Yes.. Great question , never to be forgotten experience. Happened twice , once Caulfield race course Victoria Australia , only 3 levels high , should have taken the stairs , lift FULL after function , drinking lots of wine , 3 .5 hours , races over , as you can imagine ALL needed toilet , but we made it eventually , the call phone diverted to Melbourne CBD , so no technician , most others had left races. One guy really freaking out , but to a degree safety in numbers , we got down to car park at 12.30 am , dam awkward. 2 nd Phuket Thailand 7 floor resort , just me , no phone in lift , no phone in hand , as often happens MAJOR BLACKOUT , this was frightening , no air , hot climate , completely dark , only 15 mins , felt like hours , just feeling like a massive falling ( lift going down fast ) felt like its just going to crash , then it slows , can hear voices " madai madai " ( cannot ) the door oppened just a fraction , I managed to get a hand in , then enough room for my foot , with the guys pulling from the outside , finally and I ran out like though a football banner.
Have had a fear of every lift , ever since , very frightening , the second one , despite not much time was possibly of more concern , 3 rd world country , although very modern lift. Remember this story Ole reader , next time you jump in :)
I've never been stuck in one, but I once climbed down several stories inside of an elevator shaft to get a freight elevator unstuck. That was about 45 years ago. I was completely alone, there was no one else in the entire 10 story building, and there was no one who knew what I was doing at the time. I was successful, and now I have a story to tell on occasion, like now. I was pretty proud of myself. I guess I still am.
@FoxnEagle Gladly. I was working as a maintenance man in this building. I was probably 18 years old at the time and was pretty fearless when it came to climbing. Fearless or just young and dumb. I got a call at home on a Sunday morning, when the building was normally unoccupied, that a building tenant had unsuccessfully tried to access the freight elevator from the ground floor and it was my job to get it taken care of. When I arrived, the tenant was no longer there, nor was anyone else there. This was a building built in the early 20th century with the original elevators still in use. The building was occupied by individual tenants, typically leasing an entire floor for each company. I had no keys to access any of the tenant areas. So, I headed to the penthouse where I was able to look down into the elevator shaft. I could see that the car was, I think, on the third floor. I checked to make sure that the elevator equipment had main and control power, which it did. This was, to restate, a freight elevator that had exterior doors that had to be manually pulled open and shut, with an inner wooden gate which was also manually raised and lowered. There are switches on the doors that will not allow the elevator to travel unless the doors are all completely closed. More of the story to come. It was too long to fit in one reply.
@FoxnEagle Since I didn't have keys to access the tenant areas to check all of the doors from each floor, the only thing I could think to do was to start climbing down the shaft, checking to see that the doors were secured at each floor as I went. When I got all the way down from the penthouse on the 11th floor to the car itself on the 3rd floor, I found that the last person to use the elevator must have closed the outer door in a hurry, allowing it to bounce back open a couple of inches. That can happen very easily if you're not paying attention. I closed the door completely, which enabled the elevator. I rode it to the ground floor, called in that it had been repaired, and went on my merry way back home. And I still love to tell the story. That building was used as a light industrial building at the time of my adventure in the late 1970s. Since 1997 it has been the home of The St. Louis City Museum. It's a pretty popular museum. You can see and read about it online. Thanks for asking about it!
"Fearless or just young and dumb." Yeah... I'm at that point right now; who needs 30 minutes safety equipment setup plus backups when I have good balance and a strong grip for a 10 minute job? :D
Yes, when I was a kid. It broke down while I was inside. I forgot where it was though. It was in some old building leading to a large basement filled with cars. The memory is a bit fuzzy but I used the emergency alarm and people got me out. I had to wait inside there though for over an hour. It was incredibly boring since I didn't even have any video games or anything. My parents also freaked.
In my case, it wasn't that scary since I was on the basement floor going into the elevator to go up. So I pushed the floor to go up and the elevator didn't do anything. Then I tried to push the button to open the door and that didn't work either. So the elevator was just stuck at the bottom and didn't budge.
I did try jamming all sorts of other buttons first to see if I could get the elevator to do anything, but it seemed completely dead after the door closed. Then the only thing left to try was the emergency stuff, and thankfully that was still working.
I think I was around 6 or so at the time. The Gameboy hadn't been released yet so I had nothing to do the whole time. I didn't even have a comic book or anything. So it was like the most boring thing ever. It wasn't very scary but it traumatized me with boredom.
Knock on wood I haven’t got stuck on a regular elevator however I did get stuck on a freight elevator about eighteen years ago. Good thing I had a two way radio on me & I was able to call building maintenance. Management laughed at me & I told them go ahead & laugh I’m on overtime so take your time.
Ok... what's up with your alphabet then? I thought those were Cyrilic characters. Honestly, I'm curious but my keyboard is not equipped with those characters.
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