Talon Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I wanted to share a story with everyone here. I was kind of embarrassed about it when it happened, but now when I look back at it, I can laugh! After moving into my new house, I had been listening to a smoke detector in my basement beep every 30 seconds or so non stop. No matter what I did, changing the batteries etc, nothing stopped it. So, my nephew who works for the fire dept, suggested replacing it. So one night at about 10pm,I attempted to do just that. Well, the smoke detectors are hard wired in my house with a battery back up. As I (the non-electrician :laugh: ) decided to give it a try, how hard could it be? :whistle: Well, as I connected the new one up, I set off the entire system in my house! No big deal, I thought, I'll just shut the circuit breaker off. So I tried that, but they still kept going off, I killed the power to the entire house, they continued to blare!! I called everyone I knew,(except the fire dept, I was too embarrassed for them to come) no one could knew what to do. I finally called my nephew, who was the 911 operator in another town nearby. He laughed, and called the fire chief of that town to ask how to shut them all off, As they were all having a good laugh, I went around and started taking the battery back up out of them. It took me a while to find where all the smoke detectors were in my new house. I thought I had them all...... ( I discovered there were 13 of them in all!!)but there were a couple yelling "fire, fire, fire" non-stop. So, back to the fire chief, who couldn't figure out why they were still going. 1 Hour had passed, the smoke detectors still going off......the house pitch black because I still had the power off, Talon, the 2 parakeets, our cat, our dog, and 2 of my kids all in the dark, awake, listening to the ear piercing alarms, and "fire, fire, fire" still yelling at us. So, I finally ripped the last 2 detectors out of the ceiling, wires and all!! :pinch: So, come to find out, the last 2 detectors aren't compatible with my system, I had to buy new ones that matched the brand that I had. I just installed them (yes, I attempted this by myself once again....stupid!) When I wired the first one in, I tested it, it set all of the others off, and slowly, they went off one by one. All except one......as I walked all around the house trying to pinpoint which one was still beeping, I finally found out it was Talon!! She was beeping exactly like the smoke detectors non stop. I couldn't get her to stop beeping! :blink: It amazed me how perfectly she picked that sound up, but I suppose after listening to them, for an hour in the dark, it wasn't too hard. The funny thing was, I hadn't heard her make that sound at all after that noisy night we had! I guess she was just waiting to get me.....:evil: :evil: After I saw it was her, I said, "Talon, okay, enough!" And she finally stopped, then laughed at me!! I guess she thought, me playing electrician was funny!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMustee Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 {Feel-good-0002006E} That is too funny. Like you, I have a "backup" system. Elmo learned the Alarm clock tone so now when I hit the snooze the "alarm" keeps going off!:laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judygram Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Thanks Penny for a good hearty laugh, I can just see you ripping the smoke alarms out of the ceiling and Talon making smoke alarm beeps, what a hoot!!!!! {Feel-good-0002006E} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane08 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 You were lucky talon didn't start yelling Fire fire fire, hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyGreys Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 {Feel-good-0002006E} Thats a funny one, bless i can just imagine you all sitting there in the dark :lol: coco can do the beep of our smoke detector, it's the most annoying sound :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody6 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 that was a great story. :woohoo: then the laugh made it even better. On a side note, glad to hear you have it all straightened out now and your birdie quited down when you said to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmcq Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 What a funny story Penny. :-) LOL - You reached the point of "I don't give a damn" and "I'm ripping these suckers out wires and all until the sounds stop!!"" :pinch: Since Talon picked the sound up, you better watch out. You may wake up in the middle of the night to beep beep beep ...fire fire fire...... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 That's awesome! Also, love how Elmo is there to save the day, backing up the alarm clock. Too funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talon Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Thanks guys! You still have me laughing too! :laugh: :laugh: Dan, OMG! I hadn't thought about that!!! YIKES!!:ohmy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazyAK Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Talon: That's worth a karma. Funny how they only have to hear things once. Great story. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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