In case of emergency, sprout wings and fly

[roserodent]

I am sure we have all seen this one in its many guises, but I thought it was a particularly spectacular example given that nobody of historically recorded human height could have reached this pull cord. It's about 10 feet up.

Comments

[zing_och]

I have to admit that I have no idea what that thing is. Help?

[jackandahat]

You pull to summon help if you have an emergency. It's meant to be a long cord that hangs down low enough you could grab it while on the toilet.

[roserodent]

It's actually meant to hang all the way down to the floor so you can pull it if you mess up your transfer. It's common for them to be cut to the height of the toilet so they don't get in the way of cleaning, or because people in charge of maintaining them have no clue what they are for. They are also frequently tied around the grab bars so they are nice and stable and out of the way, and so that if you are on the floor and you pull the cord all it does it rattle the bars up and down and will not trigger the alarm.

In any case it depends on there being some kind of procedure for dealing with the alarm - who is meant to be nearby supervising and responding to the alarm? The cord just flashes a local alarm on the outside the door in this practically deserted corridor! You're not supposed to pull them, you know, they are there because they are in the building code. Like This

[treeowl]

The story you linked to is rather shocking. I wish the company would be hit with a massive fine for that, but of course they won't be.

[jesse_the_k]

!!!!!

[cesy]

Wow, I've seen some bad ones but that really is spectacular.