CPS will not go to someone's home over allegations that they haven't got a smoke detector. You have got to be trolling or incredibly ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you for real?!? I will never call CPS for something like that

How would you live with the guilt if anything happened, and a quick call may have changed the outcome?

I think you have very high anxiety. You can suggest what do you think is best but cannot control other people lives and you can report to CPS only if there is an imminent danger. what is next? Are you going to verify how big or small they cut fruit for their toddlers to avoid chocking hazard? Or, if they have a newborn, are you going there at night to check if they follow all the safe sleep recommendation?

I’m just aghast at the complete lack of concern for such serious danger. But you make good points. I suppose I’ll leave it alone.

According to government statistics, 16 million homes don't have working smoke detectors.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2003/CPSC-Warns-Millions-of-Americans-Have-Smoke-Alarms-that-Dont-Work

I'm sure this includes houses where people have purposefully dismantled them because they keep going off.

That would still be a violation of local fire codes.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Man DCUM is wild! YOU MUST INVITE EVERY KID IN THR CLASS TO A PARTY!!! Kids living in an unsafe house, MYOB.

CPS isn’t going to take the kids for this but might scare the parents enough to get them to put them in. People are more worried about the parents feelings than the actual lives of the kids.

People say not to call CPS over trivial shit *because they care about the lives of the kids*.

Yeah that usually works out great. I’m sure Relisha Rudd is jazzed nobody called.

Relisha Rudd’s situation wasn’t trivial. Are you able to read?

Being barbecued in your own bed isn’t trivial.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you for real?!? I will never call CPS for something like that

How would you live with the guilt if anything happened, and a quick call may have changed the outcome?

I think you have very high anxiety. You can suggest what do you think is best but cannot control other people lives and you can report to CPS only if there is an imminent danger. what is next? Are you going to verify how big or small they cut fruit for their toddlers to avoid chocking hazard? Or, if they have a newborn, are you going there at night to check if they follow all the safe sleep recommendation?

I’m just aghast at the complete lack of concern for such serious danger. But you make good points. I suppose I’ll leave it alone.

According to government statistics, 16 million homes don't have working smoke detectors.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2003/CPSC-Warns-Millions-of-Americans-Have-Smoke-Alarms-that-Dont-Work

I'm sure this includes houses where people have purposefully dismantled them because they keep going off.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Man DCUM is wild! YOU MUST INVITE EVERY KID IN THR CLASS TO A PARTY!!! Kids living in an unsafe house, MYOB.

CPS isn’t going to take the kids for this but might scare the parents enough to get them to put them in. People are more worried about the parents feelings than the actual lives of the kids.

People say not to call CPS over trivial shit *because they care about the lives of the kids*.

Yeah that usually works out great. I’m sure Relisha Rudd is jazzed nobody called.

Relisha Rudd’s situation wasn’t trivial. Are you able to read?

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Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Man DCUM is wild! YOU MUST INVITE EVERY KID IN THR CLASS TO A PARTY!!! Kids living in an unsafe house, MYOB.

CPS isn’t going to take the kids for this but might scare the parents enough to get them to put them in. People are more worried about the parents feelings than the actual lives of the kids.

People say not to call CPS over trivial shit *because they care about the lives of the kids*.

Yeah that usually works out great. I’m sure Relisha Rudd is jazzed nobody called.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Man DCUM is wild! YOU MUST INVITE EVERY KID IN THR CLASS TO A PARTY!!! Kids living in an unsafe house, MYOB.

CPS isn’t going to take the kids for this but might scare the parents enough to get them to put them in. People are more worried about the parents feelings than the actual lives of the kids.

People say not to call CPS over trivial shit *because they care about the lives of the kids*.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Man DCUM is wild! YOU MUST INVITE EVERY KID IN THR CLASS TO A PARTY!!! Kids living in an unsafe house, MYOB.

CPS isn’t going to take the kids for this but might scare the parents enough to get them to put them in. People are more worried about the parents feelings than the actual lives of the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you for real?!? I will never call CPS for something like that

How would you live with the guilt if anything happened, and a quick call may have changed the outcome?

I think you have very high anxiety. You can suggest what do you think is best but cannot control other people lives and you can report to CPS only if there is an imminent danger. what is next? Are you going to verify how big or small they cut fruit for their toddlers to avoid chocking hazard? Or, if they have a newborn, are you going there at night to check if they follow all the safe sleep recommendation?

I’m just aghast at the complete lack of concern for such serious danger. But you make good points. I suppose I’ll leave it alone.

According to government statistics, 16 million homes don't have working smoke detectors.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2003/CPSC-Warns-Millions-of-Americans-Have-Smoke-Alarms-that-Dont-Work

MYOB

Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who admitted to having no working smoke detectors in their home, which they share with their 4 young children. Their excuse? They are a light sleeper, so it would be fine. I challenged them, assuming they were joking, but no, they were dead serious. I can’t stop thinking about it, and about how quiet fires are, and how deadly they can be without being loud, and that this is exactly why smoke detectors exist. I tried explaining but it fell on deaf ears.

I don’t want to mess up this person’s life, or the kids, I just wish they’d be forced to install working detectors. Would I be wasting my time? What would you do?

Then don’t call CPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you for real?!? I will never call CPS for something like that

How would you live with the guilt if anything happened, and a quick call may have changed the outcome?

I think you have very high anxiety. You can suggest what do you think is best but cannot control other people lives and you can report to CPS only if there is an imminent danger. what is next? Are you going to verify how big or small they cut fruit for their toddlers to avoid chocking hazard? Or, if they have a newborn, are you going there at night to check if they follow all the safe sleep recommendation?

I’m just aghast at the complete lack of concern for such serious danger. But you make good points. I suppose I’ll leave it alone.

OP, I am someone who has spent the last few weeks trying desperately to convince a friend not to do something that is going to harm them. There are eight friends who all feel the exact same way, the difference is that they said their opinion and then stepped away. I kept thinking maybe, surely I could get through to them, but no. So now I am hopping on the train of indifference that everyone else is already on. I'm glad I caught it before I left the station.

I think you're a good friend, but you need to make peace with the fact that you said what you could and now it's on them. Nothing that happens from here on out is your fault.

Have to agree with everyone else that calling CPS for this is the wrong call.

That said if you offered to buy and install and she still refused, maybe something else is going on. Is she from a different culture? Does she have mental illness?

See if your local fire department offers new detectors and installation. Our area has that. Then give the coworker the information.


Do not call CPS

Buy them the battery kind. Maybe it will go off under the tree and save their lives.