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Police: 24 In Elevator Where Freshman Died

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A fire official in Columbus, Ohio, said Monday that 24 people were packed aboard an Ohio State University elevator Friday night before a student became pinned and was killed.

Andrew Polakowski, 18, died late Friday night. Investigators returned to the scene of the death Monday to determine what caused the elevator's doors to open in between floors.

Battalion chief Doug Smith estimated the crowd exceeded the elevator's weight capacity by up to 1,000 pounds.

Smith said nothing could be done to save 18-year-old Andrew Polakowski, a freshman from Erie, Pa.

Campus police said Polakowski was the last person to enter the elevator when it unexpectedly began to descend with the doors open.

He was pinned when he tried to get out.
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I love this quote:

"Nobody ever thinks that somebody will die in an elevator," student Chaundrea Harris told Columbus TV station WCMH.
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Well gee kid, that's because PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT COMPLETE GODDAMN FREAKING IDIOTS DON'T TRY TO JAM 24 PEOPLE INTO AN ELEVATOR!!! At least, I think that's why.
 
shemp said:
Well gee kid, that's because PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT COMPLETE GODDAMN FREAKING IDIOTS DON'T TRY TO JAM 24 PEOPLE INTO AN ELEVATOR!!! At least, I think that's why.
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Students were involved the normal rules do not apply.
 
I suspect that none of the 24, scratch that, now 23 people will be making that mistake again. In fact, I doubt that any of them will set foot on an elevator ever again.
 
I remember reading about recent studies that showed that the brain doesn't become fully developed until well into the twenties. Judging from what I remember, and from the young people around me, I find that completely plausible!
 
TragicMonkey said:
I remember reading about recent studies that showed that the brain doesn't become fully developed until well into the twenties. Judging from what I remember, and from the young people around me, I find that completely plausible!
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Men later than women. I say that being a man and not believing it until I grew up sometime in my mid twenties.
 
Grammatron said:
When I was in school we did the same thing, with far less fatalities (zero).
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Been there. Done that.

I look back on some of the stupid things I did when I was a kid, "kid" continuing until I was at least 25, and am amazed I never ended up in jail or the morgue. Now that I am a parent, my own childhood is much more frightening to me.
 
Katana said:
I suspect that none of the 24, scratch that, now 23 people will be making that mistake again. In fact, I doubt that any of them will set foot on an elevator ever again.
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You can bet that Karin Steinau will think twice about entering an elevator again.
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"We'd like to think beheadings happen only in campfire tales and low-budget thrillers, but they take place in real life too, as was the case in the death of Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh. On 16 August 2003, this 35-year-old surgical resident was decapitated in a freakish elevator accident at Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas.

The accident itself is hard now to imagine — the ill-fated physician was trapped between the doors of the cable-propelled elevator, then decapitated as the carriage ascended.

According to the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, Nikaidoh died from multiple blunt force injuries to the head and body. His corpse was retrieved from the bottom of the elevator shaft along with two pagers, a cell phone, and an electronic organizer police believed belonged to him. The upper portion of his head, which was severed just above the lower jaw, was found in the car of the elevator. His colleague, physician's assistant Karin Steinau, who was in the car at the time, witnessed the whole thing."

http://snopes.com/horrors/freakish/elevator.asp
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Just in time for Halloween, the Haunted Elevator!
 
Damn, I think about elevator accidents without having gone through a traumatic experience like those above. Should I be more worried?
 
shemp said:
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I love this quote:



Well gee kid, that's because PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT COMPLETE GODDAMN FREAKING IDIOTS DON'T TRY TO JAM 24 PEOPLE INTO AN ELEVATOR!!! At least, I think that's why.
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It's hard to say that that kid wasn't largely culpable for his own death based on this story. Who tries to be the 24th person into an elevator?
 
what caused the elevator's doors to open in between floors.

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Campus police said Polakowski was the last person to enter the elevator when it unexpectedly began to descend with the doors open.
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From this poorly-written description, it sounds like a bunch of people got in, it started going down, got stuck, the doors opened between floors, another guy tried to get in, and it started going down again.

Which, of course, makes no sense. But most reporters are reporters because they can't handle logical thinking too well.
 
WildCat said:
Elevator capacities are listed by weight, not number of people.
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Although they are indirectly rated by number of people in the assumption of what an average person weighs and how many people might try to stand on the elevator's area. You wouldn't create a big elevator rated for just 600 lbs. because it would be overwhelmed most likely in regular usage.
 
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