Bit of excitement today... Got myself stuck in a lift after a power failure, half way between two levels.
More than an hour later the Fire Brigade had me out through the very tall hatch (about 3.5m high) via a ladder and then out through the lift well.
Interesting to note that there were no emergency lights, but I had a torch with me and the (non-lit) emergency button still worked, got through to a human within about 10 seconds after the automated voice announcement. My mobile still worked, so I was able to surf the web to pass the time. Good to know some technology still hangs in there when the power goes out.
A worst time for diarrhea.... Especially when there's other people stuck in the elevator.
It's a tough decision.. Do you crap in your pants...Orrrr... Pull them down and let'r rip in the corner. ffffffssffppphsssfffff ffppff fffpff fffpsssshhhhh fftt
Alternatively... You'd have no hesitation for help through the hatch to instead crap on top of the elevator. A yucky surprise for the emergency crew :P
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Colleagues and I once got stuck together with about a metric tonne of Beer for the chrismas party - which is what caused the elevator to crap out. When we were liberated we were in very good mood, having spent a couple of hours agressively reducing the overveigth of the elevator carriage.
The 13 story building I used to work in had no hatches. One day we got a email extolling how switching to a least bidder elevator contract would save us 125,000 a year in costs. Being stuck in the building's 3 elevators became a standard thing. For durations of 30 seconds to 4 hours. Many, Many, times a week for years. The least bidder didn't even have schematics or spares for this system.
Getting stuck in a hot elevator with a panicky 79 year old professor was no fun, trying to keep him calm, while talking on the phone to dispatch. It happened to me more then once, with my boss just freaking out. Memos flew back and forth to no effect. But one day....
We hear the screaming and the alarm bell, and more screaming and more bell. Some time around 2 hours in, of more lady screaming and more bell, a generator truck pulls up to the access road. I'm in the lobby and and this six foot 300 pound gorilla/linebacker type is hauling in two long pieces of one-ought and heading for the elevator doors. Its her husband, he's a welder, and he's gonna cut open the doors and get her out. Didn't even bother to ask, or say hello. All the time cooing on the cell phone to his missus. He doesn't care, he's starting at ground level to see whats up. She's 4 stories up. I got security there just before he started cutting on the stainless steel doors.
Two or so years later they were divorcing, and I wonder if he wished he would have started at floor 13 (the unmarked penthouse) and cut the cables and safeties......
Oh, the joys of working in university research. I'm gonna miss it.
So I'm glad you made it out. Here in the states the standard tactic is to make you set while they try to fix things.
Sno-o-o-o-ort! I know the type. My father-in-law was like that... machinist... he could probably simply rip the doors off with his bare hands.
But he was really a teddy bear, reader of Shakespeare, classical music and opera fan, etc. ;-)
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Also strange, in Australia you are in a lift. In the US it becomes an elevator.
In Australia if you walk straight in from ground level, and go up just one level, you would be getting off at the first floor.
Not so in the states. You enter on the first floor, and get off at the second. There is no 13th floor in the U.S. Or is that 12th? :-) The modern lift was first used in NY, NY, so I guess it is an elevator.
I got stuck in the brand spanking new Victorian Motor Registration Branch lift (elevator?)in the early 70s. Trip lasted 3 hours. No additional charge.
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Some friends toured a brewery in Bavaria, then found their rental Mercedes' door lock had frozen shut, leaving them stuck out in the cold.
Fortunately they realized they had large loads of warm fluid available to defrost the stubborn lock, and they were drunk enough not to care who watched.
Halfway through the defrosting operation, one of them noticed another, identical Mercedes parked not far away.
I've been in buildings that have a 13th floor, probably designed by someone who wasn't all that superstitious. (although, you do lose the "secret floor" when you do that.) ;-)
I got stuck in an elevator at Jester dormitory (UT Austin) about 2:00 A.M. The phone was ripped out, there were no cell phones at that time.
I was able to pry the inner door open and I then reached up for the lock on the outer door. Once the outer door opened, I climbed up the 5 or so feet of wall that was in front of me and I was out.
Once, while I was living in a 3-story apartment, I heard the elevator alarm - someone was pushing the "Help" button. I went to the floor where the bell was loudest, and was able to talk to the guy in the elevator car, by shouting a little. I asked him, "can you pry the doors apart by hand?" He said, "yeah, but all I see is the mechanism inside the outer door." So I talked him through it; I told him to move the mechanism around until it unlatched; he found the "combination" and opened the outer door. He didn't have far to climb.
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