Stupid Invention Of The Week

Actually, the device itself locks around your wrist like a big handcuff so that you stand out in a crowd with a big hunk of metal on your arm. I have actually seen this device demonstrated in some old film reels.

While it is obviously stupid to trap someone in a fire, the principle is actually quite a good idea however.

By that I mean to place a “marker” on who ever sets off the alarm. eg. it could be a small amount of spray paint, or perhaps a brush marker seen only under ultraviolet light, etc. etc.
This would be invaluable to the police, and the fire services, who are harassed and placed at considerable risk by any false alarm. (eg. traffic accident rushing to a false alarm.)

I think something like this (a marker system) could easily be adopted by the fire services, conceivably made compulsory for large building alarms, and perhaps even profitable for manufacturers!

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A lot of the fire alarms back then weren’t IN buildings. It was common to have a fire alarm box every few blocks.

I live in an area with a high concentration of old victorian houses, and they didn’t get around to removing the old fire alarm boxes until a few years ago.

u could just put your hand over top or around it duh it makes no sence

Actually, J. Thomas, That system is actually used in some buildings suck as schools. When you pull the handle, it sprays ink on your hand, so they can tell who pulled the alarm.

they could’ve made it where if it had something to detect fire and so if someone pulled the trigger u would be stuck but if it smelled fire or something it would let u go

Yes, it’s actually a pretty good idea. These fire alarm boxes were found every few blocks, and if some slow minded looser pulled the alarm because he/she thought they would crap their pants laughing about it, they would be stuck there. Obviously the firemen can’t tell it’s a false alarm from the department, so they rush out and when they find said looser stuck to the alarm, they toss them a bone and let them out, then toss them into some jail time.

at my school when a fire alarm is pulled there is some black ink that shoots out and get on your hand..
it only comes off with a certain solvent.

dumbass americans, wat if there really was a fire and the person burned to death because their hand was stuck!! FUKIN ASSHLE AMERICANS!!! irelanD made that country, we populated in the 40′s, to bad its turned to a load of BOLLOX wit a load of fatties in the country, and a load of bad ozone emmisions! FATTIES

Do your research. You weren’t attached to the alarm itself, but it detached when the alarm was pulled, so you could walk away. the only way to get it off however, short of a blow torch, was to get the fire brigade to remove it, and when they did i’m sure they incurred a hefty fine too.

In addition to that, most fire alarms back then weren’t in the buildings, but rather on the streets.

I cannot beleive the stupidity of some of the comments along with the off the cuff assumptions about the device. The device was used on city fireboxs that were outside, mounted on posts affixed to the sidewalk, found at intersections. There were two at the corner of each intersection opposed diagonally from each other.

Fire saftey at the time was,”If you see a fire, yell fire as loud as you can and get out. Go to the nearest firebox and call for help. Stay at the firebox to assist the firemen to the location of the fire.”

To activate the alarm, a person had to reach their hand up inside the cover and turn a knob, or as the called it at the time, a “dial”. When the alarm was activated, a loud bell started ringing and a signal was sent to the station. Reaching inside with a stick or other object to turn a round knob put the pranktser in a time consumming situation.

It was a different time in our society when the locks were used. These locks were used well into the 50′s. As kids, we knew about the locks, but would always check the fire boxes for “messed up” locks that were broken or had come loose and you could get your hand in without getting caught.

As a kid, when you set one off, you had to RUN! Because any adult around you that realized what you did would grab you and hold you until the cops got there. Nowadays no one would get involved and besides, we have the 911 system and cell phones.

Bottom line is, the locks were very effective at stopping kids (me included) from setting off the alarm as a prank. Naming this device as the “stupid invention of the week” is a very funny irony. Stupid is as stupid does? And all the stupid comments are icing on the cake.

Here is another stupid invention .

I saw an invention for building fire safety recently,and I think it is a bit interesting . Would you take a look?
http://jinshi.selfrescue.googlepages.com/
Do you think it is a crazy idea and the guy is mad ?

Its actually pretty dumb because what if there is a fire and its near the box and they get stuck and by the time the firedapartment gets there there is a dead lumb hanging in the trap with a dead body atached