# What's with all of the killer elevators all of a sudden?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-killer-elevators-all-of-a-sudden/741998 "2016-01-02T16:21:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-killer-elevators-all-of-a-sudden/741998/1 "2016-01-02T16:21:10Z")

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Two. In a day. WTF? Are escalators safe? Is the Transformers movie coming to life?  
[On a cruise ship](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/31/us/carnival-ecstasy-cruise-ship-elevator-death/) in the Caribbean

In a [Lower East Side](http://news.yahoo.com/man-crushed-death-falling-elevator-york-city-160220592.html) highrise.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-killer-elevators-all-of-a-sudden/741998/2 "2016-01-02T16:47:43Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> Two. In a day. WTF? Are escalators safe? Is the Transformers movie coming to life?  
> [On a cruise ship](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/31/us/carnival-ecstasy-cruise-ship-elevator-death/) in the Caribbean
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> In a [Lower East Side](http://news.yahoo.com/man-crushed-death-falling-elevator-york-city-160220592.html) highrise.

LEAN manufacturing…?  
…too soon?

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-of-the-killer-elevators-all-of-a-sudden/741998/3 "2016-01-02T16:53:07Z")

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Human civilization is going down!