I am now slightly scared of going into the library at night.

[bunn]

What are they doing? Why are they doing it? What happens to someone who catches them at it???

In other news, I was given a gadget for Christmas that you are supposed to attach to your luggage when you fly, and then when your luggage comes out of the plane it makes a noise, or something like that. I don't really know as I very rarely fly anywhere, so it was kind of an odd gift. Anyway, last night the thing started clicking. And it went on clicking. We could not work out how to stop it... clicking.

In the end I became convinced the clicking was probably guiding killer robots from the future to my house or something, so put it in the garden where I could ignore it. It's now sitting in a bush, still clicking. Am not sure what to do next.

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[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

It's probably communicating with the super-duper, state-of-the-art, battery-lasts-ten-years smoke detector the Fire Brigade insisted on fitting at the top of my stairs, which emits ear-splitting screams every few hours (until I poke it into silence with a knitting needle).

Ten years...

Did the 'thing' not come with instructions?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think it did come with instructions, but I have a policy of only reading instructions as a last resort. :-D

I don't know what I would do with the 'thing' if functioning normally, let alone when weirdly clicking for no reason! The noise is vaguely insectoid, and disturbing!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I was in a library today that had a metal shelving unit that went TICKTICKTICKTICK! whenever anyone walked past it, and kept on ticking for a good five minutes after. I feel that my ticking shelf, your clicking thingy, and the freaky book video are probably all parts of the same story, but I'm not sure what that story is. Hopefully not horror.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That's probably the freaky animated books making notes. They will come after you at night and you will never be seeeeeeen agaaaaaaaiiiinn....

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Someone thought a luggage identification device that TICKS LIKE A TIME BOMB would be a good idea?!?!?!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That angle hadn't even occurred to me (told you I didn't fly often!)

Damn thing was still ticking away in its bush when we got back from dogwalking this evening! I may just quietly bin it. If it explodes in the binlorry, I'm pretty sure it won't be traced to me....

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Quite apart from the bomb thing, what if this became the Next Big Thing, and every suitcase was clicking madly in a Pickme!pickme! sort of way? How on earth would you work out whose was whose (without, like, resorting to actually looking at the things and reading labels, since this is evidentally so old fashioned as to be out of the question.) They'd have to start selling them in loads of different pitches, so we could have an entire luggage orchestra happily performing away on the baggage carousel, while everyone tried to remember if their bag was the one beeping in B flat or the one in F sharp... and what B flat or F sharp actually sounded like, anyway. (People with perfect pitch would be fine. Everyone else would have to carry a tuning fork with them, while airports would have to start employing musicians to help the tone deaf.)

(Oh, and Pellinor points out that tuning forks might be too pointy to be allowed in hand luggage, so first you'd have to find your checked-in luggage in order to dig out the tuning fork which will allow you to identify and find your checked-in luggage.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It was suggested to me that I could attach it to my mobile phone so that I wouldn't lose it. I'm not sure about the logic there - so far as I cansee, I already *own* a gadget that will cause my mobile phone to make loud noises on demand... *boggle*

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

You're sure it's not a geiger counter?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, I am 100% sure the house is not full of radon, because we've already done the whole radon count thing!

[chainmailmaiden]

I liked that, though it was a little scary too. I shall avoid the HOC library at night now!