News: You CAN Die Using Lifts And Escalators

[Teenager!]

(Did post in Spam. Was told it was useful information so I posted in world news, because it's sort-of internationally useful information.)

Lift accidents, extracted from Wikipedia...

"Reports said the passengers were scared to death and shrieked"
"Elevator ascended with the doors still open"
"building on University Avenue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Avenue_%28Toronto%29) plummets five floors"
"Runaway elevator in office building decapitated 55-year-old James Chenault as he tried to help fellow passengers out of a malfunctioning car."
"Explosion in pit of a Kone elevator "
"London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), June 2006. A 47-year-old man was killed when he plummeted eight floors during a refurbishment job in an office High Holborn, London. The lift was being modernized by a company called Guidelines. (Source: Construction News) "
"An eight-month-old baby died when an elevator in an apartment building fell six stories."


Escalator Accidents, extracted from Wikipedia

"Eight people died and 30 more were injured on February 17 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_17), 1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982), when an escalator collapsed on the Moscow Metro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro). Faulty emergency brakes and design flaws were later blamed for the accident"
"8-year-old Jyotsna Jethani was killed at New Delhi's international airport when a passenger's bag got stuck in an escalator at the arrival lounge and ripped it open. Jyotsna fell into the gaping hole that resulted"
"Sally Baldwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Baldwin), a professor of the University of York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_York), was crushed to death at Tiburtina Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiburtina_Station&action=edit) in Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome) on 28 October (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_28) 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) after a travelator collapsed and she was pulled into the cogwheels"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Escalators_Canary_Wharf.jpg/200px-Escalators_Canary_Wharf.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Escalators_Canary_Wharf.jpg)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Hospital_Elevator.jpg/180px-Hospital_Elevator.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hospital_Elevator.jpg)

No method of transport is safe. YOU CAN DIE on an escalator or in a lift. Use the stairs in future :)

[RedStratocas]

You can die doing anything.

And also, I'd do a little research on this. I wouldnt be surprised if more people die falling down the stairs than on escalators. 400 people die in the bath tub in the US each year. Take showers? 600 people die falling out of bed at night a year. Sleep on the floor?

[Caution]

Theres been a lot of problems with the new Tesco where I live.
They have esculators that don't have stairs, they slope.
People go on it with wheelchairs and get stuck at the bottom, and it jams the esculator.

Yeah, you can die on anything.

[Teenager!]

That tesco thing..

1. They're travellators.
2. Thats obvious :D Every travellator advertises that people with prams/wheelchair/pacemaker have to use lifts. It the same at Asda in Colchester.

[benjamin]

kinda obvious yeah

[Swastika]

Yeah you can die doing almost everything.
Im not suprised.

Edit: WOOT - 1,000TH POST!

[GommeInc]

If the "s" word wasn't filtered I would be saying "No s Sherlock"...

You can die doing anything, and it was always possible to die using an esculator and a lift. A lift because they can plummit many floors and an esculator in some cases can get people trapped in them.


You can die doing anything.

400 people die in the bath tub in the US each year. Take showers?
You can die taking a shower by slipping into them and breaking a neck or getting caught in curtains, or slipping getting out of them.


600 people die falling out of bed at night a year. Sleep on the floor?
You might die by the floor caving in? Besides, you would probably get servere pain in some areas not sleeping properly or in nice comfortable conditions. Either way, you can't avoid it :P

[WarRock]

they probs inproving saftey now anyway






sorry but i think lifts and esculaters are for lazy people i like the stairs as u can jump down them :P + it keeps u fit.

[Teenager!]

What about if you acually fell in a lift.. say... from the top of Blackpool Tower :D

Would you still be alive? I mean, the stuff on tose lifts are so old they have to close them like three hours a day just for tests and repairs.

[benjamin]

More people die a year from putting on jeans then aircraft crashes, everything is dangerous

[WarRock]

More people die a year from putting on jeans then aircraft crashes, everything is dangerous


wow never knew dat.

[brandon]

This will not change what method I use ;)

I usually use stairs anyway.

[MADNESS!]

You can die from anything, your computer mght explode and glass shattered in your face killing you, any moent of the day everyday you could die and if we all took that view we would sit in a blank room sitting in the corner. theres no point in worrying about what MIGHT happen.

[Teenager!]

Cya..

Joke.

Naw, I just won't go in a lift which dosent have a fast-moving counter.. or that has a dude with "hooks" in it, or funny doors, or that look like the lifts at my school, which look like the lifts from the movie FD2.

Someone said you CANNOT die in lifts! Technically your not suppose to, but when you can find a guide and some wire-cutters off eBay, can't stop a maineack.

[RedStratocas]

You can die taking a shower by slipping into them and breaking a neck or getting caught in curtains, or slipping getting out of them.


You might die by the floor caving in? Besides, you would probably get servere pain in some areas not sleeping properly or in nice comfortable conditions. Either way, you can't avoid it :P

Haha, I know. Thats my point, really. You can die doing anything, even in the alternative of what you think is dangerous. The more I think about it, I think more people die falling down stairs than on escalators. Old people, kids, and even regular people. You just stand there on an escalator. Just because one major incident happens, it doesnt mean many many smaller ones dont.

Which kind of reminds me of the 9/11 effect. Apparently, when people were scared out of their minds to fly after 9/11, they started driving. And in the 3 monthes after 9/11, there were 1000 more automobil deaths than in past years of the same time period. So just because one huge tragic event happens, doesnt mean the alternative is safer.


Cya..

Joke.

Naw, I just won't go in a lift which dosent have a fast-moving counter.. or that has a dude with "hooks" in it, or funny doors, or that look like the lifts at my school, which look like the lifts from the movie FD2.

Someone said you CANNOT die in lifts! Technically your not suppose to, but when you can find a guide and some wire-cutters off eBay, can't stop a maineack.

You can't stop someone from buying a gun and shooting you on the street either. Are you going to stop walking on the sidewalks now?

[Teenager!]

Yes....

Don't say anything about buses :D

[:Hazel]

Everything in life has its risks. It would just be very unlucky if you died on a lift/escalator.

[Herman]

Well that's too bad cause I live in an 8th floor apartment and have to take the lift everyday. Stairs? No thanks.

[8Freak8]

Quite an awful way to die though. Especially on an escalator.

[Chip.Monk]

My science teacher's dad was a escalator technician. He went in to deep detail about how they work, and they seem very fool proof. In many years of work, the lift had dropped only once, and that was just a test with no one in it, it was just to see something. I dont know what tbh, but oh well...

[alexxxxx]

if you jump just before you hit the floor, will you die? x]

[Teenager!]

Ya know. When lube turned around and said that I actually thought that's how to make me feel worse, but then again - he's right. I feel fine now, but a good discussion has come on about it.

Hmm.. can you die in a carwash :P

I should get a copy of that scene and show people what actually happened cos loads of people aint seen FD2 :D
_________

Yes you tecnically would crack your head on the celing. They did it on Mythbusters.

As the lift falls it picks up speed, then if you jump, the lift will pull you down.

Jump up, get pushed down by the top of lift :D Rather juft fall to death.

[,Jess,]

;2916211']if you jump just before you hit the floor, will you die? x]

i've always thought that but if you jumped 2 soon you might bump your head, really hard

[RedStratocas]

;2916211']if you jump just before you hit the floor, will you die? x]

Depends on the speed youre going. Sometimes the elevator drops faster than the people in it, so the people end up on the ceiling. Its kind like that whole "if I throw a ball up in the air in a car, why doesnt it go flying backwards?" question. Plus, the elevator will probably burst into flames anyway.

[RedStratocas]

wow never knew dat.

People's perception of what is dangerous and what isnt is all out of wack these days. I was reading an artical and apparently the evolution of our minds isnt up to speed with the super-technology world we live in. So we fear things that have a miniscule chance of happening, and ignore stuff that is likely. Like there are many many people afraid of flying, yet there's only 1 or 2 major accidents a year, only a few hundred people, if any at all, die a year in plane crashes. But tens of thousands of people die in car crashes each year, but its hard to find someone afraid of driving.

[summer]

you can die doing anything..

[poll]

;2916211']if you jump just before you hit the floor, will you die? x]

most liekly i watched it on mythbusters u either die or severe injuries i dunno

[Markness.]

there was this firefighter program on tv, the firefighter tried saving someone from the bottom of the shaft when the evevator came crashing down, and erm.. splat

[PigsNose]

More people die from falling down the stairs than going in a lift.
Simple really.

[Teenager!]

most liekly i watched it on mythbusters u either die or severe injuries i dunno

Yes.. I did say they tested it on Mythbusters :D The killed buster.. nearly!

But nobody has answered my second question...


Can you die in a Car Wash :D ?

[RedStratocas]

Yes.. I did say they tested it on Mythbusters :D The killed buster.. nearly!

But nobody has answered my second question...


Can you die in a Car Wash :D ?

Any question thats "can you die in/by/doing [whatever]" have an answer of yes. Its all a matter of likelyhood.

[Digital]

you can die off playing on your computer all day, you can die from walking down a street everything has risks

[-Soph-]

Nothing is safe.. Of course you can die using lifts and escalators..

[DiscoPat]

you can die by going for a walk too,..

[Spectate]

Ohh great, something else for everyone to fear :rolleyes:. Life is full of risks but it's not really worth living if you constantly fear death.

[---MAD---]

Everything in life is a risk, breathing, walking, going outside, drinking. They can all cause death but if you worry about that, you will die worrying but the chances of dying because of these things is very slim.

[-Soph-]

;2916211']if you jump just before you hit the floor, will you die? x]

Yeah, they tested it on mythbusters

[cocaine]

Yes, you know, the escalator will eat me.

[louder]

they probs inproving saftey now anyway






sorry but i think lifts and esculaters are for lazy people i like the stairs as u can jump down them :P + it keeps u fit.

yer + you can also jump down stairs, break your leg, fall down the next set + die.
you wont avoid death by using stairs.

[lAdmire]

Here where I live there was some techinal difficulties on an escalator && these people dropped && got stuck on the escalator because I think not sure if this is correct but it began to speed up really fast && then it suddenly stopped && everyone got stuck. They could've sued but I don't think anyone did. It was in a train station.