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<p>[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 3925083, member: 101265"]It’s haunted. </p><p>When my wife and I married in’76 smoke detectors were a novelty and we received one as a wedding gift and I hung it in our kitchen. Before long it began to beep all the time and I replaced the batteries several times before taking it down and removed the batteries from the unit. Obviously it was defective and I planned to return it for a new one. </p><p>BUT IT KEPT BEEPING!!! God’s truth! It was in the trunk of my car for a couple of weeks and every 2-3 minutes it went off. when we returned it store owner kept telling me what happened was impossible. He was holding it with the battery hatch removed when it went off. He threw it down and jumped back. He looked like he had seen a ghost. He told us to go get another one and we never had another issue. But it sure was strange[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 3925083, member: 101265"]It’s haunted. When my wife and I married in’76 smoke detectors were a novelty and we received one as a wedding gift and I hung it in our kitchen. Before long it began to beep all the time and I replaced the batteries several times before taking it down and removed the batteries from the unit. Obviously it was defective and I planned to return it for a new one. BUT IT KEPT BEEPING!!! God’s truth! It was in the trunk of my car for a couple of weeks and every 2-3 minutes it went off. when we returned it store owner kept telling me what happened was impossible. He was holding it with the battery hatch removed when it went off. He threw it down and jumped back. He looked like he had seen a ghost. He told us to go get another one and we never had another issue. But it sure was strange[/QUOTE]
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