Sprinklers Do Not Go Off When Yanking a Fire Alarm
By Bernie on 04 Apr 2011
Back in May of 2006 I ranted about 13 things that tick me off at the movies. I've meant to add more to that list over the years but never got around to it.
A few weeks ago I recorded episode 107 Coming Home of the television series Fairly Legal (a legal drama which I tolerate for only one reason: Sarah Shahi) and finally had a chance to watch it earlier today.
So here's the part that annoys me: Sarah's character, Kate Reed, pulls a fire alarm in a building lobby in order to stop someone from going up an elevator. Almost immediately the sprinkler system showers the lobby with water. Is there anyone on this Earth that actually believes sprinklers will go off without a fire underneath?
It is bad enough that the Pull Station did not have a glass cover that needs to be broken first. OK, I'll sort of forgive that. But what was the point of the water gushing down, wasn't the alarm going off enough to discourage the guy from going up the elevator when he knew everyone was going to come down anyway?
Also in a real fire only the sprinkler head above the flames or heat will activate. This also ticks me off when I see someone with a match under one sprinkler head setting ALL of them off. It doesn't work that way in the real world.
Why do script people write this absurd kind of nonsense? Very disappointing. Of course, if the water had soaked Sarah so that we could see her soft, delicious, translucent skin under a very wet see-through tee-shirt, then perhaps I would have forgiven all.
Some of my readers may recall Shahi playing Sonya Aragon, a Vegas Sex girl and stripper working her way through college in Sopranos Episode 83 - Kennedy & Heidi.
Sarah's father was Iranian, so I will one day do a Thursday 13 of the world's most beautiful women of Iranian descent.
If you are wondering why I like Sarah Shahi, the photo above illustrates perfectly: Sarah knows how to hold a teddy bear.
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