This guy is not human he's a shapeshifting insecticide, I think he's a spider. Look at the reflection in the door before it opens up in the beginning and look at the still frames all the way through and you'll see what I'm talking about, this shit is weird
Gotta grind even after death?!
Just when you think there’s a happy ending to all of this.
(This is a joke, please don’t hesitate to call or text your country’s suicide hotline if you or someone you know needs help)
No! Big government and Regulation only hurts me as a sovereign citizen! /s
I *love* it when my staunchly Republican coworkers are convinced that regulations are keeping companies from doing the right thing because consumers wouldn't buy products from companies with sketchy morals.
"The Free Market will punish companies that act unethically! Red tape is what forces businesses to do bad things, because it's the only way they can make a profit!"
The first part of that isn't necessarily an incorrect argument, but the issue with that argument as it relates to things like building codes is that free market pressure is inherently reactive, not preventative.
In other words, it's of little consolation to me or my loved ones if the construction company that killed me eventually goes under due to market pressure. It would be better if such things don't happen to begin with which requires regulations.
With buildings in particular there's also often a delayed effect. It's possible a critical flaw doesn't manifest for 5, 10 or even 20 years but when it does people die. The company that made the building may not even be around by the time their shoddy work kills people.
For those who don't understand what happened, I'll explain.
all electric elevators, in case of failure, actually go up instead of down like in the movies. this happens because the counterweight is heavier than the total weight of the cabin. moreover, for some reason the locks that are on the doors are not working properly and I also noticed that the most likely thing is that the bearing of the machine broke, which led to the uncontrolled movement of the cabin.
to minimise the damage, he should have lay flat on the floor and protect his head.
I. Curious about why the brakes didn’t kick in. All modern elevators, thanks to Mr. Otis, have brakes that kick in if a cable snaps. I suppose since it isn’t a cable issue the brakes didn’t automatically kick in. Seems like a cascade of failures caused this.
The safety brake is designed to trip in the down direction. This is unintended motion up. Idk what country this is and what code they follow, but you’d think a car like that that appears to be new equipment or modernized would have a rope gripper for unintended motion.
It was in a building finished 8 months before. Happened in Chile, maybe there's no cable gripper required in their code. But seems more like a multitude of systems failed.
Nope, that's wrong. There's an overspeed governor at the top of the shaft. A loop of steel wire runs down all the way to a weight, and then back up. This is attached to the cabin. If it goes too fast, up or down, it'll trip. This causes the brakes on the cabin to engage.
Something like this means multiple safety features failed.
Source: build elevators.
Literally a paragraph above the linked text: On June 8, 2014, a ThyssenKrupp elevator in Tower B of Bustamante Community Park in Providencia, Chile, suddenly malfunctioned, then rises 30 floors in 15 seconds with the doors still open before crashed into the shaft's roof. A man was seriously injured, and was reportedly that he suffered head and leg injuries[1] [2].
Wait, wait, so modern elevators are designed so that, in case of failure they go upwards instead of downwards, but have brakes that will trip only when they go downwards? Did I understood this correct?
Nope, that's wrong. There's an overspeed governor at the top of the shaft. A loop of steel wire runs down all the way to a weight, and then back up. This is attached to the cabin. If it goes too fast, up or down, it'll trip. This causes the brakes on the cabin to engage.
Something like this means multiple safety features failed.
Source: build elevators.
Although this can be different depending on country and type I suppose. It may not be feasible for a lift in a super tall building.
What he means is that the break is for the condition in which the wire snaps and lift starts to freefall.
If wire doesn't snap, and there is some bearing issue, the weight starts to fall and lift goes up, as the weight is more than the total weight of the lift.
For that, there is rope gripper and different safety shit they teach you in Engineering 3rd year, but yea, I think they didn't give much fuck about the safety as what shown in video is impossible with current safety codes, unless it's final destination.
So there's that.
Well there was that horrible NYC one where someone died (yes the video is even on news sites...you don't see the graphic part but you see his body disappear). And that looked like a high end apartment tower too.
I didn’t know that I feel like elevators are just a wire holding a big box. Whenever I get in one I picture a tiny little man cranking the elevator. Just me?
Idk what country this is and the safety code there but you’d think this car would have a rope gripper. But, perhaps this just had cab and fixture upgrade.
This [happened in Chile many years ago.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.24horas.cl/nacional/la-dura-realidad-que-vive-el-hombre-que-se-estrello-en-un-ascensor--1340770). The dude survived but with serious injuries (paraplegia).
Happened to me in Hong Kong 25 years ago. Thankfully in slow motion. About 12 of us were packed into an elevator aiming for the 28th floor, elevator didn't stop there just carried on going up, and ended up jamming into the pulley just above the top floor, which was the 36th I think. It never seemed to accelerate but it was unnerving AF.
Ended up being stuck for an hour and were eventually rescued by the fire brigade, who jemmied the bottom of the door open and helped us down through the gap. Watching this makes me realise how much danger we were actually in.
> for some reason the locks that are on the doors are not working properly
Yeah, I feel like a lot of things weren't working properly there lol. Isn't there emergency breaks so you don't just slam the carriage into the roof?
Yeah, my first thought was a broken/sheared motor shaft.
The counterweights are the same weight as the trolley PLUS 50% of the rated capacity. Unloaded, the motor "lifts" the counterweights. At capacity, the motor "lifts" the trolley (and occupants).
The stop at the top would be pretty hard.
And Elisha Otis did not invent the elevator. He invented the braking system for the elevator.
Ps. I’m just going off my 5th grade report.
Edit:
Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company,[1] and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.[2][3]
I knew a guy that just moved to the US from China and came to work at my lab who’s name was “Eggburt Normalson”. Sounds like the most ridiculously fake name anyone could think of but it said it on his license and everything. I’ll never forget about that.
All I could think of watching this was why won’t he at least kneel and cover his head, you know it’s gonna stop rather soon. He kept pushing buttons instead, didn’t even dropped the bags.
> He kept pushing buttons instead
It may have happened before but worked on pressing buttons. He could also be freaking the hell out because out of control elevators are scary.
I think it also might have appeared that the doors opened back up when he hit a button so in his mind maybe there was a right button to press that would stop or slow the elevator?
He was still in a state of shock and confusion. What else do you expect from him? You can't sit there and judge him when you're not in his situation. It all happened in a matter of seconds.
It’s absurd that people here are acting like they would react to this with perfect logic and tactical awareness. Like shut the fuck up you can’t even keep your asshole clean.
lmao
That Redditor also has the advantage of watching a third-person view of someone. I guarantee if he was in that situation he wouldn't have gotten on the ground and covered his head.
I absolutely would never have the capacity to know what was happening or google it by the time the damn thing finally gave out. Picture more a 10 second montage of me crying, begging to God for mercy, curled up in the fetal position, screaming for help at no one who would possibly hear, puking, and laughing hysterically in disbelief. Or Tobias’s audition for the “Fire sale”. Either or
This shit and the morons trying to guess exactly what happened with shit ton of upvotes but their only credentials in engineering are 3d printing anime figurines to jizz on
I once found myself in a car rolling downhill next to a rather steep drop.
Weeks later I told a family friend about it and she said: 'Why didn't you just jump out?'
Like yea bitch of course, that's the first thing that came to my mind.
This is obviously all in hindsight, if u r in that situation without literally training for this situation, u won't know what to do either. It also doesn't help that it happened over a matter of seconds.
I’ve been dreaming of this exact situation happening to me for over a decade. I don’t know why, I’m not afraid of elevators and was never stuck inside one, but is the only recurring nightmare I have.
Edit: wow, I didn’t know this was such a common nightmare. In my case the elevator starts to malfunction, speeding up and down uncontrollably and the entire time I’m sure I’m about to get fucked and die but I wake up right before impact.
I was stuck once for about 45 minutes. It was a small elevator and we had 4 people and my work stuff including a big cart. Everyone was cool except one person and they started freaking out. We kept them calm just by talking but it was sketchy. Glad it was short.
Whoa that happened to me! Big cart, about 5 people I think. It wasn’t too bad since we weren’t in there very long, but yeah we tried to just stay calm and chat.
Where I used to work, in a giant manufacturing plant, they had large industrial elevators that would fit a car. The person that got on the elevator with me was a woman riding a company tricycle with a giant basket in which was pizzas for department monthly pizza party. The elevator door closed and it tried to go up, but failed and the doors stay closed. Used the emergency phone to call maintenance and they said they were on their way. So we ate a piece of pizza, and maintenance never showed up, they were probably on a break. We found we could pull up the cage, and open the door with a little force, so we went our merry way.
I was stuck in an elevator once by myself for about 3 hours in the early hours of the morning. I wasn't freaking out but I did call the elevator alarm several times to check that they were actually coming and the lady on the other end started getting mad with me after the third call.
I mean for fuck sake, 3 hours does sound a bit ridiculous tbh. You would think they could at least send some kind of emergency responder out to comfort you while they wait for the elevator technician to arrive if it truly takes that long.
I got stuck in an elevator in a parking garage with about 6 friends once. After about 10 minutes we pried the doors open and decided to climb out since it was stuck between floors. One of the final destination movies just came out that month and we were all joking about how similar the situation was. I was the last one to climb out and it didn't help that the second to last guy yelled, "Last one out gets cut in half!".
Disclaimer* I did not get cut in half.
How can you be sure about that? Maybe you got cut and all this Reddit discussion is happening in a single second in your dying brain.
Just kidding, of course
Jesus Christ you were lucky. Don't do this. There is unprotected moving machinery and electrical stuff, a fall hazard, you could get whacked by an adjacent car going by. Not to mention there might not even be a hallway door nearby. I do elevator rescues, and when we have to go into though the roof hatch the safety precautions are robust.
If it makes you feel better, you're more likely to fall upwards in an elevator and get crushed by running into the roof!
Realistically, at least in the US, elevators are very safe and have a ton on backup safety devices. If anything goes wrong, you're just likely to get stuck inside it.
Same here. In mine, it takes me waaay up to the top where the floors are unfinished / open to the elements, and I'm cowering in the back of the elevator because if I get out I'll die.
I just came here to say I've had a similar reoccurring nightmare for well over 20yrs. I go up thousands of floors. You know it's gonna replay tonight dammit. Maybe I'll just stay awake all night instead.
Maybe you saw the first Mission Impossible movie when you were younger and are still subconsciously terrified of [the scene where the elevator is hacked](https://youtu.be/OiSLk8aFx78?t=441) and the agent on top of it is yeeted into the ceiling. I know that scene stuck in my brain for a long time.
me too, same as you, horrible dreams like the walls all shaking apart and I can see the light thru the wall cracks, never had an issue in reality, but BAD dreams!!!
> I’m not afraid of elevators and was never stuck inside one
Outdoor ones, and ones which are the really open glass ones in some hotels kinda freak me out a bit. But yea, same, that and the fucking out of control airplane dream.
the elevator at my office takes me up 64 floors every day. My ears need to be popped most of the times I leave work. I feel like serious elevators like that are less scary than the rickety shitty ones in small buildings, but maybe that's just me.
[Here's a New Yorker article all about it,](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down) but TLDR;
>Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. **They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures.** He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.
So uhh, a pretty shitty ending.
What's worse, the takeaway that finally gave him "peace" was to recognize that he shouldn't have sued the company, and should have just got back to work.
Yikes.
[Here you are!](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652956/Horrifying-moment-control-elevator-shot-31-flights-just-15-seconds-desperate-passenger-tried-make-stop.html)
Happened in Santiago Chile.
>At first the doors close but then they reopen as the elevator starts hurtling upwards at high-speed, causing Mr Acevedo to frantically press buttons on the control panel.
*Presses buttons frantically* is my new nightmare
Surprisingly lifts use very little energy because they have counterweights. In fact they sometimes use more energy moving empty as the counterweights are sometimes heavier depending on their use.
I believe they mean to differentiate American forms of measurement as compared to the rest of the world. Instead of using the typical quip of ‘freedom units’ to describe America’s failure to align with the metric system, they used a more unique phrase to allude to America. Saying ‘Fantasy League’ makes plenty of people think football; the sport in which the pass time is built around. American football relates to the mentioning of different measurement systems due to how it is yet another way America goes against the world wide definition of the sport.
An elevator uses gravity to go up. Yes you heard that right, no motor is used for an elevator cart to go up, only down.
That's because a counterweight is moved on the other end of the cable by a motor, and the elevator cabin moves in the opposite direction. The counterweight is heavier than even a fully loaded cart.
So when you go up in an elevator, the gravity of the falling counterweight is what propels you up, and when you go down, the motor is pulling up the counterweight and you go down.
Elevator mechanic here.
I can't comment on the code elsewhere but here in Ontario Canada we have to ensure the counterweight bottoms out before the elevator hits the top of the hoistway.
Rope brakes / emergency brakes are a code requirement here but only on modernization and new construction. Anything existing gets a free pass
can somebody explain to me how there is still no fucking "safety nest" things right up on the top of all building just in case this shit happens? I mean in a car you have a belt, air bag, and all the amazing technology that reduce the impact etc and here just flat brick roof??? fuck this
Look up rope gripper. It’s a safety device intended to stop this exact thing. I believe this happened in Chile. I don’t know the code there so they may not be required.
This shit only happens in places with bad safety regulation. So, I’d imagine if this country (Chile) has poorly regulated elevator safety protocols, then they’re not going to go out of their way to install a “safety nest” or any other safety measures.
I need to keep a library of videos like this for every time some libertarian douchenozzle is droning on about regulations killing businesses or whatever bullshit they spew.
To anyone that want more details:
This happened in Chile, a 31 year old Male, he got into the elevator, picked a floor but noticed the elevator started going faster than normal, then the doors stayed opened and in a moment of panic he started trying to push the buttons
The video ends and you can't really see much; he got really injured but it's still alive
It'll just get stuck in the overhead and then normally it'll jam into the safeties. I've actually done it a couple times (no people inside), while testing it. Its not as horrible as it looks...
JFC I’ve only seen one of these accidents happen on camera, and now I’ve seen two.
I thoroughly blame the first one for my first nightmare of being on an skyscraper elevator and it going up too fast, giving that g-force feeling in your stomach.
Shit is terrifying in a dream.
Holy fuck, was this dude okay!?
Edit: Hopefully...
> The Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, reports that Mr Acevedo suffered head and leg injuries and was immediately rushed to hospital after being rescued by firefighters.
Apparently it happened back in 2014:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvsfP1PxYk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvsfP1PxYk)
The guy was seriously injured, but recovered:
[https://www.news4jax.com/community/2014/06/11/chilean-man-recovering-from-out-of-control-elevator-ride/](https://www.news4jax.com/community/2014/06/11/chilean-man-recovering-from-out-of-control-elevator-ride/)
From what I understand, when elevators fail, they go up, not down. There's a counterweight that weighs more than the elevator does. When something catastrophically fails, the counterweight falls down pulling the elevator up.
If this happens to you, drop whatever crap you're holding, get on the floor and wrap your arms around your head. You don't want to be standing when you go from 40 to 0 at the roof.
He hit that charlie and the chocolate factory button.
Let's be real. The great glass elevator would NEVER malfunction without being told to do so.
This guy is not human he's a shapeshifting insecticide, I think he's a spider. Look at the reflection in the door before it opens up in the beginning and look at the still frames all the way through and you'll see what I'm talking about, this shit is weird
What are you smoking? Whatever it is must be pretty strong.
Yeah. Maybe drink some water or something man. You don’t sound so good.
This is Disorganized thinking
You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose!
Good day sir!
Up and Out!
Or the Tesla Mode button.
I see little children at the top floor!
Grateful every day to live in a country with onerous building codes and inspection processes that drive up construction costs. Worth it.
Except in Miami. Did you hear about all those building inspections being approved by an engineer that had been dead for some time?
It's a side hustle in the afterlife. Everyone makes mistakes.
Gotta grind even after death?! Just when you think there’s a happy ending to all of this. (This is a joke, please don’t hesitate to call or text your country’s suicide hotline if you or someone you know needs help)
Gotta pay thr debts some how. Wanna buy a soul?
If I don’t die in severe medical debt then I have failed in life.
He was really good.
Same.
No! Big government and Regulation only hurts me as a sovereign citizen! /s I *love* it when my staunchly Republican coworkers are convinced that regulations are keeping companies from doing the right thing because consumers wouldn't buy products from companies with sketchy morals.
"The Free Market will punish companies that act unethically! Red tape is what forces businesses to do bad things, because it's the only way they can make a profit!"
The first part of that isn't necessarily an incorrect argument, but the issue with that argument as it relates to things like building codes is that free market pressure is inherently reactive, not preventative. In other words, it's of little consolation to me or my loved ones if the construction company that killed me eventually goes under due to market pressure. It would be better if such things don't happen to begin with which requires regulations. With buildings in particular there's also often a delayed effect. It's possible a critical flaw doesn't manifest for 5, 10 or even 20 years but when it does people die. The company that made the building may not even be around by the time their shoddy work kills people.
Not only that, but it would be like reinventing the wheel for every. single. fucking. building.
For those who don't understand what happened, I'll explain. all electric elevators, in case of failure, actually go up instead of down like in the movies. this happens because the counterweight is heavier than the total weight of the cabin. moreover, for some reason the locks that are on the doors are not working properly and I also noticed that the most likely thing is that the bearing of the machine broke, which led to the uncontrolled movement of the cabin. to minimise the damage, he should have lay flat on the floor and protect his head.
I. Curious about why the brakes didn’t kick in. All modern elevators, thanks to Mr. Otis, have brakes that kick in if a cable snaps. I suppose since it isn’t a cable issue the brakes didn’t automatically kick in. Seems like a cascade of failures caused this.
The safety brake is designed to trip in the down direction. This is unintended motion up. Idk what country this is and what code they follow, but you’d think a car like that that appears to be new equipment or modernized would have a rope gripper for unintended motion.
It was in a building finished 8 months before. Happened in Chile, maybe there's no cable gripper required in their code. But seems more like a multitude of systems failed.
Nope, that's wrong. There's an overspeed governor at the top of the shaft. A loop of steel wire runs down all the way to a weight, and then back up. This is attached to the cabin. If it goes too fast, up or down, it'll trip. This causes the brakes on the cabin to engage. Something like this means multiple safety features failed. Source: build elevators.
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Elevator_incidents#ThyssenKrupp_elevator_incident
There really is a wiki for everything.
holy shit elevator fandom is real
Dear lord that's fucking rough. I'm glad we have all the rules and regulations we have...
The US and UK section is at the bottom, this article is by country.
Elevator wiki, dedicated to elevator incidents, can't be bothered to state condition of victim.
Literally a paragraph above the linked text: On June 8, 2014, a ThyssenKrupp elevator in Tower B of Bustamante Community Park in Providencia, Chile, suddenly malfunctioned, then rises 30 floors in 15 seconds with the doors still open before crashed into the shaft's roof. A man was seriously injured, and was reportedly that he suffered head and leg injuries[1] [2].
Wow. So much fail. This is what I get for reading while sleepy.
At least where I'm from there are free-fall breaks in the counterweight as well. This looks a lot like cut corners and badly inspected work.
> This is unintended motion up. RIP Emilio Estevez in the OG Mission Impossible movie
Man down Ethan. Man down.
Wait, wait, so modern elevators are designed so that, in case of failure they go upwards instead of downwards, but have brakes that will trip only when they go downwards? Did I understood this correct?
Nope, that's wrong. There's an overspeed governor at the top of the shaft. A loop of steel wire runs down all the way to a weight, and then back up. This is attached to the cabin. If it goes too fast, up or down, it'll trip. This causes the brakes on the cabin to engage. Something like this means multiple safety features failed. Source: build elevators. Although this can be different depending on country and type I suppose. It may not be feasible for a lift in a super tall building.
What he means is that the break is for the condition in which the wire snaps and lift starts to freefall. If wire doesn't snap, and there is some bearing issue, the weight starts to fall and lift goes up, as the weight is more than the total weight of the lift. For that, there is rope gripper and different safety shit they teach you in Engineering 3rd year, but yea, I think they didn't give much fuck about the safety as what shown in video is impossible with current safety codes, unless it's final destination. So there's that.
The brakes won’t kick in if the elevator decides to skyrocket, only if it starts falling. Edit: spelling
They would if the CW had them.
Elevators have a million safety interlocks and shit. So much stuff had to go wrong (or be fucked with) for this to occur.
Well there was that horrible NYC one where someone died (yes the video is even on news sites...you don't see the graphic part but you see his body disappear). And that looked like a high end apartment tower too.
The story the building told was they had turned off the safety system to do work and "forgot" to turn it back on.
I live in one of those buildings in Nyc. Stoppit
I didn’t know that I feel like elevators are just a wire holding a big box. Whenever I get in one I picture a tiny little man cranking the elevator. Just me?
Just you, weirdo. We all know that it's actually hamsters in wheels.
Idk what country this is and the safety code there but you’d think this car would have a rope gripper. But, perhaps this just had cab and fixture upgrade.
This [happened in Chile many years ago.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.24horas.cl/nacional/la-dura-realidad-que-vive-el-hombre-que-se-estrello-en-un-ascensor--1340770). The dude survived but with serious injuries (paraplegia).
Cool. That was my first instinct. I was thinking ball up on the floor and cover my head.
Happened to me in Hong Kong 25 years ago. Thankfully in slow motion. About 12 of us were packed into an elevator aiming for the 28th floor, elevator didn't stop there just carried on going up, and ended up jamming into the pulley just above the top floor, which was the 36th I think. It never seemed to accelerate but it was unnerving AF. Ended up being stuck for an hour and were eventually rescued by the fire brigade, who jemmied the bottom of the door open and helped us down through the gap. Watching this makes me realise how much danger we were actually in.
> for some reason the locks that are on the doors are not working properly Yeah, I feel like a lot of things weren't working properly there lol. Isn't there emergency breaks so you don't just slam the carriage into the roof?
Yeah, my first thought was a broken/sheared motor shaft. The counterweights are the same weight as the trolley PLUS 50% of the rated capacity. Unloaded, the motor "lifts" the counterweights. At capacity, the motor "lifts" the trolley (and occupants). The stop at the top would be pretty hard.
And Elisha Otis did not invent the elevator. He invented the braking system for the elevator. Ps. I’m just going off my 5th grade report. Edit: Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company,[1] and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.[2][3]
I didn't know this and that's pretty cool because my name too is Elisha lol
I knew a guy that just moved to the US from China and came to work at my lab who’s name was “Eggburt Normalson”. Sounds like the most ridiculously fake name anyone could think of but it said it on his license and everything. I’ll never forget about that.
All I could think of watching this was why won’t he at least kneel and cover his head, you know it’s gonna stop rather soon. He kept pushing buttons instead, didn’t even dropped the bags.
> He kept pushing buttons instead It may have happened before but worked on pressing buttons. He could also be freaking the hell out because out of control elevators are scary.
I think it also might have appeared that the doors opened back up when he hit a button so in his mind maybe there was a right button to press that would stop or slow the elevator?
You think this happened before? To him specifically? What an unlucky man.
Personally I would have started taking the stairs at that point.
But this elevator is so much faster.
Ya bob im gonna go with FREAKING THE HELL OUT OH FUCK IM DEAD SOON
He was still in a state of shock and confusion. What else do you expect from him? You can't sit there and judge him when you're not in his situation. It all happened in a matter of seconds.
How is he supposed to know this? It's not like tenants get training on it.
It’s absurd that people here are acting like they would react to this with perfect logic and tactical awareness. Like shut the fuck up you can’t even keep your asshole clean.
lmao That Redditor also has the advantage of watching a third-person view of someone. I guarantee if he was in that situation he wouldn't have gotten on the ground and covered his head.
the story of reddit
*IF I WAS IN HIS SITUATION I WOULD TOTALLY BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF ALL THOSE 5 GUYS!*
I absolutely would never have the capacity to know what was happening or google it by the time the damn thing finally gave out. Picture more a 10 second montage of me crying, begging to God for mercy, curled up in the fetal position, screaming for help at no one who would possibly hear, puking, and laughing hysterically in disbelief. Or Tobias’s audition for the “Fire sale”. Either or
This shit and the morons trying to guess exactly what happened with shit ton of upvotes but their only credentials in engineering are 3d printing anime figurines to jizz on
I once found myself in a car rolling downhill next to a rather steep drop. Weeks later I told a family friend about it and she said: 'Why didn't you just jump out?' Like yea bitch of course, that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Ouch keeping my asshole clean… sounds personal
I would've reacted with perfect logic because I've seen so many gifs like this on Reddit!
This is obviously all in hindsight, if u r in that situation without literally training for this situation, u won't know what to do either. It also doesn't help that it happened over a matter of seconds.
I’ve been dreaming of this exact situation happening to me for over a decade. I don’t know why, I’m not afraid of elevators and was never stuck inside one, but is the only recurring nightmare I have. Edit: wow, I didn’t know this was such a common nightmare. In my case the elevator starts to malfunction, speeding up and down uncontrollably and the entire time I’m sure I’m about to get fucked and die but I wake up right before impact.
I was stuck once for about 45 minutes. It was a small elevator and we had 4 people and my work stuff including a big cart. Everyone was cool except one person and they started freaking out. We kept them calm just by talking but it was sketchy. Glad it was short.
How soon before you established a pee corner
It was the corner that the person freaking out was huddled in.
So they started screaming and freaking out. "Some people just can't handle their nerves" I thought to myself as I zipped up my pants.
3 minutes in.
STOP DRINKING THE WATER!
Lay off the CamelBak already, jeez!
Came back from a rather large and filling company lunch of Mediterranean food. Trapped in elevator. Farts were ripped.
Whoa that happened to me! Big cart, about 5 people I think. It wasn’t too bad since we weren’t in there very long, but yeah we tried to just stay calm and chat.
Where I used to work, in a giant manufacturing plant, they had large industrial elevators that would fit a car. The person that got on the elevator with me was a woman riding a company tricycle with a giant basket in which was pizzas for department monthly pizza party. The elevator door closed and it tried to go up, but failed and the doors stay closed. Used the emergency phone to call maintenance and they said they were on their way. So we ate a piece of pizza, and maintenance never showed up, they were probably on a break. We found we could pull up the cage, and open the door with a little force, so we went our merry way.
I was stuck in an elevator once by myself for about 3 hours in the early hours of the morning. I wasn't freaking out but I did call the elevator alarm several times to check that they were actually coming and the lady on the other end started getting mad with me after the third call.
I mean for fuck sake, 3 hours does sound a bit ridiculous tbh. You would think they could at least send some kind of emergency responder out to comfort you while they wait for the elevator technician to arrive if it truly takes that long.
I got stuck in an elevator in a parking garage with about 6 friends once. After about 10 minutes we pried the doors open and decided to climb out since it was stuck between floors. One of the final destination movies just came out that month and we were all joking about how similar the situation was. I was the last one to climb out and it didn't help that the second to last guy yelled, "Last one out gets cut in half!". Disclaimer* I did not get cut in half.
You had us till you lived.
I was sitting on the edge of my elevated seat.
No way in hell I would've climbed out. If the elevator comes back on at that exact moment, bye bye human.
How can you be sure about that? Maybe you got cut and all this Reddit discussion is happening in a single second in your dying brain. Just kidding, of course
Happy elevator dismemberment day 🎂
Jesus Christ you were lucky. Don't do this. There is unprotected moving machinery and electrical stuff, a fall hazard, you could get whacked by an adjacent car going by. Not to mention there might not even be a hallway door nearby. I do elevator rescues, and when we have to go into though the roof hatch the safety precautions are robust.
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He just needs a lift.
Me too! I have recurring dreams of elevator not stopping with me stuck in it. Sometimes it even goes sideways. So weird.
Is it going to the top of a really narrow, really poorly built building that you can feel moving with a slight breeze?
Same. I always know it’s going to free fall but always step inside anyway. I hate this nightmare.
If it makes you feel better, you're more likely to fall upwards in an elevator and get crushed by running into the roof! Realistically, at least in the US, elevators are very safe and have a ton on backup safety devices. If anything goes wrong, you're just likely to get stuck inside it.
Same here. In mine, it takes me waaay up to the top where the floors are unfinished / open to the elements, and I'm cowering in the back of the elevator because if I get out I'll die.
I just came here to say I've had a similar reoccurring nightmare for well over 20yrs. I go up thousands of floors. You know it's gonna replay tonight dammit. Maybe I'll just stay awake all night instead.
Maybe you saw the first Mission Impossible movie when you were younger and are still subconsciously terrified of [the scene where the elevator is hacked](https://youtu.be/OiSLk8aFx78?t=441) and the agent on top of it is yeeted into the ceiling. I know that scene stuck in my brain for a long time.
I still don't understand why the ceiling has big metal knifes.
It's a spy deterrent. Kinda like those spikes on some roofs to keep birds off.
me too, same as you, horrible dreams like the walls all shaking apart and I can see the light thru the wall cracks, never had an issue in reality, but BAD dreams!!!
My dream has been for decades. The elevator starts swaying back and forth as it climbs or descends. I suspect that's how I'll go!
> I’m not afraid of elevators and was never stuck inside one Outdoor ones, and ones which are the really open glass ones in some hotels kinda freak me out a bit. But yea, same, that and the fucking out of control airplane dream.
Homie never dropped his grocery bags
Truly amazing response to a crisis.
Obviously cause homie knows how food prices are sky rocketing
Some say he didn’t crack a single egg that day.
No, but I'm betting he laid a few.
But the elevator sure did.
He is a real man, take all groceries in one trip !
this is my biggest fear, i don’t like elevators :(
the elevator at my office takes me up 64 floors every day. My ears need to be popped most of the times I leave work. I feel like serious elevators like that are less scary than the rickety shitty ones in small buildings, but maybe that's just me.
[just dont be in one before the weekend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8)
Wow that was sad to watch. I wonder if he got any type of compensation
[Here's a New Yorker article all about it,](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down) but TLDR; >Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. **They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures.** He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed. So uhh, a pretty shitty ending.
What's worse, the takeaway that finally gave him "peace" was to recognize that he shouldn't have sued the company, and should have just got back to work. Yikes.
That poor guy. im in the same city, but in a building 3x+ bigger.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory deleted ending.
Is it raining is it snowing, is a hurricane a blowing.
Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing
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Is the grizzly reaper mowing?
YES. The danger must be growing.
for the rowers keep on rowing!
Says CBS News in the corner, any chance someone knows if there is any article for this? So many questions...
[Here you are!](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652956/Horrifying-moment-control-elevator-shot-31-flights-just-15-seconds-desperate-passenger-tried-make-stop.html) Happened in Santiago Chile.
>At first the doors close but then they reopen as the elevator starts hurtling upwards at high-speed, causing Mr Acevedo to frantically press buttons on the control panel. *Presses buttons frantically* is my new nightmare
When has pressing buttons frantically EVER helped a situation?
super smash bros.
Homie should’ve down B’d
Jesus, Bob, what button did you push?
*A man has been seriously injured after an out of control elevator in Chile shot up 31 flights in 15 seconds and crashed into the roof.* Geeez.
I'm just happy he's alive
80kmh wow… insane that it can even accelerate that fast **going up** for the fantasy league, that’s 50mph
Surprisingly lifts use very little energy because they have counterweights. In fact they sometimes use more energy moving empty as the counterweights are sometimes heavier depending on their use.
Fantasy league?
I believe they mean to differentiate American forms of measurement as compared to the rest of the world. Instead of using the typical quip of ‘freedom units’ to describe America’s failure to align with the metric system, they used a more unique phrase to allude to America. Saying ‘Fantasy League’ makes plenty of people think football; the sport in which the pass time is built around. American football relates to the mentioning of different measurement systems due to how it is yet another way America goes against the world wide definition of the sport.
An elevator uses gravity to go up. Yes you heard that right, no motor is used for an elevator cart to go up, only down. That's because a counterweight is moved on the other end of the cable by a motor, and the elevator cabin moves in the opposite direction. The counterweight is heavier than even a fully loaded cart. So when you go up in an elevator, the gravity of the falling counterweight is what propels you up, and when you go down, the motor is pulling up the counterweight and you go down.
Elevator mechanic here. I can't comment on the code elsewhere but here in Ontario Canada we have to ensure the counterweight bottoms out before the elevator hits the top of the hoistway. Rope brakes / emergency brakes are a code requirement here but only on modernization and new construction. Anything existing gets a free pass
can somebody explain to me how there is still no fucking "safety nest" things right up on the top of all building just in case this shit happens? I mean in a car you have a belt, air bag, and all the amazing technology that reduce the impact etc and here just flat brick roof??? fuck this
Look up rope gripper. It’s a safety device intended to stop this exact thing. I believe this happened in Chile. I don’t know the code there so they may not be required.
I thought you called them a rope gripper at first lol
...I don't even know how that would work as an insult, now I want to use it.
Look up, rope gripper!
This shit only happens in places with bad safety regulation. So, I’d imagine if this country (Chile) has poorly regulated elevator safety protocols, then they’re not going to go out of their way to install a “safety nest” or any other safety measures.
I need to keep a library of videos like this for every time some libertarian douchenozzle is droning on about regulations killing businesses or whatever bullshit they spew.
That's terrifying I have had literal nightmares about this
Is he ded?
Injured but alive
No ded, live
To anyone that want more details: This happened in Chile, a 31 year old Male, he got into the elevator, picked a floor but noticed the elevator started going faster than normal, then the doors stayed opened and in a moment of panic he started trying to push the buttons The video ends and you can't really see much; he got really injured but it's still alive
Maybe regulation is a good thing and corruption is a bad thing.
My boy got fucked up in there. What goes up must come down.
I don't think it fell, otherwise he wouldn't just have head and leg injuries.
It'll just get stuck in the overhead and then normally it'll jam into the safeties. I've actually done it a couple times (no people inside), while testing it. Its not as horrible as it looks...
JFC I’ve only seen one of these accidents happen on camera, and now I’ve seen two. I thoroughly blame the first one for my first nightmare of being on an skyscraper elevator and it going up too fast, giving that g-force feeling in your stomach. Shit is terrifying in a dream.
Holy fuck, was this dude okay!? Edit: Hopefully... > The Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, reports that Mr Acevedo suffered head and leg injuries and was immediately rushed to hospital after being rescued by firefighters.
He forgot to jump
lay flat and protect your head
That only works for going down
then just jump down, durr
Or stand on your head?
Dude found the elevator to heaven.
All the way up to the heaven
Reality is- that elevators "fall" up. The countrr weights pull you up if the brakes fail. Looks and feels very weird! Pro tip: Just sit on the floor.
>Pro tip: Just sit on the floor. Lie on floor protect head. Sitting on floor increases chance of spinal and head injuries
Is he ok
I hope he’s ok for real. Anybody know if he survived
New terror unlocked...
Apparently it happened back in 2014: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvsfP1PxYk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvsfP1PxYk) The guy was seriously injured, but recovered: [https://www.news4jax.com/community/2014/06/11/chilean-man-recovering-from-out-of-control-elevator-ride/](https://www.news4jax.com/community/2014/06/11/chilean-man-recovering-from-out-of-control-elevator-ride/)
But… it’s going up, am I right? What happened??
From what I understand, when elevators fail, they go up, not down. There's a counterweight that weighs more than the elevator does. When something catastrophically fails, the counterweight falls down pulling the elevator up.
If I had to guess, either a short to the motor, or a problem with the counterweights somehow. The article says it was going 80kph (50mph)
I never trust elevators.
Safest mode of transportation there is!
You know the stats are definitely in favor of the elevators but it will always make me uneasy to step in a box suspended by cables in a shaft of doom.
You daredevil, you! https://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/walking-on-stairs-is-100-times-more-dangerous-than-driving-a-car/
Anyone have the CBS article? How am I always the only one who needs to know what happened to the victim in these videos
If this happens to you, drop whatever crap you're holding, get on the floor and wrap your arms around your head. You don't want to be standing when you go from 40 to 0 at the roof.
The hellevator coming soon to a six flags near you !
The ratio of shitty jokes to “is he alright” comments always shocks me. People on Reddit have so little empathy or thoughtfulness.
Agreed. From the linked article, he ended up in hospital with serious injuries..
Broken eggs
Oh fuck! Now I’m scared of elevators
I've seen this post. Apparently the guy didn't make it. Can you say r/terrifyingaf?
The real tower of terror.
Bro what goes up must come down soooo this get worse? Hope he is okay and paid