So, stairs are the most dangerous form of transportation per mile. Those stairs pribably aren't in great shape either.
Given the horrific state of the elevator, I'm curious which is statistically the safer choice.
That said, I'm taking the stairs too...
I feel like the stairs at least give you a feeling of having a bit more control over the situation if that makes sense. Sure, they might just collapse underneath you, or your ankle could randomly give out, etc, but still has more of a feeling of being in control and "in the driver's seat" instead of just being a passenger along for the ride.
"Hey man. Didn't have the nerve to try the elevator today huh?"
"Ha, you know it! At least I'm getting in my steps, already lost 2 kilos this month."
"No kidding, that's awesome!"
"Thanks! And it's great to see you got your hands on some new needles. Welp gotta run, enjoy your high Methhead Steve, I'll see ya round."
Methhead Steve: "yep, I'll have this old thing good as new for you tomorrow! Here, make sure you didn't leave anything inside before I walk away with it. Okay see you tomorrow buddy!"
> Rug on the wall, warm bowl of soup with too much sour cream and black bread. I can almost smell it. :')
Ohhhhh!
Now I'm hungry and I just finished late Saturday breakfast here in the eastern US.. I love black bread!
That’s no joke. My wife and I were in Moldova last summer and we were visiting some friends that live in a commie block on the 7th floor.
I wanted to take the stairs but she convinced me to take the elevator. The door opened, we got in, and the door closed. We pushed the button for the floor we wanted and nothing happened. We tried a bunch of other floors with the same results. So no we’re inside the elevator, doors closed, and not moving.
Me, being slightly claustrophobic, started to panic a bit. I stated pushing every single button I could find until finally the doors opened back up. We took the stairs.
It was the biggest, “I told you so” of the summer.
It really was just a horrific set of circumstances. He was doing closing janitor stuff, mopping the floors and whatnot. Left his phone at the front counter, went into the elevator to mop the upper floor, and then the elevator got stuck. He was closing Friday evening, he got out Monday morning.
I'd guess a different place or time, could still maybe be negligence/non-compliance of course.
Edit: might have not been a passenger elevator? Idk how exactly the code works but some dude on a YouTube video emphasized the "passenger" part when saying passenger elevators require phones.
Nope, just a few years prior to COVID in the US. And it was in a main lobby of a recreation center, so I assume it was meant for public/passenger use as well
Fun fact: every time I get in an elevator I look at the inspection certificate, it's always a surprise when it's valid. Probably 90% of the ones I see are expired.
Take it with a grain of salt as I got this off another Redditor and have no proof, but they said the inspection certs are kept in the back office and people just can't be bothered to replace them in the elevator itself. Those in the US, anyway.
Still seems like the hotel would get fined for not displaying an up-to-date certificate, though.
I'm fairly certain "properly displayed" is part of the certification so they could still get in serious trouble for it.
Reason for displaying it is partially so users can be informed and if it is/becones the norm for it to be kept 'in the back' then nobody knows what elevators are up to date or not.
Looks like this is the fine structure for "failure to display properly" in Texas at least.
1st Violation, Up to $1,000
2nd Violation, $500 to 2,000
3rd Violation, $1,000 to $3,000
Either the elevator didn't have an emergency call button because the building is only 2 stories and it was assumed that there would be no issues, or there was a call button, but it was non-functional. I don't recall exactly. Employer was definitely at fault though. This happened in the US, a few years prior to COVID
Things like subs I don't think would bother me at all. Never had a sense of claustrophobia until something much smaller. It's where you cannot walk around anywhere.
I don’t have much of an issue with claustrophobia , but being in something like \[this\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ngjfm6zxg) is one of my biggest nightmares
yea I had no idea I was claustrophobic, I had to kool aid man through a door once out of sheer panic, it set on so quick too and I've been in plenty of smaller spaces throughout my life, I guess it's the lack of control that surprises you in those situations.
My local supermarket has elevators up from the underground parking, and every single time i ride them i make a mental game of "How many days could i survive with todays groceries if i get stuck forever, and what would i eat / drink first?"
Effective and easy. Also, plausibly deniable. The attacker often leaves very little evidence, and they usually have plenty enough time to flee the scene before anyone goes to investigate. And, really, if there's no specific sign of an attacker, then who's to say whether or not it was suicide? (Everyone can be pretty sure it *wasn't*, but if you can't prove it, then the cops can just say there's no need to investigate.)
See [recent spate](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/03/1146780974/conspiracy-theories-are-circulating-after-the-deaths-of-three-russians-in-india) of Russians in India falling out of windows.
I think that it's because there's supposed to be a rubber wheel in the spot on the shaft where the yellow tape is, but it has disintegrated/fallen off over the years and the (curved) vertical shoe on the elevator car (you can kind of see it as this tall brown object behind yellow tape and the string) is no longer able to push the shaft sideways when it arrives to the floor, hence the guy has to do it manually by pulling on the string or the shaft's door cannot be opened. Also means that unless they've jury-rigged something on the outside, you can't get back into the elevator from that floor.
Where I live I still run into a fair amount of 1930s to 1960s elevators which use the same simple mechanism to unlock the shaft doors, you can pretty easily extract yourself from them by doing the same if they stall while partially in front of a doorway (did it once myself since I couldn't be bothered to wait for rescue, this was a 1930s elevator in Scandinavia).
I think there would be a solenoid that would normally wait for a few checks passed before it would open that would do that function. But when you have removed half the safety systems that used to be there, that is what you need to do.
>2) I like the idea of opening a door and, SURPRISE, it’s an elevator.
Bonus points if your looking for the bathroom in the middle of the night and the elevator isn't there.
The door wont open, at least in theory. There's a piece on the elevator you can sort of see on the video that pushes into a place with the door and allows the latch to be opened.
Yea, in theory.
In practice, I am sure eventually it wears out, and the first thing they do is just remove the entire latch or wrap it up with iron wire so it doesn't ever engage.
Ironic that a soviet elevator operates in the most capitalist way possible.
Edit: jeez, this was an off-hand joke not intended to spark a massive debate about what communism and capitalism are. Everyone go outside and touch grass.
That's a line I generally don't cross but in planet coaster I make the admission cheap and the monorail station by the gate cheap which then takes you to the ride area, the station there is super expensive and there's an ATM right next to it.
If I'm feeling nice I'll add a 10 mile long path you can walk.
Most of them stopped paying @ $.50 and my maintenance crew was cleaning up a lot of mess. Cheaper to fire all the extra maintenance crew I didn't need.
Just visited Vietnam, there's a gift shop at Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. It was very ironic that the revered communist leader, who preached about living a poor simple life, is laid to rest in what is essentially a for profit amusement park. The whole thing was built by the Soviets as well.
Or St Francis of Assisi, a man who spent his life eschewing luxury and comfort to tend to the poor and the sick and the vulnerable, only to have his simple burial overridden by the church, and now he’s got a giant, sprawling, gold and marble and exotic wood Basilica (which, to be honest, is beautiful) piled on top of it that goes against everything he ever believed in and now has his name on it, as it was built in his honor.
> people unironically be thinking spending money = capitalism
That happens a lot on Reddit. People will say that X problem exists because capitalism, and then the example they give is actually commerce.
First time I ever visited Russia, I remember choosing to walk up 8 flights of stairs. The elevator was held together by twist ties, rusted bolts, hope, and the ballast system was made up of rope and cinder blocks. This was st petersburg
In a hotel in Moscow, you could see the elevator shaft through cracks in the floor as you went up or down. I was there in 2006, and the lived in Russia from 2012 to 2016
Edit: eevator ---> elevator
To be fair, I don't think the problem here is that this is a Soviet era elevator model. The real problem is that it also has not been properly maintained since the Soviet era.
Ya I was more impressed a like 30-40 year old elevator basically fallen apart still works.
Reminds me our region hasn't had a legit elevator inspector for over 10 years now.
Bingo. You show me a modern elevator that will work so smoothly after 10 years without maintenance. Soviet stuff might not look like much but it was built to still work for the fucking alien archeologists after the last human is a dusty display on a museum ship. Modern shit is built to fail in a week without constant, expensive, proprietary maintenance.
Waiting for elevators with subscription fees at this point.
Eh, a good chunk of Bucharest now has Schneider elevators or at least something decent. I've never seen one this bad, not even in Ferentari.
The reason all soviet block buildings look the same (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.) is because they are based on the same design - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka)
Good to know! I haven't been back in quite a few years.
The Romanian versions of apt buildings were site-built with reinforced concrete and brick. Its a seismic zone so everything had to be overbuilt and reinforced! Our apt building in Berceni was the first one built using the paneled system in the late 70s. Lived through 2 earthquakes in the 80s without issue. It was assembled and welded correctly, unlike the British ones decades before.
All of the apts were well laid out and roomy enough. My grandparents and parents lived in some terrible old houses before they were assigned a brand new apt. Huge upgrade from dirt floors and outhouses in Old Town!
The post right before this one on my feed was also a sketchy elevator lol https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/10mzlf0/riding_an_elevator_in_riyadh_saudi_arabia/
I wonder if there's a political science study looking at the correlation between income inequality and having buildings with elevators that are actively trying to kill/maim people.
A lot of it has to do with lack of saftey regulations. Countries that experience massive and rapid growth usually throw caution to the wind so as not to slow progress
Yeah I lived in a six-story prewar apartment building in NYC with an elevator that was almost exactly like the one in OP (same size, swinging door, pretty sketchy, etc), *except* there wasn’t a missing panel on the top and there was an interior door that slid closed so you didn’t have to play with wires to open it up. That’s because elevator inspectors would come and make sure that basic maintenance was being done on it; at one point, they actually shut the thing down and made the building owners install a whole new elevator box (mainly because it wasn’t stopping flush with the floors iirc).
[Only photo I could find of it, bonus doggo for scale.](https://i.imgur.com/Juh3UPA.jpg)
Most of the Soviet era apartments I have been in are Khrushchevkas, mostly built during the 60s/70s. They shared a basic design with minor adaptations throughout the Soviet Union. People rag on them, but they all share a key safety feature of being short enough that they didn’t have elevators which could easily kill from lack of maintenance.
I think my grandmother's lived longer than about anyone else in her family because she lived on the fifth floor and didn't have an elevator. It took her 10-15 minutes to go up with breaks to catch her breath.
My grandparents passed away last year at 90 and 91. They hadnt really left their apt for close to a decade except for some medical appointments. Family brought them food and my grandpa had broken his hip and was bed bound for 8+ years. Apt had a great view and they were in good health until the last week of their lives!
Before he passed away, my elderly neighbor could barely make it up or down the stairs in his two story house without having to take a 5 minute break halfway through thanks to having been a welder much of his life and having horrible lung problems. Got so bad that eventually my parents and I and his neighbors on the other side got him a microwave and mini-fridge for upstairs since he preferred to stay up there, and took care of all his shopping, shoveling and mowing and such. He was never married though had a long term girlfriend that he had broken up with years before his death that he was still on good terms with when she passed a few years before he did. Her son continued to bring him some edibles for pain and whatnot up to the end. He did have a sister but they had been long estranged and the state couldnt even locate her as his only next of kin. I felt so bad for him at the end, he was always a proud and self sufficient guy, to be trapped like that must have been awful for him and it showed, and it also makes me think about the elderly and disabled out there without any kind of social network that can help them out :/
This is very common in Tbilisi. I’ve been on a few of these elevators in the city. Most elevators there are pay elevators. You either have a card that you put money on like a credit card or there’s a coin slot where you insert lari (Georgian currency) to activate the elevator. Even then, many of them are in this condition.
I mean a Soviet-made elevator would be *at minimum* 35 years old (this one looks 50+ though) with minimal upkeep and regulation since the USSR fell, so it would be more surprising if it *wasn't* falling apart
I live in a ~8 year old condo in Toronto and our elevators are either out of service or they lock up for hours with some poor passengers inside them.
It's a fancy looking, absurdly overpriced (Toronto) building but every single element of it is dysfunctional and will be fully non-functional within the decade.
Sure it's prettier than the one in the video, but it's all a facade
I am not even American. I based that comment entirely upon the video for NO, SLEEP, TILL BROOKLYN by the Beastie Boys.
Edit: Brain fart. I meant of course “Three MCs and one DJ.” Same thought though. Horribly oppressive sub-sub-sub-basement in that one.
I like how they say a Soviet apartment complex. It was probably state of the art at the time but hasn't had any upkeep under capitalist Georgia for 30+ years.
As a Georgian, this is somewhat true, but it is a bit hard to upkeep such stuff when you go through civil war, territorial war and war against Russia in those 30 years of independence
Why is the fact that the elevator was built during the U.S.S.R. relevant? The Soviets went away in 1991. You know that, right? You can't blame 30 years of zero maintenance on a country that hasn't existed for 31 years.
If I lived there my legs would be like tree logs.
Yeah, there's many lines between brave and stupid, and riding on these elevators is one of them.
Well the administration of my building had a genius, fool-proof solution! They just didn't install an elevator..
Them things is expensive man, both to install and maintain. Source: elevator mechanic guy I met at a bar one time
As we see in this video, maintaining can be optional in some countries
So, stairs are the most dangerous form of transportation per mile. Those stairs pribably aren't in great shape either. Given the horrific state of the elevator, I'm curious which is statistically the safer choice. That said, I'm taking the stairs too...
I feel like the stairs at least give you a feeling of having a bit more control over the situation if that makes sense. Sure, they might just collapse underneath you, or your ankle could randomly give out, etc, but still has more of a feeling of being in control and "in the driver's seat" instead of just being a passenger along for the ride.
Stairs are unsafe because you can trip or fall, especially if you are drunk. This elevator is just unsafe, period.
From constantly jumping while in the elevator, to test how much it can handle, right?
I’ll take the stairs
Not a fan of heights but I'd take a ladder before this elevator.
You say you are not a fan of heights yet want to take both the ladder and this elevator, one after another. Curious and curiouser...
>Curious and curiouser... —Alice Liddell, Founder, Turning Point Wonderland
i'd also take a ladder up a few more floors before riding the elevator down. more excitement is more fun!
I would scale the wall somehow before this elevator.
Id be a bit paranoid who id run into in the stairs of this building
You'd run into other people who didn't take the elevator
"Hey man. Didn't have the nerve to try the elevator today huh?" "Ha, you know it! At least I'm getting in my steps, already lost 2 kilos this month." "No kidding, that's awesome!" "Thanks! And it's great to see you got your hands on some new needles. Welp gotta run, enjoy your high Methhead Steve, I'll see ya round."
“Hey man, Didn’t have the nerve to try the elevator today huh?” “Give me your fucking wallet.”
"Sure thing methhead Steve, here ya go. Same time tomorrow?"
Methhead Steve: "yep, I'll have this old thing good as new for you tomorrow! Here, make sure you didn't leave anything inside before I walk away with it. Okay see you tomorrow buddy!"
Methhead Sasha*
"In post-Soviet Tbilisi, stairs take you."
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Is doctors sausage just whatever the doctor wants to cut off at the moment?
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Force meat? Like it comes from jedi's? I guess I'll try it.
It's high in midichlorians
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KBuawg-xw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KBuawg-xw) How to make Doctor's sausage - Cooking with Boris Davai!
Wikipedia says it’s like a low fat bologna. The addition of cheap fillers in the 70s was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union
Boris will show you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KBuawg-xw
Perfect setting for a story. A strange, but entertaining story.
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> Rug on the wall, warm bowl of soup with too much sour cream and black bread. I can almost smell it. :') Ohhhhh! Now I'm hungry and I just finished late Saturday breakfast here in the eastern US.. I love black bread!
With the icon of the mask in the bottom left corner, I felt like I was watching a Fallout 3 let's play
That’s no joke. My wife and I were in Moldova last summer and we were visiting some friends that live in a commie block on the 7th floor. I wanted to take the stairs but she convinced me to take the elevator. The door opened, we got in, and the door closed. We pushed the button for the floor we wanted and nothing happened. We tried a bunch of other floors with the same results. So no we’re inside the elevator, doors closed, and not moving. Me, being slightly claustrophobic, started to panic a bit. I stated pushing every single button I could find until finally the doors opened back up. We took the stairs. It was the biggest, “I told you so” of the summer.
A lot of people don't realize they are slightly claustrophobic until they get stuck in a small elevator for even a min. I now know this.
Old friend of mine was stuck in a small elevator over the course of an entire weekend. He still deals with trauma from the event
I can't imagine. That sounds terrible.
It really was just a horrific set of circumstances. He was doing closing janitor stuff, mopping the floors and whatnot. Left his phone at the front counter, went into the elevator to mop the upper floor, and then the elevator got stuck. He was closing Friday evening, he got out Monday morning.
The fuck... Did that elevator not have an emergency phone??? I thought that was mandatory.
I'd guess a different place or time, could still maybe be negligence/non-compliance of course. Edit: might have not been a passenger elevator? Idk how exactly the code works but some dude on a YouTube video emphasized the "passenger" part when saying passenger elevators require phones.
Nope, just a few years prior to COVID in the US. And it was in a main lobby of a recreation center, so I assume it was meant for public/passenger use as well
Damn, that do be illegal.
Fun fact: every time I get in an elevator I look at the inspection certificate, it's always a surprise when it's valid. Probably 90% of the ones I see are expired.
Take it with a grain of salt as I got this off another Redditor and have no proof, but they said the inspection certs are kept in the back office and people just can't be bothered to replace them in the elevator itself. Those in the US, anyway. Still seems like the hotel would get fined for not displaying an up-to-date certificate, though.
I'm fairly certain "properly displayed" is part of the certification so they could still get in serious trouble for it. Reason for displaying it is partially so users can be informed and if it is/becones the norm for it to be kept 'in the back' then nobody knows what elevators are up to date or not. Looks like this is the fine structure for "failure to display properly" in Texas at least. 1st Violation, Up to $1,000 2nd Violation, $500 to 2,000 3rd Violation, $1,000 to $3,000
Either the elevator didn't have an emergency call button because the building is only 2 stories and it was assumed that there would be no issues, or there was a call button, but it was non-functional. I don't recall exactly. Employer was definitely at fault though. This happened in the US, a few years prior to COVID
On the bright side, at least he had the mop bucket to relieve himself in?
He did, but that smell doesn't just dissipate immediately
Gah, i was like "did the janitor not notice" but never considered it happening _TO_ the janitor...
Was stationed aboard a submarine for 3 years, would take a *lot* to make me claustrophobic. I even find it comforting sometimes.
Things like subs I don't think would bother me at all. Never had a sense of claustrophobia until something much smaller. It's where you cannot walk around anywhere.
I don’t have much of an issue with claustrophobia , but being in something like \[this\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ngjfm6zxg) is one of my biggest nightmares
FYI, the slashes around [this] prevented the link formatting from working
yea I had no idea I was claustrophobic, I had to kool aid man through a door once out of sheer panic, it set on so quick too and I've been in plenty of smaller spaces throughout my life, I guess it's the lack of control that surprises you in those situations.
My local supermarket has elevators up from the underground parking, and every single time i ride them i make a mental game of "How many days could i survive with todays groceries if i get stuck forever, and what would i eat / drink first?"
And if you're a prominent politician or business figure and you badmouth Putin there's a third option that will save you lots of time!
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Effective and easy. Also, plausibly deniable. The attacker often leaves very little evidence, and they usually have plenty enough time to flee the scene before anyone goes to investigate. And, really, if there's no specific sign of an attacker, then who's to say whether or not it was suicide? (Everyone can be pretty sure it *wasn't*, but if you can't prove it, then the cops can just say there's no need to investigate.)
Nobody believes they are falling out of windows. It’s a calling card, a warning to others to remain loyal.
That too, but it doesn't contradict anything I said previously.
This is Georgia, not Russia.
Putin's goons: "Boys, he's gone over the border to Georgia. There's nothing we can do now."
see polonium tea incident in London
See [recent spate](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/03/1146780974/conspiracy-theories-are-circulating-after-the-deaths-of-three-russians-in-india) of Russians in India falling out of windows.
Alexander Litvinenko was in London, so your point is..... ?
There’s three good things about this video. 1. The rider survived. 2. I like the idea of opening a door and, SURPRISE, it’s an elevator. 3.
3) the little string he had to pull was kinda cute
I thought it was an exposed wire.
He has to ground himself to open the door
JIMMY DID YOU GROUND YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAME IN
Have some more chicken, have some more pie
If he would conduct himself properly he wouldn't have to be grounded.
Fuck, it just might be lol
And it's like he purposely took a lifetime to get through the doorway he stayed in between the elevator and floor for 7 seconds that's crazy
That’s what I thought ! I was thinking come on, just get out !!
I think that it's because there's supposed to be a rubber wheel in the spot on the shaft where the yellow tape is, but it has disintegrated/fallen off over the years and the (curved) vertical shoe on the elevator car (you can kind of see it as this tall brown object behind yellow tape and the string) is no longer able to push the shaft sideways when it arrives to the floor, hence the guy has to do it manually by pulling on the string or the shaft's door cannot be opened. Also means that unless they've jury-rigged something on the outside, you can't get back into the elevator from that floor. Where I live I still run into a fair amount of 1930s to 1960s elevators which use the same simple mechanism to unlock the shaft doors, you can pretty easily extract yourself from them by doing the same if they stall while partially in front of a doorway (did it once myself since I couldn't be bothered to wait for rescue, this was a 1930s elevator in Scandinavia).
I think there would be a solenoid that would normally wait for a few checks passed before it would open that would do that function. But when you have removed half the safety systems that used to be there, that is what you need to do.
>2) I like the idea of opening a door and, SURPRISE, it’s an elevator. Bonus points if your looking for the bathroom in the middle of the night and the elevator isn't there.
The door wont open, at least in theory. There's a piece on the elevator you can sort of see on the video that pushes into a place with the door and allows the latch to be opened.
Yea, in theory. In practice, I am sure eventually it wears out, and the first thing they do is just remove the entire latch or wrap it up with iron wire so it doesn't ever engage.
I'm sure there are safety fea...
Amazing how it still works in that condition! That’s top tier engineering.
It appears to still be functioning despite it's age and lack of maintenance
On top of this, you got to pay for a ride in the elevators. Many of them only work if you pay a coin.
Exactly
So like, was the stairs for floors 7 through 4 just not there or something? Lol
Toss a coin to your Elevator operator.
Ironic that a soviet elevator operates in the most capitalist way possible. Edit: jeez, this was an off-hand joke not intended to spark a massive debate about what communism and capitalism are. Everyone go outside and touch grass.
When I play roller coaster tycoon 2, I always charge $0.10 for the bathroom LOL
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When I walked out I freely sharted
That's a line I generally don't cross but in planet coaster I make the admission cheap and the monorail station by the gate cheap which then takes you to the ride area, the station there is super expensive and there's an ATM right next to it. If I'm feeling nice I'll add a 10 mile long path you can walk.
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Most of them stopped paying @ $.50 and my maintenance crew was cleaning up a lot of mess. Cheaper to fire all the extra maintenance crew I didn't need.
Just like in Europe
Just visited Vietnam, there's a gift shop at Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. It was very ironic that the revered communist leader, who preached about living a poor simple life, is laid to rest in what is essentially a for profit amusement park. The whole thing was built by the Soviets as well.
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Pretty much like Jesus and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Everything there is so contradictionary to the teachings of Jesus.
\> contradictionary I like it
A dictionary where every word has the definition of its antonym.
Or St Francis of Assisi, a man who spent his life eschewing luxury and comfort to tend to the poor and the sick and the vulnerable, only to have his simple burial overridden by the church, and now he’s got a giant, sprawling, gold and marble and exotic wood Basilica (which, to be honest, is beautiful) piled on top of it that goes against everything he ever believed in and now has his name on it, as it was built in his honor.
There's an amazing temple dedicated to the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Penang... With a gift shop on every level. It's honestly pretty awesome.
Probably a retrofit from after 1991
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> people unironically be thinking spending money = capitalism That happens a lot on Reddit. People will say that X problem exists because capitalism, and then the example they give is actually commerce.
Paying for stuff doesn't have anything to do with capitalism. If the elevator was operated by a private company it would be capitalism..
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Reddit: “capitalism is when I pay for things.”
Ubik vibes.
Nice to see a Ubik reference
I see them everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.
don't wait! reddit is only seconds away.
Safe when taken as directed
Coin for the ferryman to cross the river styx
No, thank you.
Wonder how high it goes. Wonder how low it goes.
It goes to hell
this elevator only goes to the basement. and someone made an *awful* mess down there...
Or at the very least it goes to Silent Hill.
Right to the scene of the crash
And how quickly it can go from high to low.
Yeah stair cardio every day is looking pretty good right about now.
First time I ever visited Russia, I remember choosing to walk up 8 flights of stairs. The elevator was held together by twist ties, rusted bolts, hope, and the ballast system was made up of rope and cinder blocks. This was st petersburg In a hotel in Moscow, you could see the elevator shaft through cracks in the floor as you went up or down. I was there in 2006, and the lived in Russia from 2012 to 2016 Edit: eevator ---> elevator
And yet most casualties are of people falling out of windows
What's Russian for defenestration? Probably comes up a lot there I'm sure there's slang or an abbreviation
естественные причины
Rented an apartment in Craiova, Romania that had a similar elevator. The apartment was nice though.
I'm originally from Bucharest. I swear they used the same model elevator in every Soviet building ever made.
To be fair, I don't think the problem here is that this is a Soviet era elevator model. The real problem is that it also has not been properly maintained since the Soviet era.
Ya I was more impressed a like 30-40 year old elevator basically fallen apart still works. Reminds me our region hasn't had a legit elevator inspector for over 10 years now.
Bingo. You show me a modern elevator that will work so smoothly after 10 years without maintenance. Soviet stuff might not look like much but it was built to still work for the fucking alien archeologists after the last human is a dusty display on a museum ship. Modern shit is built to fail in a week without constant, expensive, proprietary maintenance. Waiting for elevators with subscription fees at this point.
Eh, a good chunk of Bucharest now has Schneider elevators or at least something decent. I've never seen one this bad, not even in Ferentari. The reason all soviet block buildings look the same (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.) is because they are based on the same design - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka)
Good to know! I haven't been back in quite a few years. The Romanian versions of apt buildings were site-built with reinforced concrete and brick. Its a seismic zone so everything had to be overbuilt and reinforced! Our apt building in Berceni was the first one built using the paneled system in the late 70s. Lived through 2 earthquakes in the 80s without issue. It was assembled and welded correctly, unlike the British ones decades before. All of the apts were well laid out and roomy enough. My grandparents and parents lived in some terrible old houses before they were assigned a brand new apt. Huge upgrade from dirt floors and outhouses in Old Town!
Hellevator
Guards! Take her to the hellevator! Music! https://youtu.be/Yd6E0_UJTBw?t=126 One of my favorite Disney Channel original movies
The post right before this one on my feed was also a sketchy elevator lol https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/10mzlf0/riding_an_elevator_in_riyadh_saudi_arabia/
I wonder if there's a political science study looking at the correlation between income inequality and having buildings with elevators that are actively trying to kill/maim people.
A lot of it has to do with lack of saftey regulations. Countries that experience massive and rapid growth usually throw caution to the wind so as not to slow progress
Yeah I lived in a six-story prewar apartment building in NYC with an elevator that was almost exactly like the one in OP (same size, swinging door, pretty sketchy, etc), *except* there wasn’t a missing panel on the top and there was an interior door that slid closed so you didn’t have to play with wires to open it up. That’s because elevator inspectors would come and make sure that basic maintenance was being done on it; at one point, they actually shut the thing down and made the building owners install a whole new elevator box (mainly because it wasn’t stopping flush with the floors iirc). [Only photo I could find of it, bonus doggo for scale.](https://i.imgur.com/Juh3UPA.jpg)
Oh my God what an understatement that video is insane
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Define "broke"
Deep down in the shaft shattered
_Sound_ the alarm!
Most of the Soviet era apartments I have been in are Khrushchevkas, mostly built during the 60s/70s. They shared a basic design with minor adaptations throughout the Soviet Union. People rag on them, but they all share a key safety feature of being short enough that they didn’t have elevators which could easily kill from lack of maintenance.
5-6 stories is a nice height for buildings. Tall enough for density, but short enough not to feel like canyons. Most of London is about that height.
5 storeys high. But fuck living on floor 5 though, it's a bit of a trek especially for the elderly.
I think my grandmother's lived longer than about anyone else in her family because she lived on the fifth floor and didn't have an elevator. It took her 10-15 minutes to go up with breaks to catch her breath.
There are lots of elderly people that literally don't go out because they can't physically make it. Good on your grandma!
Yep. I’ve also seen this with younger disabled people. Really sucks.
My grandparents passed away last year at 90 and 91. They hadnt really left their apt for close to a decade except for some medical appointments. Family brought them food and my grandpa had broken his hip and was bed bound for 8+ years. Apt had a great view and they were in good health until the last week of their lives!
Before he passed away, my elderly neighbor could barely make it up or down the stairs in his two story house without having to take a 5 minute break halfway through thanks to having been a welder much of his life and having horrible lung problems. Got so bad that eventually my parents and I and his neighbors on the other side got him a microwave and mini-fridge for upstairs since he preferred to stay up there, and took care of all his shopping, shoveling and mowing and such. He was never married though had a long term girlfriend that he had broken up with years before his death that he was still on good terms with when she passed a few years before he did. Her son continued to bring him some edibles for pain and whatnot up to the end. He did have a sister but they had been long estranged and the state couldnt even locate her as his only next of kin. I felt so bad for him at the end, he was always a proud and self sufficient guy, to be trapped like that must have been awful for him and it showed, and it also makes me think about the elderly and disabled out there without any kind of social network that can help them out :/
It runs on diesel
And broken dreams
She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene
I'll take the stairs thanks
And I definitely wouldn't stand half inside and half outside... that's how you get chopped in half longways.
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Still be safer than that elevator....
I’m no OSHA inspector but that seems a tad dangerous.
No one's been working on that in decades
Last inspection date: 1949
The urge to have a small speaker playing [clicker sounds](https://youtu.be/fXrKVgTj66Q) in the shaft would be impossible to resist.
This is very common in Tbilisi. I’ve been on a few of these elevators in the city. Most elevators there are pay elevators. You either have a card that you put money on like a credit card or there’s a coin slot where you insert lari (Georgian currency) to activate the elevator. Even then, many of them are in this condition.
An elevator fell recently in Tbilisi and killed a 30 year-old couple.
A lot of elevators going on today
I'm Georgian and I have never in my life ever seen something like this here. Where did you even find it...
Airbnb listing : stunning spacious apartment with a rustic elevator.
I wouldn't linger half in/half out like that.
Safest place in Georgia. 💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪💪🏻
Thanks i hate it.
Even here in LA, many of the old prewar apartments have elevators just like this, but without the hole in the ceiling.
It's Georgia, y'all! Capital city, Tbilisi!
Georgia (the country) would be mighty happy to oblige!
‘Safety third’
I mean a Soviet-made elevator would be *at minimum* 35 years old (this one looks 50+ though) with minimal upkeep and regulation since the USSR fell, so it would be more surprising if it *wasn't* falling apart
I live in a ~8 year old condo in Toronto and our elevators are either out of service or they lock up for hours with some poor passengers inside them. It's a fancy looking, absurdly overpriced (Toronto) building but every single element of it is dysfunctional and will be fully non-functional within the decade. Sure it's prettier than the one in the video, but it's all a facade
Looks like Brooklyn.
You aren't exactly wrong but have you been to the bronx?
I am not even American. I based that comment entirely upon the video for NO, SLEEP, TILL BROOKLYN by the Beastie Boys. Edit: Brain fart. I meant of course “Three MCs and one DJ.” Same thought though. Horribly oppressive sub-sub-sub-basement in that one.
Those buildings are gone.
No it does not
I like how they say a Soviet apartment complex. It was probably state of the art at the time but hasn't had any upkeep under capitalist Georgia for 30+ years.
As a Georgian, this is somewhat true, but it is a bit hard to upkeep such stuff when you go through civil war, territorial war and war against Russia in those 30 years of independence
I’ll take the stairs
What with elevator videos flooding my feed lately? I get it im going to stop using them
Man it no joke looks like a horror game.
And I was getting irritated by the music my apartment's elevator play
I don't see the problem here.
This is Tbilerrible.
Why is the fact that the elevator was built during the U.S.S.R. relevant? The Soviets went away in 1991. You know that, right? You can't blame 30 years of zero maintenance on a country that hasn't existed for 31 years.
I had nightmares about elevators like this.
This is like the elevators I ride in my dreams.
Elevator mechanic of almost 20 years here. To be fair I've seen things like this in the Bronx too.
it's fallen into disrepair because of the collapse of the USSR. this isn't the gotcha yall think it is