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  1. scotteh says:

    … or you’re FIRE-d!

  2. heyhey says:

    how much?

  3. Mookie says:

    At least it doesn’t say, “Do not eat.”

  4. FacialTurd says:

    Maybe it was in a Fire Extinguisher shop…

  5. Daniel says:

    Man, I wonder how many people near the Circuit City’s that are going out of business are gonna be PISSED that they’re not honoring their Black Friday ad.

    Happy Black Friday FAIL Blog! Stay safe!

  6. talldude88 says:

    “Do not use to fix Game Boys”

  7. Jase says:

    Way to be, Circuit City.

  8. Zurack says:

    It’s funny that there is a hidden morse code saying “Do not take pictures”!
    Oh, the irony.

  9. GladIwokeUp says:

    There was an electronics store in a town I lived in that I financed a home stereo system with just to get my credit started, after 6 months the place went out of business, I continued as normal to send my payments in, i eventualy started getting my payemnts returned to me as the company had left the address their collections department was in, that was 12 years ago and I still havent paid off the stereo and could not ever find anywhere to do so. And it never showed up on my credit report, go figure. Wish my finance company for my truck would do that, lol.

  10. Dumas says:

    We have put up signs on all fire extinguishers to prevent what happened last year…

  11. nobody says:

    Funnier than this sign would be the incident that led somebody to say, “We better put a sign on that fire extinguisher.”.

    • Daniel says:

      Having worked retail for a little too long, the two most irritating things are yearly inventory and going out of business, because you have to put do not inventory (and do not sell for the latter) signs on EVERYTHING. Otherwise the company doing inventory will count it no matter how ridiculous it is. We lost about an hour last year because someone forgot to put DNI tags on the trash cans. So every trash can in the 60,000 sq. ft. store got inventoried.

      /facedesk

      • Sithaiss says:

        Good thing they didn’t inventory the trash inside you could have lost days….but on the other hand they would have found the squirrel.

      • GladIwokeUp says:

        thats sad, i can see it now, 4 hours lost over arguing about who is going to put, do not sale or inventory or do not eat on the Urinal cakes, lol.

    • CrankyPranky says:

      And that’s the real truth of it. Haha. Signs always mean someone’s done it, or tried it, or thought about it seriously. Haha.

      • arimareiji says:

        20 bucks says it’s only still in the store because our enterprising cashier called the manager to find out why it wasn’t scanning in.

  12. Doubts says:

    Double fail. Not only should an employee know not to sell the fire extinguisher, but if ANY employees at CC had been able to sell ANYTHING, they mught be out of business.

  13. arimareiji says:

    I wish I worked in this place. I’d have to put a “Do Not Stick Beans Up Your Nose” sign in the break room, then leave a can of them under the coffee maker.

  14. Non-Seq says:

    200!

  15. Penguin Master says:

    the electricity outlet’s expression at the paper is amazing

  16. Jack Frampton says:

    LOL that sure speaks volumes for their employees doesnt it! LMAO

    http://www.online-privacy.cz.tc

  17. notin136 says:

    Yeah baby. That says it all.

  18. Vincent says:

    an employee at circuit city here in the phoenix, az area said a couple of days ago “you have no idea how many customers have already asked about weird things to buy – i could have sold my shoes twice”.

  19. ames says:

    think about it, someone had to have tried to buy at the register, or a savvy salesman tried to sell it to some senile old Grandma telling her it was one of those new fangled ipods and her grandson will love it

  20. They are closing Circuit City stores and probably liquidating the entire store, including fixtures. Its reasonable for them to mark certain things as not for sale. I guess I am just taking this one too seriously.

  21. Jandles says:

    Test

  22. Desiree says:

    Uh, they’re in a liquidation. The LIQUIDATOR put those signs on everything. They do this is every store that is going out of buisness. The liquidator is there to sell everything in the store, even fixtures. I love people people take pictures of things they don’t understand and say that the associates are stupid. Another cause of IGNORANT customers! Way to go!

  23. Falcor says:

    their stock is worth 22 cents a share, I just figured out why

  24. jeffbowers says:

    “Do not sell the cash register till.”

  25. Hyperseth Overdrive says:

    I notice how they didn’t say that the wall wasn’t for sale. Plus, the sign doesn’t specify what isn’t for sale. Is it jsut the sign that’s not for sale? The fire extinguisher? The entire wall? Surely, if the employees are stupid enough to sell a fire extinguisher that’s not for sale, they’re stupid enough to need to be told the answers to the questions I just asked.

    Does this company employ ancient Greeks? Is that why they have this sign? Surely a lack of Zeppelin and being on Inpu’s bad side really makes one’s people stupid. People need Zeppelin. Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bonham (RIP) are what make the world go round instead of an inconvenient shape/

  26. PsychoDuck says:

    I can’t sell the extinguisher? Dammit, I’ll never make my quota now!

  27. Phaet says:

    Must… resist… the urge… to sell… it.

  28. Ryannon says:

    This is Photoshopped. You can tell by the shadow on the left of the fire extinguisher. Also, didn’t anyone else notice that the font used in “do not sell” differs from the font in Circuit City? Definitely fake!

  29. no way says:

    hate to point it out.. but this isn’t really a fail.

    it’s probably one of the sellout stores where they are selling EVERYTHING… and the fire extinguisher belongs to the landlord. I’m sure some stores are selling everything including the racks.

  30. mew4ever23 says:

    .. If that sign is there, It means that someone actually sold a fire extinguisher. How dumb would you have to be?

  31. Kyle says:

    Circuit City is a FAIL…haha ha FINANCIAL FAIL

  32. .JT. says:

    At least until the Fire Sale.

  33. Catti says:

    Oh man. My fiance wasn’t kidding when he sent me this link and said someone beat me to it… I was kicking myself when we went to a Circuit City somewhere near Concord and I realized I didn’t have my cell phone on me to take a picture…
    I wonder if they did that at all the Circuit Cities that were going out of business… Maybe someone sent a company-wide memo out to remind people not to sell the fire extinguishers… haha…

  34. Mr. City says:

    Man, no wonder they’re bankrupt. They couldn’t sell their fire extinguisher to save the company!

  35. Ben says:

    They probably should sell it…

  36. jaque says:

    its when the store is going out of business, they have to sell everything but this

  37. tiredpanda says:

    eh this was actually from a liquidation sale there, the liquidators put stuff on all the items and fixtures like that

  38. CC says:

    I work for Circuit City. That was more than likely an employee. They got bored. Trust me it is hard to find enough things to keep busy with when trying to actively avoid anything that can be considered work. The rule of thumb is “What are they going to do fire me?”

  39. redwing says:

    I think it’s safe to say they can sell it now, since they are going out of business. XD

  40. GT says:

    Maybe that’s why they went out of business.

  41. LadyFirely says:

    Awww, I remember those signs

  42. Bobbynoname says:

    [and]la[/b]

  43. Bobbynoname says:

    blah

  44. Zachythirtyseven says:

    It makes me wonder why Circuit City went out of business

  45. Brian Sandler says:

    Just to let you know this is not really a fail. Circuit city(an electronics store) recently went out of business and was selling everything in the store(even the fixtures) so they just put this sign there so no one would try to sell that also.

    • gene says:

      Brian Sandler is correct. They had a big story on “This American Life” (NPR) about Circuit City’s liquidation. They sold the carpets, the vacuum cleaners, etc.



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