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10 Oct 2008, 1:33 pm

Anyone else in this forum have a problem with smoke alarms or fire alarms? Do they startle you?

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10 Oct 2008, 1:34 pm

YES! I hate smoke alarms, security alarms, buzzers, that I NEVER outgrew the fear of!


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10 Oct 2008, 1:37 pm

Yes, like crazy.



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10 Oct 2008, 1:38 pm

Yes. The alarms in the office building where I work come complete with debilitating loudness and flashing strobe lights. At our recent fire drill, I was nearly rendered incapacitated from the noise. My heart was pounding, I was shaking and I could barely think straight. :(


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10 Oct 2008, 1:58 pm

RubieRoze wrote:
Yes. The alarms in the office building where I work come complete with debilitating loudness and flashing strobe lights. At our recent fire drill, I was nearly rendered incapacitated from the noise. My heart was pounding, I was shaking and I could barely think straight. :(


What's sad is that few people can understand the panic that can occur just because of sound! I once accidently set off the burglar alarm where I used to work. My boss thought my "over reaction" was hilarious.


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10 Oct 2008, 2:04 pm

^ 8O That's sick. I'm sorry to hear that.



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10 Oct 2008, 2:24 pm

the fire allarm in my room started beebing one night because it was running out of batteries and it hurt my ears. I had to sleep with my blanket around my ears :(



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10 Oct 2008, 2:28 pm

thats their job!



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10 Oct 2008, 2:34 pm

Eggman wrote:
thats their job!

it didnt beep at regular intervals it was just at random times.



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10 Oct 2008, 2:51 pm

& even NT's hate them, or at least I think they do... I've disabled mine in every apartment I've lived in anway.



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10 Oct 2008, 2:58 pm

oh yah there so annoying they go off all tht tiemn and yah even nts hate them.. my mum dismantled them as they went off ween she was cooking n stuff and it annoyed her


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10 Oct 2008, 5:28 pm

They hurt my ears >>



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10 Oct 2008, 5:41 pm

I deplore the sound but I recognize the value in them.
Anyone disabling them- especially in apartments- needs to be aware that it is not only potentially illegal (check you local and state fire codes) but it creates an unsafe environment for you and your neighbors. It's very disappointing to hear someone would chose to endanger others' lives for their own comfort.



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10 Oct 2008, 5:44 pm

My feelings/reactions are so intensely negative that I started a thread about it & filled it with essay-length posts describing my bad relationship with this appliance.
http://asdgestalt.com/viewtopic.php?f=8 ... &sk=t&sd=a
Thread title I came up with is "Mechanical Screaming Barnacle" (my name for smoke alarm).


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10 Oct 2008, 6:00 pm

daysleeper wrote:
& even NT's hate them, or at least I think they do... I've disabled mine in every apartment I've lived in anway.


DON'T BET ON IT! TODAY, YEAH, that is RIGHT, AGAIN, the fire alarm went off! It is a LOUD NASTY CONSTANT sound! Anyway, a coworker mentioned about how SHE stayed in her room, and how her cat was really upset! She spoke of how she then put her cat in the cage and she seemed more ok. Anyway, *I* felt like her cat probably did, and SCRAMED! She now hates my guts. I don't know if it is because I made her sound heartless, or what. She has NO idea how I felt!



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10 Oct 2008, 6:06 pm

Is there someone, for some reason, that LIKES fire alarms or smoke detectors? I can't think of a reason anyone one would...well, anyone mostly normal.