Family tormented by alarm clock stuck in wall for 13 years
A US family has been tormented by their alarm clock for decades, forced to listen to the ring at the same time every day for the past 13 years.
You see the alarm clock is wedge inside the wall of Jerry Lynn’s home in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania.
So how did the bizarre set of circumstances occur in the first place?
Jerry admitted to CBS Pittsburgh he’s the reason the alarm clock is in the wall.
Back in 2004, he wanted to drill a hole in the wall in the bottom storey of his home for a TV cable. But he wasn’t sure where to drill so he came up with the idea to tie an alarm clock to a string and lower it through an air vent on the second storey and let the ring guide him.
Setting the alarm for 10 minutes, Jerry lowered the alarm clock but it fell into the wall.
“All of I sudden I heard it go thunk as it went loose and I thought ‘well that’s not a real problem, it’s still going to go off and it did,” he said.
As the alarm clock had fallen from the string, Jerry couldn’t pull it back up. He thought he would just let it ring until it ran out of battery.
“That was September 2004,” he said.
“It is still going off every day. In daylight savings it goes off 10 minutes to eight every night and during regular standard time, 10 minutes to seven,” he told CBS.
While you’d think that the daily dings would be enough to drive someone crazy, Jerry’s family is so used to the ring it doesn’t faze them at all anymore, but it does surprise their house guests.
“It starts as a soft beep, beep, beep, beep, beep and it gets more louder and closer together and you get people saying ‘what is that?’,” Jerry’s wife said.