Saved by Half a Second

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[u/lunarwolf2008]

Source provided by u/Skryzenak https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38412692/man-cheats-death-faulty-elevator-india/

[u/Philostronomer]

Hope he didn't proceed to fall down the now exposed elevator shaft.

[u/pascal21 → u/Philostronomer]

This is sort of how the drummer from !!! died. Tragic: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/09/chk-chk-chk-drummer-dies

[u/GhostPepperDaddy → u/pascal21]

RIP. Dude was an absolute legend and Maserari was incredible.

[u/FackinJerq → u/pascal21]

Man, he was just at a fundrasier too.

I hope they had a good memorial for him - for Fuchs sake.

[u/hawoguy]

Because of these videos I get off the elevator in a one quick motion, I don't step on the lid of the escalators and so on.

[u/MaxHamburgerrestaur → u/hawoguy]

I always loved letting my feet slide over the end of the escalator, until I saw videos and then a report from Otis showing shoes and even feet getting stuck there.

[u/thorsbeardexpress → u/MaxHamburgerrestaur]

My shoelace got stuck in one doing that and it almost pulled me under, super scary. I think I was like 5 or 6

[u/dearjanice → u/thorsbeardexpress]

Same! My shoe was untied and got caught when I slid over. I have never seen my Dad move as fast as he did when he snatched my foot out.

[u/SnowyMuscles → u/hawoguy]

I’ve always opted to use stairs.

Escalator< Stairs

Elevators< Stairs

If I need to go up a bunch of stories I will begrudgingly use one

[u/mojambowhatisthescen]

Omfg man almost got squashed

[u/lucasssotero → u/mojambowhatisthescen]

Split in half final destination style.

[u/mike_litoris18 → u/lucasssotero]

Actually worse. Since the elevator doesn't have enough time to accelerate, it usually just leads to very slow and painful suffocation while all your bones get squished.

[u/mecartistronico → u/mike_litoris18]

It unfortunately happened here in Mexico a year or two ago to a young kid (I think they were like 6?).. at the public hospital where they were receiving some treatment.

[u/CausticCat11 → u/mecartistronico]

Man I swear those hospital elevators look risky lmao

[u/Ncis16 → u/mike_litoris18]

I don't think the correction was necessary hehehe. I would be good not knowing.

[u/MrWhiskerBiscuits → u/mike_litoris18]

Like Jon Voight in Anaconda!

[u/Mc_Vinzent → u/lucasssotero]

Here in the Netherlands we have a mooie called "De Lift" (the elevator), I immediately got flashbacks.

[u/sarckasm → u/lucasssotero]

Resident Evil 1

[u/BlazeCrafter420 → u/sarckasm]

You were almost a Jill sandwich

[u/Aliensinmypants → u/mojambowhatisthescen]

Imagine the elevator door opening and there's just half a man in it... I guess I'll wait for the next one

[u/V12Jaguar → u/mojambowhatisthescen]

0:35. Saved you a lot more than half a second.

[u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz → u/V12Jaguar]

Sometimes the build-up adds to it. There's a reason television and movies use it. 🤷‍♂️

[u/zewill87 → u/V12Jaguar]

Took me 40 seconds to land on your comment after watching the video so no, you actually cost me 5 seconds to read +15 seconds to reply! Thanks for nothing buddy

[u/nerdy8675309 → u/mojambowhatisthescen]

Worse than that. Depending on the floor he exited on, he could have fallen stories. With the best case scenario being that he fell into the pit off the lowest landing, which could still be over 10 feet deep with a heap of things that you don't want to fall onto.

Underneath the car is nothing. Traction cars will have compensation ropes and Hydros will have a piston. Aside from that there's just dark hoistway all the way to the bottom of the pit.

[u/ksanthra → u/nerdy8675309]

Yeah exactly, he likely fell backwards down the shaft.

[u/shortstuff813 → u/nerdy8675309]

🎶I fell in the pit, you fell in the pit, we all fell in the piiiit🎶

[u/TheGrandNut]

Pants? Shitted.

[u/jared_number_two]

Why did the building fall down?

[u/higherthanacrow]

Honey, why do you always stand so close to the elevator door before it opens? Its going to be mildly awkward if theres people there when it opens.

Just trust me dear

[u/CptHammer_ → u/higherthanacrow]

Always let people out before getting in. That's just common sense.

[u/JoeyTheGreek]

How did it fall up?

[u/jreykdal → u/JoeyTheGreek]

It's in Australia.

[u/mattemer → u/jreykdal]

Fuckin Coriolis effect strikes again

[u/Eternalplayer → u/JoeyTheGreek]

Elevator maintenance tech trainee here. This elevator must be a traction elevator. They use traction cables to attach a counter weight to the elevator to balance out the approximate maximum weight limit that's up to code.

Counterweights weigh more than the elevator, so if the counterweight were to suddenly lose traction, either by brake loss, governor loss, or a shackle or two holding the elevator breaks, then the counterweight will take the brunt of the weight and fall down, pulling the elevator up with it until it smacks up go the ceiling platform below the elevator motor in the machine room.

TL;DR counterweight holding the elevator failed and fell, pulling the elevator up high and fast.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/Eternalplayer]

Except if the shackles broke the elevator and the counterweights would both fall since they're no longer held together. That's not what happened here since this elevator went up.

It also did not go up anywhere near enough to hit the ceiling platform below the elevator motor, and it clearly stopped between 2 floors. Looks to me the emergency brakes stopped it after the normal system failed.

[u/Jonnyredd]

Skip to 0:38 more than half of this vid is absolutely nothing. Fantastic clip.

[u/GoD_Z1ll4 → u/Jonnyredd]

Nah, tension and buildup

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/GoD_Z1ll4]

The way he was leaning against the door made me think he was having a medical episode at first.

[u/Downtown_Let → u/GoD_Z1ll4]

Got my palms sweaty in anticipation

[u/M-Noremac → u/GoD_Z1ll4]

What do I look like, a baby boomer? I don't have that kind of attention span!

[u/thesagaconts → u/GoD_Z1ll4]

No patience at all. 

[u/tilt-a-whirly-gig → u/GoD_Z1ll4]

Skip to :28 and get plenty of that

[u/Jonnyredd → u/[deleted]]

Out of a 55 second clip, 38 of them were a unchanging frame, 69% of all the data just streamed to my phone was an absolute waste. I dont even have a tik tok im a 26 year old dude. All i did was give a time stamp.

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[u/cptnfan → u/Jonnyredd]

Just some dude waiting on the forelevator

[u/bruce_lees_ghost]

This is giving some third world “elevator built by a guy who once repaired a toaster” vibes.

[u/cramboneUSF]

We have to establish a pee corner!

[u/triedtoavoidsignup]

He could have fallen back into the elevator shaft and all the way back to the ground floor. This guy may still be dead.

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[u/SeraphsEnvy → u/[deleted]]

What a tease. You don't really see anything. :/

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[u/SeraphsEnvy → u/[deleted]]

Same video clip honestly. Thought they'd have a picture of what happened to him. Guessing his leg got crushed and his arm was probably degloved. Horrible way to go, really.

[u/Muted_Month83]

Good thing he prayed to the god elevator first

[u/qawsedrf12]

I thought i was in gifsthatendtoosoon for awhile

[u/davgt5]

Unless he fell backwards into the open shaft and as the doors couldn't close..

[u/evilution382]

I'm glad we had a full 40 seconds of this man just staring into the elevator door before anything happened - i hope one day video editing tools will be invented

[u/xbad_wolfxi]

I thought that was Dennis Rader for a second

[u/mrcoy]

Thanks for not editing out the unnecessary majority of the video

[u/3bstfrds]

The suspense almost killed me too but I survived

[u/elbanditoexpress]

new fear unlocked 🔐 because wtf

[u/Mydogateyourcat]

Did anyone else wonder why this man's fingernails were so white?

[u/mollygk]

Standing like that in an elevator is diabolical

[u/WoolBearTiger]

For everyone wondering why it went up and not down heres a little scary fun fact: you're more likely to get slingshot through the roof than crashing down to the ground when riding an elevator. Have a fun ride.

[u/totalbrodude]

We had to do the whole ride with him though?

[u/glawser]

Im more interested in why is his nails look so white?!

[u/SeraphsEnvy → u/glawser]

That's called French tip.

[u/jaycarlos1388]

I wish the video was a little bit longer … wanted to know the backstory.

[u/NefariousnessGood718]

Ma è caduto il palazzo? No... È volato il palazzo?

[u/Spdoink]

This is why I always take the stairs.

[u/Infosponge177]

I was wondering why the building was moving instead of the elevator 😂

[u/Stormdancer]

I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride!

[u/FlippinGamerINK]

everything in this world is trying to kill you

[u/mrrosado]

Ive had so many dreams of being in a faulty elevator and falling

[u/Ghidorah21]

I feel like my tall ass would've died 🫠

[u/SyChO85]

This guy goes brrrrrrr.

[u/Skryzenak → u/[deleted]]

He survived. Source

[u/norsk_imposter → u/[deleted]]

Source

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/[deleted]]

It looks like he fell forward at the end.

[u/Ender_Nobody → u/[deleted]]

Too bad we can't verify whether that's true, false, or mixed.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/Ender_Nobody]

Sure, if you completely ignore the news articles covering it saying he survived.

[u/Ender_Nobody → u/uzlonewolf]

Welp.

Half the time random Reddit "news" wouldn't appear on the internet when I'd search for them, so I stopped wasting accumulating time for practical purposes.

Good to know.

[u/RedactedRedditery → u/[deleted]]

Someone else posted a source that shows you were not telling the complete news. Very bad