Elevetor Con 2011 Crash Landing

The elevator falls 19 floors and is stopped by emergency brakes. We were trapped in there for about an hour. Thanks to the San Jose fire department for rescuing us. Thank God nobody was hurt and we were all left with an awesome story to tell.

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• Confusion
• Elevator
• Con
• FC2011
• 2011

[kernelwolf]

If you fell 18 floors, assuming each floor is 10ft high, you would have been in free fall for 3.44 seconds and would have hit the "bottom" at 75.186 mp/h or 121 km/h.

[furkitfox]

@kernelwolf It wasn't a fall at that speed, you can tell there was backup breaks or something going, but it was definitely falling faster than an elevator is supposed to fall.

[WMBrown]

you are a god-damned retarded moron if you think that getting an elevator to fall is somehow a fun story to tell.

too bad the emergency brakes engaged... get all darwinism up in this shit.

[jassyfit]

you fucking toolbags. what if someone got hurt? HURR DURR FUN STORY 2 TELL

no. I heard people got fucking sick and had panic attacks and youre being a mongoloid and acting like it's the coolest shit ever

[BlueKewne]

The elevator did not fall 19 floors. Modern elevators have emergency brakes that snap onto the cable right away.

If the elevator dropped 19 floors, then the brakes would have been useless as it wouldn't have had anything to clamp on.

The wire didn't even snap; from what I heard from technicians, the overweight alarm went off, and that's what caused to elevator to halt.

Of course, with furries being involved, the story is obviously over dramatized.

[BlueKewne]

@jassyfit If someone willingly walked into an elevator that full then got a panic attack....kinda their fault.

[nerdycub]

Social Darwinism fails again.

[xydexx]

@Brockton Your self-loathing is showing.

[xydexx]

@TheRealJawnz It's not a furry thing, it's an idiot thing.

[sofarsogood9]

19 floors? noone got hurt? my bullshit detector just exploded.

[TheRealJawnz]

I honestly can not stress enough how mind bogglingly stupid furries are. Thanks for proving it even further, "furkitfox" by trying to commit mass suicide. A fucking shame it didn't happen.

[flipperanubi]

I saw them get rescued. Honestly, the elevator probably handled the overload more or less as designed. The traction motor was overloaded, so it disengaged and the car was supposed to return to the ground floor under the 2 or 3 additional safety systems placed there for exactly that purpose, albeit as a faster ride than usual. If it had made it another 3 feet, the whole thing would have been uneventful.

Given the wait times on the elevators, I can understand the desire to fit everyone on.

[N0cheo]

its a shame the safety cord caught them 8\ seriously.

What complete idiots.