In my first year of uni we had one of those. My best friend got to the point where she threatened it with a kitchen knife. Coincidentally at that point it did take a break for a couple of hours.
It's not fun, is it? It went off four or five times before we finally managed to contact a member of staff to authorise disabling the damn thing and to book an engineer.
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Date: 2011-11-26 05:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-27 03:05 pm (UTC)