A man in Bochum, Germany called police this weekend, concerned about a loud mechanical noise in his flat. Tracking the noise to the storage cellar, police expected to find a burglar with an electric drill. Instead, they found a vibrator that had fallen off a shelf, switched on, and was humming against plumbing pipes. (The Local)

  • http://twitter.com/TheNewsIsBroken Gern Blanston

    We were on a trip last week and my traveling companion had her bag pretty full which probably caused the battery-powered toothbrush to loudly turn on while we were in an elevator full of people. Not just a few people had silly smiles on their faces.

    • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

       Of course, her smile was the cleanest of all.

    • Paul Renault

       What you do, before you pack the toothbrush in your suitcase, is flip one of the AA batteries around.  If the ON/OFF switch gets pressed, nothing will happen.

  • Mister44

    “Always ‘the’ dildo.”

    • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

      Nine times out of ten it’s an electric razor… but every once in a while…

      • http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

         Of course, it’s company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article, “a dildo”, never “your dildo”.

        • Mister44

           Ah – I see my remembering of this quote failed. But good to see others saw where I was going ;o)

        • Antinous / Moderator

          We have to use the indefinite article, “a dildo”, never “your dildo”.

          People who own vibrators often have names for them.

          • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

            Red wigglers, the Cadillac of worms.

  • noggin

    If you’re keeping your vibrator in a storage cellar, you’re doing it wrong.

    A single, female friend of mine had just moved into her new house and one evening called me up because there was a strange sound coming from her bathroom and she was freaking out.  She is deaf in one ear and couldn’t locate the source.   My wife and I went over to investigate.  The sound was remarkably loud but not unlike a vibrator.  I tracked the sound down to a drawer in her bathroom and had a brief moment of amusement while I pondered what I was about to find in the drawer.   Turns out it was an electric lint “shaver” that had been switched on earlier when she closed the drawer.  

  • David Smith

    Drill, baby, drill!  

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6EBMSO7ELT2CRNKMB2JDKGEEZI John Bodart

    A coworker clipped his pager to the time card board when he went out of town for work. It vibrated the wall in a weird way when someone paged it. We looked in the hot water heater closet, above the ceiling tiles and ever where else for a week until someone found what was making the strange noise.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=63210605 Todd Daganaar

    We do appliance repair, and we had a customer who kept complaining of an intermittent vibrating noise for weeks on her refrigerator, but it never acted up when we were there. Turned out to be a misplaced cellphone on vibrate.

  • oasisob1

    But what about the plumbing? Was it happy with the situation?

  • Culturedropout

    I vote for “humming against the pipes” as the newest euphemism for… um… something.

  • benher

    Of course we always use the indefinite article “A” vibrator… never “Your” vibrator…

  • Zhiva

    a vibrator that had fallen off a shelf, switched on

    turned on :)