This story is very odd for me to read. In the mid 1950s my great aunt was killed in nearly identical fashion. She was within weeks of finishing her residency and was entering a hospital elevator with a group of other interns. In Aunt Mary Ann's case the doors didn't close, but simply shot upward while she was half in and half out severing her spinal cord. My Aunt was going to be a missionary doctor, and they have a medical missionary fund in her honor. I've heard the story for my entire life.
To see this news brief with history somewhat repeating itself was very odd.
AJ
Posted by qsysue (Member # 5229) on :
Yeah I saw that yesterday. It didn't help my paranoia about the elevator in my work building. Thing has acted sketchy before. I think about stuff like that happening every time I get in it.
Time to start using the stairs.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
So, getting my kid to wear shoes is really a good idea!
Maybe this should be the When Technology Attacks thread!
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I just saw the same thing happen in Final Destination II last week. I can't imagine being trapped in the elevator with the head or the body, depending on which way it was decapitated. In Final Destination, the body was in the elevator.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Btw, you get funny reactions if you walk into an elevator with a crowd and an friend, and you turn to the friend and say "Did I ever tell you about my Aunt that got killed in an elevator?"
I never actually knew the woman so I'm probably more callous than I should be about it. I do respect the fact she made it through med school in the 1950s though!
AJ
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
Kayla:
quote:I just saw the same thing happen in Final Destination II last week. I can't imagine being trapped in the elevator with the head or the body, depending on which way it was decapitated. In Final Destination, the body was in the elevator.
Nope. The head was in the elevator, like our poor doctor here...
Wow! Thirty people are killed on elevators and escilators every year?! And 17,100 injured! I guess that's not a lot percentage-wise, but it's more than I imagined it would be.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
That last statistic has to be a bit misleading. I imagine most people killed by elevators are killed when the elevator goes into freefall, no? Not by decapitation. Although I can?t imagine how one could get killed by an escalator, save for falling off the side.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Unfortunatly I can. I have a vivid imagination, but it would be just like falling down a flight of stairs, and escalators have those sharp steel teeth!
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