Dear neighbor...

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::: spoiler Transcription A paper attached to a street post with a picture of Lisa Simpson rocking back and forth. The text reads “Attention! Hi neighbor! Did you have a smoke alarm that kept beeping once every 60 seconds that you decided to throw in your yard out of annoyance? If so- it’s now annoying me! Because guess what? It’s beeping right outside my bedroom window! Every time it beeps a piece of my soul dies. Please get rid of it, I absolutely beg of you. It’s been a month.“

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CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A month? Holy hell if it beeps every 60 seconds I’d be going door to door. I’m sure other people in the neighborhood would be happy to help.

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- CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah hell no to a month of that nonsense. I’m jumping a fence and smashing it with a hammer if needed.
  
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  - SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You misspelled three minutes
    
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  - Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Hey, you can’t just smash my trash with a hammer!
    
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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  After a week i would have stolen it and tossed it.
  
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  - Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    A day lol
    
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- MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  1 year. Our neighbor has been doing this for a year.
  
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Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Allow me to introduce the 9V battery.

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- PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Allow me to introduce the 9mm handgun.
  
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Allow me to introduce the 12-inch pianist
    
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- JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    And they got fucking expensive!
    
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  - anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Our new Kiddie ones run on 2AAs. Which leak out their electrolyte sometime during the first year and then start corroding the battery terminals.
    
    And since nobody makes reliable AA batteries anymore the newest ones will probably pop this year too. I’ll be impressed if the detector lasts 6 years.
    
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- NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sorcery…
  
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Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I would have gone in their yard to take care of it myself

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- Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nowadays in the US, where it looks like this was taken (why do I feel like I have to add that anytime I mention the US lest 50 people point out that not everything revolves around the US), that could get you shot blindly through a door as your neighbour satisfies their blood lust to finally kill someone with one of the many firearms they keep for innocent passerby they think they can get away with saying made them fear for their lives.
  
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  - ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The person you’re replying to is probably European. Any red-blooded American would just shoot the smoke detector from their side of the property line
    
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  - FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Weird Al - Relevant Song
    
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- samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s possible they tried and can’t find the damn thing. That chirp is just infrequent enough to make locating the source difficult.
  
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  - kungen@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Solution: go to neighbor’s yard and commit arson. Then it will hopefully chirp enough to be found.
    
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BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do people not understand all you need to do is remove the battery from the alarm and disconnect it from any power cables to make it stop beeping

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- Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It usually beeps like that because the battety is dying… Just change the battery!
  
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  - VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It may be beeping because it’s past its 10 year working period. Some are programmed to beep continuously after 10 years to signal replacement needed.
    
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  - InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The number of people on virtual meetings with smoke detectors crying out for a new battery drives me insane. 9v batteries are not expensive and smoke detectors save lives.
    
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  - zephiriz@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I thought the same thing but then remembered I had to replace mine recently and remember seeing smoke alarms coming with ‘lifetime’ liON batteries. They where even cheaper than the 9v ones. This is going to be more of a problem in 10/years. I bought the 9v ones because I didn’t want to deal with what happens when it starts dyeing.
    
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why would this be on a post rather than at the neighbour’s house? Or, god forbid, speaking to them?

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- crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The building to the right of the sign looks like it may be a multi-unit dwelling, so it may not be clear who the culprit is. Also, many people don’t know their neighbors very well, or may have anxiety or some type of fear of social situations. In this case, they may be concerned that it may turn into a confrontation, especially if they let this go on for a month (as others have said, three minutes is my max tolerance for this). And the sign is funny and not particularly aggressive, although it may not be effective on the type of person who 1. throws their smoke detector outside instead of replacing the battery, and 2. allows it to continue beeping for a month. Maybe the OOP felt a little public shaming is in order.
  
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synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Something like that happened to me. A neighbor had the alarm running out of battery so it was beeping every 3 minutes or so. From my apartment this was a very faint noise but it really drove me crazy, my SO couldn’t even hear it. Lasted for at least a month, this guy was not at home. Until the firefighters showed up and forced his door and shut the alarm down.

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hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.

It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.

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- DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
  
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Icytrees@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is how I feel about windchimes. Take them the fuck inside and put em in front of a fan if you need to hear tinkly sounds all the goddamn time.

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- Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  nah wind chimes are nice
  
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  - Icytrees@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No you’re nice.
    
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  - Garbagio@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Based
    
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  - Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Especially big ones. Gimme bongs, keep your tinkles.
    
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- causepix@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s unshielded street lights for me. If you absolutely have to have a lit street/front yard/parking lot, fine, but the light should cover exactly that area and nothing more.
  
  Well, we should be within our rights to ask our neighbors not to shine their lights directly through our bedroom windows at night, but unfortunately I realize that’s not the world we currently live in.
  
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That thing might make it to its 5th minute if I were in this position. I sure as hell wouldn’t take long enough to make a sign about it, let alone put up with it for a fucking month.

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shredslen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Uhhh…this is my neighbor right now. Dont know which one but its annoying lol.

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- dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  During the pandemic I remember being in a weeklong Zoom PD in-service and one participant had their smoke detector beeping every 60 seconds the entire time. I cannot imagine living with that and not changing the battery; I would go totally insane! It was bad enough hearing it over Zoom every time they talked.
  
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  - Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Conveniently, the beeping smoke alarms often beep at a frequency that exits older individual’s hearing range
    
    Also there is simply not enough smoke detector safety education right now. I only learned about the 10 year life space of smoke alarms when one in a rental started alarming as it’s “it’s been 10 years replace me!” warning (and being a super young adult I had no clue what to do and called the fire department which was quite a way to start my day)
    
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RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I had that in my own apartment. I got used to it so much that I didn’t notice it anymor

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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  RIP RaivoKulli 🔥
  
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  - RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They came and changed the alarms to new ones a few months into the beeping. Problem solved!
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve only been in 2 people’s houses where the smokr alarm was doing the battery chirp. Like… Get a new battery for it! Or, hell, take the near dead one out so it at least stops beeping. It probably doesn’t habe enough juice to actually function in the event of a fire, anyway. At least it doesn’t need to be annoying.

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- hkspowers@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If it’s up to proper code then removing the battery won’t help as the detector is supossed to be hooked up to the main power, the chip is to remind you to change the battery so that it still works in the event of a power outage.
  
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- toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not exactly sure how smoke alarm logic works, but at least in my current and previous house, once one starts beeping all the ones in the house start; and removing the offending one doesn’t always stop the others.
  
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- tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Every couple of months we have the handyman come and check the alarms and radiators, it’s been a while since I heard the low-power chirp
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Only two of the 5 in my apartment are actually hooked up to the main power. The other 3 are battery only and just taped to the wall with Command strips. You telling me they’re all supposed to be wired directly?
    
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MrMobius@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Isn’t that some sort of low battery warning? If so, it might stop on its on in a few weeks, worse case scenario.

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- bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.
  
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Had to do this once at my old apartment. Building next door had some kind of alarm that would beep for 10 minutes straight, stop, then do it again like an hour later. Over and over. Forever. Went on for months. Right outside my bedroom window.

After realizing no one else in either building was going to do something about it I taped a very large, very rude note on the front door of the building calling them out. It was gone within a couple days.

This is what happens when you provide no way for anyone to contact your building’s management.

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- daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Okay so similar. Apartment complex. Beep was coming from somewhere outside. Me and a few other tenants could never figure it out. Walked around parking lot.
  
  Sounded like it was elevated .but maybe the sound was just bouncing around between buildings.
  
  Yeah it would beep like once every 30 min.
  Insane in the summer when you wanted to have the window open.
  
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dang ceiling pigeons!

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Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Right out of school I got a job working in a shitty retail store where we would prank each other. For some reason there was a smoke detector still in the box that had a dying battery and chipped every few minutes. I would hide it in other worker’s aisles in the morning when we would straighten before opening. Fun times

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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.

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- tab@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been told it’s usually at night because it’s coldest, and batteries work less well the colder they get. Makes sense to me, still sucks though.
  
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- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That and gnats.
  
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    gnats
    
    what’s the story here
    
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- bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This seemed like a good plan until I thought about the fact that I would definitely forget it was there until approximately 10 seconds into the next time I drove anywhere.
  
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