[freedumb2003]

Someone must have disabled the failsafe — there is a mechanical flywheel that is supposed to keep that from happening (I saw how it works on a Mythbusters episode).

Man, strange.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” When Communist Elevators turn on you”

[IronJack]

Most (Western) elevators have a dynamic braking system that will not allow them to free-fall very far. In the Far East, that may or may not be true, especially if the building is old and/or someone has been paid off to “overlook” certain safety shortcomings ...

[bigbob]

If I had to be in a falling elevator, I’d rather be with Franklin Graham than Annie Laurie Gaylor.

[Dagnabitt]

“The vast majority of Muslims reject falling elevators” - John Kerry.

[T-Bird45]

Imagine that - you go to a third-world Commie craphole and wonder why those things you take for granted in the first-world free market don’t work where you are.

[Hot Tabasco]

Suddenly, one of our group noticed some light and pulled the doors open again and this time we had about a 2 foot crawl space.

That in itself was a dangerous move since someone crawling out could have been crushed if the elevator dropped again.........

A bunch of years ago, the wife of an employee at the company I worked for was in a local hospital. She was on a gurney, being transported to another floor and while she was being wheeled into the elevator, somehow it broke loose and crushed her when she was only half way in.......

[SandRat]

Bet they all had Soiled Knickers. hehehehe

[Perseverando]

Some of it was filmed, where at one point Reverend Graham quips “if it goes down, I’m going up”

[oblomov]

In Vietnam, elevator takes you.

[Marcella]

I was at a business convention, parked my car in the parking building and got in the elevator. There were about six of us in this elevator and it stuck. When an emergency happens, I immediately look for the solution to the problem. Other women in there panicked. One man said he was claustrophobic so he was no help.

I looked up and saw panels that I thought could be removed - I was the smallest person in there not in a panic, so I figured the men could lift me up there. About then, it jerked and moved and jerked and moved until it got to a floor and we got out. I didn't use any elevator in that parking building again. You're likely to get help if the elevator is inside a building where people are, but in a parking building, there are no people around.

When stuck like that, the first thing to do is control your panic and look for a way out. Starting that action, reduces panic.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Otis, my man!

[righttackle44]

I’m floored. (But why has no one yet asked, “If you could jump up just as the elevator hit the bottom of the elevator shaft, could you survive?” (I’m not asking, by the way.)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

They’re trying to, ‘Breitbart’ Gretta!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Some of it was filmed, where at one point Reverend Graham quips “if it goes down, I’m going up."

I admire him for showing calm humor in these circumstances.

[DesertRhino]

“Incidentally, if a lift is headed uncontrollably to the bottom, the best possible way to survive is to lie flat on the floor.”

Total myth. You step out just as it hits. Bugs Bunny did this on a few occasions.

[AU72]

3rd world elevators. Just wait until Americans tourists start flocking to Cuba!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The biggest risk was walking through the pried open doors. No one likes to get cut in half.

[null and void]

In January???

I’d expect this more in the Fall...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I remember the old joke about a man telling of his harrowing experience of being trapped in an elevator with a group of people.

“First the claustrophobia set in, then the hysterical panic. Eventually we had to drink our own urine just to survive.”

“Was anyone hurt?”

“No, fortunately after about an hour the elevator started working again.”