Posted on 05/23/2006 8:45:54 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
May 20, 2006 -- A man's legs were severed early today as he tried to escape from inside an elevator packed with revelers leaving a party in The Bronx, police and witnesses said. The bizarre accident occurred at 12:15 a.m. when an apartment building elevator at 2395 Tiebout Ave. in the Fordham section got stuck between the first floor and basement, police said. That's when the man - who was not identified, but only described by cops as being in his 20s - was following two other men who had safely climbed out of the elevator to the lobby. As he shimmied through the open doors, the elevator began to move, severing the man's legs, witnesses said. The accident left the 14 people standing inside the elevator splattered in blood. "Half of his body was cut in the elevator," said Carmen Valentin, 48, who lives on the second floor of the building. "Half of his body was inside and half outside. There was blood everywhere." Cops worked to free the man before transporting him to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition. The other trapped riders were freed an hour later.
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Just. Damn!
Horrible! :(
How horrible.
I've crawled out of elevators between floors before....
Shudder to think
And to watch it happen helplessly before you....
Dear God!
patience is a virtue
Jose, can you flee...
A doctor lost his head a year or two ago. It was a plain horror movie. Can't remember where, maybe LA or Toronto (?).
I am not even going to Google for it now, it was so awful.
Now I understand why the sign in our elevator at work says not to try and crawl out if stuck between floors. Yuck.
That poor man. Just damn.
Back in the 80's my girlfriend's brother died while "elevator surfing" in a dorm at college. I believe he was attending Indiana State at the time.
A doctor lost his head a year or two ago. It was a plain horror movie. Can't remember where, maybe LA or Toronto (?).
It was a hospital in Houston.
Poor guy.
Ms. Steinau told police the elevator had been out of service for a few days prior to to the tragedy, but at the time of the accident the "Out of service" sign had been removed. She had rung for the elevator (with the intent of going to the sixth floor) and had already stepped into it and pushed the button for her floor when Nikaidoh tried to get into the car as the door was closing. As soon as she saw he was trapped by the doors, Steinau tried to hit the emergency stop button but was unable to do so before the rising elevator had partially decapitated Dr. Nikaidoh. The elevator continued upwards, finally stopping between the fourth and fifth floors. Steinau was trapped in the car along with Nikaidoh's cranial remains until she was rescued by firefighters. She was treated in the hospital's emergency room for shock.
This was taken from Snopes. Snopes also mentioned a few other deaths by elevator and said that about 30 people per year die from elevator accidents.
houston
Sounds like the opening scene of Resident Evil.
Ya know, I don't think I should have opened this thread!
I never like being in elevators. I have a fear that it's going to go crashing down to the basement.
Several things would have to go wrong for that to happen.
The main reason that seldom happens is that elevators are counterweighted.
It was. Age 37.
Oh gross.
Thanks for those vivid details. Right before bed, no less.
Thanks a bunch........
I remember that. And the other passengers in the elevator were stuck inside with his head for quite a while before they were rescued.
And the article said he was "partially decapitated".
I interpreted that to mean that his head was partially cut off, but remained attached. I think what they meant was that only part of his head was cut off. That is a much more unsettling concept.
what's elevator surfing?
riding on top?
I hope you don't have nightmares from this.
There were a couple of incidents mentioned in Snopes.com about hospital patients on gurneys who were halfway into the elevator when the elevator suddenly drops or goes up, and the patient is smashed.
I don't think I should have opened this thread either. I'm going to be a lot more paranoid around elevators -- especially since where I work, the elevators break down often.
That's just horrid. Some guy in my hometown tried to jump out of a stuck elevator in a shopping mall and fell into an uncovered gap trying to get out. Fell some 4 floors down to the bottom of the shaft and died. I can believe this kind of stuff happens more than you would think.
And then to be in the elevator for another hour with the poor man's legs.
I made another call on a woman (seven months pregnant) who was working at the old Capitol Hotel in Austin. She was carrying a stack of sheets, and when she pushed the elevator button, the door opened even though the car wasn't there. She stepped into it. Fortunately, she was on the first floor, so she only fell about ten feet and didn't lose the baby. Nasty stuff can happen around elevators, especially old ones.
I don't know about the Snopes articles, but I personally made those two calls.
Is there a sign on the roof that says "Don't Jump"?
Or worse yet, being stuck in one during a fire.
When the elevator doors open, I always hesitate before going in, namely to make sure there really IS a car there. I don't want to step into an empty shaftway. I think the actor Pat Hingle had such an accident, and lost part of a finger that way.
To quote an elevator mechanic friend of mine "Elevators will kill you quicker than a bastard"
A couple weeks ago a construction worker here in Pittsburgh was decapitated when he stuck his head in the freight elevator shaft looking for the elevator.
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We need to ban elevators since they kill sooooo many people just like guns.
Where are the elevator grabbers when you need them???
Pat Hingle's accident was described this way in movies.yahoo.com:
Offered title role in "Elmer Gantry" (1960) but could not do it due to near fatal accident; caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that had stalled between the second and third floors, he crawled out, trying to reach the second floor corridor, lost his balance and fell 54 feet down the shaft, fracturing his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side, breaking his left leg in three places and losing the little finger on his left hand; Burt Lancaster won a Best Actor Oscar as Elmer Gantry
Sounds like the opening scene of Resident Evil.
It reminds me of that scene from Total Recall. Cohagen and Ahnold are fighting while going up the lift.
I'm sorry I clicked on this thread. Yuck.
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