I Just Destroyed One Of My Smoke Alarms

[matcom]

damned thing was going off when I got home (battery low). could hear it all the way out on the street.

couldn't get the damned thing open to pull the battery. ear-splitting siren

finally got pissed off and slammed it on the ground and stomped the shit out of it.

it ain't making THAT damned noise ever again. :)

off to the store tomorrow to buy a new one i guess

%#&*@! thing! x(

[GOPisEvil]

1. Mine just beeps every 10 seconds when the battery is low.

Uh, the anger management class is down the hall on the left.

[Doctor Smith]

3. Maybe he has a fire.

[Kadie]

6. Mine told me the batteries were low at 4 a.m. the other day.

Always fun to go into the garage half asleep, wearing jammies to get the ladder and find new batteries.

Mine always seem to need new batteries in the middle of the night.

[GOPisEvil]

9. I think they're built to do that.

Blasted things...if they weren't so useful...:grr:

[meegbear]

2. You shouldn't have been toking below it dude ...

buzzkill.

[shaolinmonkey]

4. Don't eat it.

There's Thorium in the source. They actually had to add instructions: do not eat. Technically, your smoke detector is a weapon of mass destruction.

[trumad]

5. Strap one to your chest...

It might help you to quit..;-)

[underpants]

7. Damn man, that thing was expensive

[DS1]

8. I've broken about three in my times

Loud noises make me turn green and angry - then my belly rips out the front of my shirt and illuminates the house across the street with blinding white light - often sending the fire department to the wrong house :shrug:

[DrWeird]

10. Had that happen to me one while I was running a 103 degree fever

started beeping every few seconds at about 2 AM. I was half asleep, the other half delirious and I couldn't figure out what it was.

For some reason about 5 AM I snapped to attention and took it out with a baseball bat.

Now everytime I hear that beep I get physically ill.

[miss_kitty]

11. i get the 'cans' out when i have to mess with mine

thank god i needed HD ear protection for work or artwork....i'm sure before i got ear muffins, i caused hearing damage every freakin time i burned toast.

[BiggJawn]

12. Mine turned into a cooking detector.

Would go off everytime I started cooking...No, I'm actually a good cook. Pulled the battery out. eventually bought a more expensive one. It's a cooking detector, too.