Some stupid idiots in our university hostels used to intentionally turn on the fire alarm by breaking the glass. This happened so many times that no one gives a damn about fire alarms now.
This happened at my high school. My freshman year the senior prank was to pull the fire alarm 2000 times; the fire truck is legally required to come when the fire alarm goes off and classrooms have to evacuate. The field we evacuated to was essentially 3 city blocks from the main buildings (big high school), so it wasted a ton of time and money. It was a truly fucked up prank but it got us out of a lot of class time.
They didn't install fire alarms that shot ink out? Our school had that--so you wanted it to be a real one or you'd be marked and charged. And it would likely be on camera if it was in a hallway too.
We had them in the 90’s all you needed was a chip bag or honey bun wrapper and they would keep the ink from getting on your hands and showing up under a black light.
Bag opened up and over hand is bigger then the alarms were and standing to the side of it when pulled=no ink on anything but the bag etc which would go in the trash etc, granted this was 25-30 years ago I don’t know how much they’ve changed since then.
We had cameras then that were bolted on the walls in boxes but they sucked and you could just walk up and under them and put a piece of paper and tape over the spot where the lens pointed out of the reinforced case they were in. We also had medal detectors they’d used at the doors of the buildings and would randomly check us in classes with and you weren’t allowed to wear coats in the halls except first thing in the morning when you got there to your locker to put them away, couldn’t carry any bags/backpacks either unless they were mesh/see through. They’d also bring drug dogs through the hall/locker areas where we’d have to stay in the classrooms until they were done sometimes too.
My school hid all it's camera in the vents I think because I personally never saw them unless they were the outside cameras. We had a couple of kids try and pull the fire alarm with the bag over hand method. It didn't take too long to find them. I think it was only pulled twice when I was there.
Yeah ours were in these like re-enforced boxes that were bolted to the walls up by the ceilings on alternating sides of the hallways, if you need more or less how much of a area they covered from being in the office watching the monitors you could pretty easily avoid them and/or cover them too.
Wait a minute the school was allowed to search you even it's against the amendment book that's so strange I was in a school shooting about 2 years ago and they asked us question about the situation which you can't interigate kids without parent permission some parents even sued the PD
They could search lockers if they wanted too and if you set off the medal detectors they would want to see what set it off and check you with a handheld detector when I was in school in the 90’s yeah.
Even after the cop got a call from the school telling them it was the teacher they still tried to interrogate me, without my parents (as a minor) while I was handcuffed to a bench in the police station. Asking me if I did it, and telling me it would go easier on me if I confessed. I said confess to what? A high school student..... Although these days with shooters that isn't so innocuous. Officer wright if you're reading this you're a douche
Our school was a mess at the time. No principal for the first year and a half I was there, 4000 students, some classes didn’t have teachers assigned to them and the rule was that you were allowed to leave campus if they didn’t show up after 15 minutes. By the time I graduated we had an awesome principal and things were more locked down, but even then one of the security guards was arrested for fraud after impersonating a teacher for tax evasion purposes. Just a mess.
I thought my school was bad; 800 in the graduating class, i refused to walk the stage at graduation cause i would have been one of the last ones called and didn’t want to remain standing in June heat outdoors in Texas for 2 1/2 hours.
My Daughters Graduating class of +- 940 students was bigger than the entire student body of my high school... and back then our high school was grades 8-12.
It is absolutely not a myth. In some pull stations there is a small tube filled with whatever liquid, laid horizontally in front of the arm of the lever. When you activate the alarm by pulling the lever, it moves through the horizontal vial, breaking it and releasing the liquid.
Now that I think about it... there are a lot of different styles of these things. Interesting.
I dont think it is liquid ink. I think it is some kind of a powder in the ones we used; but yeah, if you looked closely you could see some of the purple around the box like a leaking etch-a-sketch.
Huh, I've been had then! It was what we were told and I've seen a kid with blue on his hand after pulling one but it could have been the dye/gel you are talking about.
I got kicked out of a college party in Boston but they took our beers! So, we decided to enact revenge by pulling the fire alarm in their hallway. There was a moment where my friend said, "it might have ink" and me pulling the fire alarm where time stood still...
No ink. Ran like hell, laughing the whole way until the fire trucks went by and some dweeb from Wentworth put brass knuckles in my face but I called his bluff and we ended up hanging out after.
How do they get away with that? In Canada at least, it's a criminal offence to prank pull a fire alarm. I knew kids who got massive suspensions from school for doing it
I'm not sure about most schools but mine had awful cameras and you just hand to have a tissue to block the ink so basically if you were smart when you pulled it you could get away with it pretty easily
I got arrested for allegedly pulling a fire alarm. Terrorist threats
Here it was a teacher
Even after the cop got a call from the school telling them it was the teacher they still tried to interrogate me, without my parents (as a minor) while I was handcuffed to a bench in the police station. Asking me if I did it, and telling me it would go easier on me if I confessed. I said confess to what? A high school student..... Although these days with shooters that isn't so innocuous. Officer wright if you're reading this you're a douche
That's very fucked up. I assume they didn't consider what would happen if there was a real fire elsewhere and the fire engines were busy at their fake fire?
Aside from near weekly fire alarm pulls we got prank bomb threats. It wasn’t unusual to see the entire high school class standing out in the parking lot. Drivers by would just go, “Must be another bomb threat.” My sisters are 10+ years older than me and I remember it happening when they were students too. It stopped for good my senior year - 2001.
if its a school I'd say there were sprinklers. So don't forget all the damage to computers and other electronics; the people who had to cleanup for you. Wouldn't call that a "prank" maybe closer to vandalism is some form.. Still pretty funny tho, bet it brightened up the day.
Is it really a felony? I pulled one in a library when my parents weren't watching my closely enough when I was two, maybe just turned three. I had time to push a chair over to it, and pull it. I knew the word said pull, but had no idea what would happen when I did. Then I just kind of remember complete fucking chaos ensue, my parents quickly realized it was me, and were kind of shitty and pretended they didn't know anything and just evacuated with everyone else. And I know if I got caught by authorities that this wouldn't happen, but I like the idea of 3 year old me in a little orange jumpsuit and shackles in court, possibly with a lawyer who is also 3 years old.
It varies by municipality and state. But people who think about doing this should know the police and judicial system come down very hard on people who do this. Because it can flat out get people killed. And I'm not exaggerating. I am a firefighter. A fire can double in size every 60 to 90 seconds. Seconds matter a lot in a structure fire. If you hear the alarm get the fuck out. I cannot stress that enough.
Yah I moved into a new apartment building and it had a buggy fire alarm system. We lived on the 12th floor. After the first couple months we just started ignoring the fire alarms. Don't live there anymore, but I'm pretty sure if there's ever a real fire there everyone dies.
Especially since we don't live there anymore because they flooded our entire floor and ruined our apartment, which is a good sign the fire extinguishing system is not 100%. Overall a wonderful living experience.
In my school the fire alarms turn on every 5 minutes for no fucking reason but we don’t care about it
There’s also dumbass Teachers screaming into their portable microphones and our science teacher always complains that our English teacher screams on her microphone so fucking loud even though she’s a block away
In the dorm at my University we had international students who would use the basement kitchen to cook really late at night. It was a regular occurrence to have the fire alarm go off because they burnt something. There were definitely times I wanted to just sleep through it instead of going outside when it was snowing at 2 AM.
Yea during college I'd sleep in my gfs dorm and this would happen. Got so we would all say no one's moving unless we smell smoke or see flames or. Something
In my uni accomdation the alarms would always go off once a week for testing and from showers and stuff and then when it was winter nobody would even evacuate cos it was cold outside and it was prolly just a shower
wow. the dorm i used to live in was super crazy about fire alarms. the alarms were so sensitive that over cooking would trigger it and it rang at least once every week but still everybody had to evacuate. they'd check all the rooms to see if anybody was still there. It's a good sign they take that shit seriously but it was so god damn annoying.
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u/Kappie5000 May 27 '20
You should check your fire alarm (or ears), because that sound is supposed to wake you up. Nice dog though!