Corpse Found In Chinese Elevator After Month-Long Shutdown

TIme ^ | 4:17 PM ET March 6, 2016 | Melissa Chan

[Pan_Yan]

A woman’s corpse was found in an elevator in China about a month after an elevator maintenance crew improperly shut off its power, trapping her inside, without checking to see if it was empty.

The body of the 43-year-old building resident, who was living by herself, was discovered on March 1, several weeks after the elevator in Xi’an had been turned off over complaints about a glitch, the Associated Press reports.

[Fresh Wind]

Back in my kollege daze, I was in an elevator with what must have been 20 other students.

For some reason, the whole bunch of them started jumping up and down in unison.

The elevator stuttered a bit, but it kept running.

What was really scary was that a couple of weeks later that elevator was shut down for having bad cables.

[AmericanMermaid]

Same here. I go to the extreme of trying to secure a room on the first, second or third floor of a hotel, if at all possible.

[Pan_Yan]

I actually spent 45 minutes trapped on TOP of an elevator with the state elevator inspector when the controls quit during testing. Nice guy. Got to know him pretty well.