Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 22:37     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Anonymous wrote:You sound like a busybody, OP. I feel sorry for your acquaintance, having a frenemy like you lurking in the background.


+1. Not having fire detectors doesn’t make someone an unfit parent. Perhaps an unfit homeowner or renter. Either way, it’s none of your business.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 22:01     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
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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.


Not likely. Maybe more so when people smoked in bed but those days are long gone.

More likely to choke in a chicken bone, or be hit by a bus crashing through your front door.

Let it go. MYOB.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:07     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Send your friend this article:
https://washingtonian.com/2009/08/01/a-rescue-in-bethesda/

The father was awake and it was the midday.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 18:20     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
CPS won't do anything, OP, even if you call them. They don't do anything unless there are visible bruises.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 18:02     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Here you go, OP. Doesn’t need to be installed in the wall. Just plug and play. But know she will definitely think you’re a busybody and this will impact the relationship.

https://a.co/d/bHJFCkD
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 17:59     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Anonymous wrote:No, never. Calling CPS is never ever the answer. Don’t be evil.


It IS the answer in many situations but not this one.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 17:54     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Anonymous wrote:No, never. Calling CPS is never ever the answer. Don’t be evil.


This x1000!!! And, please re-examine your priorities!
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 17:51     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
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?

No do not call CPS. That is so shitty of you to do. Rather go to cvs or amazon and buy two smoke/carbon dioxide detectors and give them to her. She doesn't have to install them. she can just put them on top of dresser or stick them up on wall.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 17:27     Subject: Re:Would you contact CPS?
I wouldn’t call CPS on this person since I do not think they have the resources to properly educate on fire safety……they may be backlogged w/more important issues, etc.

However I would continue drilling into this person’s head just how important it is to have a working smoke detector in the home.
As well as one for carbon monoxide.

Hopefully in time this person will realize how vital fire safety is - - most especially when it comes to their kids!! 🤞🏽
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 16:25     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Absolutely not OP.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 15:45     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
You sound like a busybody, OP. I feel sorry for your acquaintance, having a frenemy like you lurking in the background.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 15:44     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Focus on your own life. Chill.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 15:39     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Smoke detectors are cheap. Buy a couple and have a handyman install them.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 15:28     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Why don't you just order smoke detectors on amazon and have them delivered to his house as a gift.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 15:24     Subject: Would you contact CPS?
Call the fire code office. If you don’t care about the kids, the parents can go to jail if the kids are injured or die in a fire.