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When i was a kid, i started to solder resistors onto the speakers to make them quieter and it worked perfectly

you were a good kid. 🙌

Super glue kills them entirely. (The toys that is)

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Vaguely related (only that it involves sound and tape and the word "peace")

Huh...

I was visiting a a friend over a weekend. They are Roman Catholic, so I thought it was polite to attend Sunday Mass with them. Anyway a few folks to my left in the pew there was an loudly annoying child. At the end of the Mass the priest suggested that the folks in the pews should sort of greet one another and say something like "Peace be unto you". The person adjacent to the annoying child hauled out a roll of duct tape, ripped off a strip, taped it to the child's mouth and proclaimed "Peace be unto you".

Most, if not all, of the folks in the church then exclaimed "Hallelujah!" and "Amen!"

>Peace be unto with you.

FTFY.

Having a Catholic mom meant that I ended up hating Sundays lol.

r/thingsthatdidnthappen

You actually expect us to believe someone brought duct tape into church on the chance there was a noisy kid he could use it on in front of his parents?

Commenter has a valid concern.

Commenter asks "You actually expect us to believe someone brought duct tape into church on the chance there was a noisy kid"

Why, no. Some people just come prepared with tools & materials for a variety of situations. This was one of those kind of people and one of those kind of -- as it turns out -- situations. Think Boy Scouts: always prepared! Heck, it could have been a leaky pipe.

Commenter further asks "he could use it on in front of his parents?"

I'm not certain, but it looked to me like the kid's mom was one of the folk who exclaimed "Hallelujah" and his dad was one of the people who exclaimed "Amen!" after the kid was silenced.

And then everyone clapped, right? As if parents wouldn't ask why a stranger touched their child.

I was a churchgoer at a variety of parishes for more than 20 years and never once saw someone bring tools to a service. Ever. What leaky pipe are they fixing while ATTENDING CHURCH?

I guess after years of attending Catholic school my sense of humor is very finely honed and too subtle and some folk need to have it explicitly called out:

/s

What sense of humor? The obviously fake story or responding like a form letter?

Anakin, is that you?

Did that at a Wal-Mart. New store, the in-aisle price lookup scanners were so loud with their "beep" they hurt my ears. So i brought a strip of clear packing tape each time i went and covered the speaker grills one by one. Took a couple months. Was afraid the employees might remove it, but never happened. Been about 10 years so far!

I assume you purposely spelled it peace and not piece...?

its a play on peace and quiet

It's unreadable and I hate it. Getting drum sets for all of my nieces and nephews next year. Good LPT, OP.

Why not wear earplugs?

and not be able to hear the rest of your surroundings?

good ole fancy word vomit

"oh no the battery died and we don't have any more"

The Employees: If I did it I'd be in trouble, but if a customer does it it's vandalism but they won't fix it

Or you just don't buy them or let them in your house lol.

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A piece will give you peace.