Stuck in an elevator

[Chris]

@Big Fluffy Matthew

[quote=“Chris”]Could she climb through the emergency hatch at the top?[/quote]Have you ever ever ever in your whole life been in a lift with a hatch in the roof? Ones on TV don’t count.

Yes. When I was in college we used to climb through the hatch up onto the elevator roof in our dorm and make strange noises to scare other passengers.

[Dragonbones]

@Big Fluffy Matthew

Spreading yourself out should help you survive. Jumping at the point of impact obviously won’t. Again, if you cut all the cables in a properly maintained lift, it will just stay there.

I assume aPLF (parachute landing fall)would be the best response.

[Jaboney]

I just checked: no hatch in the roof.

[sandman]

Yeah, but that’s actually a good thing. Think on – a hatchless elevator? What are the chances, practically speaking, of you EVER being forced to encounter Tom Cruise covered in sweat and grime when all you want to do is get home and watch Desperate Housewives? Slim.

[Rascal]

@Incubus

I was stuck in an elevator a few months ago. It was an old elevator that obviously hadn’t been maintained for a while in a rundown building. One thing that troubled me at the time was the possibility of the cable breaking. I once read somewhere that the best thing to do is to lie flat on the floor of the elevator (to spread out the force of the impact so you wouldn’t break your spine) rather than try to time the fall and jump right before it crashes. I was on the 8th floor so it would have been a pretty strong impact if the cable did break. Anybody know if that’s true?

Lifts have emergency brakes that are not related to the cables, they grip around the rails that guide the cabin.

[cranky_laowai]

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Never used Hanyu Pinyin. I have to use Tonyong -yes, we still have to use it, as no one has passed any official directive on this regard YET!!!

A certain former employee over there often used Hanyu Pinyin and never caught any grief for this.

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Boy, do I get an earful! “Follow the book!” (that is why I cannot write in pinyin, I just follow what it says in The Book). That and laziness, I admit. Why learn something if it is going to be changed in two weeks?

OFF TOPIC: Scuttlebutt has it that our employers will also come up with a system of their own. Sigh

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Guys, on a serious note, just saw on the news that this afternoon an accident just happened in a university hospital in Taichung. Apparently, 15 people were injured when the elevator they were in fell from the 21st floor to the 4th! More on your local TV channels.

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Let it be it plunged from the 21st floor down to Basement 4. 19 injured -miracle they are still alive.