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Hancock Elevator Dropped From 95th To 11th Floor, Passenger Says
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| 11/16/2018
Posted on 11/18/2018 1:27:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/18/2018 1:27:51 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Good news is the safety brake worked.
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posted on
11/18/2018 1:49:03 AM PST
by
billyboy15
(Es)
To: billyboy15
Good news is the safety brake worked.Right. After an 84 floor free fall. That's never supposed to happen.
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posted on
11/18/2018 1:54:53 AM PST
by
Musket
(It's very simple:<i>your quoted text pasted here</i><p> produces Quoted Italic with paragraph break)
To: billyboy15
Apparently after 84 floors.
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posted on
11/18/2018 1:55:58 AM PST
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: BenLurkin
Kind of chintzy for Hancock to be cutting corners on elevator maintenance, isn’t it? Wonder how much the lawsuits will cost?
To: LibWhacker
It sounds worse than chintzy to me. I believe routine inspections of elevators are mandated virtually everywhere. Sounds to me like somebody was making under-the-table payments to somebody in a government position to skip the inspections. Who’d a thunk it, in Chicago of all places?!
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posted on
11/18/2018 2:39:39 AM PST
by
McGarrett
(Book'em Danno)
To: BenLurkin
Diaper changes all around
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posted on
11/18/2018 2:52:51 AM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: McGarrett
Sounds to me like somebody was making under-the-table payments to somebody in a government position to skip the inspections. I’ll give you a more likely scenario.
A good public servant walks in to the Hancock and tags out the elevator for inspection. Then proceeds to a bar to fill out his inspection report while he has a couple of beers.
He then returns to the Hancock and pulls his tags and tags out another elevator and returns to the bar.
He repeats this routine at the Hancock until he has tagged out all of the elevators in the hotel. He inspects about two elevators a day in this fashion all over Chicago.
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:05:09 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:09:12 AM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:11:42 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: jacknhoo
Just doing the math but, good thing they did not fall from 80th floor or lower?
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:15:58 AM PST
by
SMGFan
( .)
To: BenLurkin
Not sure what safety brakes are like in a skyscraper elevator but I am familiar with the safety brakes in a mine shaft. Those safety brakes don’t allow a fall of more than a couple of feet. I wonder what happened here?
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:21:48 AM PST
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Pontiac
The inspection sticker in on display on the elevators control panel along with the signature of the inspector. Tough to falsify that’s with your name on line.
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:29:49 AM PST
by
Fhios
To: BenLurkin
"..9 people and 11 turds on bu bu board"
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:30:50 AM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: billyboy15
Yep - wonder if any of them exclaimed, “Thank Otis!”.....
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:35:36 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: VTenigma
Been in those elevators. Scary. Lucky to be alive.
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:38:33 AM PST
by
gcparent
(Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
To: trebb
Nah, too busy looking for a lawyer.
To: trebb
Nah, too busy looking for a lawyer.
To: BenLurkin
Wow. I’ll take the stairs.
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:47:54 AM PST
by
csvset
(illegitimi non carborundum)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/18/2018 3:55:48 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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