Annoyatron
An "annoyatron" is a small circuitboard with a magnet on it that makes random beeping noises like a digital watch.

I didnt know I needed one of these things until I spotted them for sale on a site in the US. I clearly did need them so I bought a batch.

The first one I stuck onto the back of a work colleagues (and good friend) desk, after everyone had left for the evening and promptly forgot about it.

3 weeks later I happen to be in that part of the office to find my friend literally shouting at the guy on the desk next to him, "its your fucking phone man, get rid of it or Ill get rid of you !!", "fuck off its not me!", situation had clearly got to a boiling point and violence was about to occur between these 2 large men.

I ask them whats going on and am told there is a random beeping noise getting on everyones nerves.

they have already swapped out 2 of the PCs and had the smoke detector replaced..

lol, oops.

At this point I admitted it was me and showed them the circuit board - they were actually more thankful that the mystery was resolved than anything else.

Am still good friends with him.

The second went home with another work colleague on his last day, slipped into the bag he used to take his stuff home with him.

I expected him to take it home and wonder wtf is that sound and eventually find it so I wrote my name on the back of it, thinking we could have a good laugh about it when he found it

but no. The bag got left in his car for a week, then got quickly emptied and was used to take his stuff to glastonbury (yes the big festival).

So the bag was in his tent in a field beeping away. there were a few pissed off people - eventually ending up with a gang shaking his tent telling him to stop it or he will be set fire to. In words that are not that nice.

he did find it after a thorough search , not having realised it was him.

We dont talk anymore.


I still have some left though, just waiting for the right time.
( pregnantfridge, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:51, 15 replies)

you don't need an annoyatron
when you

leave line breaks

between

every sentence
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:21, closed)

That's like an ee cummings poem

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:27, closed)

I just learnt something.

Thanks.
( pregnantfridge, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 16:28, closed)

I think you should consider the possibility
that there may never be a right time to use one of those.

Nuke from orbit seems the most appropriate response.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:45, closed)

its the only way to be sure.

They make another variety that makes ghostly laughs, footsteps etc.

Ive used a couple of those too, left in peoples toilets. they all got a laugh, and I clearly got the blame - would have been off topic so didnt mention them.

sonic grenades are funny too.
( pregnantfridge, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 16:32, closed)

Surely a more appropriate name for those would be "Twat o trons"

(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 18:18, closed)

Depends where you stick 'em
I think they may be a little sharp around the edges for comfort, though. And the sound would be rather muffled.

Muff. Ha ha.
(ubergeekian, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 20:50, closed)

The best ones of these also have a light sensor...
...so they shut up when the lights are on and you can therefore only find them in the dark.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 23 Oct 2012, 10:59, closed)

brilliant, where do I get them from ?
( pregnantfridge, Tue 23 Oct 2012, 11:08, closed)

YES! I need some of these! Where do I get them?!?

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 23 Oct 2012, 11:36, closed)

I had a war with my brother with those.
I ended up breaking into his house when he was out, cutting a curtain open in his bedroom, inserting the annoyatron and sewing it back up.

I did however admit defeat when he removed a light-fitting in my kitchen and slid one well out of reach into the ceiling and re-fitted the light.

I had to wait for the fucking battery to die. They last AGES.

Bastard.
( Hunter Stockton was murdered by a bicycle wielding axolotl,.,.,.,., Tue 23 Oct 2012, 13:17, closed)

bravo sir.
( pregnantfridge, Tue 23 Oct 2012, 15:36, closed)

Click
This appeals to my sense of humour. Well done.
(justin(e), Tue 23 Oct 2012, 16:05, closed)

Taking it to the next level
A friend of mine bought a couple of these a while ago, and after much annoying (hiding under desk, hiding inside desk frame, hiding inside screwed-shut container inside desk etc) from myself and various others as they migrated around the office, it was my turn to up the ante.

I'm a software engineer. I hid the annoyatron inside one of my colleague's PCs, and also wrote and installed a tiny little program that randomly beeped the PC speaker at approximately the same frequency and interval.

Hilarity ensued. The 'first' annoyatron was found after about an hour or so, but the 'second' continued to annoy... and annoy... and annoy.. until I eventually had to reveal the game to prevent myself losing a friend rather permanently.

I'm still rather proud of how red in the face he went every time it went off though.
(Imaginary Ed was dreamed up on, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 14:00, closed)

i applaud your effort sir.
( pregnantfridge, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 14:18, closed)