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First time for everything, I guess.
Big industrial lift with a hydraulic arm thingy underneath it.
Recently had laser barrier safety thing installed.
Been here for twenty minutes now. Help is supposedly on its way.
If you're starting to get down, chatting on here will elevate your spirits.
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Hope not.
That's very wrong, on so many levels....
Will it drop like a piano off a cliff when the power fails?
Remember to jump just before it hits the buffers otherwise you'll break all your bones on impact!
Are you alone?
if you get too bored, try self love in an elevator (pretty guaranteed to get it moving again just as you're reaching the exciting bit)
You'll be safe as long as it's a Schindlers lift.
Can't you climb through the hatch in the top?
Can’t you climb through the hatch in the top
And end up feeling like a TV dinner ?
Which STWer would you most like/hate to be stuck in a lift with?
Your mistake was getting into the lift...
If it does drop, just jump as hard as you can just before it hits the ground.
Are there any snakes coming in, or signs of snakes coming in.
I once got my bike stuck in a lift at work. I used to keep it in the office behind my desk but they didn't like me taking it up the stairs incase the tyres rubbed on the walls, so I used to stick it in the lift, but I had to get out the floor below my office to sign in then get back in. Usually this was fine but one morning someone pressed the button and the movement of the lift moved my bike which wedged it againt the door and stopped it from opening.
Management were not happy about having call lift engineers out....
My biggest fear when I was little for some reason!! At least you've got your phone to stop you getting bored 😃
I suppose the biggest problem is if you've had a double Latte cappuccino earlier and have to make 'the decision'.
err you out yet?
I frequently, when hearing of folks stuck in lifts/cable cars etc, consider the question: "what happens if desperate for a pee/poo?"
Does one just go in the corner? find a hatch and wee outside? It never says on the news "and after 10hrs the travellers were finally released by a rope team and helicopter. All were reported well but exhausted. And by the way 4 out of 5 had shat themselves."
@alpin = do you need a pee or poo? tell us what happens!
vital viewing for you current predicament
In council flats they pee in the lift whether they are stuck or not.
In council flats they pee in the lift whether they are stuck or not.
If I'm out running and get caught short, I always use a council lift to relieve myself.
I got stuck in a lift at the Mount Pleasant sorting offic in London. We were installing a Coke Vending Machine and didn't have enough batteries for the stair climber sack barrow that we used, so decided to use the lift. It was such a snug fit in the lift we thought it would be a good idea for me to go in the lift first so I could push it out when we arrived at the right floor. Unfortunately the lift stopped about 1in short of the floor so I couldn't push the the vendor out. I was stuck at the back of the lift with nose pretty much pressed up to the vending machine for about 45mins.
I learned a valuable lesson that day.
A colleague got stuck in a lift after arriving in the office justvas it opened at 7am.
Took the fire brigade 30 minutes to get her out, and took her about 10 days to stop talking about the firemen.
I think you lot are pushing his buttons. I do hope this doesn't escalate into one of those threads.
PS we're sending TJ to keep you company
I used to work in an 10 floor office building in Staines, one night shift colleague Vince hurriedly jumped in the lift desperate to go up one floor to use the loos (unwritten rule was never drop a log in the traps on your own floor).
Doors shut, lift didn't move.
45 minutes later, doors were opened, Vince was curled up asleep on one side of the lift and his stinky friend was curled up on the other side.
Once had a lift roof collapse on my head when descending in the Edinburgh Council offices en-route to the canteen. Wasn't that heavy as it was some kind of false ceiling thing but I absolutely shat myself, as did the midget (4ft tall colleague) I was in there with.
I'm amazed, you have a signal in a lift.
From now on any act of defecation in a public place should be known as a "Stinky Vince".
I learned a valuable lesson that day.
Should have used Pepsi?
Mate that would really cause my mood to descend.
I'm hoping that who's ever responsible gets shafted
I was hoping we'd get a STW Physicist explain us the physics in laymen's terms 🙂
Loved Vince's Friend story 😆
Not Scottish are you?
I’m amazed, you have a signal in a lift.
Yeah, they rarely get above 1G.
If there is anyone in with you, don't turn your back on them. They will Garrote or shoot you in the back of the head with a silenced 22..
I got stuck in a lift once.
The guy on the emergency phone couldn't understand me and kept asking if I was in Torquay. I was in Glasgow so figured my chance of rescue was quite low . I ended up just forcing the doors open and getting out as it was only a foot above where it would normally stop
(unwritten rule was never drop a log in the traps on your own floor).
Lets not gloss over this one folks. This needs picking apart. What was the rational behind this unwritten rule? On the face of it it appears misguided and foolish.
This thread is no good without pics...
I prefer this version...
On the face of it it appears misguided and foolish.
Indeed. Could land you in a world of shit.
For the angry stage - is that before or after denial?
Lets not gloss over this one folks. This needs picking apart. What was the rational behind this unwritten rule? On the face of it it appears misguided and foolish.
TBH I've heard of this practise. Basically you don't stink out your own bogs when you can do it to another departments.
TBH I’ve heard of this practise. Basically you don’t stink out your own bogs when you can do it to another departments.
One dept at a previous job had a sign on the door saying ‘No sit downers!’ (classy like) on the adjoining loo, as apparently the smells and, more likely, sounds could permeate the walls into the office.
I’m pretty sure HR never went down that part of the building, as it was also a disabled toilet.
I got stuck in a lift at the Mount Pleasant sorting offic in London. We were installing a Coke Vending Machine and didn’t have enough batteries for the stair climber sack barrow that we used, so decided to use the lift. It was such a snug fit in the lift we thought it would be a good idea for me to go in the lift first so I could push it out when we arrived at the right floor. Unfortunately the lift stopped about 1in short of the floor so I couldn’t push the the vendor out. I was stuck at the back of the lift with nose pretty much pressed up to the vending machine for about 45mins.
I learned a valuable lesson that day.
Never fart before the doors are actually open?
Original post was 4 hours ago and no closure (other than the doors)?
Gonna get messy....
Never fart before the doors are actually open?
There can be appropriate moments... I was in a lift with a colleague after a 2hr liquid lunch (joy of flexi time). Our dept was on the 14th floor and on about the 5th floor all bar us got out. Just before the doors shut I let rip & exited. He was not happy with 1) the stench & 2) the looks of disapproval from people getting on at other floors!!
such immature behaviour shouldn't be funny. But it is 😆
Which STWer would you most like/hate to be stuck in a lift with?
No point having the engineer in there with you. You want him in the motor room, sorting the issue out 😜
Re never sullying your own floors toilets, I used to work with someone who practiced "poo-lette". Get in the lift, close your eyes and press a random button. That was then the chosen floor for said ablutions. This was in a 15 storey shared office block but where all the toilets were the public side of any security doors
Are you still there OP?
2 lifts in liverpool staff almost drowned as the basements where flooded and they pressed the basement button, in a not used building fr quite a while, lift decended and the ewate suddenly came flooding in through the doors, since then one building was always advised that the lift should be sent down to baseent empty and then returned up to check for water ingress.
Also got trapped in a lift at tesco chester, lady who i was with but didnt know, didnt seem amused when i said at least we have plenty of food in the trollies, she just wanted a wee, so forced doors open, but floor was about 2 foot below the lift floor level, we dropped out back into the shop and lifted trolles out and then had to use another lift up to the car park.
Worringly staff just ignored us, and carried on working on tills.
I assume Op is dead. That is a shame, he's been hanging around this forum for a while.
Oh well.
Yeah, they rarely get above 1G
You got a little applause from here, nicely done
Not dead..! Just busy.
Was in there for just under an hour.
Lift had stopped about 4' below the floor level. Doors were opened and I was able to climb out.
Wasn't much of a drama.... Climbing back in and having to get all the tools, ladders and scaffold tower out before handballing everything down to the basement was a drama.
Did you perform a Stinky Vince?
I think my worst fear would be major stomach trouble in such a situation 😀
Those that are Sheffield based, don’t use the lift if you’re ever in Boots (High Street), that thing breaks down all the time! You do get some free advantage card points for your inconvenience though 😂.