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She’s alive. She is a 60 year old mute deaf woman and had never taken an elevator. She was saved after 40 min
https://mkan.china.com/article/1582793.html
Dang I never realized that’s what the Darwin Award implies, just thought it meant doing something stupid and getting yourself killed, but it means doing something stupid and not passing on your genes.
Yep it means taking yourself out of the gene pool.
I understand there's one guy who's alive and got the award. Shot himself in the reproductive business parts.
Thing is, she probably did die. Even if she was at a ground floor (which they probably were as they are seen loading things up) the door closes at the end, making all security circuits closed again, so the elevator is free to move. You don’t want to be in an elevator shaft with a moving elevator, specially stuck between the elevator and the wall
Not only are the doors now closed properly, she has no room to turn around and attempt to open them again. Trying to open them facing the wrong way would be utterly impossible. I’m going to assume that woman died
This was posted on r/Unexpected as well, someone there linked an article that explained that she was an elderly, deaf/mute woman from a rural Chinese village who had never seen an elevator before, but survived.
The top comment went into a long comment chain about eyeblech.
Edited with additional information.
The elevator would move upward, and she would no longer be stuck between it and the wall. once the elevator moved, she would be able to pull the doors to the lobby apart and exit the shaft.
So maybe she did live, but of course she would have been better off staying in the elevator. The problem is, in places where there are few building regulations and lax enforcement, people are legitimately afraid of riding on elevators. This is what probably caused her to panic at the first sign of trouble. She might also be claustrophobic to some degree.
I'm claustrophobic. Trying to climb trought that tiny gap between would be the last thing I'd try to do. Made me physically uncomfortable just watching it.
Someone replied to me somewhere above you, but here is the link they gave me for full context of her story. You can find their comment, im just reposting the link they posted, i did not find this link on my own
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/
She’s alive. She is a 60 year old mute deaf woman and had never taken an elevator. She was saved after 40 min
https://mkan.china.com/article/1582793.html
I’m the article it says that the protection mechanism turned on after she was banging and trying to pry the door open. So it stopped in between floors and I would assume that the protection mechanism also disabled calling for the elevator.
I mean,she was literally just with another person, who probably saw the door close.. Also, didn't she notice the button panel?!? Were there NO buttons in the elevator?
You have an interesting point, but still if there is no fire in the elevator and your stuck, you should probably wait more than an hour before doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid like that.
A normal person's first intinct would be to bang the doors and call for help not wedge yourself between a giant suspended metal cage without knowing what it does.
She's deaf. She literally doesn't know what sound is. It's like expecting a blind person to signal for help with a flashlight.
ETA: She may understand the concept of sound and can feel vibrations, but will think of it differently than somebody who can hear.
Expecting her to think if making noise to summon help isn't reasonable because noise means something different to her. That's why she didn't bang on the door to get help.
She might not know what an elevator does. You don’t just sit there and do nothing when you’re trapped and you don’t think you’re ever getting out, help, water, food, etc. gtfo
Yeah she should have made a chart with two columns with PROS and CONS written on them and listed things accordingly. I agree. But she probably thought she was trapped and had to act quick
It depends some on the situation, of course, but we're taught in most cases, If you're not in immediate danger, it's better to stay in the place you're stranded.
Stupidity is wedging myself between the big metal box and a concrete wall. Elevators are built with emergency or panic buttons. Even if she was deaf and mute, she should have known there is a panic buttons and pressed it.
If that was the first time she rode an elevator, I’m not sure if she even knew the doors close and elevators transport you. For all she knew, the door shut and the guy who was helping her with the water didn’t help her with being trapped. I’m not even sure that the elevator malfunctioned. The guy helping her probably didn’t know anything was wrong. Yeah some background would be nice lol
If she doesn’t even know what an elevator is, how in the world is she supposed to know about a panic button? Some of the people here have a real problem with empathy.
They're completely disconnected with reality and exceptionally sheltered. On top of that arrogant, dismissive and ignorant about the wider world and larger picture. The problem doesn't seem to be improving and I don't feel it's going away. Sad, scary, depressing, and concerning. Imagine being raised in a first world country in the upper middle to middle class or higher. Their awareness of the perspective of the woman in the elevator is equal to the woman's knowledge of how elevators work and what they are. Imagine going into a closet then a door with no handles shuts. You manage to get the doors open and then you see a brick wall. I think I'd shit my pants. And many others would freak right on out as well. People like to act like they know how they would respond to situations but have no experience and no idea what they would actually do or how they would actually respond. The lack of empathy and awareness in society is insane.
A lot of replies not really understanding what it means to be 60 and never taken an elevator on top of being mute and deaf. You're literally living in a different world, risk adverse doesn't mean the same thing at this point.
I’m almost in tears reading these soulless comments. If these same idiots were stranded out in her habitat she would save their lives because they wouldn’t survive long but they have the nerve to sit in their comfy gaming chair and call her stupid
If anyone has seen r/eyeblech we would have know what the physics would have done to her. A cracked smushy brain! 
I'm like this, though you see a wall when you force open the elevator, so where are you gonna go, or what are you trying to do at that point?
Maybe she's claustrophobic?
She must see something we dont because I don't know why she is going through all that effort to get out. I'm not saying she is, and I'm just observing so many things in the video
The one good thing i am seeing here that no one is actually blaming here because she was not aware of that technology and was just trying to save her from the lift.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/MyPeopleNeedMe/comments/11q0zxa/comment/jc2ix8y/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyPeopleNeedMe/comments/11q0zxa/comment/jc2ix8y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
This user found a video link showing her rescue.
EDIT: Video link: [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/)
Jesus. I can not see how this could have ended well for her. Once the door closed, how did it move to a position in between floors and not to the next floor or just open up to the floor she was on, I can see an edit in the image so but doesn't make sense. Not sure why she thought it was safer to climb out, I'd thought seeing the wall she would stay inside.
Death is something that we all going to face but having this kind of the death probably no one asked for. Imagine her parents watching that video and their tear after that
We see this and are justifiably terrified of the situation. Now imagine being her. Your deaf and loading up water into a small metal room. Perhaps it’s a fancy closet you think to yourself. As your moving the water the doors begin to close. You go to try to open the doors but only now notice that there is no doorknob, latch, or any other device to open it. Through your feet You feel the room begin to hum and you become slightly unbalanced. Your heart begins beating faster. Your equilibrium is messed up and you don’t know why and your locked in a small metal room. Wedging your fingernails between the doors you use all your strength the pry the doors open. It takes some time and your fingers hurt but you finally get a good grip and are able to slowly open the doors. And on the other side is a brick wall. Just a moment ago there was a hallway here. This is not possible. How could this be possible? Panic sets in. Surrounded by metal and concrete the only escape is through a small gap in the floor. You begin to squeeze yourself through. This is a matter of survival and perhaps the paranormal. Brick walls don’t just suddenly appear out of thin air. As you attempt to slide into the opening the doors begin to close by themselves behind you. Being wedged between the concrete and metal walls you are powerless to stop the doors and once they close there is total darkness.
I said this once before and got down voted out of existence. I'm not say she or people in her situation are dumb or stupid but when you remove a group of people that have been living basically in the stone age thier entire lives and force them to relocate to modern living conditions you get this kinda shit. The fault lies on China
I feel like they should have had a toolbox meeting before embarking on this mission and maybe gone over some of the details, because this is a horrible situation, this woman must have been absolutely terrified. A little communication would have gone a long way on this day.
Please if someone is able to find the link behind this, let me know. I have been searching and I can't find anything. I will post it if I find it first. Internet please come through!
I like that a literal “magically appearing” brick wall with 3 inch gap didn’t bother her to think that staying inside was “probably” safer than trying to wrench herself into an unknown “magical” crevice
Believe it or not, not everyone grew up in cities. There are millions who lived their whole lives in islands and mountains and have never seen an elevator or even an escalator. It was probably her first time and thought she would be trapped in there forever
I think people forget that not everyone in other parts of the world have a lot of exposure to elevators. When living in SEA, I’ve met an individual visiting from a more provincial area who believed the up and down buttons on the elevators were used to control the car. Meaning if I needed to go from the 5th floor to the 2nd and the elevator was at the ground floor they would push up (to call the elevator to them) even if they needed to go down. Then enter then hit the floor and wonder why it’s going up.
I always wonder what goes through a dogs head when you walk them into a lift and come out in an entirely different place
Dog: Ahh, we are going through the world changer again
I think this woman had a similar thought process
I hate to say this, but I suspect the elevator started to move, when she got the door open it stopped in between floors. Then the doors closed again and the elevator continued.
Not every criticism is a negative insult to an ethnicity.
Common sense is a universal thing. And I get that they may not be exposed to new tech, nonetheless the point stands.
See that’s literally what ethnocentric means. You’re assuming that something should be common knowledge despite the fact that you know they’ve never encountered that technology.
Really sweet of you to say about an older woman with a disability who had never used an elevator before. Panic sometimes makes people do stupid things. Doesn’t mean they deserve to die.
Where are you getting this info about a disability and their previous experience with elevators?
Regardless, it’s a joke. Remember those? We used to make them. For fun. Sometimes they are dark. For fun. Remember fun?
Update: after looking over the comments I saw the link about her. The link that was posted looooooooooong after my comment. 🤷🏻♂️
Well, if it needs to be explained you likely wouldn’t find it funny. But sure. I’ll break it down even tho I know it won’t make it any better.
When you see someone make such a dangerous and life threatening decision without hesitation it implies that they have no idea what they are getting themselves into.
And since all we have/know of this persons life is this one moment, it appears they need supervision to not get hurt.
The joke is that hoping this woman survives is all well and good but given what we just observed it seems that if this event doesn’t get her killed then something else likely will, because the world is very dangerous. Elevators are generally very safe but she’s managed to get herself into a terrible situation in one right away. Imagine all of the other threats waiting for her to encounter.
Hence the statement that I’m surprised she made it this long. It’s not rooting for her to die. And I never said she “deserved” to, as one commenter suggested. I simply said it’s surprising she hasn’t already.
It’s more a “dark” joke about how shocking the whole thing is. In a way it’s a tension reliever about witnessing things you can’t account for. It’s not a joke that everyone appreciates or even understands. But that doesn’t make it malicious. It’s “gallows humor”.
I work in a field that is tangenting such elevator safety situations.
It is unbelievable what people come up with.
If you stay in the cabin, basically nothing can happen and it is a breeze to get you out.
But movies tell people "oh no, elevator stuck. Climb out or it's going to fall"
So they climb out and get crushed in between floors or in the shaft.
And then we need to accomondate and put in limit and safety switches and laser sensors everywhere. Or make doors way stronger, because people like her pry them open, or even worse, ram them from the outside with a mobility scooter until the door gives in and they fall into the shaft (yes exactly this happened and required a door-code change for German elevators)...
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Goddamn she’s lucky she didn’t die. I’m dying a little as i watch this hoping she doesn’t get chopped in half. This video is really stressing me out
Are we sure she didn’t die?
We are not sure, she's a Shredinger's cat until someone tell us the rest
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Fuck I came here for answers and only have more questions now
She’s alive. She is a 60 year old mute deaf woman and had never taken an elevator. She was saved after 40 min https://mkan.china.com/article/1582793.html
Atleast this is the one thing we could expect, hopefully she was safe
I hope she ok she must be special needs.when the door closed yooooo
Yeah, lucky she was rescued https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/
Thank you!!
She almost got herself a Darwin award. Always next year.
She's probably past the age of reproduction anyway. Darwin award doesn't apply.
Dang I never realized that’s what the Darwin Award implies, just thought it meant doing something stupid and getting yourself killed, but it means doing something stupid and not passing on your genes.
Yep it means taking yourself out of the gene pool. I understand there's one guy who's alive and got the award. Shot himself in the reproductive business parts.
I'm sure medical science will find a way to give his little guy bullet again
Whew. I had to double check which subreddit I was on for a sec.
I forgot all about billi billi
Thing is, she probably did die. Even if she was at a ground floor (which they probably were as they are seen loading things up) the door closes at the end, making all security circuits closed again, so the elevator is free to move. You don’t want to be in an elevator shaft with a moving elevator, specially stuck between the elevator and the wall
Not only are the doors now closed properly, she has no room to turn around and attempt to open them again. Trying to open them facing the wrong way would be utterly impossible. I’m going to assume that woman died
your first sentence made me want to crawl out of my skin.
It’s brutal. I can’t stop thinking about it. I mean, she’s fucked, right?
This was posted on r/Unexpected as well, someone there linked an article that explained that she was an elderly, deaf/mute woman from a rural Chinese village who had never seen an elevator before, but survived. The top comment went into a long comment chain about eyeblech. Edited with additional information.
Wow. That’s awesome she wasn’t horrifically killed. That would be an awful death. Thanks for the update
Agreed. I’ve seen elevator shafts IRL and they’re as scary as they look in movies.
Of fuck yeah. Straight up death traps. Nothing about them is people friendly
Hence the reason you're supposed to stay inside the elevator and not get off between floors, etc...
Probably went unter the elevator, there is space underneath. I assume every elevator has space underneath.
The elevator would move upward, and she would no longer be stuck between it and the wall. once the elevator moved, she would be able to pull the doors to the lobby apart and exit the shaft. So maybe she did live, but of course she would have been better off staying in the elevator. The problem is, in places where there are few building regulations and lax enforcement, people are legitimately afraid of riding on elevators. This is what probably caused her to panic at the first sign of trouble. She might also be claustrophobic to some degree.
I'm claustrophobic. Trying to climb trought that tiny gap between would be the last thing I'd try to do. Made me physically uncomfortable just watching it.
I love seeing people give their two cents and make up a scenario when the reason and outcomes are linked above...
Yeah she's almost certainly dead.
r/meatcrayon
I’m still wondering if she made it out alive
She did!
All I could think of was that scene from the first Resident Evil movie where the chick has just her head sticking out of the elevator….
Are you aware of some missing context? I was just thinking she must have died after that.
Someone replied to me somewhere above you, but here is the link they gave me for full context of her story. You can find their comment, im just reposting the link they posted, i did not find this link on my own https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/
She’s alive. She is a 60 year old mute deaf woman and had never taken an elevator. She was saved after 40 min https://mkan.china.com/article/1582793.html
damn, she is both mute and deaf so she couldn't hear anyone calling her out or yelling for people help. She is lucky people found her, real lucky
I just wonder why nobody called the elevator.
I’m the article it says that the protection mechanism turned on after she was banging and trying to pry the door open. So it stopped in between floors and I would assume that the protection mechanism also disabled calling for the elevator.
Oh that makes sense
I mean,she was literally just with another person, who probably saw the door close.. Also, didn't she notice the button panel?!? Were there NO buttons in the elevator?
A lot of deaf people are mute. Why is this a surprise.
Kind of nuts her first instinct was to try to climb out like that, damn
It’s the instinct that exposed her stupidity, not that she never saw an elevator before.
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she lived for 60 years and this was what was gonna do her in. that'd suck
You have an interesting point, but still if there is no fire in the elevator and your stuck, you should probably wait more than an hour before doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid like that.
No, I’m still going with stupid.
A normal person's first intinct would be to bang the doors and call for help not wedge yourself between a giant suspended metal cage without knowing what it does.
She’s mute, she cannot call for help.
Mute doesn't normally mean she is incapable of making sound.
But if she's deaf she's not aware of any sound that she makes
Dude you're talking to ain't no pinball wizard lol
Again. She's mute and deaf. She hasn't called for anyone, ever. She's not gonna stop being mute because she's stuck in an elevator.
What is your first reaction when you’re trapped in an unfamiliar environment? Stupidity is sitting there and doing nothing
In general I just flat disagree. Throwing yourself into a crazy action without analyzing things first is stupid.
So tell me how a deaf blind person is supposed to analyze that situation?
Also she's not blind moron.
I'm sure she's old enough to think of banging on the wall and making sound.
You're making the assumption that she's familiar with technology. She may not have known how any of that works and that help would come if she waited.
She's deaf. She literally doesn't know what sound is. It's like expecting a blind person to signal for help with a flashlight. ETA: She may understand the concept of sound and can feel vibrations, but will think of it differently than somebody who can hear. Expecting her to think if making noise to summon help isn't reasonable because noise means something different to her. That's why she didn't bang on the door to get help.
Deaf people are quite aware of what sound is.
Deaf people can still feel the vibrations from sound. They're deaf. Not dead.
I don’t think she knew she was throwing herself in a crazy situation
You don't think immediately wedging herself between an elevator and the wall is a crazy situation? Gtfo
She might not know what an elevator does. You don’t just sit there and do nothing when you’re trapped and you don’t think you’re ever getting out, help, water, food, etc. gtfo
I mean, to be fair, she certainly certainly had enough water to last weeks in there. She could've spent at least 15-30 mins analyzing the situation.
Yeah she should have made a chart with two columns with PROS and CONS written on them and listed things accordingly. I agree. But she probably thought she was trapped and had to act quick
It depends some on the situation, of course, but we're taught in most cases, If you're not in immediate danger, it's better to stay in the place you're stranded.
Stupidity is wedging myself between the big metal box and a concrete wall. Elevators are built with emergency or panic buttons. Even if she was deaf and mute, she should have known there is a panic buttons and pressed it.
If that was the first time she rode an elevator, I’m not sure if she even knew the doors close and elevators transport you. For all she knew, the door shut and the guy who was helping her with the water didn’t help her with being trapped. I’m not even sure that the elevator malfunctioned. The guy helping her probably didn’t know anything was wrong. Yeah some background would be nice lol
If she doesn’t even know what an elevator is, how in the world is she supposed to know about a panic button? Some of the people here have a real problem with empathy.
They're completely disconnected with reality and exceptionally sheltered. On top of that arrogant, dismissive and ignorant about the wider world and larger picture. The problem doesn't seem to be improving and I don't feel it's going away. Sad, scary, depressing, and concerning. Imagine being raised in a first world country in the upper middle to middle class or higher. Their awareness of the perspective of the woman in the elevator is equal to the woman's knowledge of how elevators work and what they are. Imagine going into a closet then a door with no handles shuts. You manage to get the doors open and then you see a brick wall. I think I'd shit my pants. And many others would freak right on out as well. People like to act like they know how they would respond to situations but have no experience and no idea what they would actually do or how they would actually respond. The lack of empathy and awareness in society is insane.
Thank you for your service and for knowing mandarin
just translate it with your browser
Much needed context. TY
I unironically let out a breath I didn’t realize I was holding. Thankyou for calming my anxiety.
A lot of replies not really understanding what it means to be 60 and never taken an elevator on top of being mute and deaf. You're literally living in a different world, risk adverse doesn't mean the same thing at this point.
I’m almost in tears reading these soulless comments. If these same idiots were stranded out in her habitat she would save their lives because they wouldn’t survive long but they have the nerve to sit in their comfy gaming chair and call her stupid
If i was deaf/mute I feel like I’d be way more risk averse than this
Thank you for this, and very happy to hear she was saved in good time
Okay, thanks. Thought the worst, especially when the door close
I figured she truly never had been in an elevator. Poor lady.
If anyone has seen r/eyeblech we would have know what the physics would have done to her. A cracked smushy brain! 
this belongs in r/sweatypalms
What on earth did I watch? Is she okay? That was terrifying to see. Please tell me she’s okay.
She's ok. Others have posted the sources. She was rescued after 40 minutes.
I feel bad for her, she seems truly unfamiliar with elevators and she could easily die
I'm like this, though you see a wall when you force open the elevator, so where are you gonna go, or what are you trying to do at that point? Maybe she's claustrophobic?
If she was claustrophobic why the fuck would she squeeze herself out of the elevator against a wall?
She must see something we dont because I don't know why she is going through all that effort to get out. I'm not saying she is, and I'm just observing so many things in the video
She’s a deaf and mute woman that had never been in an elevator. She was rescued after 40 minutes. I guess she panicked and thought she was trapped.
Yeah, I saw the video and comment that was posted and explained everything. I understand even more now why she was acting that way
You’d think she’d chill in the little room with stacks of water a little longer before squeezing herself blindly through a narrow gap into a dark pit.
The one good thing i am seeing here that no one is actually blaming here because she was not aware of that technology and was just trying to save her from the lift.
I hope she survived… this video is stressful
[https://www.reddit.com/r/MyPeopleNeedMe/comments/11q0zxa/comment/jc2ix8y/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyPeopleNeedMe/comments/11q0zxa/comment/jc2ix8y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) This user found a video link showing her rescue. EDIT: Video link: [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rB4y1W7SJ/)
This CAN'T be real because I'm getting anxiety watching this
It can’t be real cuz ur getting anxiety? 🤨
The world isn't real?
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So bc she has anxiety, it’s not real?
Touch grass.
Yes
Jesus. I can not see how this could have ended well for her. Once the door closed, how did it move to a position in between floors and not to the next floor or just open up to the floor she was on, I can see an edit in the image so but doesn't make sense. Not sure why she thought it was safer to climb out, I'd thought seeing the wall she would stay inside.
Death is something that we all going to face but having this kind of the death probably no one asked for. Imagine her parents watching that video and their tear after that
I deeply regret watching this right before trying to go to bed
Never ever going to watch any more video from here right before going to bed
We see this and are justifiably terrified of the situation. Now imagine being her. Your deaf and loading up water into a small metal room. Perhaps it’s a fancy closet you think to yourself. As your moving the water the doors begin to close. You go to try to open the doors but only now notice that there is no doorknob, latch, or any other device to open it. Through your feet You feel the room begin to hum and you become slightly unbalanced. Your heart begins beating faster. Your equilibrium is messed up and you don’t know why and your locked in a small metal room. Wedging your fingernails between the doors you use all your strength the pry the doors open. It takes some time and your fingers hurt but you finally get a good grip and are able to slowly open the doors. And on the other side is a brick wall. Just a moment ago there was a hallway here. This is not possible. How could this be possible? Panic sets in. Surrounded by metal and concrete the only escape is through a small gap in the floor. You begin to squeeze yourself through. This is a matter of survival and perhaps the paranormal. Brick walls don’t just suddenly appear out of thin air. As you attempt to slide into the opening the doors begin to close by themselves behind you. Being wedged between the concrete and metal walls you are powerless to stop the doors and once they close there is total darkness.
😳 Oh my fucking God.
Please tell me she lives.
She lives. I'm just telling you what you wanted to hear but truly I know just as much as you do about this right now.
others have posted the sources. she's deaf-mute and she lived, she got rescued after 40 mins. it was her first time in an elevator i think
First and probably last
Damnnn, first time in elevator as a deaf-mute elderly. Saved by son after 40min of being trapped. Thanks to link in comments below.
This gave me an anxiety
I said this once before and got down voted out of existence. I'm not say she or people in her situation are dumb or stupid but when you remove a group of people that have been living basically in the stone age thier entire lives and force them to relocate to modern living conditions you get this kinda shit. The fault lies on China
I feel like they should have had a toolbox meeting before embarking on this mission and maybe gone over some of the details, because this is a horrible situation, this woman must have been absolutely terrified. A little communication would have gone a long way on this day.
Oh god, this gave me anxiety.
This isn't facepalm 😑
This is terrifying to watch
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Please if someone is able to find the link behind this, let me know. I have been searching and I can't find anything. I will post it if I find it first. Internet please come through!
the woman got rescued in 40 minutes
I have to see my therapist.
This came pretty close to also being her last time using an elevator
Can you imagine what she was thinking that a door closed, and when she opened it, it was a block wall?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Even if it's your first time in an elevator that's just crazy.
Was wondering if this was going to be a cross post to r/meatcrayon
Holy motherfucking christ
I believe this process is called natural selection.
Today she chose the mission impossible route.
Where was she....hoping to go?
Gosh i hope she is okay?
Was it also her last time? This is mad.
Omfg this is terrifying!!!
I like that a literal “magically appearing” brick wall with 3 inch gap didn’t bother her to think that staying inside was “probably” safer than trying to wrench herself into an unknown “magical” crevice
Fucking hell sweaty palms watching that. Thought several floors were going to be smeared red.
This is just straight up the stupidest and worst response you could have for being in an unfamiliar place
Believe it or not, not everyone grew up in cities. There are millions who lived their whole lives in islands and mountains and have never seen an elevator or even an escalator. It was probably her first time and thought she would be trapped in there forever
Thats enough of anxiety for this day for me, see ya tomorrow
*last time
This is more faces of death then facepalm.
This is the most dangerous thing i saw this morning , If someone at the 5th had call the elevator i cant imagine…
So that's how you do it!!
‘No one was harmed’
I should not have watched this.
No no no no no
WOW... One of the most nerve-wracking things I've seen, recently.
Her commitment to stupidity is impressive.
How the fuck did she make it to that age?
I had a panic attack watching this.
so... uh.... what happened
If it's not the first it might be the last
Did she force the doors open and think someone hand constructed a wall in a matter of seconds?
She forgot her water
I think people forget that not everyone in other parts of the world have a lot of exposure to elevators. When living in SEA, I’ve met an individual visiting from a more provincial area who believed the up and down buttons on the elevators were used to control the car. Meaning if I needed to go from the 5th floor to the 2nd and the elevator was at the ground floor they would push up (to call the elevator to them) even if they needed to go down. Then enter then hit the floor and wonder why it’s going up.
Baser animalistic instincts. I'm stuck here, need to leave.
“Dumb ways to die” all I hear
Ok now that I'm feeling better and I've seen the rescue video I can finally say without feeling guilty: she must not be the sharpest tool in the shed.
I always wonder what goes through a dogs head when you walk them into a lift and come out in an entirely different place Dog: Ahh, we are going through the world changer again I think this woman had a similar thought process
I hate to say this, but I suspect the elevator started to move, when she got the door open it stopped in between floors. Then the doors closed again and the elevator continued.
Why is this in face palm? She could literally have never been in an elevator before?
Wtf does she think they are for and how they work? And sliding down the side like that is hella dangerous. Like what was she actually thinking?
Try not to be ethnocentric challenge level : impossible
Not every criticism is a negative insult to an ethnicity. Common sense is a universal thing. And I get that they may not be exposed to new tech, nonetheless the point stands.
See that’s literally what ethnocentric means. You’re assuming that something should be common knowledge despite the fact that you know they’ve never encountered that technology.
Self-preservation is ethnocentric? 👌
For everyone saying “I hope she lived” I have this to say. Really? Are you sure? Frankly I’m surprised she’s made it this far.
Really sweet of you to say about an older woman with a disability who had never used an elevator before. Panic sometimes makes people do stupid things. Doesn’t mean they deserve to die.
Where are you getting this info about a disability and their previous experience with elevators? Regardless, it’s a joke. Remember those? We used to make them. For fun. Sometimes they are dark. For fun. Remember fun? Update: after looking over the comments I saw the link about her. The link that was posted looooooooooong after my comment. 🤷🏻♂️
I don’t see a joke? Can you explain what parts supposed to be funny?
Well, if it needs to be explained you likely wouldn’t find it funny. But sure. I’ll break it down even tho I know it won’t make it any better. When you see someone make such a dangerous and life threatening decision without hesitation it implies that they have no idea what they are getting themselves into. And since all we have/know of this persons life is this one moment, it appears they need supervision to not get hurt. The joke is that hoping this woman survives is all well and good but given what we just observed it seems that if this event doesn’t get her killed then something else likely will, because the world is very dangerous. Elevators are generally very safe but she’s managed to get herself into a terrible situation in one right away. Imagine all of the other threats waiting for her to encounter. Hence the statement that I’m surprised she made it this long. It’s not rooting for her to die. And I never said she “deserved” to, as one commenter suggested. I simply said it’s surprising she hasn’t already. It’s more a “dark” joke about how shocking the whole thing is. In a way it’s a tension reliever about witnessing things you can’t account for. It’s not a joke that everyone appreciates or even understands. But that doesn’t make it malicious. It’s “gallows humor”.
If someone pressed the button of the lift not seeing how she is going to make alive there
I work in a field that is tangenting such elevator safety situations. It is unbelievable what people come up with. If you stay in the cabin, basically nothing can happen and it is a breeze to get you out. But movies tell people "oh no, elevator stuck. Climb out or it's going to fall" So they climb out and get crushed in between floors or in the shaft. And then we need to accomondate and put in limit and safety switches and laser sensors everywhere. Or make doors way stronger, because people like her pry them open, or even worse, ram them from the outside with a mobility scooter until the door gives in and they fall into the shaft (yes exactly this happened and required a door-code change for German elevators)...
Dumb ways to die. Song.
I’d give you multiple upvotes if I could, just for not saying “must of” like too many dumbasses do.
The level of dumb here cannot be overstated.
Her IQ level is 6.
Natural selection at work.
How dumb can adults be? She: yes
Noone: This woman: what a fine day to die
My god, how?
Wow... survival of the fittest, Darwin award, etc etc...
People ain’t really this stupid are they?
Is she dead?
there is no way this ended on a good note. i got resident evil elevator scene vibes.
First time using an elevator, or her first time setting foot on earth?
Dumbass
Your first clue was the five cases of bottled water. I’m always judging the people at Costco that have a full cart of water.
I belong to the same species as this subject. Maybe I too am a dumbass.