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

[QUOTE=mankind_me;33723111]Um, do you mean the Japanese man who went through the lift doors with his wheelchair? That happened a while ago.[/QUOTE] This? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkT2tII_GI&feature=related[/media]

well, there goes my appetite seriously this is a fucking abysmal way to die

[QUOTE=mankind_me;33723111]Um, do you mean the Japanese man who went through the lift doors with his wheelchair? That happened a while ago.[/QUOTE] Nope, there was a japanese doctor who got pinned by the elevator doors at the shoulders. When it went up, his head got trapped between the top of the "doorway" into the elevator shaft and the floor of the elevator. He was decapitated from the lower jaw and up. There was a nurse in the elevator too that had to spend an hour or two in there with his disembodied head waiting for the technicians to get the elevator running again. Look up Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh on wikipedia, under the unusual deaths list, 2003.

This is horrible. It also reminds me of being 4 years old. I was on the elevator with my mother going back from a store. Her jacket was inside the doors when they closed. I remember her getting pulled a bit close to the doors when it started moving. Then a bit of the jacket came off which made it come out of the doors. She laughed at it (as she should, wasn't anything serious) but I cried for days and now I'm relatively scared of elevators. :saddows:

And she's buying a stairway to heaven...

Isn't there an emergency stop button inside the elevator they could have hit to stop it?

[QUOTE=FordLord;33724071]Isn't there an emergency stop button inside the elevator they could have hit to stop it?[/QUOTE] yep, people are dumb :L

[QUOTE=GlebGuy;33722683]Okay that's it let's just design new elevators that don't do fucked up shit like this no matter what.[/QUOTE] They already exist, this happened to be an old elevator that didn't get modernized and apparently already had problems. [quote]But elevators at the building received four “unsatisfactory” inspections in the last two years.[/quote] Someone's getting sued. [QUOTE=Super_Nova;33723553]This? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkT2tII_GI&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE] Oh wow, he sees the doors breaking and yet he rams it again? [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=FordLord;33724071]Isn't there an emergency stop button inside the elevator they could have hit to stop it?[/QUOTE] Also this.

Making jokes about this is just low.

[QUOTE=scotland1;33723290]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] Phobias are irrational You can't say to an arachnophobe "Spiders [I]very[/I] rarely harm people, the chances of being bitten are extremely thin, much less so the chances of actually dying" and expect them to lose their fear, or even for their reactions to spiders to become slightly less knee-jerk, despite the fact being true. From what I understand, the door into the elevator closed on one of her legs as she was entering it, the elevator rapidly rose and she was dragged out of the elevator and into the shaft where she was killed by being crushed between the elevator and the shaft itself. Of course there was probably a certain amount of dismembering involved aswell. Probably in the distance it took for the elevator to clear the door before the solid shaft wall began. Pretty horrible stuff.

[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] I don't think it closed on her foot. The article said it closed on her leg. If it closed on her thigh and she was torn apart that way, her femoral artery would have definitely been severed and she would have bled out within seconds. I don't know if that's how it happened, but I'm just theorizing.

welp that company's going out of business incoming lawsuit

[QUOTE=Shoupie;33724930]I don't think it closed on her foot. The article said it closed on her leg. If it closed on her thigh and she was torn apart that way, her femoral artery would have definitely been severed and she would have bled out within seconds. I don't know if that's how it happened, but I'm just theorizing.[/QUOTE] I guess I was just confused because the article and thread title keep saying she was crushed to death.

statistics on how many people die while using stairs please

Always be careful with elevators. My dad's a fireman, and whenever they have to open an elevator shaft during a fire, they always have to check if the car is actually on that floor. More than once a fireman has just stepped through and fell to his death.

I have a pretty big fear of elevators and this made it worse.

[QUOTE=Benlecyborg;33725030]What the flying fuck?[/QUOTE] I've heard that the video was fake. Can't be sure, though.

[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] You step in leg first, the doors slam shut on your leg as the elevator starts to rise fast. As it rises it leaves you in a dangling position under the elevator. Then the part of the elevator that has your leg in it reaches the ceiling. The elevator is malfunctioning, which means it is not in a proper climb, so it does not have the power to cleanly sever your leg. Instead what happens is it pulls your leg slowly as the elevator comes to a stop between floors. Your leg is smeared between the wall and elevator, with only flaps of skin, stretched tendons, and stretched ligaments connecting your leg in the elevator to your body hanging underneath. Here's an artist's conception of the scene: [IMG]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/cecilb6/lookspainful.jpg[/IMG]

How the hell does that even occur?

elevators are sapient and are out to kill us

[QUOTE=Levithan;33725912]elevators are sapient and are out to kill us[/QUOTE] New SCP idea Memetic elevator sapient transformation virus

I've always thought about how horrible it would be if something like that happened.

This is why I always use stairs. I don't care if the elevator is faster and more comfortable, I do not trust it.

[QUOTE=garychencool;33725880]How the hell does that even occur?[/QUOTE] Final Destination gone real

I now feel awful for laughing when this happened in Final Destination 2.

now please tell me those aren't scare quotes in the title

I don't care if I have to walk up to 30 flights of stairs, I will NEVER take an elevator.

[QUOTE=FlyingDog;33723730]Nope, there was a japanese doctor who got pinned by the elevator doors at the shoulders. When it went up, his head got trapped between the top of the "doorway" into the elevator shaft and the floor of the elevator. He was decapitated from the lower jaw and up. There was a nurse in the elevator too that had to spend an hour or two in there with his disembodied head waiting for the technicians to get the elevator running again. Look up Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh on wikipedia, under the unusual deaths list, 2003.[QUOTE=Wikipedia;33723730] 2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a fatal heart attack, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet. [/QUOTE][/QUOTE] Wow, what a way to go

My work requires elevator use. Today I probably used multiple elevators about 40 times [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] I'm gonna die by elevator

Good god, now that I know what happened mentally, I wish I hadn't imagined it.