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If you're really evil, you hide the device above the wall mount bracket of a fire detector.

Wicked.

...what made you so evil?

Yay

Pipek dręczyciel

I swear you made this joke before.

Ooh, THAT's what that is!

Thanks for adding alt text!

Go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

This reminds me of a story my uncle told me, where he and some buddies housesat and the last day they put low batteries in a smoke detector and put it in the insulation in the attic. Muffled randomish chirps ahoy

Do it with the smoke detector low battery beep

This actually happened to me with a CO detector with low battery on the cupboard right next to the fire alarm. We were trying to figure out what was wrong with that alarm for over a week.

Or you could use these:

Dude - do you not think that maybe something more - topical might have been called for ?

That's pure evil

Du warst bei NSFW neine erste Begegnung damit :-)

The environmentally conscious alternative is Midwife Toads, which emit an identical sound around dusk as the weather warms up in spring and summer. (Took us weeks to realise it *wasn’t* an electrical device slowly dying in an external cavity wall)

Calm down, Satan.

dammit i put it in the wall upside down

Or a camera shutter sound.

Stray Boops!? No problem, I got a Sonic Reducer, ain't no loser

every summer for the past few years, i'd hear the faint sound of what i thought was my neighbor's alarm clock, usually around 2-5am. it was only last month that i realized it's actually the sound my basement dehumidifier makes when it needs emptying

Fatality

They probably learned it from you making work noises in your sleep.

That’s so much more practical than burying a giant Bluetooth speaker under their window & blasting the Ramones at 3AM. Less disturbing to their neighbors.

we're in a new xkcd century now! day 37 of factoring 3100 = 2×2×5×5×31

I had that thing. Used it on my boss. It was *amazing.*

I miss thinkgeek! I think that was the annoy-a-tron.

Sending you strength.

Uh oh.

Again I have to say: the Annoy-a-Tron was the best thing ThinkGeek ever sold.

Freaking irritating...

My electronics teacher did this

Someone send this to @shankarvedantam.bsky.social 😅

I was never aware that made a sound...

r/foundsatan

Saw a college prank that was taking the player out of a musical greeting card and putting it in the light globe that was in the center of the ceiling in the target's dorm room....

We had that in my high school. It cured me of biology.

It probably won't work on those who can somehow ignore the incessant dying battery chirp of a smoke detector.

The dripping water virus.

I currently have three of those old Annoy-a-trons sitting on my desk in front of me, never used.

Ahh, good ol' ThinkGeek...

One of the "version 1" ThinkGeek Annoyatrons spent time inside a wall socket, inside the back of an office chair, inside the v-shaped slats of a fluorescent ceiling light, among many other places. I really miss that thing.

Or chooses randomly... USB connecting, OR USB disconnecting.

diabolical

I turned off notifications for most apps on my phone, but for one I must have only turned off the notifications and not the sounds. Sometimes I get a notification sound without any notification showing up. I’m still refusing to go through all of my apps in the settings to figure out the culprit tho

🤣

I had forgotten that my library uses RFID tags in books to scan them in and out. So for the first few times when I kept my phone on a book it would make an affronted "what are you trying to pair me with?!" beep that I'd never heard of and it was not fun.

hah, thanks auto-correct

I had this happen. Turned out to be the backup battery on my Verizon internet interface in the basement. It would beep every few hours or so. Could hear it in the living room. Finally I figured out when it would beep so I could be ready and track it too the source.

Think Geek used to sell something they called an Annoy-a-Tron that randomly beeped every few minutes, and was designed to be hidden.

I have PTSD from all kinds of sounds in songs, tv shows, games etc that make me instantly think that some kind of device needs my attention. It's so annoying and it's making me crazy.

I remember reading about this type of prank device back in the day. It just beeped at a random interval instead of making the USB noise, but it's basically the same thing. I just looked it up and it turns out you can buy similar devices for just $14 on Amazon.