[demkicker]

Elevator alert!

[RandallFlagg]

EECH! Didn't this happen in "Resident Evil"?

"Damien: Omen 2"?

[Flyer]

How bizarre! This has been a week of freaky death stories.

[Timesink]

Paging Rosalind Shays...

[this_ol_patriot]

Barring a freak accident the elevators would have to be severely neglected to get into a condition that this would happen. If this is the case then I would recommend not using this hospital at all because this is the least of their problems. We have Otis and (Thyssen)Dover in every week to safety check and maintain the elevators in the hospital where I work and thye also have 24/7 on-call service.

[Tamzee]

Pinging the Amazing Kreskin... you were right, it IS an epidemic!

I feel lots sorrier for this fella, though, and the poor woman stuck in the elevator...

[Leroy S. Mort]

I worked at a place where this happened to a maintenance man a long time ago. It was my misfortune to have an office facing the freight elevator doors on the floor below. Not a sight one ever forgets....

[Ronin]

Dry cleaners hate it when this happens.

[csvset]

One worker at the hospital said there had been problems in the past with these particular elevators and that maintenance crews had been trying to service them in the past week, Perkins said.

Piss poor maintenance imho.

Either the elevator is safe for use or it isn't. Tagging it out until it was fixed should have been the only option.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man, what a horrible thing ...

[jocon307]

Very sad for this young man. And that poor woman stuck on the elevator, ack! I'd have been quite hysterical myself.

It's another oh, the humanity moment. When God wants you, you're going, that's all I can really say.

[joonbug]

Same thing happened to a nurse in a Detroit hospital a few years ago.

[HairOfTheDog]

[[[[[SHUDDER]]]]]]

Man - what a tragedy.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

I can't get on an elevator anymore. A long time ago, when I was working my way through college, I worked as a security guard in a large building. One evening, about 7:30, the elevator's regulator had an "issue." Seems it mistakenly thought that there were several floors below the first floor, and so it didn't stop... until it hit the bottom of the shaft. I had gotten on the thing on the 5th floor. The elevator guys who came in to look at the thing told me that the elevator was pretty much in the equivalent of free-fall from the 3rd floor down. I escaped with only minor injuries. The whole time I talked to the repairman, while we looked down at the canted elevator in the shaft, he kept telling me, "You should have broken both your legs, if not your back! It could have easily killed you!" I just can't handle the feeling of dropping everytime I get in one.

BTW, as a bit of trivia, did you know that many older elevators have a "buffer" in the bottom of the shaft to prevent anyone in the shaft from getting crushed by an elevator that comes down? In the one I was in, the buffer looked to be a large steel cylinder surrounded by concrete, about 12 inches in diameter and 5 feet in height. At least, that's what it looked like coming up out of the floor of the elevator...

[Saundra Duffy]

Rest In Peace and may the Good Lord bless and comfort the family. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

[Lazamataz]

This is a HUGE lawsuit in the making. And how come elevator door motors are strong enough to decapitate???

[joesnuffy]

What a loss ... And what pain...and trauma for the woman trapped in the elevator helpless to do a thing The shock to everyone involved and the victims family And the loss of a fine aspiring physician and missionary

He became a devout Christian while in medical school, his father said. He became a youth group leader and decided to become a missionary doctor.

He is with Jesus now...the highest greatest good thing that can ever happen to a human.. God Bless his family friends and co workers and give them peace and heal the trauma of the witness to this terrible thing...

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Ciexyz]

Big lawsuit comin' down....deservedly so....

[FixitGuy]

Whaddaya bet the door safety switch had been malfunctioning for some time and nobody said anything about it.

Amazing the tragedies caused by simple lack of attention to maintenance.

("Ya know...somebody oughta fix that"!)

[Lady Jag]

Moral of the story: Always go foot first.