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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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 - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, my fire alarm startled me so badly that I shat 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" ...

Comments

EYEoftheTIGER22 1

Thursday 30 June 2011 9:19

you should be happy being in the rain kicks ass

bruslywrestler 0

Thursday 30 June 2011 9:21

ahhhh poor baby stood in the rain for a whole 20 minutes and hates his life. tell me when you know what it's like to go hungry you spoiled ass

biancanick1 0

Thursday 30 June 2011 17:06

at least she cares

BeeZyBeaRRR 0

Friday 1 July 2011 10:00

lucky you. i was in the same situation but its colorado si i stood out in a blizzard for two hours so i wouldnt die of carbon monoxide either!

Britbrat628 0

Friday 1 July 2011 22:49

I've had carbon monoxide poisoning that is no joke it sucks I had to be on oxygen and some room by myself 4 two days and the way they test u Is by giving u a chest x-Ray and taking blood from ur main artery and that's in the wrist and that hert hurts the most and it also especially sucks when they can't find ur pluse cause they couldn't find mine

Jesus_Christ69 0

Friday 22 July 2011 16:38

Next time you write a big paragraph, please try to spell stuff right and not use "ur" or "4". I'm not try to be a grammar nazi, I just can't read what you're saying.

wolffire222 5

Saturday 2 July 2011 0:26

Dude, at least it wasn't 115 degrees outside like it is here. I'd be grateful to have some of your rain.

JokeMeister 0

Saturday 2 July 2011 5:51

what if it wasn't the battery? you have a detector because YOU can't smell it!

bzschneider 1

Saturday 2 July 2011 19:37

What's your problem, you idiot/crybaby? She was doing the right thing- Carbon Monoxide can kill you. She didn't know the battery didn't work.

vixxen9 0

Saturday 2 July 2011 23:51

um, carbon monoxide can only kill because it takes the place of oxygen. basically it's because it results in a lack of oxygen. all u had to do was open the door for ventilation and u would've been fine. u don't need to go outside.