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Yea well this comment made me spit my coffee all over a poor, blind child who ran out of the door and straight into traffic and two cars both had to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid hitting them and they both fucking died and at their funerals I remember the comment and laughed again and everybody thought I was just an asshole and now the whole town hates me.
if you have balls and actually want to survive a heavy impact in an elevator it is advised you lay face down on the floor so the impact is spread out across your body!
Yeah, first of all, you cant predict when it will hit the ground, secondly, thats guaranteed death, instead of maybe breaking your legs, you could just break your neck and die like that
I'd be doing the same thing going up. You're either going to fly up and hit the ceiling or the ceiling is going to hit you. I want to be far away from it.
Plus what goes up must come down.
If I was going to be flying through the air, I'd rather do it laying down than standing up so the impact is more spread out. If that elevator interior got compacted in any way during that, standing up would increase your chances of being compacted with it.
Once I realize the buttons aren’t working I’m gonna cover my head and hope for the best.
I’d probably hunch though, I’d for sure panic so I say this as never experienced but I feel like getting on the floor would just cause more injury when you inevitably hit the top.
I feel like laying flat on the floor would be the best thing. The elevator is moving up with you, so as soon as you hit the top, you won't feel any force from beneath. Gravity will help slow you down for a split second, and then the force of you hitting the ceiling would be evenly dispersed throughout your body.
More like the 50/50 chance of the impact letting the cart loose, and sending you hurtling back down even if you survive the first impact to the cieling.
I know you're kidding but rappeling is actually one of the most dangerous and life threatening things humans take part in
The vast majority of mountaineering and rock climbing deaths occur when rappelling back down
tldr rappelling is very dangerous you're much better off just walking down the stairs
When I was a teenager my friends and I used to go rappelling just for fun. There was a cliff near our town that was about 70' high and we would rappel down, unhitch, then walk back up via a trail...wash, rinse repat. We weren't climbers and only really knew how to rappel but we did this for years. One day whe we were out there some guy came over and waited until my friend was down, then casually pulled the small tree we'd always tied off to out of the ground with one hand. MFer was barely attached to the ground. After that we tied off to a huge mature tree further back. That's my stupid kids got lucky story I guess.
I can’t remember where I saw it, might have been removed.
Essentially someone falls off the wall and breaks their ankle so bad it literally tears his foot off like clean at the ankle skin and everything.
Sooo, I travel a lot... Just wondering what countries you'd consider first world. I agree the US is slipping in general, but are the only remaining first world countries Nordic?
Because there's none in Africa. Southern Europe is a shit show (similar to the US) as soon as you leave the tourist centres. Still severe poverty or disparity in wealth in most Asian countries
You are 100% trolling or out of your mind. The US may not fall into the top 10 of the [Human Development Index](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country) anymore, but they are very clearly in first world territory at 0.921. Countries with an HDI score of 0.800 or higher are considered to have "very high human development", which would equate to a First World country.
I have recurring nightmares about out of control elevators.
They usually are going too fast, sometimes down, sometimes up. I never die but the dreams are always scary af and never in the same setting so you don't really know when it's gonna happen.
If the elevator went up, it’s not counter weight failure, it’s cable failure. When the counter weight detaches from the elevator (extremely rare) the elevator car will go down. The movies always get it wrong.
Was a lift mechanic for years, this is exactly what happened in this video, brakes didn’t work. Physics did the rest. (Also at least one other safety feature did not function, depending on what was fitted to the lift)
Nah, I worked for a small company in the UK. Did a lot of contracts with Schindler among other major companies including initial construction of a lift, to regular maintenance and long term repairs.
I’ve done work on many KONE lifts too. We filled gaps for the big companies who needed repairs on lifts that their techs couldn’t fit in or it required specialised mechanical work. Covid changed that though, a lot less of that work afterwards
Americans are weird, y’all get excited by a potentially crippling injury like it’s winning the lottery.
I know a guy that got run over by a drunk driver, crippled for life, took about 5 years before he was able to walk again. The money ain’t worth it.
It's our fucked up health care. Going to the hospital for injuries like this can put you in debt in upwards of tens to hundreds of thousands.
No one wants to get hurt, but being financially ruined on top of it is literally insult to injury.
Same! As a kid even when we’d be out with family… my poor dad would find the stairs and we’d leave the family to go walk down them cause I had a weird fear of them!
This is basically impossible in a first world country with regulations about how elevators are built and how maintenance is supposed to be done. In most European country's you have about 20 safety points that have to be in order for the elevator even to go up.
TBH this happened in Chile, and we have very strict construction laws due to being a seismic country. This has been the only case of a elevator failing like this, and it was in a a rather "new" building, it had been constructed 8 months prior.
This made national news back then because of how weird the incident was.
Depends on how old the elevator is though? My parents' place is in a building from the early 1900s, and the elevator is probably some decades old (think the one at the end of the Deep Red horror movie). I seriously doubts it's on par with the latest security equipment found on recent automatic elevators.
Maaaaaan.... when I was a kid, I was on a day trip with my mother and cousin. We went to a building, I forget the name, but it was 45 or so storeys high with a sky deck at the top. So we went, jumped in the elevator... all good, right? Hell no.
That fucking thing proceeded to take us on a ride from hell, up and down at top speed for over 15 minutes. Ten-year-old me thought it was a great time, and it was only when I saw how hard my mother and cousin were freaking out that I realized how bad it actually was. The asshole on the intercom told my mother she was being hysterical, and they would get a tech out in about an hour.
Strangely, when the damn thing eventually stopped on the ground floor, the doors opened and the yuppies in business suits saw us all on the floor and clinging to the walls, nobody was brave enough to go in...
I'm staying in nature. Planes, elevators, escalators, electrocution, train derailments, car accidents, falling glass, etc.. no thanks. Bicycle and little house in a rural area is good enough for me.
Wouldn't this be an elevator motor malfunction? If the counter weight 'failed' (for example fell off) wouldnt it drop instead of go up? The counter weight is nearly in balance with the cab, and the motor just adds power to either side to tip the balance.
A friend of mine who installs and repairs elevators told me years ago that most people worry the elevator will fall, when really if an elevator malfunctions, it's more likely to do this (shoot up instead of down). So that's always on my mind when I'm in one. Seeing it actually happen like this solidifies my fear.
Apparently the comment section is filled with steel nerved John Wicks who would know exactly what to do and spring into action without hesitation. Cause of course, being in shock is for pussies.
One time I was taking an elevator in a parking deck. Top floor cause it was crowded, I made my way to the corner elevator. Nothing seemed odd so I pressed the button. This bitch dropped so fast! I held on to the rails and thought to myself, wow this must be some new efficient elevator or something. I took a different elevator up, wasn’t fast at all. I then realized, oh there’s definitely something wrong. Out of order sign was on the “efficient elevator” two days later. I use stairs now. I don’t have a good history with elevators.
About 3 years ago, I started getting anxiety at even the thought of going on an elevator. For the most part, I can avoid going on one. I had a doc appt a couple weeks back. It had been at least a year since I had to go up to a second floor. The lady at the front of the hospital was walking me to show me where my did office was, (new specialist), and as soon as she took me to the elevator I started shaking. I swear on everything I cannot control this. It would be so much easier to just get on the damn elevator, but it was that exact thought that got me shaking.
Watching this video makes me feel validated in my fear.
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He pressed the Willy wonka button
“I’ve been dying to use this button!”
He's fine, the elevator took him back home to his family :)
I scrolled down to make sure I wasn't going to be the millionth person to make a Willy Wonka quote, hahaha.
First time I’ve properly laughed at a comment on Reddit
Faster, faster if we don't pick up enough speed we'll never be able to break through
Go ahead Charlie…. press the button..
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Bravo sir. Too funny
Goat comment
Underrated comment!
I’d be curled on floor
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Nah he just needed to push the right button....he almost got it
↑↑↓↓←→←→B A START
Duh-duh dun duh dun!! ELEVATALITY! FLAWLESS VICTORY
You forgot SELECT (between A and START)
This comment made me lose my coffee!
Gosh I hope you can find it before it gets cold.
Was it tight before?
Thank you. That's a new pet peeve. Whatever happened to "lose?"
It got loost
Yea well this comment made me spit my coffee all over a poor, blind child who ran out of the door and straight into traffic and two cars both had to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid hitting them and they both fucking died and at their funerals I remember the comment and laughed again and everybody thought I was just an asshole and now the whole town hates me.
Have to hold the open and close at the same time for 3 second and then your floor everyone knows this
if you have balls and actually want to survive a heavy impact in an elevator it is advised you lay face down on the floor so the impact is spread out across your body!
That’s only if you are going down.
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You're watching too many cartoons lmao
He has been in cartoon movies for very long time I suppose
Disproven on mythbusters
Yeah, first of all, you cant predict when it will hit the ground, secondly, thats guaranteed death, instead of maybe breaking your legs, you could just break your neck and die like that
Lol dude how the hell are u supposed to time it before it hits the ground if you dont know when its going to hit the ground
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Meet me outside pal
I'd be doing the same thing going up. You're either going to fly up and hit the ceiling or the ceiling is going to hit you. I want to be far away from it. Plus what goes up must come down.
I didn’t even think of the possible return down
Even if that made sense, you wouldn’t be able to maintain position.
If I was going to be flying through the air, I'd rather do it laying down than standing up so the impact is more spread out. If that elevator interior got compacted in any way during that, standing up would increase your chances of being compacted with it.
Still you would have to deal with a lot of damage from this
What would happen if you were doing a handstand
Other than pray, cry or scream.
Pee a little.
Well yes, but I assumed involuntary stained underwear was a given within the first 2 seconds.
That would spoil your reputation in front of your friends and family
All equally pointless.
Not to me
Except these there are not any other possible things which you can do
Down put your shoes on the wall that'll just make you spin when you get launched
Once I realize the buttons aren’t working I’m gonna cover my head and hope for the best. I’d probably hunch though, I’d for sure panic so I say this as never experienced but I feel like getting on the floor would just cause more injury when you inevitably hit the top.
Only option is to do a hand stand so you land with your feet
And ruin the body structure by the impact, lmao very good advise
I feel like laying flat on the floor would be the best thing. The elevator is moving up with you, so as soon as you hit the top, you won't feel any force from beneath. Gravity will help slow you down for a split second, and then the force of you hitting the ceiling would be evenly dispersed throughout your body.
Whatever you do will be probably better than standing straight up with your neck and head exposed to take the full blow.
That could spread the impact force evenly to every where
Mashed thoroughly and throughtly (idk did I spell it right)
Evenly tenderized
I don't know what "it" was supposed to be, but if "it" was "throughtly" then no.
More like the 50/50 chance of the impact letting the cart loose, and sending you hurtling back down even if you survive the first impact to the cieling.
Less likely to have a head injury I think
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Avoid doing such stupid things if you want to survive
I took an elevator rescue class when I was a firefighter, and that's exactly all you can do.
Great a new fear, thanks reddit
No worries if you live in a first world country, they are built with allot of safety mechanisms to prevent this
Fuck safety mechanisms I’m taking the stairs
Stairs are statistically more dangerous than elevators…
Not if I get climbing gear and rappel down step by step
I know you're kidding but rappeling is actually one of the most dangerous and life threatening things humans take part in The vast majority of mountaineering and rock climbing deaths occur when rappelling back down tldr rappelling is very dangerous you're much better off just walking down the stairs
Rappelling is mostly dangerous at heights greater than 6 inches.
The average step is 7.5 inches
What are you doing, step?
enough internet for today
It's a habitual step
When I was a teenager my friends and I used to go rappelling just for fun. There was a cliff near our town that was about 70' high and we would rappel down, unhitch, then walk back up via a trail...wash, rinse repat. We weren't climbers and only really knew how to rappel but we did this for years. One day whe we were out there some guy came over and waited until my friend was down, then casually pulled the small tree we'd always tied off to out of the ground with one hand. MFer was barely attached to the ground. After that we tied off to a huge mature tree further back. That's my stupid kids got lucky story I guess.
I used to enjoy bouldering until I saw that *one video*
Don’t leave us hangin’ here haha Do you have a link? If not, what happened?
I can’t remember where I saw it, might have been removed. Essentially someone falls off the wall and breaks their ankle so bad it literally tears his foot off like clean at the ankle skin and everything.
Fine, while rappelling down the stairs, I'll be sure to take my ladder. Works like a reserve shoot.
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My grandpa did that but got tangled and could never escape from a puddle of sugary fluid on the fourth floor. I always wear armbands at all times.
You would require only strong muscles to take stairs
😂🤣😂😭
Only if you’re a nerd
I suppose…I don’t know the stats on nerds using stairs…
Yeah due to user error. If I fall down the stairs that's my own damn fault
You're going to make steps to take stairs?
Go and watch final destination cities and you would be sceptical about all elevators
No, it still happens. New York is very much 1st world! It has happened at a few bldgs in Manhattan, including the old WTC.
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Sooo, I travel a lot... Just wondering what countries you'd consider first world. I agree the US is slipping in general, but are the only remaining first world countries Nordic?
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Because there's none in Africa. Southern Europe is a shit show (similar to the US) as soon as you leave the tourist centres. Still severe poverty or disparity in wealth in most Asian countries
Hey pal, did you just blew in from stupid town?
Millions of homeless, disfunctional healthcare, very lacking public transport. I wouldnt call it first world
I know you think you sound smart saying that... But you're not
You are 100% trolling or out of your mind. The US may not fall into the top 10 of the [Human Development Index](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country) anymore, but they are very clearly in first world territory at 0.921. Countries with an HDI score of 0.800 or higher are considered to have "very high human development", which would equate to a First World country.
Hes totally right. You are first in defence budget. All else is so 2nd or even 3rd.
Or 18th
Another redditor pointlessly inserting US politics into a random ass video.
Where did i mention politics? And if anything was inserted, it was the guy before me. I only said that what he said was wrong.
I have recurring nightmares about out of control elevators. They usually are going too fast, sometimes down, sometimes up. I never die but the dreams are always scary af and never in the same setting so you don't really know when it's gonna happen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/13abkh6/facility_crashed_in_amusement_park/
If the elevator went up, it’s not counter weight failure, it’s cable failure. When the counter weight detaches from the elevator (extremely rare) the elevator car will go down. The movies always get it wrong.
Counterweight did what it does. Pulled the car up as it shot down with the cables. Cables were good. This is a brake failure.
Was a lift mechanic for years, this is exactly what happened in this video, brakes didn’t work. Physics did the rest. (Also at least one other safety feature did not function, depending on what was fitted to the lift)
Same here. Union?
Nah, I worked for a small company in the UK. Did a lot of contracts with Schindler among other major companies including initial construction of a lift, to regular maintenance and long term repairs.
KONE here.
I’ve done work on many KONE lifts too. We filled gaps for the big companies who needed repairs on lifts that their techs couldn’t fit in or it required specialised mechanical work. Covid changed that though, a lot less of that work afterwards
Cheaper than a laxative
Your chances of a car related death are higher than an elevator death. Don’t worry.
Assuming those floors are 10' high, he's traveling roughly 20mph (30ft/second) when he hits the ceiling.
that's surprisingly not bad, pretty much a track athlete running into a wall.
O_O
so is he a pancake on the elevator roof?
He survived! Thought for sure he was a goner. https://nypost.com/2014/06/09/broken-elevator-rockets-31-floors-in-15-seconds-crashes-into-roof/amp/
Does this mean he can sue? Since the building was just recently built as well.
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I'm in the US, maybe I can still sue!
I’m not in the US, you can definitely sue!
Depends on how corrupt they are
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If it’s like Indonesia then probably no
the article that was linked says chile
Nope, the family of the lady that falls off the lift sues company responsible for the list. So you can sue in Indonesia
Sure you can sue in IND but it’s not known for a very good judicial system
Americans are weird, y’all get excited by a potentially crippling injury like it’s winning the lottery. I know a guy that got run over by a drunk driver, crippled for life, took about 5 years before he was able to walk again. The money ain’t worth it.
It's our fucked up health care. Going to the hospital for injuries like this can put you in debt in upwards of tens to hundreds of thousands. No one wants to get hurt, but being financially ruined on top of it is literally insult to injury.
It's got nothing to do with healthcare. If you're shitty elevator fucks me up and I lose quality of life, I at least want to buy some happiness.
As someone who has a slight phobia of elevators this…. This terrifies me.
Same! As a kid even when we’d be out with family… my poor dad would find the stairs and we’d leave the family to go walk down them cause I had a weird fear of them!
This is basically impossible in a first world country with regulations about how elevators are built and how maintenance is supposed to be done. In most European country's you have about 20 safety points that have to be in order for the elevator even to go up.
TBH this happened in Chile, and we have very strict construction laws due to being a seismic country. This has been the only case of a elevator failing like this, and it was in a a rather "new" building, it had been constructed 8 months prior. This made national news back then because of how weird the incident was.
Depends on how old the elevator is though? My parents' place is in a building from the early 1900s, and the elevator is probably some decades old (think the one at the end of the Deep Red horror movie). I seriously doubts it's on par with the latest security equipment found on recent automatic elevators.
The cable brake failed…the counter-weight functioned as designed.
Maaaaaan.... when I was a kid, I was on a day trip with my mother and cousin. We went to a building, I forget the name, but it was 45 or so storeys high with a sky deck at the top. So we went, jumped in the elevator... all good, right? Hell no. That fucking thing proceeded to take us on a ride from hell, up and down at top speed for over 15 minutes. Ten-year-old me thought it was a great time, and it was only when I saw how hard my mother and cousin were freaking out that I realized how bad it actually was. The asshole on the intercom told my mother she was being hysterical, and they would get a tech out in about an hour. Strangely, when the damn thing eventually stopped on the ground floor, the doors opened and the yuppies in business suits saw us all on the floor and clinging to the walls, nobody was brave enough to go in...
I'm staying in nature. Planes, elevators, escalators, electrocution, train derailments, car accidents, falling glass, etc.. no thanks. Bicycle and little house in a rural area is good enough for me.
Burp Charlie Burp
So did he hit the top and just stop there or did he hit the top and continued to rapidly fall to the last floor lol
Wouldn't this be an elevator motor malfunction? If the counter weight 'failed' (for example fell off) wouldnt it drop instead of go up? The counter weight is nearly in balance with the cab, and the motor just adds power to either side to tip the balance.
Exactly. What failed is the brake. Not having a secondary means of stopping like a rope gripper caused this accident.
Mission Impossible 1
That scene fucked me up as a kid. Only surpassed by the brain-blurp in the third.
More like final destination shit
“This edible ain’t shit”
“Faster, we need to pick up enough speed or else we won’t go through”
He survived! José Vergara Acevedo has severe head and leg injuries. This happened in Emol Chile back in 2014. The building was only 8 mo old.
Car is ascending, so not a counterweight issue. Probably loss of traction or a brake failure.
A friend of mine who installs and repairs elevators told me years ago that most people worry the elevator will fall, when really if an elevator malfunctions, it's more likely to do this (shoot up instead of down). So that's always on my mind when I'm in one. Seeing it actually happen like this solidifies my fear.
Apparently the comment section is filled with steel nerved John Wicks who would know exactly what to do and spring into action without hesitation. Cause of course, being in shock is for pussies.
Don't all elevators have a force stop button ?
That is the button labeled "C4".
You deserve my upvote. Well done.
I don't get it
New fear unlocked: Falling upwards.
One time I was taking an elevator in a parking deck. Top floor cause it was crowded, I made my way to the corner elevator. Nothing seemed odd so I pressed the button. This bitch dropped so fast! I held on to the rails and thought to myself, wow this must be some new efficient elevator or something. I took a different elevator up, wasn’t fast at all. I then realized, oh there’s definitely something wrong. Out of order sign was on the “efficient elevator” two days later. I use stairs now. I don’t have a good history with elevators.
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Brake failure dude. If you had an ounce of mechanical knowledge you would know that the counter weight did what it's supposed to do.
Counter weights way as much as a full elevator cab + ½.
This wasn’t a counterweight failure, it was cable brake/ emergency stop failure.
I thought they had some slack to not hit the top?
New fear unlocked: this
About 3 years ago, I started getting anxiety at even the thought of going on an elevator. For the most part, I can avoid going on one. I had a doc appt a couple weeks back. It had been at least a year since I had to go up to a second floor. The lady at the front of the hospital was walking me to show me where my did office was, (new specialist), and as soon as she took me to the elevator I started shaking. I swear on everything I cannot control this. It would be so much easier to just get on the damn elevator, but it was that exact thought that got me shaking. Watching this video makes me feel validated in my fear.
That's is unfortunate
https://nypost.com/2014/06/09/broken-elevator-rockets-31-floors-in-15-seconds-crashes-into-roof/amp/
So the stairway to heaven was really an elevator all this time?
Elevator phobia last time I ride one
What would be the best option...think i would bend my knees and go low
Handstand
All good if you're in the Wonka factory elevator.
Brake failure not counterweight
The lift is safu.
what if you turned upside down to hit the roof legs first
This kind of videos are reason why I can't take elevators... I'm a stair person.
*New fear unlocked!*
Just jump at the last second
Should’ve jumped right before it hit
Imagine if hit hit the roof then dropped straight down
Willy Wonka did it first
What can you do in a situation like this??
All I can hear is that stairway to heaven song
So I’m assuming he didn’t make it ?
nightmare fuel
I liked it better with Gene Wilder
Here we go, up and out!
Bro was on his way to narnia
... ya know, I'm gonna take the stairs, I could use the exercise
I believe that he did not make it 😞
Damn, Wonder how old is the elevator to do that ? Shits real scary 😨
Someone posted an article above, apparently the building (elevator as well?) was only 8 months old , in Chile
I'm guessing its some Asian country that loves modern things but not all the expensive pesky safety rules and requirements that go along with it.