Dallas Doctor Dies In Freak Elevator Accident

August 18, 2003 3:53 PM

Dallas Doctor Dies In Freak Elevator Accident Not sure if this is getting national coverage - I haven't been able to stop freaking out about it all day. The worst part was that a female hospital worker was trapped in the elevator with the, uh, aftermath for almost 20 minutes. Is it just that news is getting more sensational, or are weirder things happening?
posted by sparky (23 comments total)

"Is it just that news is getting more sensational..."

It's just that you don't read MetaFilter. We post stuff like this all the time.
posted by y6y6y6 at 3:58 PM on August 18, 2003

Weirder. Also reported yesterday, "Man killed when hair is caught in fairgrounds ride."

It basically scalped him, and he fell and landed on the fence.
posted by munger at 4:05 PM on August 18, 2003

Maybe the doctor pushed the elevator's button one too many times.
*Ba-doom-bing
I'll be here until this thread is deleted, folks.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 4:08 PM on August 18, 2003

plo chops.
posted by jimmy at 4:09 PM on August 18, 2003

And I just saw Final Destination 2 yesterday. Spooky.
posted by Edge100x at 4:14 PM on August 18, 2003

boy, when gruesome scenes from The Fly II not only happen in real life, but make FPP twice, 14 years later, you gotta wonder: do we love this shit or what?
posted by scarabic at 4:17 PM on August 18, 2003

Saw the elevator item on CBC's crawler. Next to it: "Thief in U.K. reports head in jar to police; confesses breaking into house. 'Head' revealed to be a bacon sculpture; homeowner's art project."

mmmm.... bacon head....
posted by stonerose at 4:18 PM on August 18, 2003

On the topic of 'newsfilter', I'm surprised no-one has posted about the new gas-station sniper story here yet. Of course, you can just switch on CNN for more *g*
posted by wackybrit at 4:21 PM on August 18, 2003

many years ago i was at portfolio day at academy of art college in SF. i was the last one to [try to] step into a full elevator, and the doors closed on me. I mean, they CLOSED. Slammed into me before the safety mechanism opened them again. I screamed like -apparently- most of the other people there had never heard.

the doors opened, i stepped back, and the doors closed on what must have been one of the most frightened groups of people i'd ever seen. i took the stairs.
posted by th3ph17 at 4:24 PM on August 18, 2003

call me paranoid but i will NEVER EVER again try to stop the doors closing last minute by sticking my arms in.

and th3ph17 that is freaky. i wouldn't have screamed, i would have cried like a little girl. no, seriously.
posted by poopy at 4:33 PM on August 18, 2003

If the Illuminati would stop fucking around and share their secret teleportation technology with the rest of humanity, elevator decapitations would be a thing of the past.
posted by mathis23 at 4:36 PM on August 18, 2003

Yikes.....can we spell L A W S U I T?
posted by Durwood at 4:59 PM on August 18, 2003

The traumatized employee who witnessed the death was taken to the hospital's emergency room for treatment of shock, but was released later that day, said Hancock.

WHY was she was in shock?

the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator car moved upward. A female hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the malfunctioning elevator

Because she was alone in an elevator for 20 fucking minutes with a fucking detached head.
posted by sharksandwich at 5:10 PM on August 18, 2003

The (only) four star hotel in Cienfuegos, Cuba has elevator doors without safety mechanisms. Once they start closing on you, it's over. I made sure to be the first in the elevator when it opened...
posted by whatzit at 5:12 PM on August 18, 2003

I don't know if weirder things are happening but this was posted yesterday.
posted by whatever at 5:34 PM on August 18, 2003

yeah no shit i came in here to bitch about the double post, not even REALIZING the newsfilter content.

you guys need to get up on your game, sheesh
posted by shadow45 at 5:38 PM on August 18, 2003

Because she was alone in an elevator for 20 fucking minutes with a fucking detached head.

I couldn't tell from the story if she was in the elevator with the head or the body.
posted by JanetLand at 5:48 PM on August 18, 2003

i'm dumbfounded. not by the doublepost really, but that it took this long for the kill.

you guys need to get up on your game, sheesh
posted by poopy at 5:52 PM on August 18, 2003

Yeah, y6^3 took all of five minutes to point it out.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:03 PM on August 18, 2003

exactly. five minutes? come on people! we can do better than that! what if this was a fire drill?
posted by poopy at 6:06 PM on August 18, 2003

and by 'fire drill' i mean 'real fire'... sheesh, maybe i need to get up on the game also.
posted by poopy at 6:13 PM on August 18, 2003

JanetLand:
Read it again. Context clues at work...
posted by sharksandwich at 6:14 PM on August 18, 2003

If the Illuminati would stop fucking around and share their secret teleportation technology with the rest of humanity, elevator decapitations would be a thing of the past.

teleportation is not really viable because the original (i.e. you) is destroyed and a copy is made. so you would be dead.
posted by mokey at 6:18 PM on August 18, 2003