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.
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