Today, I got a call at 4 in the morning from the security company, saying someone had broken into my workplace. I drove an hour out there, only to find out it was a rat that had set off the alarm. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after my house almost got broken into last week, when I heard some noises in the kitchen I went to investigate. I saw a huge rat run across my floor, and nearly peed myself thinking it was an intruder. FML
Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML
Today, I finally found out what the horrible smell at work was. A rat had decided to make its home in our emergency exit sign and had been fried by the electricity. I now have to fix this. Hello scorched dead rat. FML
Today, I woke up to find my car broken into. After being upset for not hearing my car alarm go off I realized it had in the middle of the night. I had woken up and cursed the idiot who set off their alarm and put a pillow over my head, falling back to sleep shortly after. FML
Today, my first day on the job, I locked up the office after everyone left and set the alarm. An hour later, my new boss angrily emailed me that I locked him inside the building, setting off the alarm and prompting the entire police department to show up. FML
Today, I was laying in bed when my sister came running in, scared. I took my bat and went into the kitchen where the suspicious noise was coming from. It was a rat, right in the middle of the floor. I jumped on the counter and shrieked, just as my girlfriend walked in, who then actually dealt with it. FML
Today, I found out the animal that was gnawing behind the kitchen wall all night was indeed a wild rat and his entire family. FML
Today, I fractured my finger setting up a rat trap. FML
Today, I was awoken at 1:30 a.m. by a strange noise, and something tugging on my hair. I opened my eyes, to find a very large rat sitting on my pillow, chewing my hair. FML
Today, I accidentally set off an alarm at the school I work for. No one was there, I didn't have the code or password the company needed, my boss wouldn't answer his phone, three policemen interrogated me and asked for ID, but realized I left home without my wallet. There was nothing I could do. I cried. FML
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Top comments
Fuaaad1994 31
Maybe the rat belonged to a rival company which they raised and trained so it can spy on you. Be very careful OP.
theonex17 15
Rats! That's a bummer
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Comments (63)
simmyiphone 18
Awesome! Your system works!
Bcfrmkc816 17
Well look at it this way if you hadn't driven out there it might actually have been a burglar although I don't know why the police didn't get there first. .
RoaRawR 6
I sadly have bad news for you even with alarm system if the shortest responder take an hour to get there...could clean it and make me a dinner and leave and be gone by that time
icepick23 12
A Republican? Wow, that sucks!
Omniprism 15
Better safe than sorry. But why wouldn't they send the cops instead?
sonnyrosa 32
They alert the security supervisor first, to make sure it's not a false alarm. Fines for false alarms can be rather hefty.
Rojod 13
Could be worse. At my work, it got of when the blowers still are on... Happened a few times already...
Lumina06074 4
My old job asked me to give my address and phone number to the security company and I said "Don't bother calling me, I don't get paid enough to get out of bed in the middle of the night for this place"