Re: fire alarm pull station squirt dye question

[G. Morgan <your@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

autonut843 wrote:

>Hi,
>When I was in grammar school about 30 years ago the rumor was that if
>you pulled a fire alarm, ink or dye would squirt out to mark who
>pulled the alarm.  Nobody had ever actually seen it, but that was the
>rumor.  So I was wondering who made the pull station, is it still
>available, etc.   Searching the web it looks like it is still a pretty
>widely believed rumor.  But I can't find a pull station manufactured
>by anybody that actually does anything like that.  I think it's just
>an urban legend.  But I figured if anybody would be able to point me
>to an actual pull station that did that (now or ever), one of you
>would.
>
>I found the tamper dye to put on the handle itself.
>http://safetymedia.com/detail.aspx?ID=302
>but that's not what the rumor was about.  The rumor was about a pull
>station that sprayed the vandal.


Pretty sure that was just urban myth, spread by the schools to keep kids away
from the pull stations.  Sorta like the non-existent chemical for pools that
turns the water purple if you pee in it.

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-G