Miscellaneous: Shut up!

Shut up!

By Beepbeepbeep - 01/09/2011 02:50 - United States

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

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MrBoredGuy 1

Thursday 1 September 2011 8:28

Go buy the right screwdriver? Wouldn't take anyone else 5 hours to figure that out

baconstrips 12

Thursday 1 September 2011 8:27

Just smash the thing to bits

Comments

Sirchildreneater 3

Sunday 11 September 2011 0:05

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BRITISH ACCENT

posPRO1 1

Sunday 11 September 2011 10:17

There is actually a mute function on those things for that exact purpose... Just so u kno

missdani360 0

Thursday 15 September 2011 22:03

rip it out. like my dad did

Snookie85 19

Sunday 18 September 2011 21:55

Ears ringing yet?

tyler8775 4

Tuesday 20 September 2011 8:47

That's when you go for a meal for hours out of the house

galactictoast13 22

Tuesday 4 October 2011 19:19

how'd ya post an FML if your powers out?

Fylminesawsome 5

Monday 21 November 2011 22:28

Hammers work too

lsd_25 8

Friday 23 December 2011 6:42

yea id rip that thing out of the wall or smash it to pieces with a chunk of concrete

atishe24 9

Sunday 8 April 2012 9:11

You'd rather listen to it for 5 hours than go out and get a screwdriver...hmm...so yeah, well deserved. And like some people said- hammer it, kick it in, piss on it etc.