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Tampering with Smoke Alarms is a Federal Offense I am About to Commit

Why does it always happen at 2:30 in the morning?

I was awoken by a stranger irregularly intermittent beeping noise. It wasn't the cell phone. It wasn't the battery backup units. It took me about half an hour of sitting in various spots to locate it.

The smoke alarm in the spare bedroom was and is the culprit.

This normally happens when the batteries in such units run low, but this is a hardwired unit.

I cannot get the cover off to see if there is any obvious problem.

I can only wonder if this is associated with the sudden cooling in the air space, but that is counterintuitive since it should have been bleepin' all summer with the un air conditioned inferno up here.

It is not sufficiently loud or frequent enough to constitute an emergency and justify the expense of getting a repairman in now.

But it is enough of an annoyance that I am going to resent it thoroughly for the next two days.

And I'll still have to take off work and get someone in to do the repair.

Who do you call to fix an errant smoke detector?

6:59 a.m. - 2006-10-14
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