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(Some Elevated Guy)		Woman rides elevator to Death. Wow, I've never noticed that button before (centralillinoisnewscenter.com)		102
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farkingismybusiness

2012-01-09 05:21:57 PM

OJ's been slacking on the job lately.

Calm Down You Spaz

2012-01-09 05:25:57 PM

So an elevator to hell is much more convenient. Doesn't require any tickets and such

your average maint. man

2012-01-09 05:28:05 PM

Anne Frank would have found it

Donnchadha

2012-01-09 05:29:10 PM

I'm not sure if I'd rather have the doors opening to an inferno, or a wall of water.

Either way, not a fun way to go.

forteblast

2012-01-09 05:30:07 PM

This elevator probably has one:

www.horroria.com

MrSid

2012-01-09 05:30:33 PM

At least it wasn't a bucket.

Treygreen13

2012-01-09 05:30:49 PM

Donnchadha: I'm not sure if I'd rather have the doors opening to an inferno, or a wall of water.

Either way, not a fun way to go.

"Something like this just shouldn't have happened," Bertie Tautenhahn said. "No one should drown in an elevator."
I feel really bad for laughing at that sentence.

Emposter

2012-01-09 05:31:02 PM

What an elevator to death (and/or clipart) might look like.

Fista-Phobia

2012-01-09 05:31:05 PM

Did they phone that one in?

media.centralillinoisnewscenter.com

SoCalSurfer

2012-01-09 05:31:49 PM

I imagine that when the door opened it looked like hell with people running around screaming and everything on fire.

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2012-01-09 05:32:54 PM

Calm Down You Spaz: So an elevator to hell is much more convenient. Doesn't require any tickets and such

But I had a window seat reserved

/I am disappoint

Maud Dib

2012-01-09 05:34:20 PM

Donnchadha

2012-01-09 05:36:16 PM

Are they going to play The Girl from Ipanema at her funeral?

farkingismybusiness

2012-01-09 05:36:21 PM

What a twist!

UsikFark

2012-01-09 05:36:56 PM

*ding*

pottie

2012-01-09 05:36:59 PM

I can't imagine a worse way to go, choking on thick black smoke, knowing that you're about to die and there's nothing that you can do to stop that damned Barry Manilow muzak.

phalamir

2012-01-09 05:37:27 PM

First thing I thought of

Link (new window)

JesseL

2012-01-09 05:38:00 PM

This could be the basis of an awesome Twilight Zone episode or Aerosmith song.

Gaumond

2012-01-09 05:38:23 PM

Whats with the flying ambulance?

ringersol

2012-01-09 05:38:29 PM

I thought elevators went express to the lobby when the fire alarm is pulled?

TFA: "and unlike buildings built after 1975, the elevators don't stop working when a smoke detector is activated"

Oh, I see. It's another one of those cases where old infrastructure got grandfathered in under job-killing regulation, because, hey, the free market will sort it out anyway.
If people want to live in safe buildings, they'll find that information out and they won't move into buildings that aren't up to code. And those old things will be torn down and renovated before long anyway. Right?

styckx

2012-01-09 05:38:42 PM

Holy shiat.. Clipart? Wow..

Joed112784

2012-01-09 05:39:03 PM

Welcome to die!

Honest Bender

2012-01-09 05:39:27 PM

Maybe Joe Estevez was just trying to take her soul?

UsikFark

2012-01-09 05:40:09 PM

pottie: I can't imagine a worse way to go, choking on thick black smoke, knowing that you're about to die and there's nothing that you can do to stop that damned Barry Manilow muzak.

Related (1408 movie) (new window)

IAmRight

2012-01-09 05:42:56 PM

"Since 1957, doors of each unit in a high-rise that lead to the building's corridor have been required to automatically close to prevent fires from spreading."

Didn't know that. Never really thought about how/why all hotel doors had automatically closing doors except when it's a pain in the ass to remember the key(card)s whenever you want to go down the hall to get some ice.

your average maint. man

2012-01-09 05:43:28 PM

Donnchadha: Are they going to play The Girl from Ipanema at her funeral?

priceless......thanks for the ear worm....

Oznog

2012-01-09 05:44:13 PM

Well that's odd. The blood USUALLY gets off at the third floor!

Herb Utsmelz

2012-01-09 05:44:16 PM

I hope this was some sort of punishment for requesting Stairway to Heaven.

buckeyebrain

2012-01-09 05:45:57 PM

Approves

MatrixOutsider

2012-01-09 05:49:08 PM

It must have been the other elevator at the Overlook Hotel.

rolladuck

2012-01-09 05:51:53 PM

But was the elevator inspection record on file in the building manager's office?

Oznog

2012-01-09 05:52:06 PM

NecoConeco

2012-01-09 05:53:38 PM

/This man is a trained professional. Do not try this at home

LabGrrl

2012-01-09 05:54:13 PM

Poor elevator. No one should be ridden to death.

missiv

2012-01-09 05:55:09 PM

I can fix her, no problems.

UsikFark

2012-01-09 05:56:03 PM

LabGrrl: Poor elevator. No one should be ridden to death.

I bet she was hot when she got off, though.

LeroyBourne

2012-01-09 06:00:15 PM

Looks like there was a lack of....
removes sunglasses*
love in the elevator
YEAH!!

MBooda

2012-01-09 06:00:51 PM

Was her name Ripley?
www.astro.umd.edu

flaEsq

2012-01-09 06:01:55 PM

ringersol: Oh, I see. It's another one of those cases where old infrastructure got grandfathered in under job-killing regulation, because, hey, the free market will sort it out anyway.
If people want to live in safe buildings, they'll find that information out and they won't move into buildings that aren't up to code. And those old things will be torn down and renovated before long anyway. Right?

Talk about that job cremation.

/hat tip the ever awesome DWS

girljen

2012-01-09 06:01:58 PM

Oh, fark you so hard, subby. Just when my fear of elevators had quieted down to a moderate case of anxiety, too....

Sticky Hands

2012-01-09 06:01:59 PM

What is this, Chinese or something? Counting backwards?
Not backwards. Downwards.

Last stop: Hell of the upside down sinners.

Ponzholio

2012-01-09 06:03:12 PM

Hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie, smoke.

Grand_Moff_Joseph

2012-01-09 06:04:02 PM

For her sake, I hope it was extremely quick, and she never really knew what was happening. Sounds like something out of Final Destination 32.

Of course, if the building had been updated, she might be alive. But I'm sure the extra expense to the landlord would have been just insane, right?

Marcus Aurelius

2012-01-09 06:04:55 PM

But did the cats make it out OK?

Marcus Aurelius

2012-01-09 06:05:33 PM

The cats, that is.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch

2012-01-09 06:06:50 PM

I'm glad the ambulance pic was there, or I'd have been totally confused by this story.

Bob16

2012-01-09 06:10:17 PM

Tom Waits had the best "elevator to hell" joke on "Big Time".

/ we're at the corner of Friendly and Snooty

struct

2012-01-09 06:10:23 PM

Karma Curmudgeon

2012-01-09 06:10:54 PM

Maud Dib:

Hey! Back off big man, that may work with the chicks, but not me.

deamonbutterfly

2012-01-09 06:14:28 PM

According to the tribune, there was a fire. A woman was killed according to the tribune. And according to the tribune it was from smoke inhilation. 9 others were hurt according to the tribune. She was in an elevator. According to the tribune.

that's the gist of the article. nuff said.

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