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Buff · 08-03-2007, 09:25 AM

I hate spiders. Does anybody know if they have hearing and if they can go deaf? I sure hope so.

No, this isn't another story about arachnaphobia, rather a story about the annoyances of spiders.

At roughly 6:00am this morning, an hour before my alarm is set to go off, the smoke detector begins to beep, but stops after less than 5 seconds. up I go to check it out. My house is pretty open and I didn't see any smoke so I decided to investigate the house. No smoke or fires to be found anywhere. I was still groggy and I went back to bed. I probably had been in bed for 30 seconds and the smoke detector starts beeping again for less than 5 seconds. Now I'm worried.

I pull it down from the ceiling (dang I'm tall I didn't even need a step stool). I start to look at the device and read the instructions on it. Nope, it isn't a low battery. Its like an alarm but it just stops... is it malfunctioning? Is there a C02 leak and the ceiling fan is wafting traces of it towards the detector? I carry the device with me down the hall and the moment I step back into the bedroom it goes off again. This time I stopped it after about 7 seconds by pressing "hush". What is going on? Is this thing malfuncioning or should I call the fire department?

I went downstairs and grabbed the other detector and I walked around the house with both devices. Nothing happened. Then as I set the downstairs device on the table, the "malfunctioning" device goes off again, but stops immediately. Ok, something weird is happening. I took out the batteries and I tested them, and as I was putting the batteries back in I saw it. I saw what was causing the thing to go off. A fataing shinguardy little spider was in the smoke detector. I was also suspecting this as it happened in my parents house about 20 years ago.

That little sucker got away too. The alarm didn't go off again for the next hour and a half and then I left for work. So obviously it was the spider.

I hate spiders.

08-03-2007, 09:25 AM	#1
Buff Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: I don't belong here Exp:	Spiders I hate spiders. Does anybody know if they have hearing and if they can go deaf? I sure hope so. No, this isn't another story about arachnaphobia, rather a story about the annoyances of spiders. At roughly 6:00am this morning, an hour before my alarm is set to go off, the smoke detector begins to beep, but stops after less than 5 seconds. up I go to check it out. My house is pretty open and I didn't see any smoke so I decided to investigate the house. No smoke or fires to be found anywhere. I was still groggy and I went back to bed. I probably had been in bed for 30 seconds and the smoke detector starts beeping again for less than 5 seconds. Now I'm worried. I pull it down from the ceiling (dang I'm tall I didn't even need a step stool). I start to look at the device and read the instructions on it. Nope, it isn't a low battery. Its like an alarm but it just stops... is it malfunctioning? Is there a C02 leak and the ceiling fan is wafting traces of it towards the detector? I carry the device with me down the hall and the moment I step back into the bedroom it goes off again. This time I stopped it after about 7 seconds by pressing "hush". What is going on? Is this thing malfuncioning or should I call the fire department? I went downstairs and grabbed the other detector and I walked around the house with both devices. Nothing happened. Then as I set the downstairs device on the table, the "malfunctioning" device goes off again, but stops immediately. Ok, something weird is happening. I took out the batteries and I tested them, and as I was putting the batteries back in I saw it. I saw what was causing the thing to go off. A fataing shinguardy little spider was in the smoke detector. I was also suspecting this as it happened in my parents house about 20 years ago. That little sucker got away too. The alarm didn't go off again for the next hour and a half and then I left for work. So obviously it was the spider. I hate spiders.