Miscellaneous: Today, our carbon monoxide detector started beeping. My mom started...

By eyelashess - 29/06/2011 04:10 - United States

Today, our carbon monoxide detector started beeping. My mom started freaking out and made me go stand outside so I "don't die". I stood outside for 20 minutes, it was raining and it turned out that the detector was just low on battery. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/12/2014 02:04 - United States - Yorktown

Today, I was home alone when I heard the carbon-monoxide detector beeping. Panicking, I grabbed my dog, ran out of my house as fast as I could, and waited outside for 3 hours for my mom to get home. Turned out the detector was just out of batteries. FML

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By Kelso - 06/02/2010 18:22 - United States

Today, my mother told me that the carbon-monoxide alarm went off last night, but since she didn't smell any gas, she decided to just remove the batteries and go back to bed. I had to explain to her that you can't smell carbon monoxide, and that we could have died in our sleep. FML

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By lollerskate - 16/01/2010 15:37 - United States

Today, my smoke alarm went off. In a frenzy, I called 9-1-1 and exited my house. Several minutes later a fire truck showed up. After investigating, one of the firemen informed me I needed to change the batteries in my smoke alarm. FML

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By Ashley - 14/10/2019 22:00

Today, two out of our three smoke detectors were going off. My grandpa won't call the fire department because he thinks our house will be condemned. The alarms are still going off. FML

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By Cinderella - 09/07/2017 14:55

Today, my house was so dusty that when I started to clean it, the smoke detector went off. FML

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By James - 08/02/2016 22:55 - United Kingdom - Sheffield

Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML

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By Mel - 07/05/2011 22:27 - United States

Today, my fire alarm startled me so badly that I shit myself. FML

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By agstone - 09/08/2017 23:15

Today, at 2:47 am, my mom woke me up in a panic screaming about smelling gas and the house blowing up. Twenty minutes, two fire trucks, and a traumatized dog later, it was just the neighbors burning their mail. FML

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By cutthroatkait - 05/08/2014 22:44 - United States

Today, I picked up an extra shift at the store. It was also the day the store's ventilation system shut down, resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning for me and two co-workers. FML

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By wellhellothere - 17/04/2011 07:25 - United States

Today, the fire alarm went off in my dorm. Not only was it 30 degrees outside, but I was in the shower. FML

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bigmanj28 0

Wednesday 29 June 2011 11:59

Better safe than sorry

loveexgirl 15

Wednesday 29 June 2011 12:00

why did she stay inside if she was like "your gonna diee" ...

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Babygurl320_fml 0

Wednesday 29 June 2011 19:13

I walked 2 miles in pouring rain consider yourself lucky

franticravyn 7

Wednesday 29 June 2011 20:45

Were you wearig white pants...? O.o

franticravyn 7

Wednesday 29 June 2011 23:34

*wearing, sorry.

EZ2XLR8 7

Wednesday 29 June 2011 20:57

Would you rather have stayed inside and actually died due to carbon monoxide or stay outside and live? I have smelt carbon monoxide, it's made me light headed before when I was 17, I know some effects before death, and I work as a Nurse Practitioner. With changing the battery... that will save you from the future of actually getting hit with carbon monoxide. Better Safe than sorry, that's a life and death situation. I don't appreciate you putting "don't die" in quotations because it could have been real, and carbon monoxide is toxic and deadly and it seems like you think you won't ever die due to carbon monoxide. It can always happen to you, don't ever think it wont.

Riya2595 15

Wednesday 29 June 2011 22:02

this is exactly what happened to me!! 

narutou546 4

Wednesday 29 June 2011 23:23

its rain, you not gonna melt

irocscott 2

Wednesday 29 June 2011 23:26

you people are missing the point. which is his mother is stupid and doesn't know the difference between a single beep meaning the battery is low and a constant deafening alarm designed to wake you up.

sappy0 5

Thursday 30 June 2011 7:13

I think you're missing the point that not everybody knows this little fact & when they hear the thing going off all of a sudden, they'd rather be safe than sorry.