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My Nest smoke alarm was great … right up to the point it went nuts

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Sod's Law says that a rare event will occur when the system to detect or inhibit it - has just been manually inhibited due to a false alarm malfunction.

Tied down safety valves were responsible for boiler explosions on Victorian railways.

Owing to a faulty indicator - an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system was a contributory factor in the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

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