It's like Disclave all over again...

[giza]

 

Please do not hang your fursuits, or anything at all for that matter, on a sprinkler system head.

 

(Who else here gets the reference to Disclave? :-)

Comments

[giza.livejournal.com]

PlayItBogart, is that you? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CP--BWVkc)

[crywolf.livejournal.com]

I thought that was Disclave. It's not a well-documented story, but it is well-rumoured. And gave rise to the saying "'Don't be a fucking idiot' should be a safe word."

[giza.livejournal.com]

Whoops, you're right:

http://lists.baka.org/pipermail/animecons/2007-January/008659.html
http://www.greenmanreview.com/live/live_washsf_01_04.html

I've fixed my post accordingly.

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall for the Monday morning meeting with the hotel...

[carlfox.livejournal.com]

It was in a private room, not con space, so it never came up.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'm glad the hotel didn't hold your feet to the fire over that.

One of these years I'll make it down for Megaplex.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I would have worn a wetsuit to the post-con meeting. :-)

[thraxarious.livejournal.com]

I'm... baffled. And with the high concentration of fursuiters that I see in the California bay area, I'm suprised this hasn't happened. I feel sorry for the fellow, and understand. Its one of those dumb things that you might not realize till you think about it. One of those things you see every day and pay no mind of till it jumps up and bites your leg off.

Makes me think a moment about some of the Halon systems that used to be in use out here, and kind of thankful that they are not allowed to be installed anymore.

[streakthetiger.livejournal.com]

I concur.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

granted, while a bit unforgiving, a halon system would prevent repeated mistakes.

[redrob.livejournal.com]

Disclave '97. Heck, there's even a filksong about it.

IDIOT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?

Alex.

[nius.livejournal.com]

Infact, there's more than one.

http://www.apricot.com/~jimcat/sillystuff/disclavefilk.html

And yes, Giza, I recognized the Disclave reference... and I was still in high school then O_o

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Sadly, me, and I wasn't even there.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I've seen signs warning not to hang stuff on sprinkler heads, and well, now I know why! (I've never done it.) Makes sense, though; the water has to come out at high pressure to quickly put out a fire.

[girtygrin.livejournal.com]

You know, out of all the things I've hung my fursuits from in a hotel room the sprinkler never even crossed my mind. Using a saftey device as a coat hook just doesn't even seem like a good idea.

[swift-fox.livejournal.com]

*chuckles at the chuckle heads*

You know, I just had to click the link and read this and when I saw who was involved I just had to laugh all the harder.

Sprinkler heads are there to be an essential part of the fire suppression system of a building. Closet rods are provided for hanging up your articles of clothing. It ain't rocket science folks and on some things...your parents weren't wrong.

Karma's a bitch ain't she?

Thanks for sharing.

Swift Fox

[netcrimes.livejournal.com]

That's why they usually have warning *not* to hang things from them.

[unclekage.livejournal.com]

What floors me is that he's arguing that there should have been a sign telling him not to do such a thing.

Damn it, there SHOULD be a sign! And there should also be a sign that says not to put your head in the toilet. And there should also be a sign that says not to try to stick Little Winkie into the electric socket. And there should be a sign that says not to wrap the pull cord from the drapery around your neck and jump out the window. And there should be a sign that says "THE CON CHAIR WILL EAT THE FLESH FROM YOUR FACE IF YOU EVEN DREAM ABOUT DOING SOMETHING SO MONUMENTALLY STOOPID!"

God, I need a drink.

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

Right there with you, man. I'm...speechless. I'm sure he's a good guy and all, but the lapse in judgment...wow.

And I agree with an earlier comment: I would not want to be part of the concom that got to deal with that. They have my sympathy!

[carlfox.livejournal.com]

No worries. AFAIK, the con itself is not being held responsible; I haven't heard anything else, and it wasn't brought up at the Monday meeting after the con (in fact, we signed the contract for 2008 then).

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

hrm. Conbook picture submissions are still open, too. I'm feeling some artistic inspiration, here.

[giza.livejournal.com]

We should also have a sign that reads:

WARNING: These stairs need to be redesigned.

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

Hey! They finally fixed those stairs. It just so happened that the best way to fix them was knocking the whole hotel down.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I smell a new city motto...

Philadelphia: Curing the disease by killing the patient!

[mrianti.livejournal.com]

Damn it, there SHOULD be a sign , hehe . but that far south would it have been in French also ? He was Canadian after all .)

but remember , accidents do happen .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Oddly, the only hotels I can recall actually having a sign saying not to hang things from the sprinkler heads were far-less-than-fancy ones. I guess at a certain price point they figure you're smart enough to know that a sprinkler head intentionally has some rather fragile parts in it.

I'm not a fursuiter. Since most of my hotel stays are the result of work travel, about the only thing I tend to be concerned about hanging up is a business suit. Even if I'd never seen signs warning against it, I wouldn't even consider hanging that from a sprinkler head. Even if the closet in the room was full for some reason.

Being surprised that the hotel actually expects some kind of comepensation just blows my mind.

[carlfox.livejournal.com]

And there should be a sign that says "THE CON CHAIR WILL EAT THE FLESH FROM YOUR FACE IF YOU EVEN DREAM ABOUT DOING SOMETHING SO MONUMENTALLY STOOPID!"

I gave up eating faces for Lent, myself. Too many calories. :D

He did?

[p-pardus.livejournal.com]

Easy there...
The person at fault never argue that there should have been a sign telling him not to hang anything off the sprinklers, unless he editted that out or I'm missing a sentence (although I've looked over it a few times).

It looks like that some of the commenters suggested that, but then one commenter shot that down saying it was as good an excuse as the hot McDonalds coffee incident.

He also does fess up saying it is his fault and dumb. Although I am sorry for the situation he's in (I do agree it is his fault) he does not try to argue blame on anything else.

I know this person, and of course I know you and how well you are at telling stories. If I am wrong and misread something that does say he's arguing the lack of a sign then please point out where he wrote it to me. Otherwise if there's no indication that he ever argued the lack of a sign for his stupidity then please do not go ranting that he did. It's misleading.

Thank you! *gives you wine*

PS. By "he" I am assuming it's the person who Giza linked to, and not the Disclave incident.

Ahahahaha...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

That happened to one of the dorms I lived in.

250lb jock + itty-bitty sprinkler pipe = 3 floors wiped out.

I'll admit I had a tapestry hanging off mine, but we're talking two unbent paper clips hooked over the pipe a safe distance from the head.