News: You CAN Die Using Lifts And Escalators

[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

I should get a copy of that scene and show people what actually happened cos loads of people aint seen FD2
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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 Rather juft fall to death.

[,Jess,]

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]

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]

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 The killed buster.. nearly!

But nobody has answered my second question...


Can you die in a Car Wash ?