Transcription A paper attached to a street post with a picture of Lisa Simpson rocking back and forth. The text reads “Attention! Hi neighbor! Did you have a smoke alarm that kept beeping once every 60 seconds that you decided to throw in your yard out of annoyance? If so- it's now annoying me! Because guess what? It's beeping right outside my bedroom window! Every time it beeps a piece of my soul dies. Please get rid of it, I absolutely beg of you. It's been a month.“
A month? Holy hell if it beeps every 60 seconds I’d be going door to door. I’m sure other people in the neighborhood would be happy to help.
Yeah hell no to a month of that nonsense. I give it one day before I’m jumping a fence and smashing it with a hammer.
You misspelled three minutes
Hey, you can’t just smash my trash with a hammer!
1 year. Our neighbor has been doing this for a year.
After a week i would have stolen it and tossed it.
A day lol
Do people not understand all you need to do is remove the battery from the alarm and disconnect it from any power cables to make it stop beeping
It usually beeps like that because the battety is dying… Just change the battery!
It may be beeping because it’s past its 10 year working period. Some are programmed to beep continuously after 10 years to signal replacement needed.
Yep! Discovered our rentals smoke alarms were like 15 years old. Got us new ones at least.
Even if they’re permanently wired in with a Li-ion backup battery. I get why they do it, but realistically they’re probably good for longer?
It’s the sensors accuracy that is of concern at the 10 year mark, not the battery life
Most of the ones that exhibit that behavior are the types that relay on radioactive decay. decay being the key word there. They get less radioactive over time and need to be replaced.
The number of people on virtual meetings with smoke detectors crying out for a new battery drives me insane. 9v batteries are not expensive and smoke detectors save lives.
I would have gone in their yard to take care of it myself
Nowadays in the US, where it looks like this was taken (why do I feel like I have to add that anytime I mention the US lest 50 people point out that not everything revolves around the US), that could get you shot blindly through a door as your neighbour satisfies their blood lust to finally kill someone with one of the many firearms they keep for innocent passerby they think they can get away with saying made them fear for their lives.
It’s possible they tried and can’t find the damn thing. That chirp is just infrequent enough to make locating the source difficult.
Solution: go to neighbor’s yard and commit arson. Then it will hopefully chirp enough to be found.
That thing might make it to its 5th minute if I were in this position. I sure as hell wouldn’t take long enough to make a sign about it, let alone put up with it for a fucking month.
I’ve only been in 2 people’s houses where the smokr alarm was doing the battery chirp. Like… Get a new battery for it! Or, hell, take the near dead one out so it at least stops beeping. It probably doesn’t habe enough juice to actually function in the event of a fire, anyway. At least it doesn’t need to be annoying.
Allow me to introduce the 9V battery.
Allow me to introduce the 9mm handgun.
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Why would this be on a post rather than at the neighbour’s house? Or, god forbid, speaking to them?
The building to the right of the sign looks like it may be a multi-unit dwelling, so it may not be clear who the culprit is. Also, many people don’t know their neighbors very well, or may have anxiety or some type of fear of social situations. In this case, they may be concerned that it may turn into a confrontation, especially if they let this go on for a month (as others have said, three minutes is my max tolerance for this). And the sign is funny and not particularly aggressive, although it may not be effective on the type of person who 1. throws their smoke detector outside instead of replacing the battery, and 2. allows it to continue beeping for a month. Maybe the OOP felt a little public shaming is in order.
The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.
It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.
Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
Something like that happened to me. A neighbor had the alarm running out of battery so it was beeping every 3 minutes or so. From my apartment this was a very faint noise but it really drove me crazy, my SO couldn’t even hear it. Lasted for at least a month, this guy was not at home. Until the firefighters showed up and forced his door and shut the alarm down.
This is how I feel about windchimes. Take them the fuck inside and put em in front of a fan if you need to hear tinkly sounds all the goddamn time.
nah wind chimes are nice
No you’re nice.
no u
no they are
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