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[–]Oneda[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Three children enter an elevator without an adult. The three kids start fooling around pushing buttons and doing random stuff. Upon reaching their floor, they all exit the elevator. One kid closes the sliding elevator gate, but for some reason, the door behind him closes. He tries pushing the door to get out, but for some reason he couldn't open it. The door fully shuts, trapping him between the elevator's gate and the door. The elevator starts moving up slowly. First, the kid's lower body gets sucked downwards, totally crushing his bones. Then his upper body follows. Finally, his head is seen destroyed.

In my personal suspicion, I think that one of the kids pushed the door behind him. The door isn't supposed to be hard to open, as seen in the beginning of the video when the kids were entering. The same kid who got crushed was pretty much holding the door open without much effort at the beginning. When the kids were exiting the elevator, it also didn't seem heavy or hard to open. When the kid closed the elevator gate, you can see that at first he was able to somewhat open the door, but the door was pushing back against him unnaturally as if somebody on the other side was intentionally trying to close the door. Also, at -22 seconds of the video player near the end, you can see what seems to be a foot blocking the door from being opened by the kid. In my opinion, I think one of the kids or two of the kids were trying to play a trick on him so they trapped him in between the elevator gate and the door. They probably didn't know they'd end up killing him in a scary and probably extremely painful way.

Also, it's my first time seeing an elevator like that. A sliding gate and a door that can be pulled open? It's very strange and definitely dangerous, as exhibited in the video.

[–]tomatosplat 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. They killed him.

[–]MamiTomoe 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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[–]Oneda[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're very welcome!

[–]RedditSaidit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Both of them pushed the door closed. The smallest one started then the biggest one held it closed.

[–]Boats_Molone 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These types were/are in the United States.

And these “accidents” happened here. The difference is that in the States the regulations were changed and made it so the swing out doors had to be altered by bolting a large wedge shaped block on the bottom of the door.

It takes up that entire dead space, and has an angle on top so kids can’t stand on it very easily.

And I’m not 100 percent sure, but I believe they can’t install them new any longer.

And there was still an issue here of the elevator gate switch being disabled somehow. The external door is mechanically locked once the elevator sees all the switches made up, then it moves.

If the internal gate switch was disabled, as soon as the external door closed, the system would think both doors are closed, it would lock the external door, and move.

The company that maintains this lift is at fault. And if that’s the building owner, or a third party they need to be sued, or goto jail.

Edit: Rewatched, looks like he never tried to reopen the inside gate. So it may be fully functional, no gate lock disabled.

[–]PurpleHelmut71 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe there's a mechanism that locks the outer door just prior to the lift moving?

[–]ImYourChrist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

what you said is 100% inaccurate. the door closes on him because they closed it on him. As a "prank" I suppose.

[–]die996 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is murder, that door was for sure blocked by the sister

[–]Fennec 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Mondas said, 'Ha ha Siri eats hamburgers!', so that's what I did...I turned Mondas into a burger pattie." - Siri, 6 yr. old stone cold murdering vegetarian.

[–]Red23 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I hope those girls get to see this video in later life, and realise they killed that boy.

[–]SkinnyBunny 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

they're kids. trying to make someone feel guilty for what they did as a kid is just being an asshole, no matter what they did

[–]Red23 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The fact is, that boy was killed by those girls. You're saying they should go through life blissfully unaware of that fact? You're the arsehole here.

[–]KoriKori 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

burn this site down jfc

[–]Krehlmar 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

no matter what they did

I am rarely draconion but fuck that sentiment. There are evil people, there are evil children, I don't doubt redemption but it isn't something given without trying.

[–]profwiki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't worry, they know. If you read the articles about it, those two girls were his sisters. And since the video was widely circulated, I'm sure the parents know.

[–]WP3739 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In where I live, this kind of elevators are mostly found in commercial and industrial buildings built in the 60s, which many are still in use.

The door on the outside is usually locked to prevent people from accidentally falling into the shaft; in order to use the elevator, you have to press the button, wait until the elevator reach your floor and the door unlocks itself, then pull open the door, slide the gate open (newer model has electric sliding gate/door instead) and enter the elevator. Leaving the elevator is pretty much the same process in reverse except that you have to wait for the door to unlock which allows you to push it open.

In theory the elevator won't move until you close the gate and the space is too narrow for an adult to squeeze in without blocking the gate (if the elevator is well designed, that is), however the elevator's obsolete design, slow response (sometimes half of a minute) and jerky movement are more than enough to convince you that the elevator could malfunction and start moving anytime - it doesn't help that the door will be locked automatically when closed and it gets extra scary if the elevator was one of those newer models which the gate would close itself after some time (for some unknown reason, this kind of elevators always have a very short "waiting time" compared to modern ones we use nowadays).

I took those elevators a few times before to visit shops opened in older buildings and they are frightening enough to make me not wanting to visit those shops again unless it was absolutely necessary. Fuck those elevators.

[–]LeReddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ive seen these elevators plenty in nyc

[–]h56hh56h54y5y 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The bizarre part is the swinging outer door. I've seen plenty of old elevators with manual sliding doors, but never swinging.

[–]thenotoriousdougie 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Population control at work

[–]Peaceful_decent_guy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Girl looked upset at him in the beginning. I think she intentionally shut the door to lock him inside the elevator, but considering how dumb children generally is, she obviously wasn't aware of how dangerous or the consequences of it. Poor kid, at least it was a quick death.

[–]Fennec 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think he was a fruit roll-up with a heartbeat for 20 minutes.

[–]tvk30nctqf 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ouch one those kids pretty much murdered that boy. That's also a really old style elevator.

[–]Rizzle 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Those girls caused the kids death.

[–]Blenos 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Arab, the world was made more peaceful that day

[–]Fennec 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This time it's not going to be the grass stains on the pants that mom gets pissed about.

[–]puprika 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]profwiki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The link just shows a mars rover landing. Can you please post the correct link?

[–]Oneda[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The website seems to have been undergoing strange things lately so links have been pointing to different videos. Unfortunately I don't know where the misplaced videos are.

[–]profwiki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I eventually found a clip of it after some digging on google.

https://www.livegore.com/12360/five-year-old-boy-crushed-death-lift-accident-mumbais-dharavi

After having seen this, the few news articles about him "dying after sustaining head injuries" is reallllllly sugarcoating what happened. That kids legs were folded behind his back like a human taco while his face gets scraped off before being totally compressed and pulled down. You can even see that his body was still stuck a bit until the very end when the stopping of the elevator led his presumably taco-turned-meat-paste remains plop down the shaft. Which if you saw it already you know but this is just more for whoever is reading