20 May 2008

"Whoop whoop!"

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I live in the City, Reid to be presise, and I was awoken lastnight by an alarm or siren at around 4:30 or 5am. It’s a real “whoop whoop” sound and it’s even got some kind of PA system, which I can never hear properly.

I hear this stupid alarm going off all the time and I was wondering if anyone knows what it is.

At first I thought it was a fire alarm from the Casino or War Memorial, but now I’m not so sure.

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Fantastic. Thanks guys.
😀

And when writing to the minister, make sure you mention you’re part of a working family.

NoAddedMSG said :

… even if you have already established that the cause is, for example, someone microwaving paper towels (!).

Don’t you hate it when they do that?

Well, now Aussiegal has given a lead on the errant buildings, you should ring them and talk to the building manager, and find out if they’re doing anything about it. I think those are federal gov’t buildings? If you don’t get any joy from them, write to their minister.

I heard it too walking home the night before. Im pretty sure its the alarm system in 33 and 51 Allara Street.

When I was living in an ANU college, the record was 3 fire alarms in 24 hours. The fire brigade always have to come, even if you have already established that the cause is, for example, someone microwaving paper towels (!).

Nothing you can do unfortunately – there’s always something you can do, say for example every time it went off, you threw a brick through their window. While not a legal solution, the real-world result would be they would work out everytime their fire alarm went off at 4am, some guy came down and threw a brick through their window, and they would try to either fix it, or put a security guard in to stop the windows being broken.

Either way, the next time the tech was looking at the fire alarm, they would be encouraged to check it out properly.

10 to 1 it’s Industry House (green building across the road from the Crowne Plaza). Either that or the Aviation Services building next to the Casino.

Nothing you can do unfortunately

CanberraResident10:19 am 20 May 08

Bwa! Just go back to bed and count sheep.

Better still! count all the double-vowel street names in Reid. That oughta droop your eyelids … and you’ll be asleep in no time …

or was that consonants ?

Actualy it’s Ant running around at night in his pretend policeman’s outfit with a loud hailer making policey type noises. He is trying to scare all the drug dealers out of Garema Place because he can’t lead police there to do the job with his taunts or a donout on a string a la donkey style.

Try living in an ANU college, when I lived in one the alarms at Johns and BG used to go off all the time. Then of course you get the fire trucks…

Same thing used to happen on a regular basis out in Belconnen at the now demolished Cameron Offices.
I lived far enough away that the noise wasn’t that loud so turning the telly or stereo up a notch or two would block it out, but it could get quite irritating in the middle of the night.
Worst thing was, because the buildings were empty, it’d take forever for the bloody thing to be switched off/run out of steam.
So, I can sympathise.

That sounds like your standard public building fire alarm. There’s usually a couple of tones (including the wooooop wooooop one), and there’s usually a PA with it to tell people to evacuate the building, or that it is a false alarm/drill etc.
The tones are usually a long beep beeep one, the beeps getting lounder as it goes. Then the whoops start up, which is the signal to evacuate.

So your culprit is any officy/public buildings nearby.

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