranks that had been pulled on him and basically threatened all of us with arrest if he ever found out who it was. I was mad too. I was asleep. We all had a hella workload and I was angry that he had wasted everyone's time.
Registered: Oct 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Our firealarm used to go off at least once a fortnight. And since US college kids are so much more "wacky" than ours, I'd have thought that you would have had it even more often.
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
For the past few weeks at a high-rise apartment building in Baltimore, some prankster a-holes have been yanking the fire-alarm as a gag.
Well guess what? There was a real fire, people didn't really evacuate, and a few were killed, and others are in the hospital recovering from jumping out of the window.
I don't recall the specifics, but I seem to recall that there's a hefty fine imposed by the University for pulling the fire alarm. This is the first time we've had a non-drill alarm this school year.
quote:There are quiet, unobtrusive fire alarms?
Well, of course not. But it's worse when you're sleeping soundly, a few minutes after sunrise, and suddenly get blasted by the fire alarm that's DIRECTLY OVER YOUR BED.
*sigh*
-------------------- “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha
Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
I have a slight fear of fire alarms due to the one in my house going off all the time due to a wiring short. I don't think I'd be able to sleep in a room with one above the bed...
-------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
The fire alarm went off at my work this weekend. We thought it was a drill.
Not quite right.
There was no fire... but there was water EVERYWHERE. Someone knowed one of the sprinkler heads off of the wall, causing the other sprinklers to go off on the third (top) floor and the alarm to go off.
Can you say serious water damage? Oy..... they'll be fixing up the mess from it for weeks....... 800 computers in the building, all networked through the floors, serious water damage on every level. Pleh. What a mess.
-------------------- "You are anal twattypoo who has ruined my good mood" PsyLiam to TSN May 01,2006.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
You haven't seen stupidity until you've witnessed a guying training to be an inner city teacher force a thick plaster clothes hanger into a sprinkler head to keep his clothes nice while he showered.
You haven't seen real stupidity until you've witnessed this same guy admitting his stupidity to the campus police because he wanted to bitch at someone about getting himself and his clothes drenched.
-------------------- The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
At least that guy didn't try to explain that the fire alarm accidentally went off because he was trying to get laid.
-------------------- "It speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow, it's not all going to be over with a big splash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans." -Gene Roddenberry about Star Trek
Registered: May 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
True. However, there was also the case of the young woman who had a pet snake in her room. Late one night, she decided that the lamp for the little critter was too bright for her to sleep. So, she threw a blanket on it instead of turning it off. The blanket caught fire, and the fire alarm went off. The young woman, fearing a write-up I suppose, grabbed the blanket and threw it under her bed to hide it.
-------------------- The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic
