Aaarrrggg!!!!

[NightAngel]

*urge to kill rising*

So, there's a toy... somewhere. I envision that it's one of those police cars with the sirens that work or something... it's been going off since 1:00 this morning!!!

I CAN'T FIND IT!

Every time I think I'm close I'm wrong. I have this image of it being inside an air duct or something... I just don't know! I've searched and searched...

IT'S DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE! :hairpull:

If there are higher powers they have given this toy an insanely long battery life. It doesn't even sound as though it's going to give out anytime soon.

I have a hammer ready for when I do finally find the damn thing. :devil:

[NightWolf]

:roll:

that reminds me of the Dennis Leary skit where he complains about "The Toys that Make the Noise!"

If you can find it, I'm sure you'll find some hilarity that hits all too close to home for ya. ;)

On a side note, take some before and after pics when you do find it. :D

[LostMyMind]

:lol: Are you sure it's not your smoke detectors? mine had a bad habit of going off at night. (I yank those damn things off my ceiling and toss em)

[NightAngel]

Nope. Not a smoke detector.
The last place we lived had the smoke detectors hard mounted/wired into the walls. One day one of them went crazy and would not turn off- no matter what I did. My youngest child had his hands over his ears, crying (poor kid) and it was driving me crazy...

I literally ripped it out of the wall and left it hanging by part of one wire. :lol:


Oh... and just moments ago my hubby also did *something* and made the noise stop! We still can't FIND it but he like, kicked the wall and it quit. How a toy got IN the wall is beyond me. :confused:

[stormtreader]

I literally ripped it out of the wall and left it hanging by part of one wire. :lol:


Lee Evans moment: :D
Went to a friends house and saw just wires hanging out of the ceiling
"What happened here?"
*Looking scary and holding up hand like holding a hunting trophy*
"I KILLED IT!" :lol:

[NightAngel]

LOL!

That's exactly what I said to my hubby when he came home and asked me what happened to our smoke detector... :D

[sportsmom]

My experience with toys was not nearly as annoying, and I actually can laugh about it now...

About 8 years ago there were these toys out called something along the lines of "Peekaboo Big Bird." You put his hands over his eyes and when you take them away he yells "Peekaboo!"

One night I came home and the house was entirely dark and no one was home, I walked in, turned on the light and heard a voice yell "Peekaboo!" Oldest dd had left the damn thing in the living room. I nearly jumped out of my skin. At the time I was rather pissed about it, but now I can laugh.

[Tanasi]

My kids got me one of those Billy Bass things several years ago, I hated it and kept it turned off. The oldest and one of her nerdy friends found on the internet how to change the chip where the music and flopping around was located. I came home real late one night and went into my office when across the room all I could make out was a dark shape about my height and the shape said "Freeze MF or I'll kill you!!!!" I was backpeddling and cleared leather and shot the shape (the house was empty) several times before it finally went down. I was shaking like I'd been eating peach seeds and feeling like I'm about to stroke out and fall backwards into the garage. Neighbor hears the shooting, calls the law and comes-a-running with his gun (he doesn't want to miss out on a good shoot out). He beating on the lower garage door, I'm laid out in the floor (cause I can't freaking breath) and the air is filled with gun smoke. Neighbor finally gets through the door finds me and drags me outside (not an easy feat). Deputy shows up in a few minutes and proceeds to clear the house and comes out laughing. The ambulace arrives and they think I'm hyperventaling and I get to breath into the bag and I finally calm down. A few minutes later I'm OK but still shaking a little. The deputy says follow me what I find is out that I had shot my coat rack in twain, shot up a real nice duster, and the concrete wall behind it. That damn fish was laying in the floor still flopping and cussing.
When the wife found out what happen she beat that child like a rented mule and I didn't feel the least bit sorry for her.
OK that really didn't happen but it makes a good story. What actually happen was I came in the thing started cussing at me and scared the crap out of me. The wife did beat the child like a rented mule and I also didn't feel the least bit sorry for her. I have also been scared by my coat rack right after I first got it.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Good grief . . . I went through that last night w/one of the cats.

I kept hearing a cat while I was on the front porch, but couldn't find where the mewing was coming from. After a few minutes of hearing it, I got off the porch and went into the yard to see what was going on (it was late and dark.)

The noise kept getting louder and I turned toward the house. Rover, my big white cat, was on the rooftop and couldn't figure out how to get down.

He spotted me and kept getting louder, so I started walking around toward the side of the house and told him to follow me to the back. Good kitty he is, he followed and meowed until I got to the back deck and looked around for how to get him down.

Then I remembered that the gas grill is beside the back door. The other cats use it to jump down on when getting off the roof, so I started patting the top of the grill.

He got the message, as well as the spirit after a couple of minutes and jumped down onto it. Perfect landing.

I seem to be a den mother here at home too.:lol:

[Acolyte]

Tanasi, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.

Saaayyy...do you happen to still know of the guy who changed the chip?:rolleyes:

[Tanasi]

Tanasi, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.

Saaayyy...do you happen to still know of the guy who changed the chip?:rolleyes:

I have no idea where she got that except off the internet. I'll ask her tomorrow. I ran that thing through the wood chipper not long after that.

[NightAngel]

You know how some light switches are attatched to a plug-in? Effectively when you turn off the light switch you cut power to the plug- in.

Anyhoo~ when my eldest son's Dad and I were still together he had the genius idea of plugging the stereo into one of those sockets so when he walked in the door at night he could flip the switch and both the light and the stereo would come on at the same time.

He didn't tell me.

I come home to a dark house flip the switch- at this point two things happen:
The light bulb blows (bright flash/pop>dark) and the stereo comes on just as the DJ is yelling *something*.

I had vaulted the porch rail and was half way across the yard before I realized loud music was coming from the house.
:lol:

[AFpheonix]

The noise kept getting louder and I turned toward the house. Rover, my big white cat, was on the rooftop and couldn't figure out how to get down.


We had a ladder set up on the deck at the house I grew up in while we were spending a few days powerwashing and treating the cedar shakes. Well, one day, we got done, but didn't take the ladder down until after dinner. I went to my bedroom to read for awhile, and heard the cat meowing somewhere, but I couldn't find her, until I went outside and called for her, and she poked her head over the side of the roof of the front entry. We set the ladder back up and she climbed back down at her leisure.
Anytime after that, if we had a ladder set up, she'd climb up to the roof. Wierdo...
I see her on top of the storage shed next to the barn a lot now at the farm we're at now.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

We had a ladder set up on the deck at the house I grew up in while we were spending a few days powerwashing and treating the cedar shakes. Well, one day, we got done, but didn't take the ladder down until after dinner. I went to my bedroom to read for awhile, and heard the cat meowing somewhere, but I couldn't find her, until I went outside and called for her, and she poked her head over the side of the roof of the front entry. We set the ladder back up and she climbed back down at her leisure.
Anytime after that, if we had a ladder set up, she'd climb up to the roof. Wierdo...
I see her on top of the storage shed next to the barn a lot now at the farm we're at now.

Heehee . . . I used to have a cat who developed a habit of climbing the neighbor's roof - and they have a 2 story house.:eek:

We didn't have a ladder tall enough to reach, so we called our friend New Meat, who has a truck w/a cherry picker on it. He brought it over and got the kitty down.

Did she learn her lesson? Nope. Went through the same thing the next week.

Lather, rinse, repeat for a few more times over the next two weeks. Finally we all got tired of it and she finally stopped doing it after we left her up there overnight.

Sadly, she disappeared not long afterwards.

[kibbles]

The wife did beat the child like a rented mule and I also didn't feel the least bit sorry for her.

JMO, but I don't think a prank is reason for anyone to get "beaten like a rented mule"

Kibbles

[NightAngel]

I highly doubt that Tanasi and his wife are child abusers and I'm guessing there was some embellishment for the sake of the story.

Let's NOT turn this into a parenting debate. Thanks.

[kibbles]

Don't worry, I won't turn this into a parenting debate, it's just that comment threw me off a bit.

[susan]

About 8 years ago there were these toys out called something along the lines of "Peekaboo Big Bird." You put his hands over his eyes and when you take them away he yells "Peekaboo!"

One night I came home and the house was entirely dark and no one was home, I walked in, turned on the light and heard a voice yell "Peekaboo!" Oldest dd had left the damn thing in the living room. I nearly jumped out of my skin. At the time I was rather pissed about it, but now I can laugh.

I had a similar experience with a "Tickle Me Elmo." I was staying over at my sister's house and my niece just loooved to show me all of her "best friends" (stuffed animals). She would bring each one out, one by one, tell me where it came from, drop it on the floor and grab another one. As you can imagine, at the end there would be quite a big pile of stuffed animals on the floor. Her "TME" was the newest toy, so he ended up on the bottom of the pile.

Anyway, I'm about to go to bed, everyone else in the house is asleep, I turn off the last light and start walking across the living room and accidentally kick the pile. All of a sudden I hear this, to me, demonic laughter coming from nowhere. My heartrate just about doubled until I realized what it was.

[Becks]

I have this really big Winnie the Pooh that makes sounds when you squeeze it. One night I fell asleep with it on my bed. At some point in the middle of the night, I rolled over on it and when it giggled it scared the crap out of me. I'm barely concious, but I grabbed it and threw it across my bedroom. Good story for the next morning. :lol:

[Bella_Vixen]

I bought my mom a screaming monkey doll. Truely horrendous. One night, I threw my jacket and work bag on the recliner, not knowing that the damn monkey was there. Scared the living Jesus out of me. I almost had a heart attack. The family thought it was hilarious when I told them about it.