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hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-27 11:20 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-27 11:20 pm
One last scare
A couple of hours ago I was feeling headachy and thinking this night would be a good night to go to sleep early. As I went to put some clothes in the washing machine before preparing for bed, I noticed a rather insistent BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP. So I went through the house, wondering if some appliance or other was having a crisis. Nope, nothing that I could find. Opened the back door--sound definitely louder outside. Good, at least it's not coming from inside. Probably not the sound of my impending doom, then.
Listening out the back & front doors, couldn't tell where the noise was coming from exactly. Wondered for a bit if I should call the police, but figured that with all the other houses on the street being brightly lit, surely someone else must have called by now.
Heard the sirens, saw the lights of a fire engine coming up our street. Hmm, why is it stopping in front of our house? Went out to speak with the nice fireman. No, sorry, I wasn't the one who called you and the alarm wasn't coming from our house; but it is very loud here, as you might know if you weren't standing right next to your rather loud truck.
Well, the firemen left, not being willing to knock on every door on the street in order to find the source of the sound which neither they nor the police had located. Still, there was the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP going on, and after a few minutes I decided I knew which general direction it was coming from. Called the local police and explained the situation, then went back outside to make sure I hadn't misled them.
One street away, the fire truck went down the street. One street away, the fire truck went up the street. Then I walked down the alley toward the assembled volunteers and realized where the noise was coming from.
"You say there's a Halloween attraction here?" "Yes, there in the woods--you can see a circus tent through the trees."
A smoke detector at the bottom of a trash can under a haunted circus tent in the woods gave us one last scare for the season. The firemen were kind enough to remove the battery.
Listening out the back & front doors, couldn't tell where the noise was coming from exactly. Wondered for a bit if I should call the police, but figured that with all the other houses on the street being brightly lit, surely someone else must have called by now.
Heard the sirens, saw the lights of a fire engine coming up our street. Hmm, why is it stopping in front of our house? Went out to speak with the nice fireman. No, sorry, I wasn't the one who called you and the alarm wasn't coming from our house; but it is very loud here, as you might know if you weren't standing right next to your rather loud truck.
Well, the firemen left, not being willing to knock on every door on the street in order to find the source of the sound which neither they nor the police had located. Still, there was the BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP going on, and after a few minutes I decided I knew which general direction it was coming from. Called the local police and explained the situation, then went back outside to make sure I hadn't misled them.
One street away, the fire truck went down the street. One street away, the fire truck went up the street. Then I walked down the alley toward the assembled volunteers and realized where the noise was coming from.
"You say there's a Halloween attraction here?" "Yes, there in the woods--you can see a circus tent through the trees."
A smoke detector at the bottom of a trash can under a haunted circus tent in the woods gave us one last scare for the season. The firemen were kind enough to remove the battery.