Posted on 11/18/2018 1:27:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
Poor cleaning crew...
WORST HEADLINE EVER
That's a good point. If the elevator had never been invented both human hives and the modern socialist Democrat party would not exist. America would have far fewer leftist city slickers. America's downfall can largely be blamed on the elevator.
This is prolly one of the stupidest posts I have ever read. Untold Billions of people have been using elevators, with a death rate/usage that is so small that it can't be calculated within 6 or 7 decimal places.
Riding an elevator compared to walking 95 floors? The heart attack rate alone would dwarf any number of people that have ever died in all elevator accidents.
Did you give any thought before you wrote this inane post? No elevators, no modern cities, hmmm, maybe it's not such a stupid post. Let me think about it.
Exactly. And this elevator inspector knows less about elevators than the building’s janitor. But he IS a friend of a friend of the alderman’s accountant.
I can’t even imagine!
Those elevators are the fastest I have ever been on. I would never want to be stuck in one of those.
Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall—the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark—and he will say that he can think of only one. That would be the Empire State Building incident of 1945, in which a B-25 bomber pilot made a wrong turn in the fog and crashed into the seventy-ninth floor, snapping the hoist and safety cables of two elevators. Both of them plunged to the bottom of the shaft. One of them fell from the seventy-fifth floor with a woman aboard—an elevator operator. (The operator of the other one had stepped out for a cigarette.) ...
...Still, the landing was not soft. The car’s walls buckled, and steel debris tore up through the floor. It was the woman’s good fortune to be cowering in a corner when the car hit. She was severely injured but alive.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down
That is quite a leap you made. You went from a maintenance guy not doing his job to government corruption and possible man slaughter charges with not one scintilla of evidence. Great work.
Post 43 does make a good argument though.
We have an elevator in our hospital that is always breaking down. The joke among us cellar dwellers is that you only get on it if the food cart is going up. You never know when you are going to need provisions.
I thought elevators were supposed to drop.
“Who’d a thunk it, in Chicago of all places?!”
Try operating a small coffee shop in Nueva Yorca. Please leave envelope in the men’s room is SOP....
Despite the mocking of your comment, I seriously doubt that the elevator free-fell for 80+ floors. The article says nothing of the sort.
There would have been injuries if it free-fell from that height. That stated, an elevator which passed inspection in July of this year should certainly not have a cable(s) break. As well, clearly the brake system in that car was not working properly.
Chicago has obviously not resolved its elevator inspection problems (news history is enlightening on the topic).
There was no “mocking” in my comment.
You need to retake your course in mind reading.
WHEEEEE!!!
The elevator is the safest mode of mass transportation.
I got stuck in an elevator with a detective with a weird sense of humor and a million stories for about 90 minutes.
Before the fire department guys got us out, the other detectives had arranged themselves to offer mental-health help, anti-suicide helpers, nausea pills, sleeping pills, etc.
The only thing they forget was a stretcher for me.
Me and the detective were all smiles when we got out then the detectives swarmed me and totally ignored him.
Good times!
I was TDY in the western Aleutians, at COBRA DANE, a radar the height of a ten story building. The floors were spaced at 1 1/2 the height of a normal building, so they were separated by three tiers of steps instead of the normal two, in other words, each floor was one and a half floors high.
The operators were typically 50+ sedentary chainsmokers. The ops room was on the 5th floor, which was like six flights of stairs ((5-1) x 1.5). The elevator went down due to an overheating 5 Volt power supply in the control circuitry. The radar maintainers bypassed the faulty power supply with a lambda lab supply and blew air over the whole control assembly with a window fan. Now, the law governing the maintenance of the building was the State of Alaska, and they less than zero presence, but just in case they found out...
Otis wanted some outrageous fee to come out and fix it (and you need a letter from a general to get on the island) and there only one or two flights a week. Eventually the maintenance contractor shelled out and got it fixed.
Since we’re apparently exchanging barbs (your bar)...
...reading comprehension is a course in your future.
I was referring to the mocking of your comment by others. I chose to reply to you out of spite to them. The brakes worked as designed, based on a century-old innovation, just as you stipulated. Elevators are inherently-safe despite the negligence of both those who inspect & are supposed to pay to maintain them.
Misunderstanding, sorry.
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