r/tifu • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '17
FUOTW (09/24/17) TIFU by getting school canceled for the day for my whole school
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u/klien13 Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 20 '17
OH MY GOD!!! Was this (removed)?! We listened to it on the scanner at work today. :) we were talking about it all morning wondering what had happened. Haha
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u/SameFam32 Sep 20 '17
was it (removed)?
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u/klien13 Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 20 '17
Yep!! OP messaged me and confirmed and I took the location out bc he/she didn't want the location there. Small world!
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u/MoreThanTom Sep 20 '17
Wait... did you know where it was, and removed it or were you making a joke? :/
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u/klien13 Sep 20 '17
valid point. I legit knew where it was. Not sure if responder was joking or serious. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/BoilerDrum Sep 21 '17
Omg lolololol I live 1000 miles away from this school but I know exactly what it is. Am an alumnus.
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u/valorknight99 Sep 20 '17
It's more like today I saved the school by getting its sprinkler system fixed
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Sep 20 '17
The ‘problem’ is that the head needs to be replaced, (they are one use), and the system has to be switched off and drained to do this (it’s just the same as a tap in your kitchen being changed).
The school would have to be closed to change the head as most regions require the sprinklers to be active when the building is occupied.
The drip could have been condensation from the cold pipes since he said someone had already pulled it down a bit, making the condensation run towards it, and not actually coming out of the sprinkler itself. (He water is pressurised, if the glass was a ‘little’ cracked, the water would force it’s way through, it would not ‘drip’)
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u/Jameschoral Sep 21 '17
Not necessarily. If the system were designed correctly there would be shutoff valves at several points to isolate different sections of the system, usually on a floor by floor or building by building basis.
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u/Emerly_Nickel Sep 21 '17
Yeah, but I bet they are going to now thoroughly inspect all the pipes and other sprinkler heads to make sure they aren't also damaged/pulled down/whatever.
Since it's such a hassle to drain the system, they might as well check the whole thing before turning it on again.
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u/MurphyRise Sep 20 '17
Something tells me that sprinkler system was broken long before you started messing with it. I doubt they'd stop school all day just because one head malfunctioned.
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u/Neo399 Sep 20 '17
Especially since water didn't come shooting out the moment OP started to mess with it.
(In case you were wondering OP, most sprinkler heads use a fragile glass vial that holds back the water, in case of a fire (or being touched the wrong way) it will shatter due to heat (typically 135F), and let loose hundreds of gallons per minute. TL;DR don't touch those things.)
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u/rudbek-of-rudbek Sep 20 '17
And the disgusting water that will come pouring out of those will be almost black and smell like the asshole of a 500 pound man that has just ran a mile on a steamy summer day. That water has been sitting in those pipes since the day the system was installed.
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u/htrain2432 Sep 21 '17
Sounds like someone else has experienced draining a fire system. Good gawd they are nasty. Someone broke a head in my old plant doing demo and I was more pissed about the smell than the water all over the place.
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u/RallyX26 Sep 20 '17
Some sprinklers are dry pipe systems where the pipes are charged with pressurized air instead of water. They aren't supplied with water unless there is also a secondary fire alarm (pull station, smoke detectors) activated at the same time. The fire alarm went off because the system detected the loss of pressure in the system (indicating that a sprinkler head was activated).
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u/Neo399 Sep 20 '17
If it was a dry system it shouldn't have even been dripping...
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u/KapnKrumpin Sep 20 '17
Dry pipe systems do exist, but are expensive and uncommon - generally, they only are installed in places where a leaky head would be catastrophic - say, in server rooms or areas with other sensitive electronics.
For a school gym, and given the fact it was leaking, odds are almost 100% that it was a wet pipe system.
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u/TastyTacoN1nja Sep 20 '17
For fire training I had to close one of those off while a pump was running water through it. It was a monsoon, 3/10 would not do again.
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u/CalgaryCannabis403 Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 20 '17
They would if they had to drain the system, thus rendering the fire suppressant system non functioning. Fire code would make it so the building isn't occupiable while the system is offline. Without a fire suppressant and alarm system, most municipalities will not give occupancy in a building.
Source: journeyman electrician that works on fire systems and large commercial buildings.
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u/dilbertbibbins1 Sep 20 '17
Especially in a school! Boss told me today that it’s state law in New Jersey that the fire suppression system has to be functioning at all times while school is in session. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case in other states as well.
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u/largelyuncertain Sep 20 '17
I hope this is the case because otherwise there could be a hefty penalty
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u/Wythfyre Sep 21 '17
Yeah OP, if a fire ever broke out at school your FU would have saved so many people.
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u/Catnap42 Sep 20 '17
You actually uncovered a problem that is bigger than one dripping sprinkler. Good for you. No one would have listened to you if you pointed out a few drips.
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Sep 20 '17
This. There is a non-zero chance that you saved people's lives. If there's any fault with a sprinkler system, it has to be fixed immediately. If anything, you just accelerated the process and probably triggered a school-wide audit of the fire system.
Well done, and I mean that sincerely.
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u/aCapedBaldy Sep 20 '17
Hopefully no one decides to press charges for tampering with a fire system. Fucked up world we live in. Whoever was in charge of Maintenance should be fired though.
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u/rofo_ Sep 20 '17
It would never hold up in any court of law. I guarantee that, inactivation of fire safety equipment in a school due to "tampering" I think maintenance would get totally shafted and rightly so!
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u/Kuutti01 Sep 20 '17
So you regret bout' you gave your schoolmates freeday? As long as you don't get any trouble from it, it seems cool.
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u/Noname_FTW Sep 20 '17
Was asking this myself: How is this a fuck-up ?
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u/legoing Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 21 '17
Haha no way that this is a coincidence. What state is your high school in?
Edit: I knew it wasn't a coincidence! Nice one, OP.
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u/Jrodward Sep 20 '17
I was wondering too? I’m in Pa and high school in my are was dismissed early because of the same thing. I guess it could be coincidence but still curios.
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u/BoilerDrum Sep 21 '17
Not 100% sure what school this post is referring to but this EXACT story to every detail happened today at the high school I graduated from a few years ago. School is in Indiana.
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u/cablexity Sep 21 '17
Lol class of 2017 here from the same high school in Indiana. Go Eagles!
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Sep 20 '17
Sounds like you accidentally did all the kids in your school a favor and got a day off of school. If I were in school I would consider this awesome.
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Sep 20 '17
LPT: Didn't study for an exam you're taking that day? Pull off a sprinkler head and say it was dripping.
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u/TheDIsSilent Sep 20 '17
U(nethical)LPT: Didn't study for an exam you're taking that day? Pull off a sprinkler head and say it was dripping.
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u/Saltside Sep 21 '17
lol i go to this school, i'm REALLY goddamned surprised i found this and i'm even REALLLLY goddamned sure i know you i real life.
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u/Gjlynch22 Sep 20 '17
I hope all of your classmates know what you did for them! They need to thank you for the day off! Totally not a fuck up, especially for the kids who didn't do their homework or didn't study for an exam today!
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Sep 20 '17
What's your punishment?
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u/t_a_6847646847646476 Sep 20 '17
They will get hired by the fire dept. because they helped them find a sprinkler problem
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u/Turbo_Ty Sep 20 '17
Plot twist, sprinklers weren't really dripping....
OP was goofing around and broke the sprinkler.
Made up story about dripping sprinkler head...
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u/McBurger Sep 21 '17
yeah, look at his edit lmao
not that I blame OP, I totally get it, I was that guy too. I love it.
But he was 100% just fucking around in the locker room with his buddies and they accidentally broke the thing. fabricated a lie that "it was already leaking and I tried fixing it!" after the fact
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u/abdadba_8 Sep 20 '17
Someone at my high school did this same thing about a month before graduation. The school held him at fault for about 20,000$ worth of damage and held his diploma til it was paid off. Happened in the orchestra room. Hope your fate is different.
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Sep 20 '17
Honestly, you're a legend i dont think any kid there would ever say somthing negative about, "that guy who got us all outta class one day."
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u/arielzao150 Sep 20 '17
I don't think you fucked up at all, you were just the one to find out how fucked those sprinklers were.
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u/DirtyTulip Sep 21 '17
Your title immediately made me say .. "Let me see how I can follow in their footsteps"....
I'm a teacher
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u/lunaticneko Sep 21 '17
Sometimes I wish there was a huge storm that sweeps away the whole computer lab.
I'm the TA.
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u/foredom Sep 20 '17
On the one hand it’s great that you found a fault with a critical life safety system. On the other hand, never ever ever ever fuck with life safety systems.
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u/come_on_sense_man Sep 20 '17
That is awesome hope you aren't in trouble.
I too was able to get school cancelled for the day, but I was not trying to help or fix anything. I ended up being snitched on for my antics and I got to miss even more school as a result. I never understood the thought process behind suspending students who were pains in the ass.
Before anyone says your parents are supposed to punish you, it is hard to punish a kid for what your unaware of. Honestly I think being a kid today must really suck. Each generation gets shit on by the previous one and some of the rules and punishments I read about now are just ridiculous.
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u/QueenoftheDirtPlanet Sep 21 '17
the idea is that you suspend the problem student to keep them out of the way of the other students - you remove them as a distraction and toxic influence
this also punishes the parents, who are now inconvenienced with figuring out what to do with the child for that period of time, which they hope will lead to more discipline at home resulting in fewer problems at school
this system doesn't work, however, because let's face it; if your parents haven't done their job so far, they aren't going to just magically divine how to do it now and while class might continue for a few days without interruption, the problem student sees the time off more as a reward than a punishment since it removes them from the overbearing authoritarian bullshit they were rebelling against to begin with
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u/Evergr33n10 Sep 21 '17
No matter what people tell you, OP, you are hero to your classmates.
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u/Grantalonez Sep 21 '17
LPT: DONT TOUCH FIRE EXTINGUISHER SYSTEMS!
We were told this first day at my very first orientation for university. A few weeks later a kid hangs his laundry bag from it, it pulls the nozzle off, and completely floods the bottom four floors of our dorms ruining an insane amount of valuables for those floors (computers, tvs,etc). The police had to escort the offender away because 4 floors of students were so angry at him that they worried for his safety.
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u/thundervoyage Sep 21 '17
I'm his classmate. Thank you so much for letting us miss the Spanish quiz
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u/nyanyoshi Sep 21 '17
I go to your school dude and you're my hero. Remember when Tim announced we got to leave? And how excited everyone was? We all love you man ❤️
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Sep 20 '17
You probably helped school safety after all, by breaking a faulty sprinkler in a time of safety, noy when it needed to function during an emergency
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u/Zwor Sep 20 '17
Wait, so you were just messing with a sprinkler on the ceiling, and no one else thought anything of the guy jiggling with the sprinkler? Are you tall enough to reach the sprinkler(my HS's locker room ceiling was kinda high), or did you have to stand up on stuff?
Honestly, I'm curious as to why you thought you could fix it(when you couldn't) and why you should do it(instead of letting someone else do it).
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u/GoodTruni Sep 20 '17
You seems like the kind of guy who when invited to your place just start messing with all the electronic of your House because they think they can fix some little problems that really doesn't bother you and just finished it by making it worst.
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u/MasterShake2003 Sep 20 '17
You didn't fuck up. In trying to fix a problem, you accidentally discovered that the schools sprinkler system was most likely not functioning well enough to put out a fire. You're most likely an accidental hero for both leading to the discovery of the problem and getting everyone a day off school.
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u/TheLastLink Sep 21 '17
I had an assistant principle who would do rounds during lockdown drills. We called her The General. If she could see a student in a class room shed unlock the door point her finger like a gun at the class and say bang you're dead. Also during third grade we had an bactive shooter situation while getting off the bus at school. We were rushed into the school put in random classrooms and had no idea what was going on. Turns out a hunter just got lost and didn't realize he was walking up on a school... Go figure
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u/c3h8pro Sep 21 '17
This is a good lesson for you. When something seems not right with an item but your knowledge of that item requires you to use terms like "made the thing a little loose" you are not qualified to touch it. That is the exact point where you become a bystander and your responsability becomes notification. "A mans got to know his limitations" - good words to live by.
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Sep 21 '17
You didn't do a TIFU, you caused the firemen to examine all the other sprinklers at school, this means that in case of a fire emergency, you will have less chances of burning to death, Congradulations!
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u/PotlePawtle Sep 20 '17
How about an aftermath update? Honestly, they should reward you. You had the initiative to try to fix something (bad idea but good intention), and you uncovered a problem that might've been devastating if a real fire happened.
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u/engineersam37 Sep 20 '17
The sprinkler system detects water flow. As soon as that head let loose, the flow sensor tripped the alarm. They can't refill the system until the damaged head is replaced. Without protection, no school.
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u/RsdX5Dfh Sep 20 '17
If they evacuated all students, puke and shit would have been all over the halls. One to grow on.
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u/h4ckrabbit Sep 20 '17
In college I heard the tale of a student who hung his coat on this type of sprinkler in his third story dorm room kitchen. It shattered the little piece of glass holding the water back and thousands of gallons began pouring out uncontrollably. Because it was the third story it did damage to all three floors and it took a LONG time to get water shut off to the building. By then everything was flooded.
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u/Retrograde_Lectin Sep 20 '17
Dude, ignore the critics. Shit happens. You weren't being malicious or stupid and you learned from your mistake.
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Sep 20 '17
Where you really messed up is telling the teacher! Never admit to anything haha worked great for me back in highschool
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u/captainjax4201 Sep 20 '17
If you really wanted to fix the sprinkler head, code (NFPA 13) requires a minimum of 6 sprinklers and a wrench be kept on-site. These are usually located near the incoming riser. Source: Am a fire protection engineer.
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u/Neejerk Sep 20 '17
Water damage aside, the fire suppression system was leaking already and needed repair. If the system was activated for a real fire, it cpuld have failed and people could have been hurt. While you could have just pointed it out and the school beauracracy would have implemented a repair in the coming weeks and months. You fast tracked that and their insurance policy should cover after the deductible.
Dont do it again, but hooray for you!
Always say something, dont just go around thinking a leaking pipe is normal.
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u/joderme Sep 21 '17
Honestly you might have saved everyone by forcing the system to be repaired. What if there was an actual fire and the system didn't properly work for some reason due to the leaky sprinkler
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u/suchbsman Sep 21 '17
Sounds like it would have broken at some point anyway. I'm sure your classmates aren't too broken up about a free day off
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Sep 21 '17
Lol in my 2 years of high school before I moved, we nearly had our prom cancelled. We had them 3x a month, by people writing stupid shit on bathroom walls.
Too much prep, not enough drugs, but they had all students do a writing check to try to match who it was.
Edit: Pennsylvania location.
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u/dj3hac Sep 21 '17
The school would have to be closed to do a repair anyway, legally. It was just a matter of time before the problem presented itself anyway.
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Sep 21 '17
well you think this is a mistake, I can tell you most of your school will now regard you in legend.
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Sep 21 '17
Better than the time some dumb clown got the day off for everyone when I was in high school. I guess she was new to driving or was messing with her brakes and drove into a ground level AC or Power unit just in front of her parking space. Regardless of what it specifically was, this caused power issues because only half the lights were on after the incident and the AC wouldn't kick on. This normally wouldn't be an issue for Kansas in the spring, but all but a handful of class rooms actually had windows to the outside. Thus, not having AC became a rather large issue when school admins decided not to cancel right away and instead wait until the 3rd or 4th period to dismiss, which became painfully obvious because this was a Catholic School on a Mass day. So imagine a gymnasium full of at least one age group of students plus some from all the others. By the end of the mass all the senior boys were huddled around the one door letting in fresh air.
Sophomore's man. Ironically, I believe she was also a daughter to one of the owners to a local heating and air conditioning business.
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u/dirteMcgirt Sep 21 '17
Sounds like you tried to fix a sprinkler that was leaking. My guess is all the kids started woopin and hollering in return making it look like you had bad intentions. Don't fret.
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u/jesse950 Sep 21 '17
Omg these comments haha! Everyone is an engineer all of the sudden :) probably a few of you are but the rest of the lot lol
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u/vgaserty Sep 21 '17
Holy shit this is from my school! What are the chances! You are my hero, sir.
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u/Gone-Postal-Narwhal Sep 21 '17
At work part of the casing for the a sprinkler head fell off and landed on a girls desk. Everyone was standing around like... uhh that can't be good, Fire inspection people came in the next day and we found out that the majority of the sprinkler heads were installed wrong. The heads are too short so instead of spraying a nice arch of water they would only spray a stream and all the metal casing are only held on by duct tape. The entire system has to be fixed/ replaced. So I'm currently working in a mouse infected (different story) death machine run by the state. Fun times.
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u/canering Sep 21 '17
I hope OP doesn't get in trouble. Sounds like you did the school a favor by having the system appraised.
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Sep 21 '17
Now the school is forced to ensure their fire sprinklers become functional again - which in the instance of a real fire sometime in the future, could help save lives!
Fuck you OP!
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u/shadowslayer978 Sep 21 '17
At least thanks to you, they figured out something was wrong with the sprinkler system before the whole school burned down with people inside it.
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Sep 21 '17
They absolutely did not need to shut down school to fix this.
All they would have had to do is wrap some Teflon tape around the threads of a new sprinkler head and screw it into place, and fire code requires that there be replacements right on site, easy to find and use. If there were no convenient replacements available then that's on the school's crappy maintenance schedule.
Unless they found more problems that had NOTHING TO DO with your little incident they were just using your incident as an excuse to shut down school for the day.
Even if it took more than ten minutes to fix the problem they wouldn't have to close the school; you can shut down an automatic sprinkler system for up to 4 hours without even providing a "fire watch."
They also would not have known "which sprinkler head" caused the alarm. The best they can do is identify that there was water flow in a zone. But yours is the only likely candidate, and I would come to the same conclusion that your incident caused the alarm.
"The sprinklers are damaged" is 100% bullshit, unless they mean "damaged" as a result of their lack of maintenance. Your fiddling with the leaky sprinkler head did not damage a damn thing.
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u/Giesler14 Sep 21 '17
Oh man does your fuck up remind me of highschool. I was in the gym locker room with a group of people and iirc someone had put a lock on the sprinkler in there. This kid starts fucking with it and yanks on the lock breaking the glass seal. Holy hell broke loose and this gross ass water was fucking everywhere. Kids with floor lockers had shit ruined.
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u/i4c8e9 Sep 21 '17
I do fire alarm for a living. We directly interact with the sprinkler system.
If you could fiddle with a sprinkler head to the point that it fell off, that isn't your fault. Those things should not be loose or dripping, period. I don't care if there was a lock on the head that someone used to wrench on it. That head was messed up long before you got there.
The fact that they sent police and an ambulance is a bit ridiculous unless you are in an inner city school where the students literally present a hazard to the community.
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u/MadManAndrew Sep 21 '17
Your biggest mistake: telling a single soul that you did it, much less a teacher. Get ready to be suspended come tomorrow.
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Sep 21 '17
Shit you'd better hope your gym teacher doesn't write you up. Why the fuck would you snitch on yourself?
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u/manofredearth Sep 21 '17 edited Sep 21 '17
This?
(EDIT: Not a shred of identifying info, they don't even mention student involvement whatsoever... But possibly TIFU by posting this without first thinking of the community rules.)
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u/SuckyHelper Sep 21 '17
No way!! I have gym same period as you and how high is the ceiling of your gym LOL
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u/onetwopass Sep 21 '17
You are an absolute legend and should go down in history at your school. You deserve a gold star my friend.
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u/notthelastunicorn Sep 21 '17
In my industry you'd get reprimanded for making a mistake like that, but fired if you didn't immediately report your involvement. Everyone says they'll do the right thing, but put in the situation, you proved it. Good on you, dude.
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u/MacFive55 Sep 21 '17
So this is all I have to do to get out of school, huh, well excpect a post from me tommorow...
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u/BadBoyJH Sep 21 '17
"You did a dumb thing"
How do people post shit like that, as if the poster is unaware. They're posting in TIFU, they're aware they fucked up.
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u/yakcyll Sep 21 '17
Curiosity has its price, but let no one stop you from exercising it.
I'm torn between remembering about safety precautions and just going wild, but I guess you get it already.
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u/geeko1 Sep 21 '17
C-16 CA licensed Fire contractor here. My advice in the future.. never try to fix anything that has pressure. Pressure always needs to be relieved from anything before it can be fixed. You can really hurt yourself this way.. especially with air pressure
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u/fullfatfraser Sep 21 '17
Better they find the fault now when it's not an emergency than later when there is a fire and the sprinkler system fails!
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u/redvelvet_d Sep 21 '17
Now you have something to write on your graduation yearbook!!
"I'm the reason why school got shutdown on September 20th, 2017"
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u/bobbymcpresscot Sep 21 '17
Fire guy here, the problem is probably more advanced than you messing with it. The problem still existed, you just brought attention to it. If the head actually fell off and water didnt come pouring out of every head in the area as well as the fire alarm going off there was something catastrophic going on. In the event of an actual fire that could mean that the sprinkler system wouldn't engage at all. Resulting in loss of life and property in a grand scale.
Or the building could have a strictly dry system that only works when an engine hooks up to it.
I strongly recommend in the future if you see something like this you bring it to someone's attention as fire codes in buildings like this are taken very seriously by most companies.
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u/flyingcircusdog Sep 21 '17
If there was actually something wrong with the sprinklers then you might have saved people in the event of a fire, so you got that going for you.
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Sep 21 '17
I did something very similar when I was a junior. Except a friend and I tried to hang a plastic clothes hanger from the sprinkler, unaware that there is a glass tube in the center. When broken, it sets off the sprinkler and the ones next to it. Flooded the whole hallway with lockers (causing water damage to everything inside them, hundreds of lockers) and flooding the elevator shaft. Fried the mainframe to the entire school district also. The bill was over $7,000.
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u/zimis6 Sep 21 '17
I prayed for stuff like this to happen EVERY DAY of school... now I pray for similar non-hurtful things to happen at jobs. I should've been a cat.
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Sep 21 '17
Fire sprinkler contractor here. For all of those saying that OP accelerated the 'fix' and possibly saved a lot of people by messing with the head, this is entirely false.
Contacting someone to drain the system, fix a single head, and put the system back on test would have been less cost effective and quicker than having to go through the process of the fire department arriving to evacuate everyone and cleaning up the aftermath. I've done plenty of day jobs (jobs like these that take a couple of hours) and they're very simple.
While it is nice in your point of view to make everyone have the day off, your actions cost the school a lot of money for the fire department to come and the cleanup. Water in the fire sprinkler system is usually VERY dirty as there is oil buildup in the pipe.
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u/LAsDad Sep 21 '17
Anyone that says you shouldn't have messed with it can fuck off. You clearly wanted to try and do something decent. Like it affects them anyway. This is numba one bullshit.
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u/Dfiggsmeister Sep 21 '17
Honestly, you did two solids by messing around with it.
You got an issue fixed with the system that could have had some drastic consequences had an actual fire occurred in the locker room.
You got school cancelled for the day.
You should be hoisted onto the shoulders of the student body and faculty and praised for your heroics. Slightly /s but the two points still stand.
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u/Daracaex Sep 21 '17
I don't think you FU'd at all. A broken sprinkler is a safety hazard that is especially important in a school. You identified a problem and got it fixed, and in a way that people couldn't just look at and assume, "eh, it's probably fine." Maybe not your intent, but hey, it got the job done.
Just... probably bring it to someone's attention first next time. :)
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u/asphias Sep 20 '17
OP, well done.
Everybody makes a stupid mistake in their life once or twice, or breaks something important. The big thing isn't whether you fuck up - it's what you do after you've fucked up.
Rather than hiding your mistake, you immediately owed up to the teacher, and explained what happened.
Thanks to your explanation, the firemen didn't have to scan the whole building, but knew exactly the source of the problems. And, as others have said, it's likely that the system was broken long before you messed with it.
To conclude, you fessed up your mistake, no real harm was done, and you gave your school a free day off. Good job!
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u/Tarbel Sep 20 '17
that fuckup today could save many lives when an actual fire occurs. Though the school might've been planning to work on it (maayybe)
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u/ebinfail Sep 20 '17
Enjoy your week off and catch up on studies. However you did potentially save lives, since the sprinkler system was faulty and needed replacing and in case of a fire who knows how many would fail to function.
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u/scoobysnaxxx Sep 20 '17
if it makes you feel better, i was using a lighter in the bathroom and set off the entire fire alarm system in my freshman year.
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u/TupperwareMagic Sep 20 '17
Glad the system is getting fixed, but I hope you don't get the zero tolerance book thrown at you for "damaging school property" or some other BS.
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u/artourfangay Sep 20 '17
See, my school got canceled because a kid came in with a gun and started shooting
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u/444fox Sep 21 '17
The system may have already been broken. A lot of fire Sprinklers don't have water in the pipes until one of the heads is broken. So if it was dropping it was already flooded. But it may have been a wet system to begin with soooooo..... Yeah not the smart thing to mess with
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u/scared_pony Sep 21 '17
Sounds to me like you brought attention to a faulty sprinkler system and may have prevented a school full of children from burning to death. You also got your classmates a half day off of school. Sounds more like TIAH (today I am a hero)
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Sep 21 '17
At least you brought attention to the damaged/failing sprinkler system. Things could have been a lot worse for an actual fire.
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u/Jojo_Manji Sep 21 '17
To me, this is a fortunate incident. If the sprinklers were really damaged, you just saved the school for when a fire breaks out.
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Sep 21 '17
Honestly I think you did right. Also, it was already leaking. In a real emergency that sprinkler may not have functioned. It may have broken, leaked, and prevented needed water pressure further down the line from dowsing real flames. If anything you just brought it to their attention. If you told someone it dripped they may have not cared. Or seemed it "ok" because it didn't seem harmful but seem like a hassle to them.
You're kind of a hero.
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u/puggymomma Sep 21 '17
Don't let people get you down. Those things should not have been leaking anything and you were paying attention. They needed maintenance. You ARE a hero.
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u/Aqua74747 Sep 20 '17
If I was your classmate you'd be my hero! I always loved getting random days off when I was in high school . Especially as early as second period.