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Furtherman

09-15-2005, 10:31 AM

Everyday we get into these boxes lifted by strings.At any moment one of those cables could SNAP and you die.

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09-15-2005, 10:35 AM

Just jump up right at the moment of impact!You still die, but at least you're doing something!<img title="elevator" height="198" alt="elevator" src="http://fusionanomaly.net/twilightzoneafterhours2.jpg" width="264" border="0" />

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Jennitalia

09-15-2005, 10:46 AM

My mom used to live in an apartment building where the elevator would drop a couple of feet as you headed to the ground floor. Scary crap. I remember being in the express elevators at the Trade Center a couple of times,  and they just scared the poop out of me.

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09-15-2005, 11:15 AM

It s a great song by Outkast

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kevcala

09-15-2005, 11:17 AM

quote:I
remember being in the express elevators at the Trade Center a couple of
times, and they just scared the poop out of me.

I take it you were going up at the time?  


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Alice S. Fuzzybutt

09-15-2005, 06:23 PM

I used to work on the 37th floor of a 50 story building. I got stuck in the elevator once. I had a major panic attack.

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Bulldogcakes

09-16-2005, 02:56 AM

quote:Everyday we get into these boxes lifted by strings.At any moment one of those cables could SNAP and you die.

 Not really. There's
actually also a set of "gears" (safety brake) which only go one way, so
if the cable snapped you'd stay right where you are. But if you want to
feel threatened, be my guest. When the elevator was invented by
Otis, they did a dramatic demonstration at the Worlds fair to prove its
safety. They put an elephant in the elevator, lifted it up and cut the
rope. People gasped, and . . . the elevator went nowhere. link (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/deadline/2003/otis-banikarim.asp)  

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zathrus

09-16-2005, 03:20 AM

I got stuck in an elevator once and since then, I will not go into a
elevator by myself. Just being in a elevator makes me want to panic. 

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Doctor Manhattan

09-16-2005, 04:29 AM

When is the last time you heard about someone dying or getting hurt in an elevator crash?<a href="http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=202" target="_blank"><img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=skw" border="0" /></a> 

This message was edited by SKW on 9-16-05 @ 8:30 AM

Patches

09-16-2005, 05:14 AM

Take the stairs then, pansy.:)

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Furtherman

09-16-2005, 05:42 AM

quote: When is the last time you heard about someone dying or getting hurt in an elevator crash? <a href="http://archive.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/03/elevator/index.html" target="_blank">Empire State Building elevator plunges 400 feet</a> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/80013p-73531c.html" target="_blank">Tragic elevator death</a> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18391-1390913,00.html" target="_blank">New York's lifts make around 30 million journeys every day. And during those billions of trips, last year there were just 139 "serious" accidents</a>Just a few I found.  I don't have a problem with elevators, just wanted to get the elevatorphobias talking.  

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Doctor Manhattan

09-16-2005, 05:51 AM

From <a href="http://archive.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/03/elevator/index.html" target="_blank">Empire State Building elevator plunges 400 feet</a> :Fortunately, the elevator stopped on the fourth floor.From <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/80013p-73531c.html" target="_blank">Tragic elevator death</a> :The building's four elevators are constantly breaking down, they said, and at least two elevators have been out of order for the past four years - a real hazard in this 24-story high-rise complex of 316 apartments.<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18391-1390913,00.html" target="_blank">New York's lifts make around 30 million journeys every day. And during those billions of trips, last year there were just 139 "serious" accidents</a> Total lift malfunction is nearly impossible. In all of New York's colourful vertical history, only one lift has ever fallen free in its shaft; when a bomber plane crashed into the Empire State Building on a foggy night in the winter of 1945. In other words, ever since Elisha Graves Otis, the great elevator pioneer, invented his safety brake in 1853, riding lifts has become so safe that people even forget that that they are taking a mode of transport.And that things can go wrong. In fact, the little nub of elevator deaths in New York each year are, for the most part, caused by a minor technical problem and a certain feeling of invincibility on the part of the lift passenger. "The commonality in accidents, if there is one, in the total universe of elevators and escalators, is human error," says Carroll.Okay, shit happens. I guess people can die in an elevator, but you shouldn't be too scared to ride one.

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Ronnie_Dobbs

09-16-2005, 07:01 AM

An elevator crashed in my building just over a year ago. The cable snapped and the brakes failed. One elevator fell to the ground, and the counter elevator crushed against the ceiling - killing one person. And these were brand new elevators. Every once in a while, when I hear a strange noise on the elevator, you can tell people are thinking of it.<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/221764p-190536c.html">http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/221764p-190536c.html</a>

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Fallon

09-16-2005, 07:39 AM

I was on an elevator once that fell from the top floor. It was fun.<img border="0" src="http://www.pansophist.com/tot.jpg" /> 

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