Alarm Clock Stuck In Wall Goes Off Every Day For 13 Years

When an alarm clock got stuck in their living room wall, a couple thought the battery would die after a few months. That was 13 years ago, and it still goes off every single day; KDKA's Dave Crawley reports.

[@dougrobinson2024]

The day the battery finally dies... They will find themselves saddened... and will always miss their friend.

[@CodyMorgan]

Doug Robinson they could always just drop a new one down the wall like you would buy a puppy if an old dog dies. Better idea, drop the puppy down the hole! Send some batteries with it...

[@Sevenorora]

I need that battery for my iPhone...

[@jiminieugotnojams_5229]

hahaha me 2😂😂

[@thanos4959]

Sevenorora lol

[@masonkevorkian7931]

I have a iPhone 11

[@billieellish3793]

Mason Kevorkian nobody asked...

[@borkluchtalarm]

@@billieellish3793 Me too!!!

[@Chadwickyboy]

This is a story about human stupidity and/or laziness. The only thing between the homeowner and the off button of that alarm is 1/2" of drywall.

[@kathconserv]

Indeed.

[@niggitypole]

Imagine if they sold the house and never told the new owners

[@I.Fumblebee.I]

one string. one magnet. problem fucking solved.

[@EternalSilence1]

That clock isnt magnetic, but maybe with ductape and idd fish it out.

[@moneyfink]

A drywall saw, some mud, tape and 2x2 sheet of drywall would also solve the problem.

[@dorgodorato]

The battery is magnetic, only problem would be all the nails on the way down. But I agree than removing chunk of drywall would be the easiest solution.

[@polaristrans]

I would have torn down the wall the next day.

[@valensinclair6750]

13 years of being idiots. It's in an air duct...fish the damn thing out. Yeesh.

[@oobaka1967]

Or they dropped it down there yesterday and are only claiming it was 13 years ago. Where's the proof it's been 13 years?

[@evillelias7876]

Imagine new people came to live in that house and heard the alarm

[@ninadjoshi4200]

It's Haunted man,get the hell out from there!!😂😂😂

[@sabio28]

A piece of sheet-rock cost like 10 dollars, the repair will be like 40. And you solve this problem.

[@santarudolph470]

It must be scary having to listen to that every day I’m glad I don’t have that problem.

[@Optidorf]

Telling a tale with a certain ring to it. How genius!

[@drmay]

The things people lie about to get attention. It hasn't gone off for 13yrs without being plugged into something and if it has done that in the wall any reasonable person would have put a small hole in the wall, gotten it out, and patched it up.

[@chrispile3878]

I have a Westclox that sounds just like it.....ran for over a decade on a 9 volt.

[@thanos4959]

David May *small* hole

[@sambalsamurai9672]

What battery brand/type is that? I need to get those for my alarm which I set fort important stuff that I cannot miss out on.

[@oobaka1967]

Or they dropped it down there the day before the news crew showed up and are only claiming it was 13 years ago. Where's the proof it's been 13 years?

[@CodyMorgan]

"This startles guests." You know what else would startle them? Hanging out in the kitchen at about 7:50 and running out of the house yelling fire! My family loved doing pranks like this to each other! Scared the death out of people. 😂 Ohhhh, RIP Grammy...

[@Nordorf]

Cut a damn hole in the drywall, get the thing out, add new drywall in the hole, plaster it up and paint.. If you take your time you'll do it in 30 minutes.. Hell of a lot better than listening to a damn alarm for 13 years. Lazy SOB's..

[@suziepage1]

Marry me

[@zaimsandre4385]

They can just pour water down the hatch then the alarms circuits will fry... JESUS

[@gammel167]

i have a g-shock wristwatch. analog and digital. i never wear it because i dont like things on my wrist. it was a gift. its running since over 20 years now.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Sounds like the door alarms on the old london underground trains

[@leboukari9349]

Easy ! even Orangutans can do it. You need to fill the wall of water and wait for the water to rise, then you can have your reward ! 🤓

[@willabrams9449]

LeBoukari jokerr

[@DarkZtorm]

How the hell can they be so lazy and stupid to not doing something about that noise? it is not really that hard, seriously, a normal person won't take it for such a long time.

[@JaredBrown_hkuspgtr]

The real question is, who made those batteries...?

[@Nthuziast]

*"who planted a bomb in the wall? and HOW?!?"*

[@hariranormal5584]

duracell: can we use this video thank you

[@RollingOnFloorLaughing]

My phones been stuck in my wall overnight and idk how to get it out without breaking my phone

[@HoboTango]

Iv lost my cellphone in the wall, but its not my property so I cant make a hole, it dropped down to the store downstair. Im thinking of dropping the charger and maybe in 50, 100 years, someone will find it and find all the pictures of me and my wife and our dogs.. who knows.

[@EternalSilence1]

Nope, will not happen. The SSD chip in the smartphone will lose it data in that amount of time.

[@MauroTamm]

There is data loss over the years if unpowered. Average consumer SSD at normal room temp can hold data for about 2 years. In 50 years - even if no corrosion damage (sealed), there won't be any data left to read.

[@herpmahderpflurpledumunumu7080]

Oh? I just recently discovered an old ssd that I lost like 8 fucking years ago , still had pictures on it.

[@billb.5183]

Just pay someone to get the damn thing out of there if you're too lazy to do it. It's behind 1/2 inch worth of drywall. Hardly a Herculean task. SMH

[@tionglimin]

wow...tat battery hav a superb stamina

[@meso_p]

OH GOD IT SETS OFF IN THE NIGHT

[@RareSun]

I'm 13 years old right now.

[@jeremyaultcybersecurity]

Tiny wired camera connected to a tv with a long wire, connected to the end of a long flexible pole with a big piece of double-sided sticky tape. Fish it down the hole, look on the screen, stick the clock, pull it out. Done.

[@davidtheiss7108]

I don't understand. So he's running a tv cable through the air vent? Besides, after 13 years you could have come up with a way to fish the damn thing out.

[@mitchdolphinsfan2]

super skeptical hippo eyes

[@woodenswordsword118]

Yeah right. I dropped a 10 000 lumens flash light down a hole in my back yard. It runs on one AA battery. We see the light every night. That happened 50 years ago and it still shines.

[@FlorenceStendal]

I think that would be a good story for the battery company, For advertisement you could get paid I would like to know what Brand of battery that you used, I wanna use them LOL

[@tapiocaarrdvark6226]

Those batteries give zero fks

[@Dodo-rb4zf]

you just gave me an idea....

[@johnpublik529]

I want a battery that lasts 13 years.

[@shobis91]

it is not a battery it's a phase cable inside the wall connected to that alarmclock dont be stupid!

[@LoffysDomain]

Remove grill downstairs, put hand in, pull out clock. Screw it back.

[@laxr5rs]

Open the wall.

[@ITOUTLAW]

I feel like there has to be a way to solve that...especially in 13 years. Anyways...how did this end up on the news? Did he call and say 'I've got a story! I dropped an alarm clock in my wall 13 years ago and it drives me craaazyyy!'

[@MarcUK]

Batteries in alarm clocks are only to help store the time and alarm in case of a power cut. They don't actually keep the thing going. I bet if they turned all the breakers off at the fuse box the next time the alarm sounded, it would stop.

[@MarcUK]

The alarm clock is plugged into a wall socket that's also inside the wall cavity.

[@oskartv6684]

@@MarcUK Not for this clock however, it's entirely powered with batteries without any plug, and you need one AA battery to power it. Most digital alarm clocks plug into the wall along with a 9 volt battery to serve as a backup power source incase of a power cut.

[@chrispile3878]

Gotta be a Westclox.... I have the same alarm clock wake me every morning.

[@borkluchtalarm]

Maybe somone replaces the battery every month.

[@leboukari9349]

Probably a Nokia 3310 battery's prototype...

[@Dumass88]

great commerical

[@HoboTango]

And they cant make a hole and get it ? patch the wall after ?

[@willabrams9449]

HoboTango its in a metal pipe

[@darkvoid8512]

Idiot

[@kingoftf]

You can cut a hole in this shitty paper walls in a standard US house with a nail clipper to get the clock out

[@FJCD]

why is this news?

[@grimdivine9677]

REAL NEWS.

[@esranuraltnts2502]

why it is in the trendinh

[@sushh1]

duct tape solves everything.

[@SERGEICHZZZ]

13 лет? Что там за батарейка???

[@AuH2O]

Who the fuck got the idea that this was fit to put on TV? The crap they fill out the 24-hour news cycle with these days...

[@eltorpedo67]

So you already know you can cut through drywall. Did you also know you can cut a hole in sheet metal air ducts? This "problem could have been solved in an afternoon 13 years ago.

[@thetekksetter1356]

Slow news day...

[@thebeardedjohn]

Typical American behavior

[@twofourtwo93]

what? how?

[@OlafurArons]

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[@phantomarchive]

Jknews?!?

[@ams_1046]

Larma Carter These people are mudda lazy or are lonely and are attached to this thing.

[@CurtaDinamica]

2.0x play speed, bipbipbipbipbipbibpib

[@fnvfanMSPR]

Well shit

[@frankthetank8216]

complete BS. there is no AA/AAA battery that keeps working for 13 years. after a few years they start leaking and oxidizing

[@TrevorNWhite]

I'd have gone Jack Torrance on that wall after the first week.

[@chewingstring]

Fake.

[@joyabrothers7316]

Fake

[@jdhwittenveen4221]

fake, advertorial for duracell or sony