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Hot take: A stuck whistle from a kid's jacket solved my phantom door chime

Tracing the sound led me to a pocket zipper tangled in the mechanism. Freeing it shut the thing up and saved me an hour of headache.
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henry_martin37
That safety whistle caused the problem it was supposed to solve... pretty ironic.
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riley_west
riley_west1mo ago
How frustrating is it when safety devices fail like that?
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reed.taylor
Ever notice how, like @riley_west said, our fixes often create the very problems they should solve?
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