Wired Elevator Experiences

HI,

I’m an elevator tech. & I hear all the time about people having wired elevator experiences, Such as…stuck in an elevator,elevator malfunction,Etc. So my question is… Has anyone on this board ever had any wired elevator experiences?

Bye!

I assume you are not asking ex-Electrician Mates if we have had to wire Elevators while we are in them, so please try weird for wired in the future. :wink:

I was once stuck in an old Otis Elevator in the Hospital I worked in. I had my tool bag with me as I was an HVAC mechanic at the time. I drew on my old Navy training, popped open the panel and after a few minutes of checking the circuitry, jogged the elevator down ½ floor to manually released the doors and helped everyone else out. That is as weird and wired as I experienced.

Jim

Is there such a thing as a “non-wired” elevator?

…and isn’t it past your bedtime? :slight_smile:

Oh, and by the way, did you read in your previous thread, which I locked, that you are not legally employed?

I am so tempted to say that your posts constitute my only weird elevator experiences, really, so far.

Otherwise, elevators… Nope, nothin’ weird ever happened to me in an elevator.

Before you were born, a friend and I went on the elevator ride up the CN Tower in Toronto after a day of partying. As I recall, we were pretty wired. Does that count?

How 'bout sex? I’ve totally had sex in an elevator. It was wired, per se, but it was still kind of hot, if not electrical.

I have had wild monkey sex WITH an elevator.

Damn thing seduced me and wouldn’t let me out until I brought it an orgasm 3 times.

And one time, one of my ex-girlfriends told me about this 14-year old guy that she got involved in with “repairing his lift.”

I was once in an elevator with a couple of my co-double agents. We were on a top secret kind of mission (hush-hush kind of stuff).
Well, agent #505 started asking about the next rendezvous point and I immediately stopped him mid sentence.
It was then that we noticed they were listening to us. Somebody had wired the elevator.

So “yes” I do know what your talking about.

Did it go down on you?

Thanks for making my day.

The very first time I went somewhere with my new male boss, after I’d had a female boss for 4 1/2 years, the goddamn elevator got stuck between floors with me and my boss in it. I mean, I know nothing was going to happen, but I was still weirded out by it. We were only stuck in there for 5 minutes, or so, as it was a major hospital.

It made you push the ‘Door Open’ and ‘Door Close’ buttons at the same time while rubbing the red ‘Emergency Stop’ knob with your thumbs …? (took for freakin’ Ever for it to come too!) :smiley:

I had a phone ring once in an elevator. So I answered it. It was a wrong number. Apparently they’re not necessarily dedicated lines.

You gotta get it UP first.

Actually, several companies are trying to develop ropeless elevators*. They use linear motors instead. Since there is no cable, the cab isn’t confined to vertical shafts; it can move along curved paths, and mutliple cabs can share a shaft.

*The Quicktime animation isn’t worth watching. It just shows a CG of an elevator cab moving along a curved path.

I once got stuck in an elevator with a hugely pregnant woman (86th floor of the Sears Tower). After about 15 minutes, she says, “Oh my God! My water just broke!” Seeing the look of horror on my face, she says, “Nah, just joking.”

I hate pregnant women.

Yeah, I totally got stuck on an elevator that was just below a floor with some people. This guy tried to climb out to get help, but the elevator started moving again with him halfway out and chopped him right in half! EWWWW OMG

…oh wait, that wasn’t me. :smiley:

Thanks for giving me a good laugh!

There are also hydraulic elevators that are pushed up and pulled down from below. They’re usually used in buildings only a few stories high. My Dad tells of one where something went wrong with the circuitry and the elevator kept going up and up. When it finally stopped, it had pushed the corner of the roof up by several inches.

That may be the same elevator that wouldn’t stop until it was about halfway above the top floor. My Dad and his work buddies had wanted to get off a floor or two below. Once it stopped, they pushed open the doors, hopped down and made their way through a busy office as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

I got stuck in an elevator at work during a rolling blackout a few years ago. It’s only two floors, so it was easy to talk to other people, but they were all way more freaked out than I was. I just figured I got to take a nap while on the clock.

After a while, I got bored and started messing with the doors, managing to get them open, and then twiddled around with the outer doors until I hit a release for them. I just hopped out and went back to work, but not before I carved a face into one of the boxes that was in the elevator and dressed it up with my hat & apron. I told everyone I wanted someone to talk to.