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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Today, I lost power. That didn't stop my house alarm from running on battery, loudly informing me in a British accent, "AC power disconnected. BEEP. AC power disconnected. BEEP." It's been going on for 5 hours and the battery takes a special screwdriver to remove. One we don't have. FML
Today, the power went out. Thankfully, it was early in the morning so I should've been able to sleep through it. Then I realized I have an impossible time sleeping during power outages. FML
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, I was making dinner when my smoke alarm started going off. I opened all the windows and waved a towel underneath it. After ten minutes, I realized the alarm wasn't reacting to the food. Its battery was dying. FML
Today, the power went out at work. As everyone left the building to go home, the owner came in to inform me that, since the phones were on a battery back up, I would be staying to man them. The phones rang 2 times in the 4 hours I sat in the dark by myself. Both times were telemarketers. FML
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
Today, after a power outage at my house, my 14-year-old brother was genuinely confused as to why our flashlights still worked if we had no electricity. FML
Today, I'm staying in a hotel. The power went out while I was having a shower. So I waited for it to come back on, until an announcement came over the fire alarm, "Due to generating failure, the power will be off for the rest of the night. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and have a good night." FML
Today, my smoke alarm started chirping at 3 a.m. I replaced the battery, reset it, and got back into bed. Five minutes later, it chirped again. I searched for the source before realizing it was my roommate's alarm clock. FML
Today, during a storm-related power failure, I jerry-rigged an inverter from my car to supply the essentials. In doing so, I managed to blow up the fridge, smoke and all. The power came back on 5 minutes later. FML
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bonbon1559 20
Hammer time!
NoOrdinaryNZer 28
FYL op, alarms are annoying as hell.
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totallynotemily 25
Destroy the alarm
tranced_ 45
ughh I hate it when the alarm bell rings and everybody waits for others to switch it off and eventually nobody does and you have to wake up and do it >_
Tarlachia 33
You said it yourself: "Back up BATTERY POWERED alarm." BATTERY POWERED. BATTERY. *cues Metallica's "Battery"*
alainopotato 20
Reminds me of that episode of Friends where Phoebe can't get her alarm to turn off ? Hope it stops soon! Those things are just too loud.
Brandi_Faith 34
This is exactly what I thought of!
confused_wandere 26
I've heard that in this situation, the alarm only goes off if the battery is either low or empty, or there is a problem with it. You might want to change it to stop this happening again.
joeyl2008 29
Also depending on how frequent the alarm is it could just be to let them know it's running on battery power. Most of the battery back ups I've worked with will beep about once a minute to make sure you know it's running on battery power and then beep more frequently when it's low power. Usually there is a button you can press to make it shut up.
Tarlachia 33
To carry on from an earlier post: Circle of destruction, hammer comes crushing Powerhouse of energy Whipping up a fury, dominating flurry We create the battery Smashing through the boundaries Lunacy has found me Cannot stop the battery Pounding out aggression Turns into obsession Cannot kill the battery!
SEDPWNS 14
Why do you guys have an alarm you don't know how to turn off?
confused_wandere 26
OP said that they didn't know it even worked. Logically, you wouldn't need to know how to use something if you think it doesn't work.
laughingboy23 20
Circuit breaker!
confused_wandere 26
But the power is already off. The battery is the problem here.
cylonN6 3
Well, your only option now is to move.
MonstreBelle 29
I feel your pain, OP. I had a family friend that came to finish remodeling the basement of my house. One day the annoying, incessant beeping sound of a smoke or carbon monoxide detector with dying batteries started. It wasn't the carbon monoxide detector, so I got out a step ladder to take the smoke detector down. It wasn't on the ceiling. Part of the remodeling included lowering the ceiling, so I figured he just hadn't put it back up. I spent about 10 minutes looking for it before I realized that, despite having spent years working in the construction industry, the nincompoop had somehow managed to lower the ceiling over the smoke detector. It was quite impressive, really. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to reach that level of stupidity. Since it's only battery powered, there wasn't really anything I could do except wait for the batteries to die completely. Although, during the first week, I seriously considered using my stethoscope to pin point the location of it and shooting it. It's still going 2 years later (I wish I was kidding or exaggerating, but I'm serious) Thank you, Energizer, for such a high quality product. Not only have you kept my family safe, you have gone above and beyond and turned my basement into Guantanamo Bay! So, don't worry, OP. You'll get used to the sound. Eventually...
Brandi_Faith 34
Why didn't you just put a hole in the wall, get the detector out, and then re-plaster/drywall it back after?
MonstreBelle 29
I hired a contractor to come take a look and see if anything could be done. He approximated where the smoke detector is by listening to the beeping and taking some measurements. One of the beams from the wood frame wood is underneath it. It wasn't lowered very much, so there isn't enough space to make a hole next to the beam and slide it over and out. The only way to get to it is by cutting through the beam and that would mean having to have the entire ceiling redone
MonstreBelle 29
"wood frame wood" Good Lord. I'm going to take that as a sign that I either need to end my Netflix and Internet binging and go to sleep or that I need caffeine. Being the responsible adult that I am, I'm going to go with caffeine