[EricH]

Originally Posted by Joseph Franke

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

Reminds me of what I heard in college. I wasn't in the affected dorm, but I did hear about it.

Seems someone was playing soccer inside, or some such activity--and knocked one of the sprinkler heads off. At some point after the dorm was evacuated, it was discovered that all the shutoff stuff was locked up, and the Dean of Students had to be called to open it. Then the whole place had to be dried as much as possible.

A couple days later, I was attending a meeting where the previous Dean of Students--who the dorm was named after--was speaking. One of the first things he said was something to the effect of "I heard there was an incident in [dorm] recently. I just hope I don't get the bill because my name's on the building!"