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[–]Oneda 29 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 0 fun30 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I heard about this yesterday and I was already wondering "Will WPD have a video about this?". I was not disappointed and it showed up sooner than expected.

I'm always curious about how witnesses react to situations like this. Different people, different reactions. The lady who comes from the left immediately shielded her eyes with both hands to not see the ongoing crushing of the man. The girl on the phone looks at the scene when she hears it, then immediately turns around to get away. The bald dude who seems like a worker at the place just looks at it and seems to calmly walk away as if it's a problem for somebody else to deal with. The longhaired person near the elevator simply steps to the side, while the kid with the backpack who almost became the dead one holds his head then covers his mouth and then looks to others as if looking for something. I wonder what all of these people were thinking at the time.

[–]ganesho 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The kid seemed to go immediately into "survivor's guilt" mode. He barely escaped death, and he wonders whether this was his fault and/or if he could've done something to save the man.

[–]Catholicmath 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

His reaction was the one to watch. He got the full view and sound of what happened. Crazy to see it all unfold

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

I didn't even think of the sounds. Fuck.

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

Hmm good point! He maybe wondered, had he only gotten off faster, maybe the dude behind him wouldn't have been eaten by the elevator. Then again it's not really his fault as it seems that even as he's already walking out, the elevator was already not stopping to go down. I hope he sees this video so that he won't have to live with a guilt that he's not supposed to be carrying. It's just a horrible accident, possibly a product of bad maintenance.