Experimenting with unknown devices.
In my quest for stained glass to make things out of, I found myself one day at the city's highway department. They were taking down the old traffic lights that used incandescent bulbs and replacing them with LED arrays. The guy in charge pointed out the scrap heap and told me to help myself.

In the scrap heap I also found a strange thing, shaped approximately like a bell, mounted on a bracket. I asked the guy what it was and he shrugged. "Maybe one of those detectors to control the lights? You know, the kind that beeps and looks for an echo?"

Sounded fun to me, so I took it along with the lenses.

Closer inspection showed that it required standard household current to run, and it had two wires sticking out the side. So I did what any idiot would have done- I attached a power cord to it.

I stood in my workshed for a moment, extension cord in one and and plug in the other. What it it was some sort of microwave emitter? Better have it pointing down just in case. I set it on its front end plugged it in.

No microwaves emerged. Nothing dangerous happened. But standing there enclosed in my 12'x12' workshed with the door closed I had a working air raid siren going off at my feet.

It took me a half hour to stop shaking and to hear properly again.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 10 Aug 2012, 18:48, 7 replies)

So you own a shed?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 18:50, closed)

You're really begging for the banhammer, aren't you?

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 10 Aug 2012, 18:56, closed)

For asking a question about your post?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 19:05, closed)

hAHAHA!

( skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 12 Aug 2012, 12:11, closed)

Hahahahahahaha
fantastic!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:02, closed)