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First time for everything, I guess.
Big industrial lift with a hydraulic arm thingy underneath it.
Recently had laser barrier safety thing installed.
Been here for twenty minutes now. Help is supposedly on its way.
If you're starting to get down, chatting on here will elevate your spirits.
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Hope not.
That's very wrong, on so many levels....
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Remember to jump just before it hits the buffers otherwise you'll break all your bones on impact!
Are you alone?
if you get too bored, try self love in an elevator (pretty guaranteed to get it moving again just as you're reaching the exciting bit)
You'll be safe as long as it's a Schindlers lift.
Can't you climb through the hatch in the top?
Can’t you climb through the hatch in the top
And end up feeling like a TV dinner ?
Which STWer would you most like/hate to be stuck in a lift with?
Your mistake was getting into the lift...
If it does drop, just jump as hard as you can just before it hits the ground.
Are there any snakes coming in, or signs of snakes coming in.
I once got my bike stuck in a lift at work. I used to keep it in the office behind my desk but they didn't like me taking it up the stairs incase the tyres rubbed on the walls, so I used to stick it in the lift, but I had to get out the floor below my office to sign in then get back in. Usually this was fine but one morning someone pressed the button and the movement of the lift moved my bike which wedged it againt the door and stopped it from opening.
Management were not happy about having call lift engineers out....
My biggest fear when I was little for some reason!! At least you've got your phone to stop you getting bored 😃
I suppose the biggest problem is if you've had a double Latte cappuccino earlier and have to make 'the decision'.
err you out yet?
I frequently, when hearing of folks stuck in lifts/cable cars etc, consider the question: "what happens if desperate for a pee/poo?"
Does one just go in the corner? find a hatch and wee outside? It never says on the news "and after 10hrs the travellers were finally released by a rope team and helicopter. All were reported well but exhausted. And by the way 4 out of 5 had shat themselves."
@alpin = do you need a pee or poo? tell us what happens!
vital viewing for you current predicament
In council flats they pee in the lift whether they are stuck or not.
In council flats they pee in the lift whether they are stuck or not.
If I'm out running and get caught short, I always use a council lift to relieve myself.
I got stuck in a lift at the Mount Pleasant sorting offic in London. We were installing a Coke Vending Machine and didn't have enough batteries for the stair climber sack barrow that we used, so decided to use the lift. It was such a snug fit in the lift we thought it would be a good idea for me to go in the lift first so I could push it out when we arrived at the right floor. Unfortunately the lift stopped about 1in short of the floor so I couldn't push the the vendor out. I was stuck at the back of the lift with nose pretty much pressed up to the vending machine for about 45mins.
I learned a valuable lesson that day.
A colleague got stuck in a lift after arriving in the office justvas it opened at 7am.
Took the fire brigade 30 minutes to get her out, and took her about 10 days to stop talking about the firemen.
I think you lot are pushing his buttons. I do hope this doesn't escalate into one of those threads.
PS we're sending TJ to keep you company
I used to work in an 10 floor office building in Staines, one night shift colleague Vince hurriedly jumped in the lift desperate to go up one floor to use the loos (unwritten rule was never drop a log in the traps on your own floor).
Doors shut, lift didn't move.
45 minutes later, doors were opened, Vince was curled up asleep on one side of the lift and his stinky friend was curled up on the other side.
Once had a lift roof collapse on my head when descending in the Edinburgh Council offices en-route to the canteen. Wasn't that heavy as it was some kind of false ceiling thing but I absolutely shat myself, as did the midget (4ft tall colleague) I was in there with.
I'm amazed, you have a signal in a lift.
From now on any act of defecation in a public place should be known as a "Stinky Vince".
I learned a valuable lesson that day.
Should have used Pepsi?
Mate that would really cause my mood to descend.
I'm hoping that who's ever responsible gets shafted
I was hoping we'd get a STW Physicist explain us the physics in laymen's terms 🙂
Loved Vince's Friend story 😆
Not Scottish are you?
I’m amazed, you have a signal in a lift.
Yeah, they rarely get above 1G.
If there is anyone in with you, don't turn your back on them. They will Garrote or shoot you in the back of the head with a silenced 22..
I got stuck in a lift once.
The guy on the emergency phone couldn't understand me and kept asking if I was in Torquay. I was in Glasgow so figured my chance of rescue was quite low . I ended up just forcing the doors open and getting out as it was only a foot above where it would normally stop
(unwritten rule was never drop a log in the traps on your own floor).
Lets not gloss over this one folks. This needs picking apart. What was the rational behind this unwritten rule? On the face of it it appears misguided and foolish.
This thread is no good without pics...
I prefer this version...
