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Hey guys, I need your help and I heard you are good with this kind of stuff. You see I'm having issues with mannequins, specifically the advanced ones used for teaching people to be nurses. They can identify where the "nurse" is in the room and can interact in certain programmed scenarios and they also can tell if they're too hot or too cold, all in all very expensive dolls. But they were not expensive, they were being sold cheap due to there being a manufacturing defect that kept the legs from bending proper at the knees. I didn't care, they were perfect for my class and I bought them so we could stop using the students as test dummies and, more often than not, a pissed off student when they got dropped on the ground.

Two weeks past slowly and I was eagerly awaiting the delivery. When they finally arrived I opened the first package pulling out the disassembled parts of the life-sized "patient" robot, and sighing I found the instruction manual and got to work assembling the things. Not a detail was lost in the making of these robots, so naturally they had optional genitals. My first reaction was horror at the thought of my students having to perform their nursing labs with such things present but I quickly realized that if I didn't want to attach them to the dummies I could use the ambiguously gendered parts instead. I tossed the, possibly too adult for students, parts in a box and put them in a closet by my desk. Finally, I completed the last one and hauled it into the bed. I checked that they were all hooked up to their charging wires and left for the night. I planned to program them all in the morning for the lesson I would be teaching throughout the day.

In the morning I disconnected the wires and hooked them up to my classroom computer to set up the program and noticed that the robot had previously installed program already on board. Curiously, I disconnected it from my computer and put it back in the bed it came from and activated it by pressing a button on its collarbone. A green light flashed on a little indicator on its chest showing it was booting up. After a minute the light flashed red which meant it was processing it's program. Here is where I should have started becoming concerned, the indicator turned blue showing it was running the program, and it started screaming. It's head thrashed back and forth, its voice issuing forth rather loudly claiming that it was too hot over and over. I was too scared to move until another teacher came in to help me turn it off.

Obviously, I thought, it had been programmed to simulate a patient who had a very high fever and it's voice got faster with the urgency of the situation. But then I had a look at the log file when I was reprogramming the robots for the class that was in fifteen minutes and I noticed it's programmed temperature was over 175°F. This surprised me, because at that temperature the flesh of the "patient" would be melting and he'd be quite dead. Shaken but not put off, I reasoned that they were programmed to simulate a patient that's on fire and promptly reprogrammed them. The day went off without a hitch, and I was walking around the room making sure my students were doing their labs right when I heard a thump like a book hitting the ground and the gasp of one of my students. I turned around expecting that she had gotten hit by a book and needed assistance. But that wasn't the case, she had her mouth covered and her cheeks were cherry red in embarrassed shock as she beheld the box of discarded genital parts. Then the entire class stopped what they were doing to laugh at the awkwardness of the situation. I quickly told the class to return to their labs and relocated the box to a locking supply closet where the students never went. When my last class left the room I plugged in the dummies and settled down to put grades into my grade-book for the evening.

Leaving, I took one look back into the room and seeing nothing out of the ordinary I turned and closed the door behind me locking it for the night. The next morning I arrived back at school to find fire-trucks parked on the lawn glaring at what looked like a computer that had a malfunction and had been set on fire, melting it's case and exposing the chips and what-not inside. Curiously I approached the fire marshal and asked what happened and if everyone was alright. He immediately reached into his pocket and produced a picture which he compared me to before asking if I was the Doctor's Aide Instructor. I said I was and once again I wondered about what was going on.

He informed me that, during the night, my dummy had a Lithium-ion battery that Shorted out and overheated the dummy. The dummy had been covered in flames when they arrived and had been melting quite badly so the speaker inside sounded garbled and when we saw the flailing head they immediately thought someone had set themselves on fire and evacuated the dummy to the lawn, where despite it being sprayed with water it remained ablaze until its circuits stopped getting power and just lied there and melted.

I thanked him and apologized to him for the trouble, Grabbed my laptop from my room, and then headed to the teacher's lounge (with the fire damage and water soaked beds, I wouldn't be teaching a class that day) to leave feedback about the apparently dangerous batteries the seller had included. When I opened up my laptop I noticed someone had been on it, they had left me a message and it was as follows:

_Greetings Buyer

Firstly thank you for your purchase of six (6) Medical Training Dummies, we appreciate your business. Secondly, These Dummies were retrieved at a police auction where they had been retrieved from an Abandoned Asylum that had burned down about a month ago. The dummies had been stored in a saferoom in the asylum but were covered in ash, please forgive me if the dummies have a little fire damage._

The Message ended there. Thinking back, The Fire Marshal had only ever mentioned one dummy. I closed my laptop with a thump and ran as fast as I dared in a skirt down the hall to my room. Inside, the floor was covered in water and the roof was covered in soot. It smelled of burning plastic and smoke. Looking at the lab area I saw a burnt, but soggy bed and five empty beds...