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What are the chances some anonymous kid will cut the brakes just for giggles? 0.

What are the chance sone anonymous kid will cut your fire alarm just for giggles? Pretty high.

Just take a look at 4chan and Reddit messing with people's internet security cameras.

When I was a kid someone slashed the tires and cut the brakes of all the school buses. Even if it was to get out of school, that's a very fine line between "just for a giggles" so while the probability may be small it's certainly nonzero. I would put the probability of your two identified events at closer to each other than you'd both expect and hope.

> What are the chance sone anonymous kid will cut your fire alarm just for giggles? Pretty high

I guess that's where we disagree; I would have said, "Less than the chances of getting hit by a bus on the way to work."

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