Comment preview: I used to live on a 5th floor apartment in New York that had a shit elevator. The elevator had some problems before, like opening between floors, but would always make it down. Anyway one day I'm going down to get some lunch and it opens between the 5th a ....

Comment preview: One part in Thief II that always stuck with me as a brilliant example of both indirect story telling and level/teaching design was in the second mission, Shipping and Receiving. You're robbing a warehouse that also lets out space to various businesses, eg ....

Comment preview: This happened to a friend and I once. It was the first and last time I ever skipped school. We walked to a strip mall that had outdoor stores and business offices on the inside. The bathrooms were downstairs and we were lazy and decided to take the elevato ....

Comment preview: Here's my elevator story. Happened a long time ago in college. We had 2 elevators in our dorm building, and one was always broken. I used to live on the top 8th floor. It was the same deal every morning. You'd wait forever for the single elevator to a ....

Comment preview: I was a facilities guy for a school. We went to the dorms quite often to fix holes in the wall, messes, broken elevator doors (it takes you up and down! Why fuck with the elevator?), broken windows and doors, etc.... One time there was a god-awful smell li ....

Comment preview: Some Korean kid once told me this story on the school bus: A woman moves into a new apartment building. Not long after, she is coming home one night and needs to use the elevator, but it's broken with a sign directing residences to use the service elevator ....

Comment preview: I used to work at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati. We had a couple of patients come in from time to time who were death camp survivors. I remember one woman in particular, whose tattooed numbers I could see sometimes when she signed in, was living in a retir ....

Comment preview: Okay, so this is probably the coolest thing to happen while I was at U of I. I will preface this by saying that I lived in the "football player's" dorm wing - they called it that because all of the freshman football players would live in this dorm cause it ....

Comment preview: My father fell down an elevator shaft when I was 12. He was in a pitch black building doing a set check. Someone had cut a whole in the floor about 15 feet from the entrance for an elevator but never put one in. The building had no lights or water. My dad ....

Comment preview: Yes. * The prices of medication that treats things caused by obesity should be rocketed sky high. * Clothing for obeasts should be coated with a stench that smells like a rotting skunk, but a stench that only obeasts can smell. * Changing rooms must be res ....

Comment preview: Hour 1: Mostly spent frantically trying to exit the elevator Pressing all the buttons. The emergency buttons. Nothing. No response. Waits a few minutes and presses them all again. To no avail. Has the same song been playing the whole time? Hour 2-4: Notic ....

Comment preview: In 8th grade my friend, danny had broken his leg and was in crutches. They would let him and some friends of his out 5 minutes early from lunch to get to our next class. So one day four of us were headed to the elevator to go to our class when all of a sud ....

Comment preview: It was. I became pretty passionate about it. I and a buddy of mine were in charge of Room Services so I had complete unsupervised control over the elevator. Since the freight elevator was push-button automatic it had become the de facto "public" elevator. ....

Comment preview: "Once the cables snapped, the elevator car went into freefall and in a matter of seconds the car had crashed to the basement. Fortunately, the impact was cushioned by the broken cables which piled in a spring-like spiral on the floor of the shaft. It is al ....

Comment preview: Elevator/Escalator Mechanic here. Normally they do become stairs. It looks like the main drive chain broke and the safety brake was worn too low to stop it like it should. Unfortunately it is common for these things to happen in older units that aren't rou ....

Comment preview: Google translation of the video description: In Saratov lift his head crushed employee cafe Within minutes, the woman tried to get herself, but all attempts were in vain. The woman worked as a waitress and took a freight elevator foods when the elevator su ....

Comment preview: I am a maintenance guy for an apartment complex at a college campus. I was repairing an elevator control panel in one of the apartment buildings, when this hot chick comes into the elevator. I tell her the elevator won't be working for another five minutes ....

Comment preview: I transcribed it, hope it helps! :) [START] It was about eight fifty AM. We arrived here at the intersection of Church Street and (?) Street ... and it was totally different then, 'cus the World Trade Center Complex was here. [BILLY GREEN 9-11] In the - uh ....

Comment preview: Oh man some of the shit that has happened at anime cons is just mind boggling. I hear its almost as bad at some scifi/tabletop conventions but I haven't gotten a chance to go to any that are around here yet (been having things come up each time gencon is i ....

Comment preview: It's actually a pretty complex procedure. When the building was going up floor by floor there were three cranes, two at the top of the structure for raising steel beams and other large materials and a third clipped to the side for concrete. At the time the ....

Comment preview: GEORGE - THE FINEST IMMIGRANT MILKMAN IN AMERICA I skipped into the lift - sorry - *elevator*, my milk bottle carrier swinging in my right arm. God, don't you just love the sound of milk bottles clinking in the morning? Don't you just love how the little p ....

Comment preview: I remember back in 2011 a few friends and I were exploring a grain elevator that dated back to the 1920s. The only way to the top were mesh steel stairs that had been unused for at least two decades. Carefully, we each went up a flight one at a time, and g ....

Comment preview: Murder, kidnapping, child endangerment, illegal labor practices, unsanitary food production. For years, the FBI had targeted Wonka, but his lawyers were simply too good. Every case fell apart. Two years ago, the FBI found an Oompa Loompa willing to serve a ....

Comment preview: Yes and no. A typical skyscraper has a lot of the internal volume taken up by supports. You can see this in the floor plans; there is usually a thick densely-supported core with relatively open office space wrapped around this. The higher you go, the more ....

Comment preview: Sometimes, when I get a nasty, nasty fart, I'll release it as silently as I can, in the worst place possible. Once, I just entered an elevator in the hotel I was staying, and a little kid ran in right as the doors were closing, separating himself from his ....