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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2013 8:11:14 GMT
Maybe someone misunderstood when someone asked them to "record what's on the TV" for them.  |
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Post by Mari on Jan 30, 2013 18:48:23 GMT
hehe, smart positioning... unfortunately I see lots of stupid things like this, but in a different way, at work a lot too.
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Post by Miisa on Jan 30, 2013 18:53:42 GMT
There are two paternoster lifts left in Finland, and no more are allowed to be built, but I worked in one of the buildings that have them. Some people found them frightening, but I thought they were really practical. And yes, I have accidentally done the round in both the attic and the cellar...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2013 19:52:53 GMT
When I was doing my work placement at school I was in Eagle Star's offices in Cheltenham. They had a Paternoster mail delivery system. You would put items on the shelf and press the button for the floor you wanted it delivered to. As it went past the requested floor, it would tip the contents into a receiving tray. Oh! The fun to be had picking up the documents when someone moved the tray at the wrong moment and the documents got poured out onto the floor! |
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Post by Moose on Jan 30, 2013 20:05:47 GMT
My mum likes to tell a dire story about a student at her university who was on some sort of weird lift that moved up the outside of the building and this student apparently forgot to get out at her floor, which was the last, and ended up getting squished to death on the lift mechanism. Don't ask me how
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2013 20:10:14 GMT
Good morning, gentlemen. This is a twelwe-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...Excuse me.... Hm?Did you say knives? Rotating knives, yes.Are you proposing to slaughter our tenants? Does that not fit in with your plans?Monty Python:Architect Sketch
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Post by Moose on Jan 30, 2013 20:26:47 GMT
I have just spent twenty mins trying to find clarification for this and, although I now know more about such lifts ('paternosters') than I probably need to know in one lifetime, I can't find any. My mum was at Newcastle uni in the late sixties to early seventies. Can anyone better at using the internet than me find out whether what she said is true or not? I can find only vague, tantalising references to a fatality but not details.
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Post by Kye on Jan 30, 2013 21:36:06 GMT
This is the only reference I could find from Wiki: "In 1989, the paternoster in Newcastle University's Claremont Tower was taken out of service after a passenger undertaking an up-and-over journey became caught in the drive chain, necessitating a rescue by the Fire Service. A conventional elevator was subsequently installed in its place. This accident led to an 18-month close-down of all UK paternosters for a safety review,[citation needed] during which additional safety devices were fitted." |
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Post by Moose on Jan 30, 2013 21:43:21 GMT
aye that's the only one I found too
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Post by tangent on Jan 30, 2013 22:16:47 GMT
I used a paternoster lift when I went for an interview with ICI in Billingham in1965. The interviewer encouraged me to go up and over to see what happened. It was very uneventful. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2013 22:16:48 GMT
That was in the link I posted!  I think a number of reports such as that are down to urban myths about what happens if you go past the last floor. Either that, or someone doing something silly like sticking their arms out the hole where the door should be at the wrong time. |
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Post by Shake on Jan 31, 2013 2:43:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 8:39:57 GMT
I used a paternoster lift when I went for an interview with ICI in Billingham in1965. The interviewer encouraged me to go up and over to see what happened. It was very uneventful. I saw one on TV once and kept wondering what someone in a wheelchair would do. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 31, 2013 9:24:13 GMT
I think a lot of these types of thing date from before there was too much consideration of disabled access. I assume the paternoster could be stopped and started again, but otherwise they'd have to use the stairs.  |
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Post by Miisa on Jan 31, 2013 15:16:30 GMT
Like I said, I have gone past the last floor. You just pass sideways past a portion where there is a solid wall in front of you and then start going up or down again, in the opposite direction from before. It's basically just a conveyor belt of lift boxes.
Once, when I had to work late and was going down three hours after other work in the building was mostly over, the guards shut it off for the night just when I was in it. Luckily it was not one of the times I got distracted and missed the ground floor, but I was a little nervous about jumping down the half a meter or so it was to the closest floor, as I was afraid it would start up again just then.
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Post by tangent on Jan 31, 2013 16:24:39 GMT
It would have been very dangerous had it started up again.
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Post by Moose on Jan 31, 2013 18:32:08 GMT
That's an understatement. Squashed penguin!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2013 20:39:06 GMT
I don't want to imagine a squashed penguin.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2013 20:53:12 GMT
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Post by Moose on Feb 3, 2013 23:40:38 GMT
That's really disturbing. BEIGE chinos and a tucked in shirt?
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 4, 2013 11:26:24 GMT
Strange that the adults are pigeon toed, but the children not so much.
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Post by Mari on Feb 4, 2013 18:44:28 GMT
this reminds me if a book my grandmother had for us when I was a child |
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Post by Shake on Feb 5, 2013 5:42:00 GMT
That's really disturbing. BEIGE chinos and a tucked in shirt? Yeah, that's what's disturbing about that picture! |
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