if you ever think a carbon monoxide detector is giving a false alarm still call the fire department they will be able to tell you if it is malfunctioning and can save your life
I had my mum teach me about it and how it is a result of most cooking kitchen burners (forgot name but its on the stove) ever since she told me its olderless and colourless i kept my head away from the stove when using it and always had the airway thing above it open so the carbon would be sucked into it
@@liztewliztewThat's not at all an excuse. "My monoxide detector malfunctioned once, therefore monoxide detectors as a product are faulty by default. That's a brain-dead line of thinking. If your detector is going off, you check to see if it's going off for a reason, you don't just assume it's broken.
@@Auli_DrawsYes. They did. Her logic is severely lacking. Just because the one in her old place malfunctioned doesn't mean that any time a detector goes off it's broken. She's be dead if her kid was as dumb as her
I think OP is one of those people that develops the opposite habits from their parents cause otherwise they’d be in danger or in undesirable circumstances.
My mum taught me that if im feeling like my sewing machine project is going really well, to stop and have a look at your machine, because you have likely been sewing without a bobbin thread for half an hour
We did that. But in our case the ones in our apartment are malfunctioning. We had it gotten checked out by professionals (besides we’d be long dead if it wasn’t a malfunction, we did make sure to get it checked tho before we took them off) but no matter how often we ask to get them replaced the landlord just doesn’t care. I’m not sure if we are allowed to just replace them without permission, since I don’t know much about the laws in my country.
@@Starberry7 If you're in the US your landlord cannot legally rent a space out to anyone without a smoke alarm & carbon monoxide detector under habitability laws. Idk for other countries
I ALWAYS have an umbrella and two water bottles 0,5l as well as a winter jacket in my cars trunk (I don't have a very reliable car). So que me, one summer, thinking, hey, Ima pack another two bottles because you never know. I was heading out for a long drive. Well, I stopped next to a broken down car in the middle of nowhere to help out, family on vacation, 38C° blasting sun and no shade. They were waiting for the tow truck, but had been told it would take like 3 more hours. The kids were very close to heat stroke, I gave them the umbrella for shade and the water. I don't think I'll eber have random ppl be that greatfull again lol
@@kimberlyrichardson5943That’s so sad! Ppl can be so cruel. On the other hand, being a Great Dane, maybe they thought he was a deer? Idk but still sad. RIP big guy.😢
I have one of these just to be safe moments, my sister was visiting my week old baby and that we couldnt settle and seemed sightly cold (we lived in a flat with no heating) we had a health check erlia that day that we expressed concern of his temp but was insured he was just coming down with a cold, my sister didnot except these explanation and said we should get him checked out just incase and turns out he had sepsis and would have died if we didnt bring him in. ❤
I was listening to my patient's apical heartbeat per protocol before giving digoxin. Her heart rate was too low to get the dig. I looked down at my pill cup and there were two yellow pills in the bunch and I was pretty sure which one was the dig cuz it's more of a neon. But something in me told me to go back to the med cart and double check. And not only were neither of them digoxin, it was the entirely wrong patient's cup of pills. Me going back to double check saved my patient's life. And from then on, I made sure all medicine cups are labeled and made sure all newbies get into the habit of labeling their medicine cups, too.
My mom is so awful for this. She is so into her sleep that the one time ours started going off, she literally ended up smashing it with a hammer just to get it to stop so she could return to bed. I was like 13 and scared that it wasn't just malfunctioning that I opened all the windows possible to try and air it out just in case. Nothing happened so it probably was malfunctioning, but my mom had no way of knowing that as it was a pretty new one and had never done that before. That could have gone so horribly wrong all because she couldn't stand to have her sleep interrupted. As an adult I still worry that if it does happen at her home, she will continue to ignore it and not have anyone there to help her. Your sleep or peace is not worth risking your life and those of everyone else you live with!! So scary but I think this is all too common.
While I was vacationing in Hawaii with my family we decided to go to the beach outside our hotel. We were all swimming together and because of my anxiety, I was staying with the group. I was diving under water to look at a turtle that had swam under my feet when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a gray blob and a shadow. At first I thought nothing of it but I kept seeing it whenever I looked into the deeper water, just in different places. Eventually my anxiety got the better of me so I swam closer to the shore. My uncle had wanted to swim further out (the water was a little over his shoulders) but I convinced him not to and asked to go back to the hotel for lunch, and my family agreed with me so we left. A couple days after we got home, my mom was reading a news article and was telling us about it. A woman had been attacked by a shark at the same beach as us on the same day we were there and I have never been more happy about my anxiety.
I just finished an art school entrance exam. I have severe panic attacks and struggle with staying on time. A friend of mine looked over my plans on the last day where I still had to finish several projects, write motivation letters and resumes. My friend not only suggested me to add 3 hours of buffer to a project that would only take 30 minutes to give me the motivation and illusion that I was faster and could move onto bigger things, but also told me to pretend the deadline is 5pm instead of 6pm so I can have time to mess up when submitting digital files through a rather slow website. Everything worked out and I submitted everything perfectly 15 minutes before the deadline. Would never have made it without him
Once when I was 7 I had gym class and was playing until my teacher saw classes running out of the school we were confused because we didn’t heard nothing my gym teacher was like "uhhh lets just follow them later we found out that there were deadly gas inside the school and the alarm only went off on the 2nd floor and if my teacher didn’t go my whole class would have been dead
I was living with some friends for a while. The husband came in and asked my opinion on something. His grandparents used to have a trailer farther up the property. An old electric wire had fallen across the driveway. He almost grabbed it to move it out of the way. It was supposed to be "off" for MANY years. I told him to call the electric company. That they did NOT mi d coming out. Turned out it was 'live'. Good thing he didn't touch it. They gladly took things down to prevent future accidents.
My first experience with a carbon monoxide detector was back in the 90s…my high school days. I worked at a hardware store at that time and one day we received our first supply of carbon monoxide testers. I hadn’t ever heard of them until some arrived at the store. As a joke, I plugged one into an outlet by the cash registers. Then I kinda forgot about it…kinda. Eventually, I remember hearing beeping on Saturday mornings when I was doing the early shift (arriving sf 6:30 am). The beeping would eventually stop once the store opened. One day, I decided to actually follow the sound when the store wasn’t busy, and sure enough…it was the carbon monoxide tester that I had plugged in! I asked management why it was beeping and if it was broken. They plugged in another one and we heard the beeping! WELL, it turns out that what the cleaners had been using to buff the floors over night had caused the detector to go off. This was like a slap in the face for me! Why? I am a migraine sufferer and they were always at their worst on those early Saturday mornings. While many things could trigger a migraine for me, I’m happy to have learned that my early Saturday start migraines were caused by floor buffing chemicals! Use of that chemical came to an end once we understood what was going on. We were all being poisoned without knowing it! 😳😱🤯😲😨😷
I have a story for this! I was 14 and taking out the trash when a car stopped by my house. At first, I thought I was just being paranoid, but then I sped up just in case. The next thing I knew, I was bolting inside because that feeling wouldn't go away. I looked out the window as soon as I locked the door. I watched the car leave as soon as I got inside. It was only parked as long as I was outside. Something told me that if I had ignored my gut feelings, I would've been kidnapped. Nothing like that has happened to me since, so I'm ok.
Once while heading out the door for school, I stopped, shut the front door and went back to grab my car charger just incase my phone died before tutoring after school. Well that ended up potentially saving me. Not the phone charger specifically but me going back inside for it. Turned out my neighbor across the street was trying to call my mom not knowing she was substituting that day. A massive coyote was in the flower bed near my front door but I couldn’t see it at the angle I was at. After I slammed the door shut, the coyote took off into the woods behind my house.
Unless it had rabies or something it wouldn’t have done anything to you unless you chased and grabbed it. They’re naturally skittish around people and tend to avoid conflict whenever possible.
@@puglife658 Depends on how big you are. They will go after toddlers in my home town. They've gotten quite brave, especially if they've been breeding with stray dogs. For an American it Canadian walking to school solo tho, they'd probably be too big and the coyote would run off. A small first grader tho...
Coyotes are opportunistic predators. Unless it has rabies a lone coyote will usually go after something smaller than themselves: a cat, squirrel, small dog - something it can grab and run off with. My guess is if it was in the flower bed a neighborhood cat might’ve recently ‘used’ it and the coyote picked up on the scent.
my CO alarm was going off and turns out it that it was supposed to be replaced like 7 years ago. Thanks landlord 😭 Luckily it was just being faulty, but that could have saved me!
I had been feeling very exhausted for a few weeks, and my parents thought it was because i didnt sleep well. We went to the doctor just to be safe, and turns out, both of my kidneys were failing
When I was 7 years old I got a pair of toy glasses for Christmas, and my grandparents had an orange tree in their backyard, so I wanted to go with my dad to get some oranges and put the glasses on playfully saying “just for safety” my dad forgot I was behind him and he accidentally let go a stick he was holding and hit me right on the eyes, if it wasn’t for those glasses, I would be blind by now, remember everything happens for a reason and god will always protect us❤️
I was sitting in my firdt home with my stepdad and and my mom had just left to get us dinner. I dont usually lock the door when im home but this particular time my brain said lock it. So i did. Not 5 minutes later someone tried to open my door and walk into my house. When it failed they shook the door again and left. They would have come in had i not locked the door.
Something kinda similar happened to me too. Once my mom and my half sister (different father) decided to leave to go do something, and I was home alone. Normally don't lock the door, but my dog kept barking enough to make me lock it. Ten minutes later, my sister's father is beating st the door demanding I open it and demanding to see my sister. (Dudes a jerk and doesn't have my sister for a reason). Once he figured out the door was locked and it was just me home, he left
My parents taught my brothers and I to always lock the door, to not answer it if we're the only ones home and if someone asks if our parents are home to always say something along the lines of "Yeah my dad's home but he works night shifts so I can't go get him". Good thing you locked the doors though.
There so much one has to watch for in homes especially depending on age like carbon monoxide, asbestos, radon , lead etc. We have history of a residence unknowingly had deteriorating asbestos and lead paint. Youngest blood lead so high almost had to be chelated.
That happened to me i was 3 years old and i had thrown up and had a fever so my parents took me to the hospital and they found out that I had carbon dioxide poisoning and if my parents had not taken me to the hospital i would have died
NEVER assume those detectors are malfunctioning. The fire alarm systems can be annoying asf sometimes but obviously it's easier to tell if there's a fire lol. Carbon monoxide is pretty much completely undetectable without that alarm so never ignore!!! Better safe than sorry.
My mom always get receipts from everything, but especially from the gas station. This is because when I was really little (like 2 at the oldest) she’d been getting gas and happened to print the receipt. A few hours after she got home, two cops knocked on the door saying she’d driven off without paying. Could’ve ended really messy legally if she hadn’t had that.
I rented a trailer temporarily while I was house hunting. My dog woke us up frantically scratching at the door in the middle of the night. I called the fire department. He found a squirrels next in the fire box. He tagged it out and we went to a motel. Landlady was furious with me because she would have death with it. F you Annie Cooper!!
Not the same thing but my uni does weekly fire alarm tests which is all fun and good for making sure they’re all in working condition but it’s normalised it way too much and desensitised everyone to the alarms to the point that there have been 2 instances in accommodations I’ve been staying in where an alarm went off because of someone cooking in the kitchen and no one left their rooms until campus security came up and started shouting for people to leave like I feel like that could be a pretty easy fix to add a different alarm for the tests or something like having them begin with “this is a drill” or something so that people know if they don’t hear that then it’s the real deal and get out
I remember one situation about ten years ago when I was working as an au pair for a family in Boston. One night I was home alone with all of them gone and I was watching TV in the basement. Suddenly the carbon monoxide detector went off and I was scared shitless, I didn’t know what to do. Ultimately I decided to be a very very stupid 19 year old and ignore it, figuring it was just a malfunction. Luckily nothing ever came of it so apparently it had actually been a malfunction but to just think how badly this could’ve ended still gives me the chills…
It doesn't matter if you've had one malfunction in the past, if the carbon monoxide alarm starts beeping you gtfo and call the fire department! You never take chances with that, because you will be dead long before any other signs that somethings wrong.
If a carbon monoxide detector is beeping you call the fire department. Yes, it could be a false alarm, but trust me, they prefer you calling and it being a false alarm over you not calling.
Not mine, but my elderly mum's, i was in labour with my youngest, my mum was supposed to come and spend the day with me, but rang to say she was staying home because her leg was sore. Knowing her as well as I did, I knew it had to be like 10/10 for her to risk missing her grandchild being born. She kept saying she'd be fine, but i got off the phone and rang her Dr immediately, requesting a home visit asap. Turned out she had cellulitis and had to be rushed into hospital for treatment, thank goodness I didn't listen to her or I wouldn't have had her for the 11 more years we had her, and my youngest would never have known the queen that she was.
So often people would wanna cut me open to do a exploratory surgery, because they wanted to know what's going on... I was always like: nah! It isn't bad enough to do that... But the last time my best friend said: let's do it! I've got a feeling. I listened to her and this time it really was cancer! They caught it early and I'm two years in remission 🎉
Similar situation happened with my brother and I. We moved into an apartment. I smelt rotting eggs in my closet and called the landlord. My dad and brother were pissed that I over reacted. Turns out I was right.
I’ve never had any big things, and mostly none have saved me but people around me. Me/my family have always over prepared for any shows I was in. If we got a new necklace for dance competitions the old one stayed in the makeup case to be safe (that one did actually save me a few times because I had a trick in my jazz dance one year that I ended up breaking like 3 necklaces during 😂) and once I got to college and had to create my own emergency show bag I always had a mini sewing kit with a wide section of thread colors I’ve had a friend use, emergen-C I’ve given to friends, bandaids, aspirin, safety pins, you name it and I probably have it 😂 I even specifically only buy translucent setting powder because one time in high school our drama clubs didn’t have foundation in one of my friends shades (whitest state in the country, and our drama club hadn’t got new makeup in the last at minimum 10 years. It was useless for pretty much everyone, but it was definitely useless for my friend who was black) so he used my setting powder so he had at least something that would remove the shine from his face so his face could be seen under the stage lights.
When I was in high school, I usually left at the same time as my neighbor(we didn’t drive together cuz I had sports and clubs after school) but one day I just had this feeling that I shouldn’t leave. 10 mins later I felt fine so I got in my car and left. Huge accident on the bridge in our town. Neighbor was smack dab in the middle of it, luckily not hurt, but his and 9 other cars were totaled. 100% would have been in that accident if I’d left when I normally did.
Working at a Lowe’s was supposed to work Saturday looked at the sun and was like nah called out that day next time I went into work the time I would of started to work a fight broke out in the self checkout and people took out knives and started stabbing glad I didn’t go in that day
So, My sister plays for UnderArmor, and her practice was cancelled once. It was because of a storm. It was 70° and sunny outside. Turns out, 70° and sunny can turn into a thrashing tornado that was ripping off trees and roofs were flying off. Semi trucks were falling into ditches, and trains were derailing. Every single day, I am so grateful her practice did get cancelled and we did not get affected.
Our CO alarm was going off when we arrived home one day. Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm; our gas furnace got a going-over and we were told to move the alarm a bit further away from the furnace because it was too close and that was probably the reason for the false alarm. It was only two feet away; apparently 5 feet is the recommended distance.
At least everyone is safe and sound, because carbon monoxide poisoning is a scary thing. I know because it happened to me and my mom once, when I was still living at home. My dad was at work and my sister was no longer living at home, but one night, we had carbon monoxide poisoning and we were rushed to the hospital. Because I was panicking so much, they were pretty attentive to me. Plus, I have anxiety, from being Autistic. Anyway, it was a horrible experience. I had felt bad for my mom when she had told me later on that they weren’t very attentive to her, but at least we had survived. Also, yummy 😋 cake 🍰!
I remember at work there was a small office that always made me sleepy, so i tried to avoid it or at least stay there as little as possible. Turned out there was also this leak but there was no detector. Its a wonder that nobody died
Wanted to go home early from visitstion with my bio dad as we had an early start the next day. Bio dad at first refused but I insisted, even faked feeling tired and unwell so myself and my sister could go home early. A few hours later we got a phone call from the hospital that my bio dads car had been hit by a drunk driver going through a red light. The car was hit at the same time we would have been on our way home if we had stayed. The back of the car where my sister and I would have been sat was completely crushed and there is no way we would have survived.
Its always better to be on the safe side. Always Always listen to that Loud Nagging feeling U have, its trying to tell you something is off. Just take 5 mins to check and assess..
This reminds me of when my carbon monoxide detector was going off so I called the fire department. The firefighters and the landlord got mad at me because it was outdated and malfunctioning 💀 but I didn’t know that. Like they were genuinely pissed at me for not wanting my whole family to die
If you have a Co2 detector that’s beeping you have that shit checked out always even if literally every time in your life one of those things went off it was a lie 😂😂
I had bad robbery’s in my neighborhood, my dog is kinda a guard dog that usually sleeps In My living room, I let him sleep In my room just in case I was the next target, there was a gang fight and my dog got scared and laid on top of me, I woke up to a bullet hole 3 ft above my head, if he hadn’t laid on me I could’ve been dead
THIS HAPPNENED TO ME!,!!! So it was my b day and the fire alarm started going off so me and my mom went outside and she called the fire department and then they came and they said that our basement was 100% full of carbon monoxide cause our generator that was running for over a week now was putting the gasses into our house
How do you not realise your cat is vomiting (from anything)? The first sounds of wretching could wake me from 6 feet under and I'd be there in an instant 😅
if you ever think a carbon monoxide detector is giving a false alarm still call the fire department they will be able to tell you if it is malfunctioning and can save your life
Always have a spare and test with it, it may save your live for a few bucks...
I had my mum teach me about it and how it is a result of most cooking kitchen burners (forgot name but its on the stove) ever since she told me its olderless and colourless i kept my head away from the stove when using it and always had the airway thing above it open so the carbon would be sucked into it
Why have a detector if you don’t believe it ☠️
As he said, where they previously lived, it had malfunctioned. So, she thought that this was what was happening, again.
Did you watch the video?
@@liztewliztewThat's not at all an excuse. "My monoxide detector malfunctioned once, therefore monoxide detectors as a product are faulty by default. That's a brain-dead line of thinking. If your detector is going off, you check to see if it's going off for a reason, you don't just assume it's broken.
@@Auli_DrawsYes. They did. Her logic is severely lacking. Just because the one in her old place malfunctioned doesn't mean that any time a detector goes off it's broken. She's be dead if her kid was as dumb as her
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That seems less "just to be safe" and like having more the smallest modicum of common sense.
Honestly yeah
I think OP is one of those people that develops the opposite habits from their parents cause otherwise they’d be in danger or in undesirable circumstances.
Common sense: yes
Considering the outcome:😳
My mum taught me that if im feeling like my sewing machine project is going really well, to stop and have a look at your machine, because you have likely been sewing without a bobbin thread for half an hour
ROFLOL!!! I can relate!!! TOO true and so funny!!!! I'm going to tell every person I teach sewing to, this wisdom. TY!
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"This gosh darn Danger-Detector keeps beeping! I better dismantle the thing before I go to sleep."
We did that. But in our case the ones in our apartment are malfunctioning. We had it gotten checked out by professionals (besides we’d be long dead if it wasn’t a malfunction, we did make sure to get it checked tho before we took them off) but no matter how often we ask to get them replaced the landlord just doesn’t care. I’m not sure if we are allowed to just replace them without permission, since I don’t know much about the laws in my country.
@@Starberry7 If you're in the US your landlord cannot legally rent a space out to anyone without a smoke alarm & carbon monoxide detector under habitability laws. Idk for other countries
@@fruitymcfruitcake9674 I’m not in the US.
CO poisoning causes confusion and fatigue so this is what sometimes happens when people die from it
@@Starberry7 You could just buy a functioning one and hang it. Take it with you, when you leave. Win.
Must be the first time, the commenter said "not me..." and it actually was them.
Took me a second to realize they meant the moms life
I was thinking the exact same thing lol came to the comments to see if anyone mentioned it 💀
Trust me on this one... Any fire department would much rather be called out to 100 false alarms than one real call where someone died.
EXACTLY!!!
Been a couple times I went in of false heart issue worries.
And each time I tried to apologize...
I ALWAYS have an umbrella and two water bottles 0,5l as well as a winter jacket in my cars trunk (I don't have a very reliable car). So que me, one summer, thinking, hey, Ima pack another two bottles because you never know. I was heading out for a long drive. Well, I stopped next to a broken down car in the middle of nowhere to help out, family on vacation, 38C° blasting sun and no shade. They were waiting for the tow truck, but had been told it would take like 3 more hours. The kids were very close to heat stroke, I gave them the umbrella for shade and the water. I don't think I'll eber have random ppl be that greatfull again lol
you did good bro. Theyll probably remember you with a lot of gratitiude
You most likely saved their kids lives! Idda probably hugged u!😅 You’re a good person!❤
@@kimberlyrichardson5943That’s so sad! Ppl can be so cruel. On the other hand, being a Great Dane, maybe they thought he was a deer? Idk but still sad. RIP big guy.😢
As a car driver. You should ALWAYS ALWAYS have an Emergency kit, winter/summer and prepared Kit.
@@kimberlyrichardson5943atleast you let the family say goodbye that’s better then just letting it die.
I have one of these just to be safe moments, my sister was visiting my week old baby and that we couldnt settle and seemed sightly cold (we lived in a flat with no heating) we had a health check erlia that day that we expressed concern of his temp but was insured he was just coming down with a cold, my sister didnot except these explanation and said we should get him checked out just incase and turns out he had sepsis and would have died if we didnt bring him in. ❤
I was listening to my patient's apical heartbeat per protocol before giving digoxin. Her heart rate was too low to get the dig. I looked down at my pill cup and there were two yellow pills in the bunch and I was pretty sure which one was the dig cuz it's more of a neon. But something in me told me to go back to the med cart and double check. And not only were neither of them digoxin, it was the entirely wrong patient's cup of pills. Me going back to double check saved my patient's life. And from then on, I made sure all medicine cups are labeled and made sure all newbies get into the habit of labeling their medicine cups, too.
My mom is so awful for this. She is so into her sleep that the one time ours started going off, she literally ended up smashing it with a hammer just to get it to stop so she could return to bed. I was like 13 and scared that it wasn't just malfunctioning that I opened all the windows possible to try and air it out just in case. Nothing happened so it probably was malfunctioning, but my mom had no way of knowing that as it was a pretty new one and had never done that before. That could have gone so horribly wrong all because she couldn't stand to have her sleep interrupted. As an adult I still worry that if it does happen at her home, she will continue to ignore it and not have anyone there to help her. Your sleep or peace is not worth risking your life and those of everyone else you live with!! So scary but I think this is all too common.
While I was vacationing in Hawaii with my family we decided to go to the beach outside our hotel. We were all swimming together and because of my anxiety, I was staying with the group. I was diving under water to look at a turtle that had swam under my feet when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a gray blob and a shadow. At first I thought nothing of it but I kept seeing it whenever I looked into the deeper water, just in different places. Eventually my anxiety got the better of me so I swam closer to the shore. My uncle had wanted to swim further out (the water was a little over his shoulders) but I convinced him not to and asked to go back to the hotel for lunch, and my family agreed with me so we left. A couple days after we got home, my mom was reading a news article and was telling us about it. A woman had been attacked by a shark at the same beach as us on the same day we were there and I have never been more happy about my anxiety.
Well done!
I just finished an art school entrance exam. I have severe panic attacks and struggle with staying on time. A friend of mine looked over my plans on the last day where I still had to finish several projects, write motivation letters and resumes. My friend not only suggested me to add 3 hours of buffer to a project that would only take 30 minutes to give me the motivation and illusion that I was faster and could move onto bigger things, but also told me to pretend the deadline is 5pm instead of 6pm so I can have time to mess up when submitting digital files through a rather slow website. Everything worked out and I submitted everything perfectly 15 minutes before the deadline. Would never have made it without him
Once when I was 7 I had gym class and was playing until my teacher saw classes running out of the school we were confused because we didn’t heard nothing my gym teacher was like "uhhh lets just follow them later we found out that there were deadly gas inside the school and the alarm only went off on the 2nd floor and if my teacher didn’t go my whole class would have been dead
My daughter had her CO alarm go off last night. Little grandson had fun chatting to firefighters while they sorted it. ❤
I was living with some friends for a while. The husband came in and asked my opinion on something. His grandparents used to have a trailer farther up the property. An old electric wire had fallen across the driveway. He almost grabbed it to move it out of the way. It was supposed to be "off" for MANY years. I told him to call the electric company. That they did NOT mi d coming out. Turned out it was 'live'. Good thing he didn't touch it. They gladly took things down to prevent future accidents.
My first experience with a carbon monoxide detector was back in the 90s…my high school days. I worked at a hardware store at that time and one day we received our first supply of carbon monoxide testers. I hadn’t ever heard of them until some arrived at the store. As a joke, I plugged one into an outlet by the cash registers. Then I kinda forgot about it…kinda.
Eventually, I remember hearing beeping on Saturday mornings when I was doing the early shift (arriving sf 6:30 am). The beeping would eventually stop once the store opened. One day, I decided to actually follow the sound when the store wasn’t busy, and sure enough…it was the carbon monoxide tester that I had plugged in! I asked management why it was beeping and if it was broken. They plugged in another one and we heard the beeping!
WELL, it turns out that what the cleaners had been using to buff the floors over night had caused the detector to go off. This was like a slap in the face for me!
Why?
I am a migraine sufferer and they were always at their worst on those early Saturday mornings. While many things could trigger a migraine for me, I’m happy to have learned that my early Saturday start migraines were caused by floor buffing chemicals! Use of that chemical came to an end once we understood what was going on. We were all being poisoned without knowing it!
😳😱🤯😲😨😷
I have a story for this! I was 14 and taking out the trash when a car stopped by my house. At first, I thought I was just being paranoid, but then I sped up just in case. The next thing I knew, I was bolting inside because that feeling wouldn't go away. I looked out the window as soon as I locked the door. I watched the car leave as soon as I got inside. It was only parked as long as I was outside. Something told me that if I had ignored my gut feelings, I would've been kidnapped. Nothing like that has happened to me since, so I'm ok.
Once while heading out the door for school, I stopped, shut the front door and went back to grab my car charger just incase my phone died before tutoring after school. Well that ended up potentially saving me. Not the phone charger specifically but me going back inside for it. Turned out my neighbor across the street was trying to call my mom not knowing she was substituting that day. A massive coyote was in the flower bed near my front door but I couldn’t see it at the angle I was at. After I slammed the door shut, the coyote took off into the woods behind my house.
Unless it had rabies or something it wouldn’t have done anything to you unless you chased and grabbed it. They’re naturally skittish around people and tend to avoid conflict whenever possible.
@@puglife658 Depends on how big you are. They will go after toddlers in my home town. They've gotten quite brave, especially if they've been breeding with stray dogs.
For an American it Canadian walking to school solo tho, they'd probably be too big and the coyote would run off. A small first grader tho...
Coyotes are opportunistic predators. Unless it has rabies a lone coyote will usually go after something smaller than themselves: a cat, squirrel, small dog - something it can grab and run off with. My guess is if it was in the flower bed a neighborhood cat might’ve recently ‘used’ it and the coyote picked up on the scent.
my CO alarm was going off and turns out it that it was supposed to be replaced like 7 years ago. Thanks landlord 😭 Luckily it was just being faulty, but that could have saved me!
I had been feeling very exhausted for a few weeks, and my parents thought it was because i didnt sleep well. We went to the doctor just to be safe, and turns out, both of my kidneys were failing
Any firefighter would rather you call for a false alarm than not call and have someone end up dead because you thought it was a false alarm
When I was 7 years old I got a pair of toy glasses for Christmas, and my grandparents had an orange tree in their backyard, so I wanted to go with my dad to get some oranges and put the glasses on playfully saying “just for safety” my dad forgot I was behind him and he accidentally let go a stick he was holding and hit me right on the eyes, if it wasn’t for those glasses, I would be blind by now, remember everything happens for a reason and god will always protect us❤️
I was sitting in my firdt home with my stepdad and and my mom had just left to get us dinner. I dont usually lock the door when im home but this particular time my brain said lock it. So i did.
Not 5 minutes later someone tried to open my door and walk into my house. When it failed they shook the door again and left. They would have come in had i not locked the door.
Something kinda similar happened to me too. Once my mom and my half sister (different father) decided to leave to go do something, and I was home alone. Normally don't lock the door, but my dog kept barking enough to make me lock it. Ten minutes later, my sister's father is beating st the door demanding I open it and demanding to see my sister. (Dudes a jerk and doesn't have my sister for a reason). Once he figured out the door was locked and it was just me home, he left
My parents taught my brothers and I to always lock the door, to not answer it if we're the only ones home and if someone asks if our parents are home to always say something along the lines of "Yeah my dad's home but he works night shifts so I can't go get him". Good thing you locked the doors though.
There so much one has to watch for in homes especially depending on age like carbon monoxide, asbestos, radon , lead etc. We have history of a residence unknowingly had deteriorating asbestos and lead paint. Youngest blood lead so high almost had to be chelated.
Last time OP’s mom argues with them about anything. OP’s gonna bring this up every time
“Dear humans of Reddit, what’s your favourite thing about being alive?”
“I’m a decaying corpse of a vlreporian, but-“
That's basic common sense. An alarm rings, you listen. Worst case, the firemen tell you to replace it.
That happened to me i was 3 years old and i had thrown up and had a fever so my parents took me to the hospital and they found out that I had carbon dioxide poisoning and if my parents had not taken me to the hospital i would have died
This dude needs a series of his life
I'm too busy wanting the CHOCOLATE CAKE!!!!!!
"The fire detector was beeping and i do feel very hot but in my previous house it beeped for no reason so that must be the case"
One of the Signs of carbon monoxide poisoning are diminished mental faculty, in her mind it might’ve made sense at the time. Still dumb tho
So you have a detector just to dismantle it when it goes off...
NEVER assume those detectors are malfunctioning. The fire alarm systems can be annoying asf sometimes but obviously it's easier to tell if there's a fire lol. Carbon monoxide is pretty much completely undetectable without that alarm so never ignore!!! Better safe than sorry.
My mom always get receipts from everything, but especially from the gas station. This is because when I was really little (like 2 at the oldest) she’d been getting gas and happened to print the receipt. A few hours after she got home, two cops knocked on the door saying she’d driven off without paying. Could’ve ended really messy legally if she hadn’t had that.
Awwww poor kitties
I rented a trailer temporarily while I was house hunting. My dog woke us up frantically scratching at the door in the middle of the night. I called the fire department. He found a squirrels next in the fire box. He tagged it out and we went to a motel. Landlady was furious with me because she would have death with it. F you Annie Cooper!!
Awww OP saved his mum ❤
You want to find out it’s faulty by the fire department telling you, not the morgue telling you it wasn’t faulty.
Mom: I brought you into this world!
Son: And I kept you in it!
Not the same thing but my uni does weekly fire alarm tests which is all fun and good for making sure they’re all in working condition but it’s normalised it way too much and desensitised everyone to the alarms to the point that there have been 2 instances in accommodations I’ve been staying in where an alarm went off because of someone cooking in the kitchen and no one left their rooms until campus security came up and started shouting for people to leave like I feel like that could be a pretty easy fix to add a different alarm for the tests or something like having them begin with “this is a drill” or something so that people know if they don’t hear that then it’s the real deal and get out
The beeping of my carbon monoxide detector caused me headaches and made me tired, so I switched it off !
I remember one situation about ten years ago when I was working as an au pair for a family in Boston. One night I was home alone with all of them gone and I was watching TV in the basement. Suddenly the carbon monoxide detector went off and I was scared shitless, I didn’t know what to do. Ultimately I decided to be a very very stupid 19 year old and ignore it, figuring it was just a malfunction. Luckily nothing ever came of it so apparently it had actually been a malfunction but to just think how badly this could’ve ended still gives me the chills…
when the detector goes off and you gaslight it
It doesn't matter if you've had one malfunction in the past, if the carbon monoxide alarm starts beeping you gtfo and call the fire department! You never take chances with that, because you will be dead long before any other signs that somethings wrong.
That is horrifying...
Thank god he called the fire department.
It's a good thing you called the fure department when you did 😊😊
Im so sorry, but thats just the mom being completely stupid. Whether you think it’s a problem or not, GET IT LOOKED AT
If a carbon monoxide detector is beeping you call the fire department. Yes, it could be a false alarm, but trust me, they prefer you calling and it being a false alarm over you not calling.
Assuming it's a false alarm. Good call😊
Was the cat ok?
Or, both of them?
Not mine, but my elderly mum's, i was in labour with my youngest, my mum was supposed to come and spend the day with me, but rang to say she was staying home because her leg was sore. Knowing her as well as I did, I knew it had to be like 10/10 for her to risk missing her grandchild being born. She kept saying she'd be fine, but i got off the phone and rang her Dr immediately, requesting a home visit asap. Turned out she had cellulitis and had to be rushed into hospital for treatment, thank goodness I didn't listen to her or I wouldn't have had her for the 11 more years we had her, and my youngest would never have known the queen that she was.
So often people would wanna cut me open to do a exploratory surgery, because they wanted to know what's going on... I was always like: nah! It isn't bad enough to do that... But the last time my best friend said: let's do it! I've got a feeling. I listened to her and this time it really was cancer! They caught it early and I'm two years in remission 🎉
Similar situation happened with my brother and I. We moved into an apartment. I smelt rotting eggs in my closet and called the landlord. My dad and brother were pissed that I over reacted. Turns out I was right.
Let's get a CO2 detector to alert us if something happens!
CO2 detector alerts
Damn thing is making all this noise, must be broken!
I’ve never had any big things, and mostly none have saved me but people around me. Me/my family have always over prepared for any shows I was in. If we got a new necklace for dance competitions the old one stayed in the makeup case to be safe (that one did actually save me a few times because I had a trick in my jazz dance one year that I ended up breaking like 3 necklaces during 😂) and once I got to college and had to create my own emergency show bag I always had a mini sewing kit with a wide section of thread colors I’ve had a friend use, emergen-C I’ve given to friends, bandaids, aspirin, safety pins, you name it and I probably have it 😂 I even specifically only buy translucent setting powder because one time in high school our drama clubs didn’t have foundation in one of my friends shades (whitest state in the country, and our drama club hadn’t got new makeup in the last at minimum 10 years. It was useless for pretty much everyone, but it was definitely useless for my friend who was black) so he used my setting powder so he had at least something that would remove the shine from his face so his face could be seen under the stage lights.
The carbon monoxide alarm is literally only going to alaram when it "seems fine". 😂glad they didnt die
When I was in high school, I usually left at the same time as my neighbor(we didn’t drive together cuz I had sports and clubs after school) but one day I just had this feeling that I shouldn’t leave. 10 mins later I felt fine so I got in my car and left. Huge accident on the bridge in our town. Neighbor was smack dab in the middle of it, luckily not hurt, but his and 9 other cars were totaled. 100% would have been in that accident if I’d left when I normally did.
Same thing happened to me but luckily it was a false alarm still called people though
Are the cats okay 😢
So when the person pours the liquids in the dry part in the center, it looks a little like africa.
Working at a Lowe’s was supposed to work Saturday looked at the sun and was like nah called out that day next time I went into work the time I would of started to work a fight broke out in the self checkout and people took out knives and started stabbing glad I didn’t go in that day
So, My sister plays for UnderArmor, and her practice was cancelled once. It was because of a storm. It was 70° and sunny outside. Turns out, 70° and sunny can turn into a thrashing tornado that was ripping off trees and roofs were flying off. Semi trucks were falling into ditches, and trains were derailing. Every single day, I am so grateful her practice did get cancelled and we did not get affected.
Our CO alarm was going off when we arrived home one day. Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm; our gas furnace got a going-over and we were told to move the alarm a bit further away from the furnace because it was too close and that was probably the reason for the false alarm. It was only two feet away; apparently 5 feet is the recommended distance.
Were the cats okay?
At least everyone is safe and sound, because carbon monoxide poisoning is a scary thing. I know because it happened to me and my mom once, when I was still living at home. My dad was at work and my sister was no longer living at home, but one night, we had carbon monoxide poisoning and we were rushed to the hospital. Because I was panicking so much, they were pretty attentive to me. Plus, I have anxiety, from being Autistic. Anyway, it was a horrible experience. I had felt bad for my mom when she had told me later on that they weren’t very attentive to her, but at least we had survived.
Also, yummy 😋 cake 🍰!
I remember at work there was a small office that always made me sleepy, so i tried to avoid it or at least stay there as little as possible. Turned out there was also this leak but there was no detector. Its a wonder that nobody died
Are the cats ok???
Wanted to go home early from visitstion with my bio dad as we had an early start the next day. Bio dad at first refused but I insisted, even faked feeling tired and unwell so myself and my sister could go home early. A few hours later we got a phone call from the hospital that my bio dads car had been hit by a drunk driver going through a red light. The car was hit at the same time we would have been on our way home if we had stayed. The back of the car where my sister and I would have been sat was completely crushed and there is no way we would have survived.
Its always better to be on the safe side.
Always Always listen to that Loud Nagging feeling U have, its trying to tell you something is off.
Just take 5 mins to check and assess..
If a smoke detector doesn't work then get a new one or be ready to call fire fighter every time it beeps just incase
Oh yes, the beeping detector must be fckn broken
Carbon monoxide is nothing to mess with.
This reminds me of when my carbon monoxide detector was going off so I called the fire department. The firefighters and the landlord got mad at me because it was outdated and malfunctioning 💀 but I didn’t know that. Like they were genuinely pissed at me for not wanting my whole family to die
Ah yes, my favourite fictional story, an r/AskReddit comment section
If you have a Co2 detector that’s beeping you have that shit checked out always even if literally every time in your life one of those things went off it was a lie 😂😂
At 0:04 It was the smoothest thing
Istg i had my audio down and suffered 7 strokes while reading the first text 😭
Either I’m being dyslexic or that doesn’t make any sense
If it beeps, always get it checked no matter what false or not
My parents always said "assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups"
Those poor cats
That story sounds so familiar
Are the cats ok
What a good son
Wow that was very lucky
I had bad robbery’s in my neighborhood, my dog is kinda a guard dog that usually sleeps In My living room, I let him sleep In my room just in case I was the next target, there was a gang fight and my dog got scared and laid on top of me, I woke up to a bullet hole 3 ft above my head, if he hadn’t laid on me I could’ve been dead
Mine’s have been going off for a while so I took it down, let me get my fat butt out of the bed! I don’t wanna wake up dead.
THIS HAPPNENED TO ME!,!!! So it was my b day and the fire alarm started going off so me and my mom went outside and she called the fire department and then they came and they said that our basement was 100% full of carbon monoxide cause our generator that was running for over a week now was putting the gasses into our house
people are blaming the mom for dismantling the thing being weird but remember carbon monoxide poisoning literally has symptoms of delirium
"missed oppirtunity"
Are the cats ok?
Why even have the detector if you're just gonna think its broken whenever it beeps😭
“Not mine, but my moms” 😌
WOW!! 😮😮😮😮
🙏😭🙏😭😭
Is cat fine?
Poor cats
the question made me confused
How do you not realise your cat is vomiting (from anything)? The first sounds of wretching could wake me from 6 feet under and I'd be there in an instant 😅
JUST TO CLARIFY THEY MEANT THEIR MOMS LIFE NOT HER DOING IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW