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Stuck on a stalled elevator with 2 feet clearance to the floor

Do you exit?

  • I'd take the bottom... crawl or possibly dive through

  • I'd take the top... because men always take the top

  • I'd stay put and wait for help however long it takes

  • I'd climb out of the access hatch on the roof

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darkxshade

Lifer
Say the elevator stalls and you've been stuck inside for a good while. You have no cell reception and the building is relatively empty. There is no help in sight. You pry the doors open and you're stuck in between floors... there is a 2 feet clearance that you can squeeze through to get out. Would you do it? Would you take the lower floor or the upper floor(crawling vs climbing through)?



I'd be kinda freaked out by the likelyhood the elevator my just start up again while I'm half way through and get decapitated. It happened to me 10 years ago but luckily it wasn't stuck completely half way and I had about 5 feet clearance above so I just stepped out.
 
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not worth it

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Access hatch unless you can step out/jump out. I've been in a similar situation (more than once) but could step out every time. Had nightmares for a while though.

EDIT: there was one time I was stuck with little clearance - waited it out. Elevators in Russia are meh.
 
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We got stuck once, and like your experience, we had like 4' or 5' of clearance. We had to pry the doors open, and we discovered we had plenty of room.
Though I did end up leaving my hoodie on the floor of the elevator - so I had to go back once they finally got the elevator back down to the first floor.

Frightening enough, the other situation you described happened on campus a few months after we got stuck.

And it happened in an identical elevator (old dorm building, old and abused elevators, and a row of 4 identical buildings) one building over from the one in which we got stuck.

For this group of kids, their elevator only had about two feet of clearance. One was climbing out, elevator started moving, he got caught and his neck was crushed.

OSU - full of idiots and tragic stories.

Same year (iirc), in the building we lived in (different than those buildings, those were merely the party dorms), someone had a few buddies over for the night/weekend, and one of the guests drowned in his own vomit overnight, basically a case of alcohol poisoning.

Freshman are fucking idiots down there. Actually, they rarely outgrew it, instead they just survived it. Quite a few never changed, even through graduation. 😛
 
destrekor said:
We got stuck once, and like your experience, we had like 4' or 5' of clearance. We had to pry the doors open, and we discovered we had plenty of room.
Though I did end up leaving my hoodie on the floor of the elevator - so I had to go back once they finally got the elevator back down to the first floor.

Frightening enough, the other situation you described happened on campus a few months after we got stuck.

And it happened in an identical elevator (old dorm building, old and abused elevators, and a row of 4 identical buildings) one building over from the one in which we got stuck.

For this group of kids, their elevator only had about two feet of clearance. One was climbing out, elevator started moving, he got caught and his neck was crushed.

OSU - full of idiots and tragic stories.

Same year (iirc), in the building we lived in (different than those buildings, those were merely the party dorms), someone had a few buddies over for the night/weekend, and one of the guests drowned in his own vomit overnight, basically a case of alcohol poisoning.

Freshman are fucking idiots down there. Actually, they rarely outgrew it, instead they just survived it. Quite a few never changed, even through graduation. 😛
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I was going to mention the OSU story. Needless to say I'd wait it out.
 
darkxshade said:
Say the elevator stalls and you've been stuck inside for a good while. You have no cell reception and the building is relatively empty. There is no help in sight. You pry the doors open and you're stuck in between floors... there is a 2 feet clearance that you can squeeze through to get out. Would you do it? Would you take the lower floor or the upper floor(crawling vs climbing through)?



I'd be kinda freaked out by the likelyhood the elevator my just start up again while I'm half way through and get decapitated. It happened to me 10 years ago but luckily it wasn't stuck completely half way and I had about 5 feet clearance above so I just stepped out.
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Wow you survived a decapitation! 😱 5 feet, definitely. Though I'd take a "running start" and dive through. 2 feet, hell to the no
 
if i had a briefcase or something, i'd prop it up between the floor of the elevator and the top of the elevator doorway, then climb out, then grab my briefcase once i got through.
 
eits said:
if i had a briefcase or something, i'd prop it up between the floor of the elevator and the top of the elevator doorway, then climb out, then grab my briefcase once i got through.
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Yes that should keep the elevator from plummeting and chopping you in half 😀
 
destrekor said:
We got stuck once, and like your experience, we had like 4' or 5' of clearance. We had to pry the doors open, and we discovered we had plenty of room.
Though I did end up leaving my hoodie on the floor of the elevator - so I had to go back once they finally got the elevator back down to the first floor.

Frightening enough, the other situation you described happened on campus a few months after we got stuck.

And it happened in an identical elevator (old dorm building, old and abused elevators, and a row of 4 identical buildings) one building over from the one in which we got stuck.

For this group of kids, their elevator only had about two feet of clearance. One was climbing out, elevator started moving, he got caught and his neck was crushed.

OSU - full of idiots and tragic stories.

Same year (iirc), in the building we lived in (different than those buildings, those were merely the party dorms), someone had a few buddies over for the night/weekend, and one of the guests drowned in his own vomit overnight, basically a case of alcohol poisoning.

Freshman are fucking idiots down there. Actually, they rarely outgrew it, instead they just survived it. Quite a few never changed, even through graduation. 😛
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I'll bring you another elevator story from the Big 10. Similar situation, elevator stuck between floors, doors pried open, and a drunk freshman girl tries to swing out onto the lower floor. Well, she gets out, and then loses her balance and tumbles backward into the shaft. Splat. DOA. Be careful around elevators.
 
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dabuddha said:
Yes that should keep the elevator from plummeting and chopping you in half 😀
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huh? why would the elevator plummet if it's stuck between floors? the more likely scenario is that people will be working on it and then it'll move again. the fear = you're trying to get out of the elevator through a 2ft gap between floors and the elevator starts going, thereby killing you. the briefcase would keep that from happening.
 
TheVrolok said:
I'll bring you another elevator story from the Big 10. Similar situation, elevator stuck between floors, doors pried open, and a drunk freshman girl tries to swing out onto the lower floor. Well, she gets out, and then looses her balance and tumbles backward into the shaft. Splat. DOA. Be careful around elevators.
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heh, yeah, i thought of that scenario as well.
 
eits said:
huh? why would the elevator plummet if it's stuck between floors? the more likely scenario is that people will be working on it and then it'll move again. the fear = you're trying to get out of the elevator through a 2ft gap between floors and the elevator starts going, thereby killing you. the briefcase would keep that from happening.
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You have more faith in your theory than I do. Unless I can make it through the gap in a fraction of a second I'm staying put.
 
At least concerning the ones I've been in.....
All elevators have an emergency call system.
All elevators have a stop button.

I would probably just press the stop button (to ensure no decapitation or limb disappearance) and climb out.

Or, if it looked like a PITA to climb out, I'd hit the emergency call button, and wait, but, I hate waiting. So I probably wouldn't have the patience to wait longer than 5 minutes.
 
The elevator in my apartment building got stuck a few inches from my floor once.. but the door wouldn't open no matter what I tried. It was at 6am on a sunday too, so no one around, and I didn't have my phone with me. Eventually someone heard me and called the fire station to have someone from there come and pry that d*mn door open. Building maintenance didn't answer even though they're supposed to be available 24/7.

Now I always take the cell phone with me...
 
By law elevators have to have a working telephone line and a emergency stop. I'd hit stop, call and wait. I'm not going to get killed for being stupid. Now if the opening was big enough that I could quickly jump or dive through, then maybe I'd go for it.
 
darkxshade said:
Say the elevator stalls and you've been stuck inside for a good while. You have no cell reception and the building is relatively empty. There is no help in sight. You pry the doors open and you're stuck in between floors... there is a 2 feet clearance that you can squeeze through to get out. Would you do it? . . .
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Depends--Did a paranormal force stall the elevator? Because if vengeful spirits or telekinetic children are involved, then you definitely do not want to crawl out. Then again, staying in the elevator probably means some other horrible demise anyway.
 
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