Tripped over my own ladder wire and set off the panic alarm at a 24-hour diner in Tulsa at 3am

I was running a new contact on a back door near the kitchen and my extension cord snagged the ladder leg, sending me and my tools flying into the main keypad which the owner forgot had a silent panic programmed. The cops showed up 6 minutes later and the cook just handed me a coffee while I explained to the officer that yes, I was the one who caused the false alarm. Anyone else have a cluttered install site backfire like this?

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loganburns21d ago

Man that's rough... nothing like explaining to a cop at 3am that you're not breaking in, just making a mess of their back door. At least the cook had your back with the coffee, could have gone way worse if they showed up with guns drawn. I've had my extension cord wrap around a mop bucket handle and yank it over, spraying dirty water all over my tools and the floor... customer was not amused.

grant72821d ago

Get some velcro cable ties man, seriously. Wrap them around your extension cord every few feet and it won't snag on anything. I started doing that after a similar mess with a floor buffer cord taking out a whole shelf of cleaning supplies. Saves you from having to explain to a pissed off manager why their floor smells like bleach and pine sol mixed together. Also makes it way easier to roll the cord back up at the end of the night. Cook vouching for you is gold though, that's the kind of thing that keeps you from getting banned from the job.