Woman crushed to death stepping onto an elevator. Horrified onlookers treated at hospital for "psych - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;33722581]Yeah, I would need to be treated for psychological trauma too if an elevator fucking ATE SOMEBODY right in front of me.[/QUOTE] Well there's a good point. Whenever you get into a conversation that is basically a who-went-the-most-horrible-things-ever contest, you can just sit down and say "Bitch I saw someone get crushed by an elevator" and you instantly win.

God damn... im always afraid of something like this happening with me when stepping out of an elevator

Damn it, this is horrible. Now I'm scared to leave work. Maybe i'll take the stairs tonight.

This must be an old elevator. Eleveators do not just shoot up and down and they usually have features whereby they won't even move unless the doors are fully shut. Hell there's even sensors to make sure there's no one between the doors.

Exactly why I jump-dive into every elevator

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;33722684]I don't get how this killed her, could someone explain it to me?[/QUOTE] Basically she was half in and half out of the elevator. The doors closed on her leg while she entered and the elevator started going up so she was torn apart. That's what I understood anyway.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;33722684]I don't get how this killed her, could someone explain it to me?[/QUOTE] Foot gets stuck in door elevator goes up door doesn't go up with the elevator aaannd she got crushed.

[QUOTE=Tacosheller;33722710]Exactly why I jump-dive into every elevator[/QUOTE] I hate people who jump INSIDE the elevator, it's a fucking box, and we are inside it, stop doing that!

[QUOTE=Teddi Orange;33722709]This must be an old elevator. Eleveators do not just shoot up and down and they usually have features whereby they won't even move unless the doors are fully shut. Hell there's even sensors to make sure there's no one between the doors.[/QUOTE] Elevators are starting to get really old in a lot of places around and there are more and more accidents like this because the owners don't take care about it and refuse to pay proper maintenance. The sensors were probably here but after years of usage they must have been so dusty and used they could barely sense anything anymore. Or the security linked to the said sensors was broken.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;33722721]Basically she was half in and half out of the elevator. The doors closed on her leg while she entered and the elevator started going up so she was torn apart. That's what I understood anyway.[/QUOTE] So only her foot would have been crushed than, and she died from blood loss? Because I just don't get how you could end up in the space between the elevator and the floor while your foot is stuck.

Evidently the company the woman worked for announced they were moving to another building at the beginning of the month: [url]http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/after-80-years-yr-plans-to-leave-madison-ave-for-columbus-circle/[/url] Suffice to say they have all the more reason to move. According to that article the company moved into 285 Madison Avenue in 1926, so it's a pretty old building.

[quote][B]But elevators at the building received four “unsatisfactory” inspections in the last two years[/B] and one where a defect was found, according to the Department of Buildings records. It was not immediately clear if the the elevator that malfunctioned was one of the ones that received a bad inspection. There are 13 elevators at the building.[/quote] I find this severely disappointing.

I always take the stairs when possible. It's totally irrational, but I hate elevators.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;33722795]So only her foot would have been crushed than, and she died from blood loss? Because I just don't get how you could end up in the space between the elevator and the floor while your foot is stuck.[/QUOTE] Because some elevators don't have doors on the cabin but only at the floors, so basically her foot was stuck at the first floor and the elevator tried to go up, she was torn in half. I'm not sure if it had one or two sets of doors though, but I guess it only had one though as it's the very old ones who have one set only. [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Terminutter;33722855]I always take the stairs when possible. It's totally irrational, but I hate elevators.[/QUOTE] Being in a small box suspended by cables that goes up and down using cables. No wonder so much people hate elevators. You can put as much securities and emergency brakes and solid cables as you want, people will still be scared shitless of it. It's much more understandable than, say, being scared of kittens or jell-o :v:

I, for one, welcome our new elevator overlords. But seriously, this is horrifying.

I'm relatively desensitized to gore thanks to the wonders of the internet, but it'd still be some serious shit if I was one of the people in the elevator then. I guess depending on how fast the elevator was going, they either shared an elevator with half of a dying woman, or a room splattered with the giblets of a recently deceased woman. Maybe her decapitated, dying head ended up next to them. Maybe some twitching, bleeding limbs. Who knows? Sounds like a (sarcastically) good time, either way. No wonder they went to be treated for trauma.

some messed up shit wtfff, hope those 2 people recover from their trauma. also reminds me of dis: [img]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3780/delift01.jpg[/img]

I was reading this while listening to Adagio for strings, manly tears were shed.

I seriously doubt the two who had to watch this are going to be taking an elevator anywhere within the next 6 months.

jesus fucking christ thats horrific i always have a phobia of elevators because of this shit

Isn't like the second time this has happened (or at least, been posted on FP) in like the past month? I swear it happened to some Japanese guy or something as well.

It sounds like a good grindcore song. CRUSHED BY AN ELEVATOR (horrified onlookers)

[QUOTE=The DooD;33723071]Isn't like the second time this has happened (or at least, been posted on FP) in like the past month? I swear it happened to some Japanese guy or something as well.[/QUOTE] Um, do you mean the Japanese man who went through the lift doors with his wheelchair? That happened a while ago.

Man, talk about one foot in the grave, this is truly awful. :( I've always been secretly scared of this, ever since Resident Evil.

Why exactly are people in this thread scared of elevators? You are infinitely more likely to be horribly killed in a car accident than riding a god damn elevator. [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] Also, the article is very vague, I don't get how she can be crushed to death when only her leg was trapped.

[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;33722749]I hate people who jump INSIDE the elevator, it's a fucking box, and we are inside it, stop doing that![/QUOTE] I've never seen that happen before.

When reading this article I was only able to wonder what kind of idiot made an elevator that doesnt detect the doors being blocked I didnt even feel a single peice of empathy, what the fuck is wrong with me

[QUOTE=Teddi Orange;33722709]This must be an old elevator. Eleveators do not just shoot up and down and they usually have features whereby they won't even move unless the doors are fully shut. Hell there's even sensors to make sure there's no one between the doors.[/QUOTE] I guess that's some of the security checks that failed to pass when it was checked then, stupid not to replace the whole elevator with a new one

Fast elevator. Also wouldn't it have had sensors or something to prevent that?

Great, i had jus gotten over my fear of elevators