• SickDisturbence@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 months ago

    As a gift to my friends who were going to be first time parents, I bought them a pack and play, a first aid kit, and a fire extinguisher. They laughed at my fire extinguisher gift and told their other friends who also laughed.

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      10 months ago

      Laugh all they want burning alive is a shit way to go. And you might have saved them from that fate.

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        10 months ago

        Just to be pedantic, I think most people who die in building fires perish due to smoke inhalation. Still bad though, and almost completely preventable!

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      10 months ago

      Awh, that’s kind of crappy. I’m hoping they just took it as a gag gift; be prepared for anything, a bit like Jack Jack in The Incredibles.

      I hope theynever have to use it, but I hope they do learn how important it is.

      Same for cleaning dryer lint; before I was born the entire family who lived across the road from my mum perished in a house fire from dryer lint catching.

      Also add Carbon monoxide detectors to that list of devices you never want to need, but should never be without

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        10 months ago

        Dryer lint fires are so strange to me. Cleaning out the lint trap takes less than 5 seconds, and I do it with every load. I pulled the dryer hose off last weekend to clean it, and it was spotless, presumably because I clean the lint from the trap.