Pulling Fire Alarms
Usually you are instructed to pull a fire alarm only when you see smoke or fire. I mean this is just common sense, most red fire alarm levers have the pull if emergency bold letters and many warning signs near them. Since I’ve started university I seem to have discovered many stupid reasons why people pull the fire alarm and I thought I’d share it with you.
Firstly any time you don’t want to write an exam pull the fire alarm. That’s right invented by mathies this new technique can change your life dramatically. In the 2003-2004 school year 131 fake fire alarms during midterms and finals helped numerous students get out of exams. Moreover, no one was ever caught for using this new tactic.
Secondly, do not think that this tactic only applies to the school world. As proven yesterday in my office building. Pulling a fire alarm can get you of of meetings. Yes it is a perfect way to get an extension for a project, get of out an performance evaluation, hell buy urselves some extra time to pitch that sale. Best of all you won’t have to go to the gym that day… because you will have climbed down many flights of stairs.
Another use of the fire alarm is to null contracts. That’s right, in summer 2005 some brave ESL teachers from china tried this tact to get of out their damage deposit contract. They did this skillfully by pulling the fire alarm claiming to think it was a light switch and then walking through a glass window (shattering the glass). Claiming that their English wasn’t good enough to be liable for the contract they signed. Yes this does sounds crazy, but it worked.
So there you have it folks, three new uses for pulling the fire alarm. Go on, try it maybe you can find it useful for something new?
1 comment:
Are you serious? There were 131 fake fire alarms. I'm not surprised though. It even happened to me the one time I wrote a final in the math building. But there were only 15 minutes left in the exam. Of course the University of Waterloo is pretty much the Boy Who Cried Wolf when it comes to fires, so the prof was just like 'well you can leave if you want to, or you can stay and finish up if you want to'. We stayed until the firemen kicked us out. We must be the bane of the Fire department's existence. I'm worried they're just gonna get so fed up with us that they'll be like "let the mo-fo's burn".
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