I used to work at an online music instrument and accessories store. We were once called by a customer asking for a replacement metronome because "the bomb squad blew our first up". Here's what happened: We sent out a digital metronome like we normally do but while in transit it accidentally got turned on. It arrived at an office for one of the staff. The post room heard a ticking box and thought it was a bomb (even though bombs only tick in cartoons) so called the bomb squad who then did a controlled explosion on it. Just in case.
i can buy that. Certainly sounds plausible. Actually it sounds much more likely than the annoyotron story. i could believe that office security might find it & think it's some kind of listening device used for corporate spying. But if that were it's purpose, why would it beep so ppl can find it? What i don't find believable is that anyone would look at it & assume it's a bomb.
Well, if bombs only tick in entertainment, and we don't learn about real bombs in school, how would anyone know that a ticking package isn't a bomb because bombs don't tick? There's no opportunity for people to learn that information unless they're specifically looking it up.
🤣🤣😂 Reminds me of one of the times TSA asked me to power up tubes to show they work and are not dangerous. Who carries the gear to do that and would TSA even understand the oscilloscope output to know they are safe?
The one I had was programmable. I made mine say "Hey! Are you there?!?!?" And hid it on the duct work right beside my dad's head where he slept in his loft. About 2 months go by and he never mentions anything. So one day I try to bait him without being obvious. "Hey dad , have you been experiencing anything weird in the apartment lately?" "Yeah!" He said "Every night before I go to bed and sometimes in the middle of the night I hear a voice calling your name." (For some reason he thought it was saying "Hey Craig!") So I asked him why he hadn't mentioned a ghost girl beckoning his son in the middle of the night and he just sort of shrugs and says "I dunno. Weird shit happens to me all of the time. I've just learned to ignore it."
The best part about this "Prank gone wrong" story is it's implied that the huge trouble it caused wasn't even entirely because of the noises the device was solely made for, it's just the manager discovering a piece of a circuit board and immediately thought it was something out of a James Bond movie.
Literally the dumbest conclusion you can come to I'm Literally thinking they're assuming some mission impossible bomb mande of drywall. Listening device yeah that's feasible but bomb? You just wene full ret@rd
@@caesarpizza1338 No, bankers just tend to be hyper-vigilant sometimes about crime. Doesn't help when disgusting old men are passing you notes through your window asking you out on dates or for your number a lot, which is a HUGE red flag for a robbery. Dumbasses. But I agree, the bomb conclusion was fucking stupid. Like a commenter above, I would have thought listening device before bomb. There aren't any incendiary components..
Honestly, I can't fathom how OP didn't put two-and-two together that this was quite possibly the most tone-deaf prank he could have pulled. I've never even worked at a bank, and that was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe I'm just dumb American brain, but yes, *of course* if you hide a random beeping circuitboard in a bank they're going to immediately jump to terroristic intent. It's like yelling 'bomb!!' at an airport. It's comically bad situational awareness.
First, love your name, Awful Waffle just sounds awesome. Second. Having gone to a Think Geek store in Destiny USA mall. Can honestly say anyone using it is the biggest victim. Sooo much money wasted on overpriced toys, shirts, and other useless junk for my ex.
@@patheticpaul7573 Gamestop put the Brick and mortar stores up. They had one store open in VA during Holiday once but opted to never do it again. Until Gamestop came along.
I never knew there were Brick and Morter store for Think Geek, I only saw their website and in it's hayday, I got a lot of my gifts there and people looked forward to my gifts. Then i saw the set ups they had in gamestops and I was confused because all the merch was stuff that gamestop was already selling (funko pops) they just took the branding. the last time I went on their website I saw that gamestop really mutilated it from what it was. such a shame.
@@AwfulWaffle8474 sadly I never got the chance to use their websites since I didn't even know they existed before GameStop took over, but if I'm being honest and fair they did have some neat nerd stuff (for instance a collectable metal gear solid figure I really wanted) so I can't say they're all bad, but it's definitely a shame from what people tell me their sites were like before that. I wish I could have seen it, dude. Also to FALLOUT who replied before. Sorry I only liked your comment and didn't respond. I was tied up, but thank you for that information friend!!
I was having a few tokes with a friend one night and he passed out. As I was leaving, he woke up and I say "See ya later... When you start to smell it you'll know" and casually left. He texts me 15 minutes later " WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?!?!?!". Me: "Don't worry, you'll find it when it starts to stink really bad." He spent most of his free time over the next two weeks to discover what I hid: nothing. I hid nothing at all, it drove him nuts for 2 weeks. I'm glad he had a sense of humour about it, we got a good laugh.
That's an awesome prank. Especially for that person we all know who could use some tough love about their issues with hygiene or cleaning or whatever because they've gone nose deaf to them. I'll have to remember this one 👍
@@pizzlerot2730 I think if I was in the unhygienic person's position, I'd prefer my friends to be honest with me about my flaws rather than playing some prank.
I actually annoy-o-tron'd myself accidentally. I'd bought something from ThinkGeek that for some reason came bundled with a free one. I'm not really the pranking the sort of guy (due to a past office prank that also went wrong), so I stuck it in my "electronics stuff" drawer and forgot about it. Fast forward... several years, I'm sure, and I start hearing a random drawn out dying bleep noise. At this point I'd completely forgotten about it shoved in the back of the drawer and spent a long time looking at smoke alarms, CO alarms, computers, and everything trying to find it. Finally after a couple weeks of it I finally found it, apparently it'd drifted to the back of the drawer and fallen down inside the cabinet at some point, which knocked the switch on. The battery barely had a charge, which is why it was sounding so weird. So yeah, I did it to myself.
@@TjallieBrrr I'm into old/retro tech and always had some ancient computer on my desk at work doing silly things, and everybody knew me for it. Around 2006 or so for an April Fool's day prank I tried loading our IE/ActiveX CRM in IE5 on Windows NT 3.51 which of course failed miserably, took a screenshot that had the "NT Workstation 3.51" wallpaper very visible, Program Manager, etc etc that made it very obvious what I was doing and submitted a help desk ticket with it along the lines of "Hey, looks like I can't get into the system." The manager there was my old boss and friend of mine so I figured he'd see my funny screenshot, know it was April Fool's, have a good chuckle and close it out. Instead about 5 minutes later my phone rings and it's the Director of Engineering calling to get more details about the system being down and that he'd already got the various on-call engineers on the horn to get it going again. Apparently help desk had seen my ticket and knowing I was a senior tech that didn't need babysitting just sent it on to the emergency priority 1 alert queue which set off all the alarms for the bigwigs. I learned you don't use official company processes for pranks that day, especially when you aren't sure who will see it and are senior/trusted enough to be taken at face value, and that high level engineers don't like being pulled away from other stuff for stupid reasons.
@@1gourangatv1 Long story short, I was buddies with the main manager of the company help desk. Friends for years, hung out outside of work, etc. I was and still am a retro computing fan, so one April Fools day circa 2006 I submitted a help desk ticket of our internal crappy Active-X CRM failing to load in Windows NT 3.51's IE5, because of course it's not going to work in that. I thought it was pretty obvious - the Win3.x style controls, the "Windows NT 3.51 Workstation" wallpaper, the lack of any other reports of the system being down, etc - and he'd have a laugh and close it out. Instead about two minutes later my phone rings and it's the Director of Engineering at the company wanting details on the system outage. Since I was a trusted senior person reporting a core CRM outage they'd just passed it on up the chain immediately instead of doing the normal checks and I learned that Directors of Engineering don't really appreciate pranks. Was a good learning experience for not using official company stuff for pranks, especially when not everyone may be in on it, but I was young and dumb.
My father used the EvilTron on us kids. Put it on the top of our ceiling fan. We thought the room was getting haunted, because the EvilTron, instead of a beep, and instead of consistent intervals, would randomly make an assortment of noises ranging from thumping to scratching to a whisper ("Hey, can you hear me?") We tried to get several adults to look into it and once one of them heard it he finally shook his head, went to our room and yanked the device out LOL
My sister once placed one of the evil-trons under her friend's bed one time, and because that one has a voice whisper "hey, can you hear me?" At random intervals, her friend thought her home was haunted. Apparently she was tormented so much that she brought in a literal exorcist to get rid of the "demon" in her room. Because of this, my sister never admitted that this was her fault lol
I have a story like this, when I was 14 or so I got one of those cheap off brand chinese ipads, and put of "10 hours of creepy whispering" on UA-cam, and would hide the tablet in my little sisters closet, ontop of the top shelf. Yeah it messed her up something good. She still sleeps with the light on and is terrified of ghosts to this day 7 years later.
Kinda messed up your sister never admitted it. Grant it, I understand it would be a hard thing to do, but it would be the right thing to do and better for her friends mental health
My brother had a version that would alternate between different fart sounds. I eventually was able to ignore it after he set it under the couch cushion and had it fall through a hole into the couch. However, until the battery died, every hour a rip would be heard and my dad would have a cow. 6 whole months of couch farts and dad yells.
"He thought it was in his brain, and kidnapped his dentist's receptionist demanding he help him remove it! I think he's in Brazil now, but I haven't seen or heard from him in 8 years! Totally got him."
stuck an annoyatron in my friend's car but I unfortunately didn't factor in that my friend's car is a pile of crap so he just thought it was the car making another weird noise and ignored it till the battery died and when it finally stopped beeping all he had to say was "guess it fixed itself"
I worked at a TV station from the late 1990s until 2013. It was a fun work environment in the early years there. My coworkers put an annoyance beeping device in our department managers office. The manager was an English guy, kinda crazy that was constantly telling jokes, they figured he'd get a kick out of being pranked. The manager, Jon, was in his office a lot of each workday. My office was next to his. These were open door offices with paper thin walls. My coworkers thought Jon would be bothered by the device right away. They thought he'd call our resident PC tech to have him come and check the PC. so the tech guy was in on the prank too and was going to come, ask Jon what he'd done to his PC before spending time checking it out and finally declaring it was not the PC. Tech guy was then going to say it was not a PC issue to call Sam the maintenence guy because it had to be something to do with the office lights or heating. Sam was in on it and was supposed to come up and say it was a PC warning beep. lol The first day passes and Jon didn't say a word. More days pass and nothing. I could hear the beeping from my office and I could hear it when I was in Jon's office. It was really annoying to sit with Jon in his office helping him on the PC, his computer skills were notoriously bad so I was in his office often especially if he was trying to use Excel. I'd hear it beeping while in his office but didn't want to say anything and ruin the prank.. so I kept quiet. Hearing it constantly from my office was starting to really bother, omg it was worse than trying to sleep in a room with a loudly ticking clock but it never seemed to bother Jon at all. Finally after about 3 weeks I was in Jon's office and when the thing beeped I asked Jon if he heard it. Jon said yes, he heard it all the time. I asked him if he knew what it was. He said he didn't know but that whatever it was it didn't bother him. He said everything was working fine so he tuned it out. He said he figured it was something with the computer but no big deal. I didn't tell him what it was but later that day I told the guy that had put it in Jon's office about Jon not caring and also how the thing was driving me crazy so my coworker removed it from Jon's office. The only one that wound up being annoyed by the prank was me, lol. Jon wasn't deaf but he was a father, we figured he'd developed a really strong ability to tune out noises because he had 2 young daughters that we knew, from office visits, had high pitched voices and were loud children. Jon also had a wife with a high pitched whiny voice. Jon had evidently really mastered the dad ability to not hearing annoying noise. lol I was sad to hear about Thinkgeek going downhill. I remember it as the go to website back in the day to buy PC and internet related T-Shirts, mousepads, cool gadgets. My son used to request PC related gift items from there pretty often. We early netizens have seen so much change.. I felt a sense of loss when I realized TwoCows was no more and sadly it's been years if not decades since I could talk to a dragon online. I'm afraid to go try to push the big red button. And I haven't gone to my dead Tomagotchi's online gravesite in 20 years. lol
Not quite the same as a noise maker prank, but I had a dream where there was an alarm clock going off and every time I turned it off another one would go off somewhere else. This went on repeatedly until I finally woke up to find out my actual alarm had been going off for 10 minutes.
I had a dream where I had a small, vibrating stone that seemed to buzz and play music. I'd turn it off and it would start again. Finally woke up and I had been snoozing my alarms the entire time
I had a dream where I woke up and went to school... midway through it I actually woke up and realized I'm late for the final exam that I was doing in my dream. I did pass the final exam with half the time left, because teacher humoured my sweaty ass that sprinted to the building, and because I rehearsed it just about 5 minutes ago in my head... Some questions were almost identical. I think she expected a trainwreck. She got a mediocre, but well withing acceptable result, while others failed after having full time.
I have a lot of dreams like that lol A particularly memorable one was this dream that had something to do with tornadoes. I was standing in the middle of a soybean field with someone while violent storms raged around us. We listened to a handheld radio and nearly every station mentioned freakish tornadoes that carried dangerous toxins and biological cells, as if they were swirling colonies of venomous organisms. We tried listening to the reports, but this small little naked man with a long beard lurking within the soybeans kept beeping very loudly every time one of us would try to speak or listen to the radio. It was like that "sounds like a lot of- HOOPLAAA!!!" scene from Spongebob. We were getting irritated so we told the little dude to shut up and he started giggling evilly and said something like "so wake up! *BEEP*" Yeah anyway the beeping ended up actually my alarm that had been going off for a looooong time.
"It's possibly a bomb. And - judging by its size - it could have enough C4 on it to severely scratch that small lock on your 10-year-old's diary, maybe even leave a black stain. We've never seen anything like it. Execute extreme caution."
Yeah, a small circuitboard with a smaller box on it doesn't seem like it'd carry much of a payload. What is that, the size of a smartphone for the entire item? Did they never wonder why in games and movies, bombs are wired to large foil packets, or conspicuous bundles of dynamite or TNT sticks? You'd want at least a volume of explosive compound the size of like a Coke can to hook up a detonator to if you intend to demolish something (or someone).
I don't know how to feel about the very second you said "it emits a barely audible beeping sound" I *INSTANTLY* knew the mounties were gonna think it was a bomb, I just KNEW it was gonna come to that!!!
I mean cops aren't too bright. Remember when they thought little light up Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force were bombs ? Edit for people who don't know about it : On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices, leading to a massive panic. It was clear that they weren't bombs...
This was how I learned ThinkGeek was ruined. I could never afford the stuff since I'm Scottish and it's an American company, but I spent ages just looking through all the cool stuff. Sites like Firebox carry on the torch, but I dreamed of being able to get some of those things as a kid. I wanted to go on a ThinkGeek shopping spree when I moved to America, something I still haven't done. Looks like when I get there I'm gonna have to find something else.
Yea, nobody was happy here when ThinkGeek got bought and shut down by Gamestop. Gamestop didn't even offer the same shit ThinkGeek did, I dunno why they even bought the brand to just shut it down.
still mostly just confused why the canadian feds would let someone take home a mysterious gadget that is potentially a bomb or listening device or why anyone would want that in their car to begin with
why did she jump to the idea of somebody in her house when it was literally just a beep? Did she think the intruder was annoying her for hours and then kill her for no reason?
I remember back in the day there was this program we would sometimes install in coworkers/classmates computers that would just randomly move their cursor a bit from time to time. It was hilarious seeing them misclick everything and then think their mouse or computer was broken. There was also this one prank where we would screnshot their desktop, flip everything in Windows config, hide their icons and then just set the sceenshot as a wallpaper. That way when they tried to move their cursor up it would go down, left would go right, etc. Just some minor harmless pranks to liven up the boring days.
Once in middle school, I had someone prank me using my pc. Dunno how they did it but when I was doing research on my project they managed to get it so the words I was typing were being deleted. Then it started typing in things on its own. I had no clue what was going on and freaked out lol. It’s pretty funny looking back on it, though.
we used to pry the keys of an annoying coworker's keyboard and put them back on the wrong letters. the moron couldn't log in with the fucked up keyboard, so our boss sent around an email saying 'no more pranks' :(
@@mj.l I did the same thing in highschool shop class people kept using the computer I liked to use so I swapped every single key on the keyboard it all went well until I was absent and a kid tried to use it and my shop teacher handed the kid a screw driver and made him change every single key back. He knew it was me but found it funny
@@x_kittrixah, I know this one prank they did to you. It's the wireless mouse&keyboard prank.. Simple but genius. There's a couple on youtube if it still leave a curiosity in your mind. Warning serious chuckle ahead
Reddit and the phrase “going wrong” really do tend to go together well. Edit: hi whang, could you maybe do a video on a piece of lost media called “Casey’s Cave Entry”?
Decades before the annoyotron I studied on a technical high school (this is a thing here in Brazil) that taught electronics: one day a teacher was annoyed by something and moved the blackboard (that was green) corner out of the wall (it was kind of loose): there was a BIG PCB whit a high frequency oscillator behind it that was barely audible. The night shift class had put it there.
Worked as the security director for a large hospital system and their affiliated medical office buildings. After 9/11 the administration was freaked out about security issues for once. We had a huge panic for several hours after somebody dropped a powder sugar doughnut on the floor of and elevator! It was of corse Anthrax without a doubt in the gossip mill.
My dad had one of those little circuit boards that made cricket noises in the dark and hid it inside of an Ethernet port at his old office. Building maintenance ended up getting called to tear the place apart because they thought it was an alarm going off. He never fessed up to it because if they knew he did it he’d have been responsible for paying the maintenance people personally. Nice going, dad. 😅
Old Think Geek was awesome. And Things You Never Know Existed was a huge part of my childhood. Circling things to buy. Only ever having enough money to buy like three things.
same here, i don’t know if i ever actually got anything, but my older brother would get the catalog on the mail and i would love looking through it, i vividly remember all the gadgets, bacon flavored candies, magnetic toys, and thinking putties
Say what you want about office jobs, after years of being shit on by people daily in retail I got into Macy's corporate and it was the best job I've ever had. I'll take monotony, cubicles, fluorescent lights, and free coffee and donuts over receiving death threats over coupons
I had thee downstairs neighbor's smoke alarm beeping once every few minutes for a week and that drove me nuts. I couldn't hear it while watching TV or sleeping, at least. I eventually confronted them and they said they were working from home and just ignoring it. WHAT?
In the early 00's I worked in a machine shop as a tool maker and production setup person. There were about a dozen of us on 2nd shift, each with 3-4 machines for which we were responsible. Since you couldn't watch each machine simultaneously, the more experienced of us learned to monitor by sound. Our lone maintenance person, whom I'll refer to here as Lurch, was our own walking Annoyotron. He loves playing pranks, yet was consistently offended when his victim got pissed off. One of those dudes. His victim, let's call him Dwight, was an unassuming nice guy, whose machine center was perfectly located for Lurch's newest idea. Lurch had access to the roof for maintaining the air conditioning and circulation units. He realized one day that one of the sunlight windows(I can't remember what they're called) was right over Dwight's workbench. Lurch proceeded to lightly tap on the window, which subsequently sent Dwight on an hour long search for the source of the noise. Lurch thought this was absolutely hilarious. So he proceeded to continue to do this every day both guys were there and he could get to the roof. Not for a week. Not for even a month. 6 damn months this went on. So, I'm not a rat. I wasn't going to give up the secret. I did appeal to Lurch to come clean, but I suppose he wasn't the kinda dude that could do that on his own. Dwight did finally figure out where the tapping noise was coming from. Not before it had him cursing in frustration, doing everything he could to locate the noise. I'm not sure exactly when Dwight figured it out, but the scenario played out exactly as I had warned Lurch that it would. The entire shift of setup guys and Lurch were called to a meeting where we got reamed by the shift manager for the waste of time and resources. We were told we were behaving like third graders and ought to be ashamed. Also, we were told to expect another meeting at the beginning of work the next day with the plant supervisor and the VP of the company. Lastly, the shift supervisor asks Dwight if he has anything he'd like to say. Dwight nods, stands up, looks around the room and says, "Gotcha!"
It's quite something, right? Imaging having a small PCB connected to nothing described to you by a lady in her car, and you just thoughtlessly tell her over the phone that it's a bomb and that she's gonna die. The mountie is the guy who really fucked up in this story.
Wow, this is actually hard to watch cause I had an experience very similar to this in my younger years. A small prank gone awry that didn't lose me my job but definitely set the tone for my employment there until I left.
I fear those things. I get wound up really bad with noises like that (look up Misophonia). When I found out these existed I dreaded the day my friends discovered it. It's never happened to me but I'm 95% sure I'd go crazy if I couldn't find it .
I was looking for this comment. My misophonia is mostly small electronic noises and chewing sounds so this would be my nightmare. If I couldn't find one in my room I would have a full blown meltdown.
@@lilithlaney1759 mine goes off for way to many things, but a random beep would surely be one of them. I wouldn't be able to function if it didn't stop
Everytime I see you upload something, I HAVE to stop everything, and click the video, but not for the content. No. I watch your video's because of the glorious and hypnotizing caterpillar dancing on your upper lip while you speak. It mesmerizes me, it makes me go into almost a trance. Never stop making video's, please.
I think I still have one in a box somewhere. But I also supplied one to a friend who hid one in a classroom at school. The report was that the next period class found it pretty fast and snapped it in half when they did.
If they had a sticker on the back that said " annoyotron" or printed on the circuit board , the really dire issues wouldn't happen . If the target of the prank finds it , good enough ,right? Unless the point is to really terrorize them
We had something very similar, I work in an office in the Air Force and someone put a device down that would every now and then, very softly say “hello? can you hear me?”. Everyone was going crazy thinking we were being listened in on and hacked by a foreign agency, but thankfully it was resolved very quickly and without detriment to the person who placed it
This was going on with me for about 2 months straight until I realized discord stays open in the background when you close it and you have to go into ur operations and quit the app
That's on the mounties not being able to recognise a tweeter from a bomb. Any first year electrical engineering student would have been able to identify it as harmless.
As soon as you mentioned the beeping device I knew exactly where this was gonna go. Someone put one in my school and the bomb squad were called. Kid ended up getting expelled
I wonder if any of the Annoy-a-trons came with a timer/delayed activation feature of 30+ days. I ask because most security systems are automated these days; no one actually looks at the footage anymore unless a problem is found. The system of most models deletes old footage after thirty days.
I have a doctor who shirt from think geek, I had no idea the site was mostly gone. That was actually my very first online purchase, as I finally convinced my grandma that the computer was not going to eat up her credit card.
@@Tokito935 says the person incapable of using commas, or any other sorts of proper punctuation, for that matter. Not my fault people don’t know the name of the longest running science fiction tv show. It’s not like my comment was aimed, or even trying to converse with you.
As a parent and former teacher, I’m pretty much a professional at blocking out annoying, repetitive, sounds. The tinnitus probably helps 😅. I can’t imagine going to those lengths BEFORE asking the staff if they knew anything about it.
"Nobody at the office understands my sense of humor" is just another way of saying "I'm that weird guy at the office that nobody wants to run into in the break room"
I think in this case it's more of, everyone in that office is a hollow, joyless husk of a human being, who've lost any sense of humour they had years ago.
I dunno, I spent 5 years at an office full of redneck-types (not an insult, just how it was). I spend my time on the internet and playing video games. They spent their time fishing and shooting. They absolutely didn't get my sense of humor. Just how it was. I don't think anybody dreaded running into me.
I know that the RCMP is more famous, but the fact CSIS got involved shows that it’s really serious. To give you an idea, people who work at CSIS are not allowed to tell people they work there
There used to be a chain of novelty stores in Canada called “San Francisco” that sold all that sort of stuff, got me kicked out of school on a couple occasions 😂😂
A friend of mine had shown me this thing on the website back when I was in college and we lived together, and some time later, I started hearing the beep in my room. It took me a couple of hours to find it, tucked in an inside pocket of a jacket I never used. So I just turned it off and placed it elsewhere. Weeks later, he admits that he bought one and hid it in my room, and asked if I have it because he couldn't find it where he put it, and I just told him I had no idea what he was talking about. I think I still have it in a box somewhere
Back in late highshcool I hid an annoy-a-tron in my friend's ceiling panel at their rental apartment, as they had aged out of the foster care system and were on their own. I came back the next morning to go "Haha got you!" but was greeted by the tired sunken eyes of her and her boyfriend, and they were very hesitant to let me in. When they finally did, the place was DESTROYED!! They ripped out stuffing from the couch (almost all of it), all of the cabinet doors were open and drawers taken out, everything was on the floor. I almost..didn't want to tell them it was a prank. I asked "Lose something?" And they said "Oh..just..looking for a cigarette." I had to use the bathroom to compose myself and noticed drug paraphernalia (used burnt spoons, lighters, that sort of thing) and went *ooooooh.* I came back and told her "Don't be mad...but uh.. You remember the annoy-a-trons from Ms.Gibson's class last year?" And the realization on her face. Then relief. Her boyfriend exclaimed "We thought we were bugged!!" and she asked "But WHERE is it?? We looked everywhere!" and I pointed to the ceiling tile. He got up, opened it, it still took him so long to find and get it down (magnetic, stuck to inner frame under a lip.) They were just relieved. I looked into my friend's eyes for a long time and didn't say anything, and left. I think she got the hint, and as far as I know, she actually (almost immediately) became drug free! I know relapses happen, but she soon had children and became a home health nurse, got a house and a car. :)
4:18 I've actually soldered one of these things before. I think it was last year specifically, you can build one pretty easily with a breadboard and by just following a schematic. You can (for the most part) adjust the time delay between beeps by swapping some things. I think the longest we were able to get it to with the stuff in the classroom was around 2-3 minutes. So if you really want the parts, they're very good for annoying people.
I think coming clean was probably the smart move. Even if chances are low that they'd link it to him, that also depends on how bad a liar he is, and his continued conscious and composure afterward. If he was found trying to hide his guilt, things could have gone much worse for him. So his coming clean likely had a hand in being backed up to keep his job.
Pretty sure there are cameras installed in lots of office complexes by now and it was just a matter of time to be found out. Still, the overreaction of the manager its what really set this thing up instead of just using common sense.
I like how they found a piece of circuit board the size of 2 quarters and immediately assumed it was a bomb. Like what is it supposed to blow up? A rat?
Dumb in terms of keeping his job but if he was somehow found out after they spent the man power looking for bombs and closing everything for days they would probably take legal action.
Bro, it woulda gotten traced back to him so easily. Police were getting involved, and there was obviously a record to be found of him making the purchase. Staying quiet woulda been dumb *and* cowardly.
My close knit, 40-person IB cult-type group burried in the public high school somehow got a hold of a device of this type (I don’t know if it was an official “anoy-o-tron”, or if it was just the chip out of a talking stuffed animal or other toy), around the time we discovered a loose ceiling panel in our 1960’s bomb-shelter ass classroom, right above the desk reserved for the teacher. Needless to say that thing went up there right before our class with our love-hate Theory of Knowledge teacher. Good times.
4:25 That Annoy-a-tron thing seems absolutely tiny and very clearly just nothing but circuit board. Dunno how anyone would had thought it to be a bomb. Even if it was one, it would basically be a firecracker, as there just aren't enough places to hide the explosives in.
Yeah, and, why the hell would it beep, then? To give its location away? I imagine the manager described it pretty badly and the police was overzealous, but, still, what a logical leap
@@pedroff_1 The mounties are just fucking stupid and didn't think twice by scaring the life out of someone while they were driving. Imagine hearing a little circuit board described to you over the as a police officer and then basically telling the person they're gonna die.
I'm kinda confused about how anybody could think that a device so small could be a bomb. The initial assessment of it being a listening device makes infinitely more sense than that
When I moved into a townhouse, I left a few boxes of stuff in the basement, next to all the electric and phone lines. I forgot one box had a smoke detector in it (new place already had some up). Couple months later it starts to low-battery beep. Not remembering it was in the box, I ended up cutting every phone line and a few electric lines (breaker box turned off, I'm not a complete idiot) before phoning the office for a maintenance guy, who found out what it was. Hour of stripping and taping wires back together and it was good. Maintenance dude was great and never told the office. I loved that place; it was on the Kalamazoo River and a friendly squirrel would eat peanut butter out of your spoon in your hand.
One time I bought three of those annoy-a-tron prank sound makers and one April fools day I hid them around the house to wait for my roommates to start searching for the beeping. Then I pretended to help my roommates search for the source, which I did in order to secretly keep changing the location of them to places I knew they had already looked, then I hid one in my roommate's lunch box when he went to work so that the sound followed him, he was losing it. They had all these theories about what was making the sound and what was going on, everyone forgot to check the date.
sometime when i was in elementary school we had a secondary gym teacher come in (i think she was a student teacher). she was there for about two years when suddenly a cricket showed up in one of the air vents and wouldn't go away. it was up in there for months and they even sat us down to warn us about it. however it was eventually revealed to be just a little noisemaker the second gym coach put in the vent to troll the first coach. i miss those days
My friend's father really did him wrong over some stuff, and we both seriously considered hiding similar devices all over his place. Didn't go through with it, but his stupid ass probably would have thought it was a spy device too.
WTF is wrong with people to come up with such a thing just to be annoying? Hide their pens, put tacks in their chairs, change the boot sounds on Windows to some jumpscare scream... but fuck, why make people question their sanity just for the sake of annoyance?
Just last week someone put an annoyatron (or something similar) in my profs shared office. Every so often he'll pull a bunch of stuff into the hallway, wait for the beep, realize it was in that stuff, and put it back in his office. To my knowledge he still hasn't found anything
In Electronics class, we have an electronics kit that has a section on how to make your own annoy-a-tron. It's not quite the same as it's light-based, and it creates one single drone. Its still fun build the circuits and gizmos.
0:04 I work in an office and been covering my boss who is in the hospital I’ve been working over 52 hours a week… for almost a month soul draining is an understatement
Sounds like the pivotal mistake was placing it behind a poster, something which shouldn't normally beep-thus becoming a very obvious place to check when the sound comes from that direction. And furthermore appearing much more suspicious when a circuitboard is then found where circuitboards are not normally found.
As a Canadian i guarantee that the mounties always get their man. And when they do, they force-feed them maple syrup then draw and quarter them with their moose. (They ride moose, hence the name)
My family used to get the ThinkGeek catalogue and I lived in fear as a kid of my older brothers buying an annoyatron and putting it in my room. I was so paranoid that one time I THOUGHT I heard a beep in my room and I started tearing it apart to find the annoyatron. There wasn't one. I was just so terrified of the concept of an annoyatron being in my bedroom that I gaslight myself into hearing one. I think I win a world record or something for that.
I would specifically get a group of people in the office in on the prank, and have one person not know about it and just gaslight them. "We don't hear any beeps, it must be in your head"
Oh man, I remember ThinkGeek Christmas shopping back in like 2012. My mom bought a few neat desk gadgets, and I still have a ThinkGeek monkey sticker on my old laptop. Really sucks how badly they've fallen. I cherish the few years I got to spend browsing for nerdy gifts for my friends
One of my favorite running gags on this channel is the pictures of wrestlers whose gimmicks are related to the topic (The Mountie for the RCMP, FBI for the more famous FBI, Right to Censor for pro-censorship groups, etc.)
I built one of these for my beginner electronics class in high school. It was called a "noisy cricket" when I picked the kit to build. It was fairly simple to assemble, just a bit of soldering. Mine had a light sensor and would only activate in the dark. I left it my my friend's room when I was hanging out one day but he found it after a few nights of it going off.
i accidentally made my own annoyatron. my wireless headphones were in my pocket not being used, but they had somehow justled around and gotten loose and reconnected or something. so they start humming a high pitch feedback thing. but im at work, and we all think its our battery backups or something similar in the suspended ceiling mechanics that had shorted out. even had the receptionist call up our building supervisors to check it out the next day. i leave work and head home, in the car i had loud music. but when i stopped at petsmart and turn off the car i hear the high pitched thing. not being around any other tech i quickly deduced it was the headphones.
What's funny is that everyones first reaction was that it was something sinister, like a bug or bomb. The manager never once thought, "Am I or is my position important enough to spy on/blow up?" Never did they consider it might be something simple or innocent. Further she never considered getting any of her tech experts to check it out. Just went straight for the industrial espionage explanation.
@@captainszasz5836 because someone would go through the trouble of creating a small bomb, hiding it in an obscure location, just to target a think-geek office. there wasn't much thinking going on there ironically
My uncle put something like that in our kitchen it took me, my brother, and my dad hours to triangulate the source. My uncle has a lot of stray cats at his place so my dad got him back by making one that meowed and hid it in his garage so he had to look for a cat stuck in there.
When I was in high school, a guy hid one of these devices in the classroom and the beeps drove everyone mad in just a day, then during recess, the guy that planted it, revealed it was him and that it was a prank, he was beaten by 9 other students that afternoon after he left school.
The fact that the RCMP would think a quarter sized circuit board that is very easy to reverse engineer is a bomb, and another person who would be afraid of an explosive that would have less than a lady's finger worth of explosives makes me think this whole thing is fake. The security team should have been able to recognize that board as just having 1 switch, 1 555 tomer, 1 coin cell. The fact that IT security specialist and the RCMP couldn't identify something a teenager on UA-cam could build in an afternoon is really suspect. This is just a fake story nothing more.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine it's not like this would have involved them hiding from an RCMP impersonator, or having to cover systemic sexual harrassment of female officers. There had to be at least on person working in the bomb defusal department that understand that an explosive needs to be larger than a quarter to do more than start a fire, or someone in the security branch that has seen a circuit board before. Also all circuit boards that are mass produced are stamped with identifying markers and numbers for use by pick and place machines, so a simple google search in 2013 would have shown up as this specific board. The RCMP has a reputation for corruption, cowardice, sexism, racism, etc. not blatant incompetence I trust that at least some individuals in forensic roles are not completely useless. This story has got to be fake, there is no way it's real.
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The entire thing was the bosses fault. She proved she couldnt lead
What's up with these Telegram bots pretending t be you?
@@baghunter9753 They do that with every youtuber. Sucks, but what do you expect from telegram
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I used to work at an online music instrument and accessories store.
We were once called by a customer asking for a replacement metronome because "the bomb squad blew our first up". Here's what happened:
We sent out a digital metronome like we normally do but while in transit it accidentally got turned on. It arrived at an office for one of the staff. The post room heard a ticking box and thought it was a bomb (even though bombs only tick in cartoons) so called the bomb squad who then did a controlled explosion on it. Just in case.
I'm sorry, I just had to laugh at this.
i can buy that. Certainly sounds plausible. Actually it sounds much more likely than the annoyotron story. i could believe that office security might find it & think it's some kind of listening device used for corporate spying. But if that were it's purpose, why would it beep so ppl can find it? What i don't find believable is that anyone would look at it & assume it's a bomb.
Well, if bombs only tick in entertainment, and we don't learn about real bombs in school, how would anyone know that a ticking package isn't a bomb because bombs don't tick? There's no opportunity for people to learn that information unless they're specifically looking it up.
@@FrenkTheJoy easy: Pyrotechnics will be a mabdatory topic in gym class.
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Reminds me of one of the times TSA asked me to power up tubes to show they work and are not dangerous. Who carries the gear to do that and would TSA even understand the oscilloscope output to know they are safe?
Whenever you hear the words "Reddit" and "prank" together, you know for certain something must have went seriously wrong
Whenever you see "Reddit" in a whang video you know something has gone wrong 🤣
When you see the words "goes horribly wrong" you really know for certain it goes horribly wrong
I just need "prank" to know things are going to turn bad.
Both words are bad, but when you mix them into one sentence it just spells disaster.
Yes
The one I had was programmable. I made mine say "Hey! Are you there?!?!?" And hid it on the duct work right beside my dad's head where he slept in his loft. About 2 months go by and he never mentions anything. So one day I try to bait him without being obvious. "Hey dad , have you been experiencing anything weird in the apartment lately?" "Yeah!" He said "Every night before I go to bed and sometimes in the middle of the night I hear a voice calling your name." (For some reason he thought it was saying "Hey Craig!") So I asked him why he hadn't mentioned a ghost girl beckoning his son in the middle of the night and he just sort of shrugs and says "I dunno. Weird shit happens to me all of the time. I've just learned to ignore it."
🤣🤣😂 I treat weird stuff the same way
HAHAHA Your dad is a legend!
DADPRANKED.
Your dad must have the wild wastelander perk ngl.
You have a Gigadad
The best part about this "Prank gone wrong" story is it's implied that the huge trouble it caused wasn't even entirely because of the noises the device was solely made for, it's just the manager discovering a piece of a circuit board and immediately thought it was something out of a James Bond movie.
this dude is scamming, sorry for the spam but 10 of my comments have been deleted
If I reply to the scammer, my comments get deleted. Why?
@@WhyTheFuckDoTheseExistOnYT jerma
@@WhyTheFuckDoTheseExistOnYT jerma
She/they were clearly morons and was exposed as such.
Having worked in a bank before, I KNEW they were going to jump to the "it might be a bomb!" conclusion, and I wasn't disappointed.
Did something similar happened to you?
Literally the dumbest conclusion you can come to I'm Literally thinking they're assuming some mission impossible bomb mande of drywall. Listening device yeah that's feasible but bomb? You just wene full ret@rd
@@caesarpizza1338 No, bankers just tend to be hyper-vigilant sometimes about crime. Doesn't help when disgusting old men are passing you notes through your window asking you out on dates or for your number a lot, which is a HUGE red flag for a robbery. Dumbasses. But I agree, the bomb conclusion was fucking stupid. Like a commenter above, I would have thought listening device before bomb. There aren't any incendiary components..
Honestly. Look at the thing, it's just a little PCB - where could the explosive part even be?
Honestly, I can't fathom how OP didn't put two-and-two together that this was quite possibly the most tone-deaf prank he could have pulled. I've never even worked at a bank, and that was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe I'm just dumb American brain, but yes, *of course* if you hide a random beeping circuitboard in a bank they're going to immediately jump to terroristic intent. It's like yelling 'bomb!!' at an airport. It's comically bad situational awareness.
ThinkGeek was the biggest victim in this story. The moment they got bought by GameStop, it was over.
They barely lasted a year in malls
First, love your name, Awful Waffle just sounds awesome.
Second. Having gone to a Think Geek store in Destiny USA mall. Can honestly say anyone using it is the biggest victim. Sooo much money wasted on overpriced toys, shirts, and other useless junk for my ex.
@@patheticpaul7573 Gamestop put the Brick and mortar stores up.
They had one store open in VA during Holiday once but opted to never do it again. Until Gamestop came along.
I never knew there were Brick and Morter store for Think Geek, I only saw their website and in it's hayday, I got a lot of my gifts there and people looked forward to my gifts. Then i saw the set ups they had in gamestops and I was confused because all the merch was stuff that gamestop was already selling (funko pops) they just took the branding. the last time I went on their website I saw that gamestop really mutilated it from what it was. such a shame.
@@AwfulWaffle8474 sadly I never got the chance to use their websites since I didn't even know they existed before GameStop took over, but if I'm being honest and fair they did have some neat nerd stuff (for instance a collectable metal gear solid figure I really wanted) so I can't say they're all bad, but it's definitely a shame from what people tell me their sites were like before that. I wish I could have seen it, dude. Also to FALLOUT who replied before. Sorry I only liked your comment and didn't respond. I was tied up, but thank you for that information friend!!
I was having a few tokes with a friend one night and he passed out. As I was leaving, he woke up and I say "See ya later... When you start to smell it you'll know" and casually left. He texts me 15 minutes later " WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?!?!?!". Me: "Don't worry, you'll find it when it starts to stink really bad." He spent most of his free time over the next two weeks to discover what I hid: nothing. I hid nothing at all, it drove him nuts for 2 weeks. I'm glad he had a sense of humour about it, we got a good laugh.
That'a a good prank.
That's an awesome prank. Especially for that person we all know who could use some tough love about their issues with hygiene or cleaning or whatever because they've gone nose deaf to them. I'll have to remember this one 👍
@@pizzlerot2730 You could just say it to them up front without coming up with a convoluted prank...
@@olserknam or you could try to find the joy in life instead of criticizing others for having harmless fun 🤷🏼♂️
@@pizzlerot2730 I think if I was in the unhygienic person's position, I'd prefer my friends to be honest with me about my flaws rather than playing some prank.
I actually annoy-o-tron'd myself accidentally. I'd bought something from ThinkGeek that for some reason came bundled with a free one. I'm not really the pranking the sort of guy (due to a past office prank that also went wrong), so I stuck it in my "electronics stuff" drawer and forgot about it.
Fast forward... several years, I'm sure, and I start hearing a random drawn out dying bleep noise. At this point I'd completely forgotten about it shoved in the back of the drawer and spent a long time looking at smoke alarms, CO alarms, computers, and everything trying to find it. Finally after a couple weeks of it I finally found it, apparently it'd drifted to the back of the drawer and fallen down inside the cabinet at some point, which knocked the switch on. The battery barely had a charge, which is why it was sounding so weird.
So yeah, I did it to myself.
Can you tell the story about the office prank?
@@TjallieBrrr I'm into old/retro tech and always had some ancient computer on my desk at work doing silly things, and everybody knew me for it. Around 2006 or so for an April Fool's day prank I tried loading our IE/ActiveX CRM in IE5 on Windows NT 3.51 which of course failed miserably, took a screenshot that had the "NT Workstation 3.51" wallpaper very visible, Program Manager, etc etc that made it very obvious what I was doing and submitted a help desk ticket with it along the lines of "Hey, looks like I can't get into the system." The manager there was my old boss and friend of mine so I figured he'd see my funny screenshot, know it was April Fool's, have a good chuckle and close it out. Instead about 5 minutes later my phone rings and it's the Director of Engineering calling to get more details about the system being down and that he'd already got the various on-call engineers on the horn to get it going again. Apparently help desk had seen my ticket and knowing I was a senior tech that didn't need babysitting just sent it on to the emergency priority 1 alert queue which set off all the alarms for the bigwigs. I learned you don't use official company processes for pranks that day, especially when you aren't sure who will see it and are senior/trusted enough to be taken at face value, and that high level engineers don't like being pulled away from other stuff for stupid reasons.
yeah, when you mention pranks gone wrong, you should expect people to elaborate
@@1gourangatv1 Long story short, I was buddies with the main manager of the company help desk. Friends for years, hung out outside of work, etc. I was and still am a retro computing fan, so one April Fools day circa 2006 I submitted a help desk ticket of our internal crappy Active-X CRM failing to load in Windows NT 3.51's IE5, because of course it's not going to work in that. I thought it was pretty obvious - the Win3.x style controls, the "Windows NT 3.51 Workstation" wallpaper, the lack of any other reports of the system being down, etc - and he'd have a laugh and close it out. Instead about two minutes later my phone rings and it's the Director of Engineering at the company wanting details on the system outage. Since I was a trusted senior person reporting a core CRM outage they'd just passed it on up the chain immediately instead of doing the normal checks and I learned that Directors of Engineering don't really appreciate pranks. Was a good learning experience for not using official company stuff for pranks, especially when not everyone may be in on it, but I was young and dumb.
My father used the EvilTron on us kids. Put it on the top of our ceiling fan. We thought the room was getting haunted, because the EvilTron, instead of a beep, and instead of consistent intervals, would randomly make an assortment of noises ranging from thumping to scratching to a whisper ("Hey, can you hear me?")
We tried to get several adults to look into it and once one of them heard it he finally shook his head, went to our room and yanked the device out LOL
I want one of those! I love scaring my teenage kids! Lol!
"Hey son and daughter why do you never talk to me"
Sounds like a real POS😂
My sister once placed one of the evil-trons under her friend's bed one time, and because that one has a voice whisper "hey, can you hear me?" At random intervals, her friend thought her home was haunted. Apparently she was tormented so much that she brought in a literal exorcist to get rid of the "demon" in her room. Because of this, my sister never admitted that this was her fault lol
I’ve read several stories in the comments but that one made me literally lol! That was equally hilarious and wrong!!
Incredible.
her fault for what????....... did she kill-h erself?
I have a story like this, when I was 14 or so I got one of those cheap off brand chinese ipads, and put of "10 hours of creepy whispering" on UA-cam, and would hide the tablet in my little sisters closet, ontop of the top shelf.
Yeah it messed her up something good. She still sleeps with the light on and is terrified of ghosts to this day 7 years later.
Kinda messed up your sister never admitted it. Grant it, I understand it would be a hard thing to do, but it would be the right thing to do and better for her friends mental health
My brother had a version that would alternate between different fart sounds. I eventually was able to ignore it after he set it under the couch cushion and had it fall through a hole into the couch. However, until the battery died, every hour a rip would be heard and my dad would have a cow. 6 whole months of couch farts and dad yells.
I have to say, a Whang Reddit video that isn't traumatizing and disgusting is a refreshing change of pace
I slipped a sedative into my cousin's drink and while they were asleep surgically implanted one in their abdominal cavity. CLASSIC.
Hah, that's such a Girl Buu move.
"He thought it was in his brain, and kidnapped his dentist's receptionist demanding he help him remove it! I think he's in Brazil now, but I haven't seen or heard from him in 8 years! Totally got him."
No, your weird brain rot story isn’t cool, funny or interesting. Go cry some more while you take your Lexapro 😂
stuck an annoyatron in my friend's car but I unfortunately didn't factor in that my friend's car is a pile of crap so he just thought it was the car making another weird noise and ignored it till the battery died and when it finally stopped beeping all he had to say was "guess it fixed itself"
Lol
I worked at a TV station from the late 1990s until 2013. It was a fun work environment in the early years there. My coworkers put an annoyance beeping device in our department managers office. The manager was an English guy, kinda crazy that was constantly telling jokes, they figured he'd get a kick out of being pranked.
The manager, Jon, was in his office a lot of each workday. My office was next to his. These were open door offices with paper thin walls. My coworkers thought Jon would be bothered by the device right away. They thought he'd call our resident PC tech to have him come and check the PC. so the tech guy was in on the prank too and was going to come, ask Jon what he'd done to his PC before spending time checking it out and finally declaring it was not the PC. Tech guy was then going to say it was not a PC issue to call Sam the maintenence guy because it had to be something to do with the office lights or heating. Sam was in on it and was supposed to come up and say it was a PC warning beep. lol The first day passes and Jon didn't say a word. More days pass and nothing. I could hear the beeping from my office and I could hear it when I was in Jon's office. It was really annoying to sit with Jon in his office helping him on the PC, his computer skills were notoriously bad so I was in his office often especially if he was trying to use Excel. I'd hear it beeping while in his office but didn't want to say anything and ruin the prank.. so I kept quiet. Hearing it constantly from my office was starting to really bother, omg it was worse than trying to sleep in a room with a loudly ticking clock but it never seemed to bother Jon at all. Finally after about 3 weeks I was in Jon's office and when the thing beeped I asked Jon if he heard it. Jon said yes, he heard it all the time. I asked him if he knew what it was. He said he didn't know but that whatever it was it didn't bother him. He said everything was working fine so he tuned it out. He said he figured it was something with the computer but no big deal.
I didn't tell him what it was but later that day I told the guy that had put it in Jon's office about Jon not caring and also how the thing was driving me crazy so my coworker removed it from Jon's office. The only one that wound up being annoyed by the prank was me, lol. Jon wasn't deaf but he was a father, we figured he'd developed a really strong ability to tune out noises because he had 2 young daughters that we knew, from office visits, had high pitched voices and were loud children. Jon also had a wife with a high pitched whiny voice. Jon had evidently really mastered the dad ability to not hearing annoying noise. lol
I was sad to hear about Thinkgeek going downhill. I remember it as the go to website back in the day to buy PC and internet related T-Shirts, mousepads, cool gadgets. My son used to request PC related gift items from there pretty often.
We early netizens have seen so much change.. I felt a sense of loss when I realized TwoCows was no more and sadly it's been years if not decades since I could talk to a dragon online. I'm afraid to go try to push the big red button. And I haven't gone to my dead Tomagotchi's online gravesite in 20 years. lol
That’s funny. What’s a dragon online?
Usually older folks can’t hear higher frequencies due to age, but it could also be an early sign of hearing loss
you should post this on reddit
Not quite the same as a noise maker prank, but I had a dream where there was an alarm clock going off and every time I turned it off another one would go off somewhere else. This went on repeatedly until I finally woke up to find out my actual alarm had been going off for 10 minutes.
I had a dream where I had a small, vibrating stone that seemed to buzz and play music. I'd turn it off and it would start again. Finally woke up and I had been snoozing my alarms the entire time
I had a dream where I woke up and went to school... midway through it I actually woke up and realized I'm late for the final exam that I was doing in my dream. I did pass the final exam with half the time left, because teacher humoured my sweaty ass that sprinted to the building, and because I rehearsed it just about 5 minutes ago in my head... Some questions were almost identical. I think she expected a trainwreck. She got a mediocre, but well withing acceptable result, while others failed after having full time.
I have a lot of dreams like that lol
A particularly memorable one was this dream that had something to do with tornadoes. I was standing in the middle of a soybean field with someone while violent storms raged around us. We listened to a handheld radio and nearly every station mentioned freakish tornadoes that carried dangerous toxins and biological cells, as if they were swirling colonies of venomous organisms. We tried listening to the reports, but this small little naked man with a long beard lurking within the soybeans kept beeping very loudly every time one of us would try to speak or listen to the radio. It was like that "sounds like a lot of- HOOPLAAA!!!" scene from Spongebob. We were getting irritated so we told the little dude to shut up and he started giggling evilly and said something like "so wake up! *BEEP*"
Yeah anyway the beeping ended up actually my alarm that had been going off for a looooong time.
"It's possibly a bomb. And - judging by its size - it could have enough C4 on it to severely scratch that small lock on your 10-year-old's diary, maybe even leave a black stain. We've never seen anything like it. Execute extreme caution."
Yeah, a small circuitboard with a smaller box on it doesn't seem like it'd carry much of a payload. What is that, the size of a smartphone for the entire item?
Did they never wonder why in games and movies, bombs are wired to large foil packets, or conspicuous bundles of dynamite or TNT sticks? You'd want at least a volume of explosive compound the size of like a Coke can to hook up a detonator to if you intend to demolish something (or someone).
Could be a device to increase the range of another device. Still kinda dumb to blow it up then? They just wanted to blow something up lol
I don't know how to feel about the very second you said "it emits a barely audible beeping sound" I *INSTANTLY* knew the mounties were gonna think it was a bomb, I just KNEW it was gonna come to that!!!
I mean cops aren't too bright. Remember when they thought little light up Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force were bombs ?
Edit for people who don't know about it : On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices, leading to a massive panic.
It was clear that they weren't bombs...
@@Gatorade69 Wow, what idiots.
@@Gatorade69 And it made cartoon network lose alot of money
@@Gatorade69 Yeah, I remember that, I probably saw it on Slashdot (speaking of ThinkGeek)
This was how I learned ThinkGeek was ruined. I could never afford the stuff since I'm Scottish and it's an American company, but I spent ages just looking through all the cool stuff. Sites like Firebox carry on the torch, but I dreamed of being able to get some of those things as a kid. I wanted to go on a ThinkGeek shopping spree when I moved to America, something I still haven't done. Looks like when I get there I'm gonna have to find something else.
Sad. isn't it. I feel sorry for you.
Yea, nobody was happy here when ThinkGeek got bought and shut down by Gamestop. Gamestop didn't even offer the same shit ThinkGeek did, I dunno why they even bought the brand to just shut it down.
I bought a few things from them years back and had no clue they shut down till now. Boo.
Vat19 has taken their place now. Go there if you wanna buy lots of cool shit
Thinkgeek was amazing. I bought my first keychain LED flashlight from there in the late 90's. They were around for a long ass time.
The second you said the prank device would beep at a low frequency i immediately knew where this was going.
still mostly just confused why the canadian feds would let someone take home a mysterious gadget that is potentially a bomb or listening device or why anyone would want that in their car to begin with
Because the mounties are actually retarded.
I left an annoyatron at my mothers house.
She ended up calling the cops twice thinking someone was in the house trying to kill her 🙃
why did she jump to the idea of somebody in her house when it was literally just a beep? Did she think the intruder was annoying her for hours and then kill her for no reason?
@@e.l.studios455 the particular annoyatron was voices such as " I see you, can you see me?"
No beeps
@@yoitstim5168 ohhhh that makes a lot of sence now
You probably should have said something the first time she called the police, you sick faq
that's genuinely fucked up, why would you do that? did she beat you as a child?
I remember back in the day there was this program we would sometimes install in coworkers/classmates computers that would just randomly move their cursor a bit from time to time. It was hilarious seeing them misclick everything and then think their mouse or computer was broken. There was also this one prank where we would screnshot their desktop, flip everything in Windows config, hide their icons and then just set the sceenshot as a wallpaper. That way when they tried to move their cursor up it would go down, left would go right, etc.
Just some minor harmless pranks to liven up the boring days.
My favorite school computer mouse prank was to print a tiny picture of Nicholas Cage and tape it over the light source on the bottom of the mouse.
Once in middle school, I had someone prank me using my pc. Dunno how they did it but when I was doing research on my project they managed to get it so the words I was typing were being deleted. Then it started typing in things on its own. I had no clue what was going on and freaked out lol. It’s pretty funny looking back on it, though.
we used to pry the keys of an annoying coworker's keyboard and put them back on the wrong letters.
the moron couldn't log in with the fucked up keyboard, so our boss sent around an email saying 'no more pranks' :(
@@mj.l I did the same thing in highschool shop class people kept using the computer I liked to use so I swapped every single key on the keyboard it all went well until I was absent and a kid tried to use it and my shop teacher handed the kid a screw driver and made him change every single key back. He knew it was me but found it funny
@@x_kittrixah, I know this one prank they did to you. It's the wireless mouse&keyboard prank.. Simple but genius. There's a couple on youtube if it still leave a curiosity in your mind. Warning serious chuckle ahead
Reddit and the phrase “going wrong” really do tend to go together well.
Edit: hi whang, could you maybe do a video on a piece of lost media called “Casey’s Cave Entry”?
Always does
>implying anything has ever gone right on reddit
Definitely the perfect chemistry of disaster.
Reddit and Obesity go hand in hand
Redditors truly are the most insufferable assholes to ever exist. Say what you will about Twitter, but at least Twitter gave us funny Trump memes.
Decades before the annoyotron I studied on a technical high school (this is a thing here in Brazil) that taught electronics: one day a teacher was annoyed by something and moved the blackboard (that was green) corner out of the wall (it was kind of loose): there was a BIG PCB whit a high frequency oscillator behind it that was barely audible. The night shift class had put it there.
What is a PCB?
Worked as the security director for a large hospital system and their affiliated medical office buildings. After 9/11 the administration was freaked out about security issues for once. We had a huge panic for several hours after somebody dropped a powder sugar doughnut on the floor of and elevator! It was of corse Anthrax without a doubt in the gossip mill.
"you kinda expect some bodily fluid, some sex stuffs"
I feel so attacked but yes.
Having visited the Google offices in NYC, it definitely gave me adult daycare vibes.
Yup I assume they’re the types that essentially need that anyways. Lol
My dad had one of those little circuit boards that made cricket noises in the dark and hid it inside of an Ethernet port at his old office. Building maintenance ended up getting called to tear the place apart because they thought it was an alarm going off. He never fessed up to it because if they knew he did it he’d have been responsible for paying the maintenance people personally. Nice going, dad. 😅
God damn. Imagining the dead silence after he admitted that it was him. So humiliating
Old Think Geek was awesome. And Things You Never Know Existed was a huge part of my childhood. Circling things to buy. Only ever having enough money to buy like three things.
same here, i don’t know if i ever actually got anything, but my older brother would get the catalog on the mail and i would love looking through it, i vividly remember all the gadgets, bacon flavored candies, magnetic toys, and thinking putties
Say what you want about office jobs, after years of being shit on by people daily in retail I got into Macy's corporate and it was the best job I've ever had. I'll take monotony, cubicles, fluorescent lights, and free coffee and donuts over receiving death threats over coupons
Fuck pranks offices tho anyone who says it improves culture makes me want to commit corporate espionage in Minecraft ofc
I had thee downstairs neighbor's smoke alarm beeping once every few minutes for a week and that drove me nuts. I couldn't hear it while watching TV or sleeping, at least. I eventually confronted them and they said they were working from home and just ignoring it. WHAT?
In the early 00's I worked in a machine shop as a tool maker and production setup person. There were about a dozen of us on 2nd shift, each with 3-4 machines for which we were responsible. Since you couldn't watch each machine simultaneously, the more experienced of us learned to monitor by sound.
Our lone maintenance person, whom I'll refer to here as Lurch, was our own walking Annoyotron. He loves playing pranks, yet was consistently offended when his victim got pissed off. One of those dudes. His victim, let's call him Dwight, was an unassuming nice guy, whose machine center was perfectly located for Lurch's newest idea.
Lurch had access to the roof for maintaining the air conditioning and circulation units. He realized one day that one of the sunlight windows(I can't remember what they're called) was right over Dwight's workbench. Lurch proceeded to lightly tap on the window, which subsequently sent Dwight on an hour long search for the source of the noise.
Lurch thought this was absolutely hilarious. So he proceeded to continue to do this every day both guys were there and he could get to the roof. Not for a week. Not for even a month. 6 damn months this went on.
So, I'm not a rat. I wasn't going to give up the secret. I did appeal to Lurch to come clean, but I suppose he wasn't the kinda dude that could do that on his own. Dwight did finally figure out where the tapping noise was coming from. Not before it had him cursing in frustration, doing everything he could to locate the noise.
I'm not sure exactly when Dwight figured it out, but the scenario played out exactly as I had warned Lurch that it would. The entire shift of setup guys and Lurch were called to a meeting where we got reamed by the shift manager for the waste of time and resources. We were told we were behaving like third graders and ought to be ashamed. Also, we were told to expect another meeting at the beginning of work the next day with the plant supervisor and the VP of the company. Lastly, the shift supervisor asks Dwight if he has anything he'd like to say. Dwight nods, stands up, looks around the room and says,
"Gotcha!"
7:35 "The Canadian feds suspect that the little annoy-o-tron might be a bomb" Jesus and I though America's feds were incompetent
It's quite something, right? Imaging having a small PCB connected to nothing described to you by a lady in her car, and you just thoughtlessly tell her over the phone that it's a bomb and that she's gonna die. The mountie is the guy who really fucked up in this story.
Wow, this is actually hard to watch cause I had an experience very similar to this in my younger years. A small prank gone awry that didn't lose me my job but definitely set the tone for my employment there until I left.
WAIT WHAT HAPPENED
@@Sigmarr He has an anime avatar, do we really want to know what happened?
@@baseddoggie *yes*
@@baseddoggie wow, you hate people with anime avatars, you're so dIfErENt
Not even gonna tell us what happened? Aw :(
I fear those things. I get wound up really bad with noises like that (look up Misophonia). When I found out these existed I dreaded the day my friends discovered it. It's never happened to me but I'm 95% sure I'd go crazy if I couldn't find it .
I was looking for this comment. My misophonia is mostly small electronic noises and chewing sounds so this would be my nightmare. If I couldn't find one in my room I would have a full blown meltdown.
@@lilithlaney1759 mine goes off for way to many things, but a random beep would surely be one of them. I wouldn't be able to function if it didn't stop
Everytime I see you upload something, I HAVE to stop everything, and click the video, but not for the content. No.
I watch your video's because of the glorious and hypnotizing caterpillar dancing on your upper lip while you speak. It mesmerizes me, it makes me go into almost a trance. Never stop making video's, please.
I think I still have one in a box somewhere. But I also supplied one to a friend who hid one in a classroom at school. The report was that the next period class found it pretty fast and snapped it in half when they did.
If they had a sticker on the back that said " annoyotron" or printed on the circuit board , the really dire issues wouldn't happen .
If the target of the prank finds it , good enough ,right?
Unless the point is to really terrorize them
We had something very similar, I work in an office in the Air Force and someone put a device down that would every now and then, very softly say “hello? can you hear me?”. Everyone was going crazy thinking we were being listened in on and hacked by a foreign agency, but thankfully it was resolved very quickly and without detriment to the person who placed it
well that is an Government building so things would sound like Spyware
well that is an Government building so things would sound like Spyware
Some say the man who invented the annoy a tron is still trapped in Brazil by the FBI for bomb scares.
This was going on with me for about 2 months straight until I realized discord stays open in the background when you close it and you have to go into ur operations and quit the app
That's on the mounties not being able to recognise a tweeter from a bomb. Any first year electrical engineering student would have been able to identify it as harmless.
Pretty poor competence and judgment on the RCMP's part.
For anyone wondering, the bg music throughout most of the story is by Cyriak.
From his celebrated Doom 2 level set Going Down, no less.
I also threw in a track or two from his new Doom WAD, "Overboard". Yes, he made a new one and you should absolutely play it.
As soon as you mentioned the beeping device I knew exactly where this was gonna go. Someone put one in my school and the bomb squad were called. Kid ended up getting expelled
I wonder if any of the Annoy-a-trons came with a timer/delayed activation feature of 30+ days. I ask because most security systems are automated these days; no one actually looks at the footage anymore unless a problem is found. The system of most models deletes old footage after thirty days.
I have a doctor who shirt from think geek, I had no idea the site was mostly gone.
That was actually my very first online purchase, as I finally convinced my grandma that the computer was not going to eat up her credit card.
Do you mean, "Doctor who wore a shirt from Thinkgeek"?
Some quotation marks could help avoid future readers strokes
@@stevem.o.1185 Doctor Who is a fairly popular sci-fi series.
@@Tokito935 says the person incapable of using commas, or any other sorts of proper punctuation, for that matter. Not my fault people don’t know the name of the longest running science fiction tv show. It’s not like my comment was aimed, or even trying to converse with you.
As a parent and former teacher, I’m pretty much a professional at blocking out annoying, repetitive, sounds. The tinnitus probably helps 😅. I can’t imagine going to those lengths BEFORE asking the staff if they knew anything about it.
That prank went really well actually, everyone was scared for life after this
plus, no charges or loss of employment. could've been *so* much worse
@@mj.l he should've been fired though
"Nobody at the office understands my sense of humor" is just another way of saying "I'm that weird guy at the office that nobody wants to run into in the break room"
I think in this case it's more of, everyone in that office is a hollow, joyless husk of a human being, who've lost any sense of humour they had years ago.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 or most people go to work to get work done instead of fucking around with childish jokes
I dunno, I spent 5 years at an office full of redneck-types (not an insult, just how it was). I spend my time on the internet and playing video games. They spent their time fishing and shooting. They absolutely didn't get my sense of humor. Just how it was. I don't think anybody dreaded running into me.
No they probably wanted to punch you but knew you weren't worth it southern types usually a now if someones worth it
I know that the RCMP is more famous, but the fact CSIS got involved shows that it’s really serious. To give you an idea, people who work at CSIS are not allowed to tell people they work there
It's not out of professionalism, but shame.
It sounds more like the American NSA than the FBI.
"Which wire should I cut?!? There are no wires!!! What a sophisticated device. I never seen anything like it!!!"
I love that he has the music from the DOOM mod "Going Down" in the background 😂
There used to be a chain of novelty stores in Canada called “San Francisco” that sold all that sort of stuff, got me kicked out of school on a couple occasions 😂😂
Hell yea, sex toys in the back lol
It sounds like a Canadian company made their own version of the US chain Spencer’s Gifts.
@@5roundsrapid263 nah we got spencers too
A friend of mine had shown me this thing on the website back when I was in college and we lived together, and some time later, I started hearing the beep in my room. It took me a couple of hours to find it, tucked in an inside pocket of a jacket I never used. So I just turned it off and placed it elsewhere. Weeks later, he admits that he bought one and hid it in my room, and asked if I have it because he couldn't find it where he put it, and I just told him I had no idea what he was talking about. I think I still have it in a box somewhere
Back in late highshcool I hid an annoy-a-tron in my friend's ceiling panel at their rental apartment, as they had aged out of the foster care system and were on their own. I came back the next morning to go "Haha got you!" but was greeted by the tired sunken eyes of her and her boyfriend, and they were very hesitant to let me in. When they finally did, the place was DESTROYED!! They ripped out stuffing from the couch (almost all of it), all of the cabinet doors were open and drawers taken out, everything was on the floor. I almost..didn't want to tell them it was a prank. I asked "Lose something?" And they said "Oh..just..looking for a cigarette."
I had to use the bathroom to compose myself and noticed drug paraphernalia (used burnt spoons, lighters, that sort of thing) and went *ooooooh.*
I came back and told her "Don't be mad...but uh.. You remember the annoy-a-trons from Ms.Gibson's class last year?" And the realization on her face. Then relief. Her boyfriend exclaimed "We thought we were bugged!!" and she asked "But WHERE is it?? We looked everywhere!" and I pointed to the ceiling tile. He got up, opened it, it still took him so long to find and get it down (magnetic, stuck to inner frame under a lip.) They were just relieved. I looked into my friend's eyes for a long time and didn't say anything, and left. I think she got the hint, and as far as I know, she actually (almost immediately) became drug free! I know relapses happen, but she soon had children and became a home health nurse, got a house and a car. :)
Sounds like your little prank drove her to dope!
No, it drove her off dope @@ProbablyOnLSD69
4:18
I've actually soldered one of these things before. I think it was last year specifically, you can build one pretty easily with a breadboard and by just following a schematic.
You can (for the most part) adjust the time delay between beeps by swapping some things. I think the longest we were able to get it to with the stuff in the classroom was around 2-3 minutes.
So if you really want the parts, they're very good for annoying people.
I think coming clean was probably the smart move. Even if chances are low that they'd link it to him, that also depends on how bad a liar he is, and his continued conscious and composure afterward. If he was found trying to hide his guilt, things could have gone much worse for him. So his coming clean likely had a hand in being backed up to keep his job.
Pretty sure there are cameras installed in lots of office complexes by now and it was just a matter of time to be found out. Still, the overreaction of the manager its what really set this thing up instead of just using common sense.
Why he should have been fired with no way of seeking better employment lol
I like how they found a piece of circuit board the size of 2 quarters and immediately assumed it was a bomb. Like what is it supposed to blow up? A rat?
The bit where he steels his nerves and then proceeds to take the dumbest possible course of action is classic Reddit
Dumb in terms of keeping his job but if he was somehow found out after they spent the man power looking for bombs and closing everything for days they would probably take legal action.
@@whitegemgames
I have to agree that I'd have done the same thing. I'd be too afraid it would come back to bite me in the ass.
Yeah, clearing that up early possibly saved him from some crippling fines or even short jail time. Can't cause panic and waste Fed time.
The fuckup was caused by a missunderstanding, he cleared it up. That's the RIGHT course of action.
Bro, it woulda gotten traced back to him so easily. Police were getting involved, and there was obviously a record to be found of him making the purchase. Staying quiet woulda been dumb *and* cowardly.
Love the music choice for this video. Going Down is a great WAD.
This made me think of those anti loitering devices they have outside of shops that only young teenagers can hear lol
My close knit, 40-person IB cult-type group burried in the public high school somehow got a hold of a device of this type (I don’t know if it was an official “anoy-o-tron”, or if it was just the chip out of a talking stuffed animal or other toy), around the time we discovered a loose ceiling panel in our 1960’s bomb-shelter ass classroom, right above the desk reserved for the teacher. Needless to say that thing went up there right before our class with our love-hate Theory of Knowledge teacher. Good times.
4:25 That Annoy-a-tron thing seems absolutely tiny and very clearly just nothing but circuit board. Dunno how anyone would had thought it to be a bomb.
Even if it was one, it would basically be a firecracker, as there just aren't enough places to hide the explosives in.
Yeah, and, why the hell would it beep, then? To give its location away?
I imagine the manager described it pretty badly and the police was overzealous, but, still, what a logical leap
@@pedroff_1 it’s Canada, police there are always overzealous lmao
@@pedroff_1 The mounties are just fucking stupid and didn't think twice by scaring the life out of someone while they were driving.
Imagine hearing a little circuit board described to you over the as a police officer and then basically telling the person they're gonna die.
I'm kinda confused about how anybody could think that a device so small could be a bomb. The initial assessment of it being a listening device makes infinitely more sense than that
When I moved into a townhouse, I left a few boxes of stuff in the basement, next to all the electric and phone lines. I forgot one box had a smoke detector in it (new place already had some up). Couple months later it starts to low-battery beep. Not remembering it was in the box, I ended up cutting every phone line and a few electric lines (breaker box turned off, I'm not a complete idiot) before phoning the office for a maintenance guy, who found out what it was. Hour of stripping and taping wires back together and it was good. Maintenance dude was great and never told the office. I loved that place; it was on the Kalamazoo River and a friendly squirrel would eat peanut butter out of your spoon in your hand.
One time I bought three of those annoy-a-tron prank sound makers and one April fools day I hid them around the house to wait for my roommates to start searching for the beeping. Then I pretended to help my roommates search for the source, which I did in order to secretly keep changing the location of them to places I knew they had already looked, then I hid one in my roommate's lunch box when he went to work so that the sound followed him, he was losing it. They had all these theories about what was making the sound and what was going on, everyone forgot to check the date.
sometime when i was in elementary school we had a secondary gym teacher come in (i think she was a student teacher). she was there for about two years when suddenly a cricket showed up in one of the air vents and wouldn't go away. it was up in there for months and they even sat us down to warn us about it. however it was eventually revealed to be just a little noisemaker the second gym coach put in the vent to troll the first coach. i miss those days
Babe wake up, new Whang video just dropped
What I learned from all this is that people actually think bombs beep like in the movies
But how do you cut the red wire if there ARE no wires!?
Bare circuit board=bomb
My friend's father really did him wrong over some stuff, and we both seriously considered hiding similar devices all over his place. Didn't go through with it, but his stupid ass probably would have thought it was a spy device too.
WTF is wrong with people to come up with such a thing just to be annoying? Hide their pens, put tacks in their chairs, change the boot sounds on Windows to some jumpscare scream... but fuck, why make people question their sanity just for the sake of annoyance?
Just last week someone put an annoyatron (or something similar) in my profs shared office. Every so often he'll pull a bunch of stuff into the hallway, wait for the beep, realize it was in that stuff, and put it back in his office. To my knowledge he still hasn't found anything
In Electronics class, we have an electronics kit that has a section on how to make your own annoy-a-tron. It's not quite the same as it's light-based, and it creates one single drone. Its still fun build the circuits and gizmos.
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0:04 I work in an office and been covering my boss who is in the hospital I’ve been working over 52 hours a week… for almost a month soul draining is an understatement
Sounds like the pivotal mistake was placing it behind a poster, something which shouldn't normally beep-thus becoming a very obvious place to check when the sound comes from that direction. And furthermore appearing much more suspicious when a circuitboard is then found where circuitboards are not normally found.
Redditors going outside is always a recipe for disaster
I'm convinced you're the only person commenting about Reddit that actually watched the video.
As a Canadian i guarantee that the mounties always get their man. And when they do, they force-feed them maple syrup then draw and quarter them with their moose.
(They ride moose, hence the name)
My family used to get the ThinkGeek catalogue and I lived in fear as a kid of my older brothers buying an annoyatron and putting it in my room. I was so paranoid that one time I THOUGHT I heard a beep in my room and I started tearing it apart to find the annoyatron. There wasn't one. I was just so terrified of the concept of an annoyatron being in my bedroom that I gaslight myself into hearing one. I think I win a world record or something for that.
I would specifically get a group of people in the office in on the prank, and have one person not know about it and just gaslight them. "We don't hear any beeps, it must be in your head"
Oh man, I remember ThinkGeek Christmas shopping back in like 2012. My mom bought a few neat desk gadgets, and I still have a ThinkGeek monkey sticker on my old laptop. Really sucks how badly they've fallen. I cherish the few years I got to spend browsing for nerdy gifts for my friends
One of my favorite running gags on this channel is the pictures of wrestlers whose gimmicks are related to the topic (The Mountie for the RCMP, FBI for the more famous FBI, Right to Censor for pro-censorship groups, etc.)
A coworker just tried pranking me with this a day after your video came out. Thanks for the heads up Justin!
I built one of these for my beginner electronics class in high school. It was called a "noisy cricket" when I picked the kit to build. It was fairly simple to assemble, just a bit of soldering. Mine had a light sensor and would only activate in the dark. I left it my my friend's room when I was hanging out one day but he found it after a few nights of it going off.
Giant props to that guy for being honest!
i accidentally made my own annoyatron. my wireless headphones were in my pocket not being used, but they had somehow justled around and gotten loose and reconnected or something. so they start humming a high pitch feedback thing. but im at work, and we all think its our battery backups or something similar in the suspended ceiling mechanics that had shorted out. even had the receptionist call up our building supervisors to check it out the next day. i leave work and head home, in the car i had loud music. but when i stopped at petsmart and turn off the car i hear the high pitched thing. not being around any other tech i quickly deduced it was the headphones.
What's funny is that everyones first reaction was that it was something sinister, like a bug or bomb. The manager never once thought, "Am I or is my position important enough to spy on/blow up?"
Never did they consider it might be something simple or innocent. Further she never considered getting any of her tech experts to check it out. Just went straight for the industrial espionage explanation.
Eh, I don't blame them. You see something odd that ticks, the first reaction's usually "well, fuck, it might be a bomb".
@@Mateus_Carvalho The smallest bomb on earth
@@GaiusCaligula234 You know how small bombs can be?
@@captainszasz5836 because someone would go through the trouble of creating a small bomb, hiding it in an obscure location, just to target a think-geek office.
there wasn't much thinking going on there ironically
People usually think they are more important than they really are.
My uncle put something like that in our kitchen it took me, my brother, and my dad hours to triangulate the source. My uncle has a lot of stray cats at his place so my dad got him back by making one that meowed and hid it in his garage so he had to look for a cat stuck in there.
When I was in high school, a guy hid one of these devices in the classroom and the beeps drove everyone mad in just a day, then during recess, the guy that planted it, revealed it was him and that it was a prank, he was beaten by 9 other students that afternoon after he left school.
Good for him
I wasn't expecting music from Going Down in a whang video. That really caught me off guard.
I pranked Tim Horton once and he came and killed me
Jesus Christ this is worse than that time an email almost got me expelled from a public school
The fact that the RCMP would think a quarter sized circuit board that is very easy to reverse engineer is a bomb, and another person who would be afraid of an explosive that would have less than a lady's finger worth of explosives makes me think this whole thing is fake.
The security team should have been able to recognize that board as just having 1 switch, 1 555 tomer, 1 coin cell. The fact that IT security specialist and the RCMP couldn't identify something a teenager on UA-cam could build in an afternoon is really suspect. This is just a fake story nothing more.
I'm amazed you have any confidence in the RCMP.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine it's not like this would have involved them hiding from an RCMP impersonator, or having to cover systemic sexual harrassment of female officers. There had to be at least on person working in the bomb defusal department that understand that an explosive needs to be larger than a quarter to do more than start a fire, or someone in the security branch that has seen a circuit board before. Also all circuit boards that are mass produced are stamped with identifying markers and numbers for use by pick and place machines, so a simple google search in 2013 would have shown up as this specific board.
The RCMP has a reputation for corruption, cowardice, sexism, racism, etc. not blatant incompetence I trust that at least some individuals in forensic roles are not completely useless.
This story has got to be fake, there is no way it's real.
It just shows the incompetence of the system. Anything that deviates from the accepted norm and they HAVE TO treat it as an existential threat.
The investigators were idiots if they truly thought that was a bomb....I have a hard time believing they did.
The moustache man graces us once again
My dad got the annoy-a- tron to prank a fellow teacher. He put it up in the ceiling and it took the dude pretty much the entire day to locate it.