In Tokyo, many must relocate...

[brblx]

...due to a crippling lack of knowledge in the use of stairs and/or staircases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/b...-sales-plunge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

TOKYO — From their spacious 24th-floor apartment here, Masako Tsubuku and her husband had a breathtaking view of Mount Fuji.

They couldn’t wait to leave.

Their high-rise building, as it was designed to do, withstood Japan’s devastating earthquake on March 11, swaying and shuddering to absorb the worst shocks. But Ms. Tsubuku said she was petrified as the tower waved like a reed in the wind. And the elevators were knocked out of service until the next day, effectively stranding the couple and their two cats.

“I never knew how scary it is to live so far above ground,” said Ms. Tsubuku, who blogs about Japanese housing with her American husband, Philip Brasor. “I no longer think that high-rises are designed for people to live in.”

just randomly saw this and it made me lol for some reason. is there not a federal law mandating stairs in high-rises or are these people really that retarded?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Maybe they're just old?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I'm sure they wouldn't starve to death, but trying to regularly go up and down 24 stories of stairs for any casual reason is a bit rough.

 

[TecHNooB]

maybe theyre handicapped.

 

[Fern]

Have you ever carried bags of groceries up 24 flights of stairs?

I live in an apartment in Paris, no elevator and on the 9th floor. You'll only forget your pass once. Going up and down 9 flights stairs several times in row sucks, and I was young and in shape.

If these people are elderly they're pretty much prisoners without an elevator.

Fern

 

[nageov3t]

Maybe they're just old?

that was my thought. Japan has a pretty giant senior population.

 

[cerebusPu]

i remembering losing power for a week when i use to live on the 16th floor. walking up and down 16 floors to go to work, check mail, get groceries, let the pizza guy in, gets old real fast. i cant imagine what its like on the skyscrapers.

 

[brblx]

oh, i'm not saying that i would want to walk up 20 flights of stairs.

but to say that in the ONE instance where a natural disaster struck, you were unable to walk DOWN stairs...

i mean, even if i was in a wheelchair, if i lived on the 24th floor i'd slide down the stairs on an effing sled if i had to.

 

[brblx]

http://catforehead.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/getting-what-you-pay-for/

the woman writes a blog on housing ffs. and they look about 17.

 

[SandEagle]

maybe they're Mexican?

 

[Ns1]

oh, i'm not saying that i would want to walk up 20 flights of stairs.

but to say that in the ONE instance where a natural disaster struck, you were unable to walk DOWN stairs...

i mean, even if i was in a wheelchair, if i lived on the 24th floor i'd slide down the stairs on an effing sled if i had to.

this

 

[Texashiker]

...due to a crippling lack of knowledge in the use of stairs and/or staircases.

I work with some ladies, that if the elevator stopped working, they would be stranded, because their sure not going to use the stairs.

Not that they don't know how to use the stairs; their just too fat to walk up or down the stairs.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I don't think you realize how long 24 flights is. I lived in the 19th floor, and going DOWN the stairs was tiring, there were just SO MANY STAIRS.

 

[Texashiker]

I lived in the 19th floor, and going DOWN the stairs was tiring, there were just SO MANY STAIRS.

Why didn't you just jump out of the window? Would have been a lot faster then climbing the stairs.

 

[Ns1]

I don't think you realize how long 24 flights is. I lived in the 19th floor, and going DOWN the stairs was tiring, there were just SO MANY STAIRS.

after a massive earthquake with the alternative being STRANDED ON THE 24TH FLOOR, i think you'd find a way.

at least I would.

5 flights at a time with a break, w/e.

 

[Ichinisan]

Was something lost in translation? Maybe the stairs were crowded/packed for days.

 

[Ichinisan]

I work with some ladies, that if the elevator stopped working, they would be stranded, because their sure not going to use the stairs.

Not that they don't know how to use the stairs; their just too fat to walk up or down the stairs.

their = possessive

 

[Drako]

their = possessive

LOL, this must be the 3rd or 4th time he's misused "their" today

 

[BoomerD]

LOL, this must be the 3rd or 4th time he's misused "their" today

Don't y'all be-a blamin TH fer that...It wer teh wai he lurnd...it h'ain't his falt that the rest of the wurld do's it difrunt...

As riped from the Tex-Ass Gramer book:

 

[alkemyst]

Also not all buildings have 'people friendly' stairs like the US. In some countries you are lucky to have a railing.

 

[Jeff7]

Don't y'all be-a blamin TH fer that...It wer teh wai he lurnd...it h'ain't his falt that the rest of the wurld do's it difrunt...

As riped from the Tex-Ass Gramer book:

<snip>

I shouldn't of read that...god it hurts.





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