[Pontiac]

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.

[DIRTYSECRET]

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[Fhios]

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.

[vette6387]

“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.
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Here in California, after doubling “annual inspection fees,” the state inspector didn't even actually show up this year. Instead he sent us a letter in which he “inferred” needed repairs that we had to have our repair service “correct” within a prescribed time period or face an exorbitant fine! So Chicago has nothing on Brown's clowns.

[IronJack]

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.