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Elevator experiment

December 19, 2011 @ 10:44 pm

I’ve seen this before, but Joyce just reminded me of it! Always funny to watch again. :)

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Woman crushed to death by elevator car after freak accident

December 15, 2011 @ 11:57 am

Photo: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times This is incredibly sad and horrifying. A 41-year-old woman named Suzanne Hart was crushed to death by an elevator shaft after it shot up suddenly while she was half-way into the elevator car. The … Continue reading →

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Glitch in National Elevator car shaft will cause elevator to freefall

November 22, 2011 @ 10:07 pm

This is scary if the uploader is to be believed. According to her, National Elevators (not sure which one, but a company by that name at least) deploys elevators with a mechanical glitch where if you call the elevator UP, … Continue reading →

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Base jump off of an outdoor elevator

October 17, 2011 @ 2:07 am

Watching these 3 guys go up on top of this outdoor elevator gave me the chills. And then of course they jump off. Crazy. [via]

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Tim Burton-like elevator in Long Island City

September 22, 2011 @ 7:40 pm

Holy cow, do you know what you’re looking at right now? That’s the inside of an elevator car somewhere in Long Island City, Queens. According to commenters, the building is either the Falchi Building or the old Gimbel’s warehouse (maybe … Continue reading →

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Following instinct rather than rules during emergencies

August 25, 2011 @ 3:35 am

Photo from Wikimedia As I was writing the entry today about whether I should have left my office building when I felt the earthquake on Tuesday, it got me thinking back to an article I read somewhere a few years … Continue reading →

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