re: (OT) The old blind pig spot by River Mill

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300-odd fire alarms every year

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A buddy of mine on the 7th floor at Russell was drunk and decided to climb in his closet during a fire alarm and keep sleeping on his stack of dirty clothes. Problem was that night was real fire where somebody but a Sunday AJC (they’d put them outside your door on Sat night if you ordered the paper) on an electric stove and turn on the eye. Real fire that made a mess of the kitchen on that floor. Luckily I was out of town because it became a big deal with fire marshall.

Anyway, he was awakened to a fire fighter in full garb and mask ripping open the closet door and yelling for him to crawl out and go down the steps....full mask and everything......complete with thick smoke filling the halls. It scared the shite out of him. He jumped out and crawled on all fours to the stairs and ran down and outside in his underwear out into the crowd.

He said he thought he was going to die.