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Favorite Comment: Fixer lifelesspoet says, “Just break the lock with a fire extinguisher like in the movies…..oh wait…..”
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Um, pi55 on it!
Q. Realy, where’s the kludge?
A. Ask the legal department as soon as a fire starts. I’m sure they’ll come up with something.
Forlornly, it surveyed the never-ending parade of humanity before its prison. The cold metal bars casted dark, depressing shadows on everything. Suddenly, it realised that spending a stint as a rouge and rogue fire extinguisher was a bad, bad idea.
Half Life fire extinguisher…
Extinguish all hope, ye who enter here.
Let’s hope the janitor gets fired before the building does.
Shouldn’t this be on fail blog not kludges? What is the kludge? this is clearly fail.
Agreed. This is fail.
I second that motion.
Sign: “In Case Of Fire Break the Four Minute Mile Running Away.”
I can guarantee this building isn’t in a first-world country. Fire department does their annual inspection and sees this, and they are Closed.
Compromise is in order – Put the glass back, but rig it to a glass break sensor and a very loud alarm.
Are you kidding? How many U.S. nightclubs have to block their fire exits before people will believe you can die in a burning public facility? Meanwhile, plan to BYOFE. Or maybe just some bolt cutters.
In case of fire, revise priorities.
This is at the fire department in Fahrenheit 451.
Just break the lock with a fire extinguisher like in the movies…..oh wait…..
In case of fire claw uselessly at wire mesh. Once fingers are reduced to bloody stumps, aim spurting arteries at base of fire and squeeze wrists.
“In case of fire….pray”
Look kids, the Fire Extinguisher Exhibit! See how they tried to mimic it’s natural habitat? Jimmy! Get your fingers out of there before they get bitten off!
Actually, such stupidity happens in the USA also. About 30 years ago, I worked as a factory security guard while going through college. One day, I got to work and found that maintenance had installed padlocks on all of the fire exits in the warehouse. I filed a fire-hazard report (a standard form), but took the non-standard step of stating, on the report, that I was going to report the situation to the fire inspector if the locks were still in place a week later. They were gone within a day, and I never heard back any response from my superiors (I worked for a security company, not directly for the factory).
Good on you!
Common sense isn’t so very common… as proven by the majority of kludges on this site, of course.
Incoming FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- moment in three, two…
It’s okay. The pressure is gone anyway.
Lock up the matches too. ‘R son is out of jail.
The sign right off the camera – ‘In case of fire hope you remembered the intangibility drive…’
they left the top corner open a smidge, just to give you the same amount of hope..
I sprayed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Fire-som Prison Blues
In case of fire, break hand
When it grows to full size we’ll set it free.
Box next to, containing bolt cutter reads:” break glass in case of fire”
Whats that in the bottom of the case, under the extinguisher? whatever it is, it looks flammable. Maybe the plan is to heat the fire extinguisher up to the point where it explodes and extinguishes the fire…. and kills the surrounding people with shrapnel…
Looks like straw to me. I think they’re keeping it as a pet. It’s only little, perhaps it’s a young one that’s imported from somewhere and still in quarantine?
Here Carbie Carbie…. who’s a good Carbon Dioxide extinguisher? You are, oh yes you are… let’s go get you some extinguisher chow so you can grow up big and strong.
Now rental by laws. Eryone must have a sledge hammer or a gun to break out the fire extinguisher in case of fire.
“So how doe I get to the extinguisher? Seriously man, the building is on fire. Dude I can see the fire! How do I get to the-Ahahhhh! I’m burning! I’m burning!”
Stop whining.
You see…it’s more likely that someone will steal the extinguisher than that there will be a fire. They’re just following the laws of probability.
Actually, I think the failure here is to communicate– we just need a little sign with some instructions. Pull up on the hinges, and the door swings open the opposite way. Counterintuitive, right? Otherwise, I am SURE the ‘wire’ is actually woven from straw that’s been painted over a few times (see the kindling in the bottom?), or maybe that the whole front of the box removes, leaving the extinguisher behind on a shelf.
So from now on when I see something like this, I will assume the Powers That Be have my best interests at heart: first I have to exercise my creative thinking skills (and let’s face it, we all need mind stimulation built into our days if we want to compete, kids!), and then I can save myself from an excruciatingly painful death. That’s a win-win situation for everyone! Right?
This photo was probably taken in a correctional institution, where an FE could easily be turned into a weapon. Note the pieces of missing mesh, most likely used to make a shiv..
Having used up his one allowed phonecall for that week, the fire extinguisher waits hopefully that the parole board will have mercy… his was a first-time offence, after all. And the fire he’d put out was a very little one, in a waste-paper basket in an out-of-the-way corner…
Maybe the kludge is the inspection tag on the handle being locked in there too!
> Actually, such stupidity happens in the USA also.
Sigh. Yes, it does.
It always lasts less than a year (because as soon as the annual fire inspector comes through it gets fixed in eleven different kinds of a hurry), but it happens.
> stating, on the report, that I was going to
> report the situation to the fire inspector if
> the locks were still in place
That’ll take care of it. (Just in case anyone is wondering, that’s a threat that has teeth. Any fire inspector *will* investigate a report like that, and if it turns out to be true, let’s just say he would not be amused.)
If another fire extinguisher gets arrested, will they just let this one go?
UMmm.. shouldn’t this one be in the Fail blog?
uh sorry thats been said already…now i fail hehe