Posted on 10/10/2010 6:44:47 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
This is the horrifying moment a wheelchair-bound man plunged to his death down an elevator shaft after he deliberately rammed the lift door in a fit of anger. The Korean man just misses a lift in a shopping centre after the woman inside pressed the button to go down. As the doors closed a split-second before he reached the lift, the man, known only as Mr Lee, slammed his vehicle into them. The 40-year-old pressed the button to no avail and the elevator left. Mr Lee then reversed his vehicle slightly and drove into the doors again, making a dent. He reversed back for one more attempt. This time the doors gave way and he plunged to his death.
He is believed to have fallen about 19ft. The incident, which happened in August, was caught on security cameras in the shopping centre in Daejon, South Korea. Police said the accident was caused by Mr Lee’s anger at the woman not holding the door for him. Shopping centre officials have vowed to strengthen the doors of the lifts to ensure the accident is never repeated.
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A bit of dark weird news to start off a sunny Sunday morning. Being in a wheel chair is tough, but... Temper, temper.
Is it just me or do quite a few handicapped persons seem to have this attitude?
And why is this being called an accident? The person in question purposefully attempted to make a piece of machinery do what it was not supposed to do, succeeded, and unfortunately perished. Would this have made the news if an able-bodied person had done the same thing?
I'm guessing North.
Wow. Talk about a case of “pride goeth before the fall”.
This is an open and shut case......
No. This had nothing to do with the guy being in a wheelchair.
I lived in Korea for 12 years. Koreans will NOT hold an elevator for ANYONE except an immediate family member, a member of the specific high school graduating class of the individual in the elevator, or her spouse’s boss. Period.
Quite frankly, others are literally beneath notice. I can tell you that this woman would simply not have even seen this man had he been standing in front of her yelling his head off.
If you do a bit of digging into Korean cultural values, you’ll find that this is quite true. It’s a Korean social coping mechanism.
Has the whole damn world gone Americanized sappy? I kinda agree that the doors must have been pretty flimsy, but why is the first reaction to protect people from the foreseeable consequences of their own stew-pid-iddy?
Oh, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee...
Just the Western part. I see you were taken by the phrase, "vowed to strengthen the doors".
LOL. I was thinking of that song when I posted the article.
Shopping mall with elevators? I vote for South.
> I’m guessing North.
Ah, but they don’t have decadent capitalist shopping centers in NoKo. Probably don’t have many elevators, either.
“Quite frankly, others are literally beneath notice. I can tell you that this woman would simply not have even seen this man had he been standing in front of her yelling his head off.”
Did obama spend any time in Korea when he was a kid?
What a douche.
pretty flimsy doors. A 400 pound fat american could lean on them and fall in.
Cultural values aside, if you look at the video you will see that the person in the wheelchair missed the open door by quite a bit, even with his going at ramming speed. You can also see that the elevator has transparent doors and that the car was no longer behind the doors when he decided to hit it.
From the video, it doesn’t appear the woman did anything wrong. She got in the elevator, pressed the button and started fixing her hair in the mirrored walls. The elevator didn’t move and she pushed the button again and wasn’t facing the door. After the doors closed, the wheelchair idiot came speeding up and was pissed off that the doors just closed. So he killed himself to teach the elevator a lesson.
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