Quantifying the Death Trap Experience

[Georgef551]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJVqmuYFbas

Showing the mighty forces applied to the Flip UltraHD, on the floor of the imafous "Death Trap Elevator" at the dead Worcester (Massachusetts) Galleria/Fashion Common Outlets Mall.

Good bass speakers will help capture the sounds of the floor bobbing up and down.

[deathbringer]

My workplace has a lift with old-fashioned manual concertina doors. It even smells like a museum piece.

[Bank]

You are ridiculous.

[SyntherAugustus]

Bank said:

You are ridiculous.

[esselfortium]

Bank said:

You are ridiculous.

[wildweasel]

Somehow I knew this would be about elevators before I even opened the thread.

[TheeXile]

It's a conspiracy.

[gggmork]

So I guess your goal is to be featured on somethingawful?

[Patrick]

I haven't ridden an elevator in over a year. The last one I rode was in the Bumrungrad International Hospital. Getting to see all of Bangkok from a glass elevator was pretty intense. That's the only elevator that's ever caught my attention.

[Csonicgo]

it's official, I'm not taking another elevator again.

[Georgef551]

deathbringer said:

My workplace has a lift with old-fashioned manual concertina doors. It even smells like a museum piece.

I'd love to find an old original elevator. I did find a 30's Otis, but it was badly modernized. Ruined. At least the cab was mostly original, and had a weird hourglass shape to it (probably for guiderails).

Patrick said:

I haven't ridden an elevator in over a year. The last one I rode was in the Bumrungrad International Hospital. Getting to see all of Bangkok from a glass elevator was pretty intense. That's the only elevator that's ever caught my attention.

Scenic ones are the best, especially at night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0v4fgQMZg

Got another few from Worcester. Another death trap as well. Not as scary as the Galleria, but the rocking shook the camera worse.
(To many people's relief here, that won't be for awhile, as it's in a backlog.)

[NightmareZer0]

Bank said:

You are ridiculous.

[chungy]

Georgef551 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0v4fgQMZg

I find it more interesting how your finger bends at 15 seconds in

[Sharessa]

gggmork said:

So I guess your goal is to be featured on somethingawful?

You mean for a second time? I mean third? Sorry, make that 4th.

[Georgef551]

MikeRS said:

I find it more interesting how your finger bends at 15 seconds in

That's because when I press the buttons, it's usually not a light press. I usually use the index to push, and middle finger to support the index finger.
I'm not gentle on them. :)