Reel
Smoke Detector Chirping Somewhere in Ohio Home Enters Fourth Month of Hostage Talks
· 44 sec
Transcript
A smoke detector that chirps every forty seconds after two a.m. has entered its fourth month of hostage talks. Nobody knows which one it is.
Every room has been searched twice.
Last night, the family received a list of demands: one nine-volt battery, delivered to a ceiling it will not identify, by two fourteen a.m. No ladders.
On screenDEMANDS OF THE DETECTOR · NON-NEGOTIABLE · One nine-volt battery, delivered to a ceiling I will not identify, by 2:14 a.m. No ladders. I can hear ladders.
They left a ladder out as a good-faith gesture, and the chirping moved rooms. We reached the father by phone.
Gary Plunkett: I took all six down. They're in a laundry basket in the driveway. It's still going. My son thinks it's me.
The family has moved into a hotel. At two fourteen this morning, the ceiling chirped once.
Satire. Everything in this reel is made up for comedy.
