I've seen two of the sickest stories I've ever heard of on the BBS over the past week First the man that raped his 2 year old daughter now this, I dont know whats more sickening they're both equally tragic. I cant imagine what that lady is going through, God bless her.
I was always brought up to fear man-made devices like elevators, and especially escalators. I never thought anything so gruesome could occur. Why does a thing like this happen?!?!?! When Bud Light came out with a commercial a few years back protraying a guy having his hand caught in an elevator grasping a beer while repeatedly being forced through the ceiling, it really pissed me off. What kind of a******s try to make something like that funny. That stupid Reese's commercial with the guy getting his pants ripped off also pissed me off. This is the sadest and scariest thing I never thought could happen.
Déjà vu. When I lived in Ottawa about 15 years ago this happened in one of the historic, but relatively upscale hotels there. This is the only net reference I could find to it but it looks like a very similar case. I’d forgotten about the second incident with the little girl. <Walter_Roberson@CARLETON.CA> Mon, 05 Jun 89 17:48:03 EST Early last week, we had a second elevator fatality in Ottawa. In this case, the person was caught by the doors closing as they were stepping in. The elevator went up and down several floors before they were able to stop it and get the fellow out. The problem was apparently an electrical problem with the door interlock circuits that allowed the elevator to move with only one of the doors closed. The elevator (made by Otis in about 1954) had been serviced earlier that same day. Those of you that remember the incident earlier this year in Ottawa, wherein a 13 year old girl was killed, might recall that -that- elevator had been serviced earlier the same day. The local paper never did, though, publish the results of the inquest into that death, so I still don't know what the problem was in that case. People have been rumbling louder about the politics in that case (the building was largely populated by people waiting for their immigration applications to be heard) than about the mechanics of the elevator. Walter Roberson <Walter_Roberson@Carleton.CA> http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/8.77.html
Gruesome death of the day #2. Scalped by rollercoaster. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2052471 Aug. 16, 2003, 11:37PM Amusement park operator killed in Washington state when hair caught on ride Associated Press LANGLEY, Wash. -- An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a fence. Doug McKay, 40, was spraying lubricant on the tracks of the Super Loop 2, a ride at the Island County Fair on Whidbey Island, when his long hair got caught on a car full of fairgoers, sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Smith said. "It basically scalped him, and he fell and landed on the fence," Smith said. McKay, co-owner of Paradise Amusements, based in Post Falls, Idaho, was pulled between 25 and 40 feet into the air. Paradise Amusements had set up rides at the Island County Fair, located about 30 miles northwest of Seattle, for the past three years, Smith said. Smith said grief counselors were on hand but that the fair continued after the incident.
Gruesome death #3, suicide decapitation: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/17/1061059704905.html Home > World News > Article Lovelorn shop assistant's horror suicide August 17, 2003 London: A hardware store worker decapitated himself by tying a rope around his neck and to a lamp-post then driving off, an inquest was told. Workmates of David Wackett found his headless body in the car park during their nightshift, an inquest at Bridgend Coroner's Court, south Wales, was told on Friday. Colleagues said the 25-year-old, who worked at the B&Q store in the town, had been upset about a girl he worked with. In the early hours of December 6 last year, Wackett left the store for a meal break. Colleague Nadine Jones, who Wackett told workmates he had a "soft spot" for, saw his car in the car park shortly afterwards and thought it had crashed. She telephoned the store and other workers went out to see what had happened. In a statement, employee Gareth West said: "I went up to the car and looked directly in through the driver's window. There was music playing. "I saw a body in the driver's seat with its arms by its side. There was no head attached to the body at all. The body had a seatbelt on." West told other workers to stay away and called police. Wackett, of Milton Drive, Bridgend, is believed to have tied a nylon rope around his neck, feeding it through a window of his red Vauxhall Corsa and securing it to a lamp-post. As he drove away from the lamp-post the rope tightened, tearing his head from his body. A receipt for a rope, bought from B&Q using a 20 per cent staff discount card two days earlier, was found in the car along with a suicide note, the inquest heard. Craig Rees, who worked with Wackett, said in a statement: "David was a quiet chap who tended to keep himself to himself. "He did seem a little down over a girl we worked with, Nadine, I think he had more feelings for her than she had for him and this caused him problems." Jones' statement to the court read: "David was a nice guy and we would have a good laugh with him. He was genuine and would do anything for you. "I had no physical feelings for him and classed him as a friend." The student added: "I think his feelings had intensified over recent weeks." Jones said when she saw Wackett's car, she thought it had crashed and been vandalised with red paint over the windscreen. Recording a verdict of suicide, Bridgend coroner Philip Walters said investigations had shown that the method used by Wackett to kill himself was detailed on a website. But, he said, there was no evidence to suggest that Wackett had ever looked at it. "I find it quite incredible that websites like this which tell you how to commit suicide in so many different ways should be allowed to exist. "That is for the powers that be to sort out."
This is one of those things that's so freaky and odd that it sounds like it's from a horror flick. Remember in the Omen when the lightning rod fell off of the church and went through the priest. It's almost like he was marked and this was destined to happen. Very wierd.
the same EXACT thing happens to a lady in Final Destination 2...her head gets stuck in an elevator and decapitates her
Horrible event. But doesn't anyone find it odd that the Doc would go through a closing elevator door 'HEAD FIRST'?
Think about it, you walk partway through, whether your head passes through first or last, if you get your body trapped in it, the way your body moves (propeled by your feet) your head would be the last thing to be pulled through, if you got stuck. He might have managed to shimmy his way almost in (or out, however he was trying to do it) of the elevator, but couldn't get his head through. It seems kind of strange, but one can imagine scenarios of how it might have happened.
The "you walk partway through" statement is the part I don't understand. Who walks through a closing elevator door without using their hand or foot to make sure it doesn't close on them? Especially hospital elevators that are routinely worn out from excessive use.
Well, maybe he did have his hand or foot out to stop the door...but it just didn't stop and he got trapped. Besides, most elevators are designed so that if they close on something, they immediately open back up. I know I've tried to dart into closing elevators before and let it close on my arm or even my shoulder or something knowing it would open again. I certainly won't be doing that anymore.
a friend of mine told me about this last night!!! he said that his buddy had been at the hospital and rode on that same elevator upstairs, and when he came back down on a different elevator and exited, the head was right in front of him (covered up with a sheet) and cops were all around and everyone was freakin out.
oh hey batman jones, i just saw that it was you that posted this thread--it was rob that told me about this last night.
