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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You misspelled three minutes
    
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  - Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Hey, you can’t just smash my trash with a hammer!
    
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- MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  1 year. Our neighbor has been doing this for a year.
  
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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  After a week i would have stolen it and tossed it.
  
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  - Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    A day lol
    
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Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would have gone in their yard to take care of it myself

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- Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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- samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Solution: go to neighbor’s yard and commit arson. Then it will hopefully chirp enough to be found.
    
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hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It usually beeps like that because the battety is dying… Just change the battery!
  
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  - VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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Triumph@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Allow me to introduce the 9V battery.

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- JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The new ones start beeping after they hit their 10 year expiration date. So not always a low battery beep. You just have to replace them to make it stop.
  
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  - Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And they got fucking expensive!
    
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- PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Allow me to introduce the 9mm handgun.
  
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- NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sorcery…
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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MrMobius@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.
  
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shredslen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Uhhh…this is my neighbor right now. Dont know which one but its annoying lol.

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- dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dang ceiling pigeons!

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