Today, I discovered that during fire drills, my school lines everyone up next to some extremely flammable and explosive propane tanks. If we ever have a real fire, we will all die. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, in Chem, I was chosen to hold the fire extinguisher just in case something happened while showing how to blow up a dangerous chemical. My teacher told me to spray if anything got out of control. He lit the fire and I freaked out and sprayed it. The entire wing of my school was evacuted. FML
Today, my chemistry professor made us all leave our classroom mid-lab because the class was complaining of the smell, and he was worried that there was a gas leak from one of the Bunsen burners. There wasn't, but it's nice to know my "silent but deadly" smelled like it might actually kill. FML
Today, a student set me on fire while I was lecturing my class about proper lab safety. FML
Today, there was a gas leak at work. We called the fire department, who advised us to evacuate the building. We called our manager to let her know, and her response was "Oh, don’t do that." My boss would rather let us die of carbon monoxide exposure than lose out on 3 hours of work. FML
Today, there was a fire drill at my school. I was in the bathroom taking a dump, and if that wasn't bad enough, I got suspended for two days for 'improper procedure during a fire drill'. I didn't know you could get suspended for taking a dump. FML
Today, I tripped while rushing to my classes. In a desperate attempt to regain my balance, I grabbed the nearest thing to me. A fire alarm. FML
Today, I smelled gas when entering my apartment. I checked everything and then left to seek help. I was told to call 911, which resulted in two firetrucks and 10+ firefighters, one of which was my high school sweetheart, entering my messy apartment and finding nothing wrong. FML
Today, my house caught fire right before I was supposed to present a school project. My teacher told me to, "just suck it up and do it anyway." FML
Today, my office building had a surprise fire drill. As I rushed to exit, I realized that I’d put on a shirt that was way too tight. It felt like it was practically cutting off my circulation, and I couldn’t breathe too well. I tried to suck in my stomach but almost passed out in the process. I spent the rest of the drill struggling with my shirt while people gave me weird looks. FML
Today, my fire alarm startled me so badly that I shat myself. FML
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x_KL_x 7
Sounds like they planned it all out well then.
ChaosAngel17 14
Smokey Bear is crying right now.
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Comments (168)
newburton13 26
Well those things are supposed to be like tanks. But you should still ask someone about that.
Chels12 0
My school makes us walk outside down to the field house when we have tornado drills... Let's hope we never have a tornado near my school
l0v3p4in 7
During a bomb threat, my high school took us to stand beside the buses. As the final class from school was moved there, the "educators" got word that there could possibly be bombs in the buses, so they moved us right back into the school. So, OP it's not just your special institution; it's all over the place. F Everyone's L.
nxb13 0
And I thought my teachers hated my school!
ElmoSaysSquishy 28
Does the head teacher give the impression of being a psychopath ?
cstevanus 4
I know how you feel. At my school, if theres ever a fire in the science hall and if it gets to the gas main under the building, it will explode. During fire drills, people in that hall just walk right outside of it. According to one of my old teachers, its explodes, it'll kill like half the people outside of the school because they don't make us go far away enough.
KiraElayne_ 1
And that is why you don't line up there. Save yourself and run
Whitesound 3
You live in new Jersey or Texas dont you?
CrazyCountryGirl 5
Dumb asses......I'd SUE! hah
graveyard_girl 0
propane tanks usually don't "explode", they have release valves that will start to release and burn off the contents of the tank once they reach a certain temperature so as to prevent a dangerous explosion... I know this because there was a massive propane explosion at a local plant but none of the larger tanks exploded, only the small BBQ ones did
jseg2005 2
Actually that is pretty common. Anyone who knows anything about engineering knows that the fail safes involved in preventing the tanks from going off make it one of the safest places to be on campus aside from crossing the street to another lot. Growing up, our propane tank was always our evacuation point because it was the safest place on the property. Do you really think that any building built in the last 30 years would risk an explosion like that? Not that it is impossible for failsafes to "fail" but I would feel pretty safe.
LesCDeal 6
Agreed. Even if the tanks didn't have release valves, how would the burning school even detonate propane tanks that are some distance away? People don't realize what it takes to cause a propane tank to go super-nova. They literally need to be IN the fire, and for quite some time. Same goes for gas mains mentioned here. The only dangerous area would be at the end of the gas main where it terminates in the school. It's not remotely likely to rupture anywhere outside of the school. The pressure on the line (and lack of oxygen in the line) won't allow the fire to backfeed. In fact, if there is a steady flow on a gas line, you can actually weld on it without immediate danger, because the moving fuel absorbs and carries the heat away. High pressure lines are actually cool to the touch. I used to work as a welder's helper and know this first-hand.