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I was told most elevators' doors can be opened with some force when it is stuck in due to a power failure or some other reason. But I couldn't find anything regarding this claim on Google. Does anyone know if the doors can be opened or any other way to escape an elevator when stuck?
IAMA Elevator mechanic, this is my chance reddit! Edit: Disclaimer: This is only to be used in an emergency, doing any of these things could result in damage to your person or property. Your life is not worth the inconveniece of being stuck in an elevator for a couple of hours. It is quite literally one of the safest places to be in your day to day life.
My advice is don't try, sit tight, and wait for help. Typical response times for a trained professional to come and safely get you out, with out causing potentially thousands of dollars of damage, is between 30 minutes to an hour in most cases. We take "entrapment" calls very seriously, and strive to get those stuck out in a timely fashion. So go browse reddit, if you can get signal (Protip: Usually you can wedge the door open slightly, this will increase your reception, in most cases.)
But, lets say you're really in a pinch, or shit is hitting the fan, or the world is ending, or the season premiere of the new firefly is coming on, and you need to get out now, or you will miss it. First thing you want to try is pressing the door open button, if you are at a landing, and the power is on, it could open the doors and let you out. I've personally responded to over a dozen entrapment calls where all the person had to do was press the door open button.
That didnt work? Next option, door close button! What? Ya, I know, sounds weird, but maybe it got stuck after you mashed it so that smelly guy from accounting wouldn't get on the lift with you. No worries, no one likes Bob anyways, but now you're stuck. So wiggle that button, see if its stuck, then try the D.O.B (door open button).
Still suck? Okay, sucks for you, at this point I would start hoping someone will come rescue you, but there are still a few things you can try. If you are at a landing, or if the elevator is of an older vintage, you could try prying the doors open. This may or may not work, as there are safety devices on most elevators installed from the <90's onwards, even on some older then that. But hey, whats that!? The doors opened up! Cool you're free, unless you just see concrete, or a small opening. If you're thinking, hey, I could squeeze through that opening, stop. DO NOT DO IT. The elevator could break traction, or start moving on its own at any time, and you do not want to be half in, and half out, if that happens. Trust me.
Okay, the door open button didnt work, the doors are impossible to move regardless of how hard you try, and you're still stuck like a butterfly impaled by pins. Can you reach anyone? Do you have cell reception? Great! Phone them, tell them to grab a coat hanger, and bend it into a Z like shape. This will fit into a door key hole located on the top of most elevator landing doors (the ones you see from the hallway). Put it in, so the half of the Z is in the door, your friend will want to rotate it until he feels it catch, then try and force it up, this should release the locking mechanism of the door, while still keeping force on the improvised door key, slowly slide the hall door open 4-6 inches, can he see the elevator you're stuck in? Awesome! So now he's looking at the elevators car top, on the car top, usually with in reaching distance of the landing, there will be a stop switch, and a light switch, press the stop switch, press the call button in the hallway, see if the elevator moves, if not, it's safe to get on. Now look for something that says inspect and normal, switch it to inspect. You now have control of an elevator, how cool is that right?! Okay, so now there a couple of options: He can manually open the doors from on top of the car, usually this is accomplished by manually rotating a wheel located near the front. Doesn't work, not in the right place? Try driving it to a landing, by pressing the eneable/safe button, and the desired direction, assuming the elevator is functioning, your friend should be able to move it to a point where you can get out. That didn't work? There is an emergency escape hatch on all elevators, usually located near the back. Undo anything holding it closed, open it up, and gtfo.
So maybe your friend is busy watching the firefly premiere on his own, and can't come get you. Nothing else has worked, so now its time to get rough. Can you reach the ceiling? You might be able to smash the escape hatch open, but chances are it will be too high, and really fucking hard. At this point, you're basically out of options. Good luck.
TL;DR:Emergency phone to call for help then wait, Try the door open button, Try the door closed button, Try forcing the doors open, Phone a friend and get him to help you out (see above), Hulk out, Wait for help, Give up
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I... I might jump to the next floor if it meant not missing a new season of Firefly.
Fun fact you may appreciate due to your name. Did you know Serenity makes a cameo in one of the first episodes of BSG?
I'd send you the youtube link, but I wouldn't want to deprive you of a re-watch/a game of Where's Serenity?(plus I'm fairly certain you know how to use Google if you really wanted to find it).
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You should do an AMA like the vacuum repair guy...
edit: we'll see
It doesn't look like people are that interested, but maybe if I have time I will answer some questions
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I never knew reading about escaping an elevator could be so fun.
RES tag "Elevator Expert"
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getting stuck in an elevator is literally my biggest fear, and you, kind sir, have just made it a fraction less terrifying. Cheers!
I did once. It wasn't a big deal. I was at school, and this was before everyone had a cell phone on them, and there was no call button or phone in the elevator (at least, not that I could ever find). The doors were stuck open a fraction of an inch on the outside, and the inner doors were stuck open about 4", because I'm the dumbass that tried to push the doors open that apparently interrupted the choreography of this elevator opening and got myself damn stuck.
Anyway, I just opened my backpack and wrote "STUCK INSIDE" on a sheet of paper and held it through the door and wiggled it. This was a busy campus building, and a very heavily used elevator, so almost immediately I hear someone chuckle on the other side and take the note and said "Dude. Really?" I said "Yeah, man, I'm really trapped in here."
So then maybe he's got a phobia or something, because he's all like "Oh shit! Hang on! Don't panic! Everything's goING TO BE OKAY!!!! IMA GET SOMEONE!!!" and I'm like "Dude. It's okay. I'm not going anywhere, right?" So I sit tight and start reading while this guy apparently starts having the panic attack that was meant for me, and after about 10 minutes some maintenance guy did a thing and opened the door.
TL;DR: My elevator story was like my life back then. I was alone and no hot college chicks were around me to have any sex with.
I got stuck in an elevator (alone) once as a teenage. I am also fairly claustrophobic. And the emergency phone wasn't working.
But overall it actually wasnt too bad, and got out within 10 minutes. There were several fire trucks and police... it was kinda embarrassing.
But having had it happen... I wouldn't fear it too much. Then again I do take the stairs whenever possible.
I'm glad I can help make the world a little less terrifying for someone, cheers!
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So why do elevators break? I mean, I'm sure they're reliable, but what would you say are the top causes of elevator entrapment, however rare?
Top cause I would say is the a tripped safety device, or failed something in the safety circuit failing. If this happens, it always results in a "fail=safe" situation. So regardless of what happens, you will be locked in a well ventilated, securely hanging, safe steel box, so not to worry!
They should install emergency restrooms. That's my biggest fear when it comes to elevators. What if I get stuck and have a stomach episode or have to pee really bad. The would be worse than death. Well, almost.
An elevator tech at my work told me a story once about a lady who was trapped in an elevator at another hotel in the city who had to shit really bad. She shit in her purse, and when they got her out, casually threw her shit-filled purse in the garbage on her way down to the front desk.
The kicker is she was only in there for 25 minutes.
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I have used those switches to drive elevators, but only when nobody was in them.
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Unless you get stuck in my old university's parking deck. Then they get to you in a couple of hours....maybe.
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I get this sub is now basically Redditz'd to fuck. But honestly this would be about 2 paragraphs without the jokes.
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I would definitely risk my life for a new season of Firefly
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Your comment was posted "1 hour ago", yet, no reply. Mustn't not be very urgent, either that or there isn't any wi-fi in there.
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I could deal with being stuck in an elevator, but man, if there's no wi-fi...fuck.
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I can tell you that the door in the top of an elevator isn't like it is in the movies. It's for rescuers to get in, not for you to get out. Use the emergency phone then stay calm and wait for them to come.
If the building is on fire I'm finding a way out!
Edit: I meant in the chance I'm already in it and the alarm rings
LPT: If the building is on fire, you shouldn't use the elevators.
the elevator car stops at a designated safe floor, most likely the ground floor. if the smoke detector is activated on that designated floor, it goes to an alternate floor.
What is there is an explosion. Explosion damages the machinery of the elevator causing it to stop, and starts a fire.
im an electrician and not an elevator mechanic so im not 100% certain on this topic. The elevator machine room is separated from the elevator shaft with the concrete slab of the building, there are openings only large enough for the cables between the machine room and shaft. If an explosion were to damage the pulley or motors on the machine room the car would lock in place with mechanical brakes. Doors would probably be able to open if on a floor already, and if the car was between floors the passengers would have to wait for a rescue. There's nothing in the machine room that's really able to sustain a fire other than electrical stuff, and an electrical fire would cause a breaker or fuse to trip shutting off the power, with sprinklers in that room suppressing the fire.
there's no always a sprinkler suppression system... source: im an architect.
explosion stopping the elevator between floors and starting fire would be like worst possible case scenario, really nothing can be done for that, except wait and hope rescuers check elevators first.
Then you're living in a Michael Bay flick, and are therefore about to be killed in a cinematic explosion.
Or use your phone to call emergency services
instead of before draining the battery by browsing reddit.
Ha! No! The 911 call comes after you ask LPT or ELI5 how to escape from an elevator.
Technologist here,
we wouldn't get occupancy if there was no suppression system in my city, it's part of the building code
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Not-so-funny-story; some friends-of-a-friend were at a wedding in a hotel. Took the lift, cables snapped. Safety brakes engaged, failed. The floor of the shaft was legally supposed to have some kind of impact dampening system. Not installed.
"Luckily" it was only six floors, but it was six floors, straight onto concrete. Everyone suffered shattering of everything from the pelvis down, but they did all survive and eventually walked again, though not perfectly.
Turns out the maximum clearance between the lift and walls in order for the brakes to function, was 3cm. This lift was installed with a 6cm gap. Plus the lack of the dampening system. We threw up a lot of shoddy shit during our housing boom, it's easy to forget how a bad job could easily kill someone.
That hotel would have to do some pretty impressive stuff to get back on my good side.
Still a lot of shitty houses going up. Cheep wood, bad HVAC equipment and install, cheep electrical, and a host of other things. Some contractors in my area don't even use plywood on the sides of the houses any more. Just frame, blue board, siding, then drywall on the inside. I know of three that fell over in high winds. I will not buy a new home built in the last 20 years.
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Then you're living in a Michael Bay flick, and are therefore about to be killed in a cinematic explosion.
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Then count your blessings, remove all articles of clothing, urinate, defecate, spread it all over the walls of the elevator, etc.
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Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
If every floor is on fire you wouldn't have entered the elevator in the first place, because the floor where you got in was on fire too...
And assuming that was the single floor where there was no fire I think you'd have noticed anyway from the smoke coming from below and the panicked screams of people on the other floors...
Not to mention the fact that the elevator would have gone to the ground floor and locked the doors open to prevent use by anyone except for the fire department.
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I think you're talking about pretty modern elevators. What about those that are 20, 30+ in years?
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Then by the time the fire is a problem, you should be able to get out.
It will go to a predetermined sage floor. Your in a cinder block/concrete column though, so if you get stuck there will be some protection. Hit the emergency call button ofc. If there's any chance of a fire, take the stairs.
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I'm a fire alarm technician. These scenarios are my specialty.
In the event of a fire, elevators will go down to a floor designated as safe indicated in the programming of the fire alarm panel. Usually this is the ground floor however it could be programmed to go to others such as the 2nd or 3rd story if the fire was detected on the main floor. At that point the elevators will lock out and can only be operated if re-engaged by the fire department (they have a key for it)
In the case of an explosion damaging the wheel holding the elevator it would stop and you would have to sit tight and wait for rescue. (The breaks will lock up).
Also a neat thing that people may not know. Fire alarm systems in big building usually do tons of things automatically in the event of a fire. Such as, elevator shut downs, fan shut downs, fire door closing, shutters closing, and my favourite to watch is smoke evacuation fans in big areas. All of this is triggered by relays which really brings a building to life to give you and the fire fighters as much time as possible.
Elevators has a fire alarm recall switch. Alarm goes off the next stop will be the ground floor. It is probably one of the safest places to be... unless the fire is contained to the area right out side the ground floor elevators ;)
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This... And if the elevator car is within 12-18 inches from being lined up with the normal stopping point then you can open the door from the inside with relative ease. Outside of that then it cannot be opened. The latch gets released from the inside passenger car mating with the exterior doors on each floor, this only happens within the 12-18 inches before the stop going up or down
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I've escaped from elevator cars before. Most recently, I was stuck in an elevator on a Friday night, because the maintenance guy forgot to hook the wiring harness back up to the car, so neither the phone nor buttons worked. Here's my plan for dealing with it.
Step 0: Stay calm, take inventory of your surroundings, and take inventory of your knowledge of the current situation. This can affect the best way to approach the situation.
Step 1: Try yelling for help. Something like, "Help I'm stuck in the elevator!" so that anyone hearing knows where you are if they hear you. In my case, it was a Friday night and the parking lot was empty. The parking lot was empty though, so slim chances were slim for me. I was in the primary elevator though - I have no idea how often the secondary was used(maybe 1/4 away), but it wouldn't surprise me if it was < 1/week.
Step 2: Try the alarm button. This usually rings a loud ringer at a few different floors. Hasn't worked for me yet, but it couldn't hurt.
Step 3: Try a phone call. There should be an emergency phone inside the elevator - it may be under a panel but should be marked with an icon of a handset from the 70s. Use this phone and the instructions in it to call security for the facility and they'll come get you. If this phone doesn't work, try a cell phone. I left a message with the facility manager, gave it another 15 minutes, and called 911 - the fire department came and got me.
Step 4: Can you wait it out? If so, you should. If you get stuck the night before a workday, this isn't a big deal. In my case, I had enough supplies to uncomfortably make it through the weekend.
Step 5: Remind yourself that elevators are really dangerous. Unless you're trained to work on them, the only safe place is inside the car. If you fall off the car, you'll probably die. If the elevator starts moving when you don't expect it, you'll probably fall and die. If you lean in the wrong direction, there's a giant counter-weight that travels quite fast that can kill you. It even had a diagram of a worker getting crushed by the counterweight with a circle-and-line through it. Are you sure you can't wait it out? Now would be a good time to try the phones again.
Step 6: If you feel you have to leave the car, there's a door on the top - it won't open easily though, since the latch is on top of the car. You may also need to move a light fixture to get there. Not quite like the movies. There may be an E-STOP switch on top of the elevator - it looks like a big red button - if so, engage it. There may also be a set of controls for driving the elevator - I've seen two levers (up/stop/down and auto/manual) or something like a control box is more common on newer equipment. But since this is about escaping(and not elevator surfing), we probably won't need them.
Unless you're on the top floor, from atop the elevator, you should be able to see the next set of doors. In general, there are two sets of doors involved in entering/exiting an elevator the normal way - one set attached to the elevator car and another set attached to each floor. The doors on each floor have a latch that interlocks with a mechanism on the elevator car's doors. If you can trigger the interlock by hand, you should be able to push open the doors on the floor above where the elevator is.
If you are on the top floor, there may or may not be headroom above the car. If there is, then there may be a maintenance door you can reach. If there is no headroom, then you may need to move the elevator down a floor to reach the floor it is currently parked on.
Best advice I've seen so far. I want to add one more thing:
DO NOT TRY TO ESCAPE A MALFUNCTIONING ELEVATOR THROUGH THE SIDE DOORS unless your life is in immediate danger. If the elevator suddenly starts moving again for any reason, it will effortlessly rip your body apart. The force required to kill you in a most gruesome fashion is insignificant compared to the force required to move the elevator car.
Unfortunately this happened to a student at OSU a few years ago in one of the dorms. It was really really horrible.
The video is named "Resident Evil 2002 - Elevator Scene" and it seems to be a scene of the movie.
I don't have a link for this particular incident, but there have been a few incidents that have made the local news in NYC. There is one accident that occurred in 2011 where Suzanne Hart was just going to work and the elevator malfunctioned as she was midstep entering the elevator, shoots up, and rips her apart.
Another interesting NYC elevator malfunction is the story of this guy who was trapped in an express elevator for 41 hours, and here is the youtube video of his terrible experience that briefly went viral
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This happened in Stradley Hall, which was the freshman dorm next to mine (Smith Hall). I was working as an Office Assistant at the front desk at the time of the incident. All of the Stradley students were evacuated into my building and told to remain in our lobby until further notice. It was total chaos. The Smith Hall resident advisors told us what had happened and not to give out any details to our fellow curious students. It took awhile for the information to leak, but I remember a lot of horrified and tearful kids wandering around when they found out that Andrew had been killed. It was really weird to experience. I can't imagine how the students who were in the elevator with him were able to deal with seeing their friend get smashed.
Also just happened to a poor girl at a hospital down the street from me in Shenzhen. Girl tried to crawl out through the door while the elevator was stuck half way up a floor. Elevator started up and ripped her in half. There were a bunch of people stuck in the elevator with half her bloody body, absolutely horrifying.
Woah! My girlfriend was working at the front desk of the dorm that night. I'll see if i can get her to come in here at tell the story.
Here it is: http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1vlhxv/lpt_request_escape_from_a_stuck_elevator/ceucg1a
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I have no idea who would try that after watching Resident Evil....
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But since this is about escaping(and not elevator surfing), we probably won't need them.
Please tell me about elevator surfing.
Also, this is the best advice in the thread.
Elevator surfing is a super-dangerous activity that involves joyriding the elevator from atop it. Wikipedia has an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_surfing
The big difference is how you get atop the elevator. Surfers either use a special key (a bunch of cylinders jointed together) or a painstakingly-bent coat-hanger to override the interlock from the floor above where the elevator is parked.
Also, I can't imagine it's legal, in addition to being incredibly dangerous and stupid.
"It is highly recommended for a prospective surfer to research whether the top of the elevator shaft has headroom or not. Most elevator shafts do, although some hydraulic and roped hydraulic elevators may not. A surfer would be wise to check for clearance by manually driving the elevator to the top of the shaft before doing anything else. It is even more highly recommended not to engage in elevator surfing, of course."
Wikipedia is great.
Don't be stupid.
But if you insist on being stupid, here's how not to die (probably).
Here's a bit from linked Wikipedia article about Elevator surfing :
Elevator surfing, also known as "vator surfing" or "elevaroping", is an activity involving riding on top of elevators. Rarely, the activity may also involve jumping between moving elevators, although most elevator surfers consider this to be unwise and needlessly dangerous.
Elevator surfing is illegal in many locations. Several people have died elevator surfing. Surfers can be crushed between the elevator and the top or sides of the elevator shaft, be struck by the counterweight, or slip and fall to their deaths. The surfer does have the ability to stop the elevator at any time by pressing the emergency stop button on the roof of the elevator car, reducing the risk of being crushed against the top of the shaft.
It is highly recommended for a prospective surfer to research whether the top of the elevator shaft has headroom or not. Most elevator shafts do, although some hydraulic and roped hydraulic elevators may not. A surfer would be wise to check for clearance by manually d ...
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So it's literally standing on an elevator. Not only is that dangerous, but it doesn't actually sound like any fun. Now if you could make an elevator go faster...
It's nowhere near as dangerous as it sounds, if you're not a moron. Most elevators are designed to be operated from the roof, it's the best way for repairmen to get access to some things in the elevator shafts. So long as you remember that elevators have functionally zero safe clearance around the car as it moves, you're alright.
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I'm just amazed that enough people try this for it to have become a thing
less than 10. We had some really terrible elevators at school, plus the repairman-forgetting-to-plug-in-the-darned-controls-incident. Most of them were my fault.
The most frightening one occurred when I was in the dorm elevator, saw a friend turn the corner, and I stuck my right arm out to stop the doors from closing. I'd done this many times before, but this time the doors continued closing and grabbed onto my arm. I figured I was going to loose it, but after a few seconds, the elevator didn't move. This car's panel was on the right side, so after twisting around I was able to hit the door open button and retrieve my arm. Turns out the way the car knew something was in the way was with a set of IR beams. These beams were far enough apart to fit an arm through.
Once the school elevator dropped a few floors stopping half a floor below the bottom floor, and the repairman had to disable it so everyone could safely crawl out. I wasn't in it that time, but was walking past from the stairwell.
The school elevators were also controlled by relays. If you're not familiar with 'propogation delay', the general effect is that poorly designed circuits can adversely affected by small changes in timing.
For example, if someone pressed the 'Up' button in the hallway just at the right moment as the elevator passed, it would skip the current floor and stop at the next one.
There was also some set of steps make the elevator skip a floor as it travelled past it. I forget what triggered it, but effectively it would fail to count a floor as it moved, which led to the relays being off by a floor when people pressed a button. This wasn't a big deal until someone went to the top(or bottom) floor, and the shaft ended up being 1 floor shorter than the relay box tried to use. This usually ended with a loud bang, and a few seconds later the relay box figured out that it had run out of shaft. But sometimes it just didn't move for a while - I think it may have been ignoring car input until someone else pressed a button.
So here's a follow-up question for a specific scenario:
I work in a 30-storey building, with two sets of elevators. One set only goes up to floor 15, the other serves 16-30 and goes down to the 1st floor. I'm in the top half, so my elevators skips 14 floors that it presumably cant open to.
What happens if I get stuck at that point?
Ring the alarm button, yell loudly, try the emergency phone, try the cell phone.
Is it power-outage? If so, the elevator will do something sane when power is reapplied, so just hang out.
If you contact someone, they may manage to drive the elevator to a floor with doors and get you out.
If the fire department gets involved, and they can't get the thing to work, they may lock-out/tag-out the power to the elevator controls by disconnecting them and placing locks preventing the machinery from being reconnected. Then they can pop open a door somewhere above you, rappel down the shaft to the car, open the hatch and come in, harness you up, put a helmet on your head, and haul you up the shaft. There's fireman's manuals you can read online detailing this whole procedure - it's pretty neat.
Wondering if somebody here can answer this. I have a job with a really old elevator (70's?). Do all elevators have a door that can open in the top?
Yes. It is code. It should be locked from the top. Source: Kone repairman in bed next to me.
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I sat on a jury where a building owner was being sued by the family of a young man who found himself on a stuck elevator. He managed to pry the doors open and saw that he was halfway between floors. He apparently jumped up to the floor, miscalculated and fell ten stories. He broke his back and was severely brain damaged.
Don't do it. No hour or two hours or however long it takes help to arrive is worth your life.
Many members of the jury felt that he didn't have to jump, that there was no immediate risk of injury had he just continued to wait for assistance, so a percentage of the damages were apportioned to him.
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Here is is. I'd forgotten about the security guard.
Do not attempt to escape! Wait patiently for help to arrive.
Holy shit. First thing I thought is how he didn't masturbate to pass time.
He was on Tosh, he claimed that he never considered it. Tosh said the entire thing would have been covered in semen if it were him in there.
You have too much faith in people. There are numerous cases of people being trapped in elevators.
One time I got stuck in an elevator between floors in Mexico. The phone hardly worked, and my Spanish is sub-par. We were in there for about two hours before my dad got there with a crowbar. Fuck being patient, I would have been there forever if i hadn't called someone from my cell.
You must have never been to Mexico.. Management and police hardly exist.
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You won't say that after going up 28 flights of stairs. I had to do that once, and it's NOT WORTH IT.
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You usually can open the doors by main force, but it's ridiculously dangerous to try to crawl out. If the elevator shifts at all while you're trying to exit, you could easily get pinned or lose a limb or just get chopped in half. Unless you're in serious danger, don't risk it.
I've seen resident evil way too many times to picture this
Video of woman being killed by essentially what you are talking about. Censored with blurring.
I know in Texas, buildings install door restrictors so this can't happen. Here's a hilarious video explaining why: http://youtu.be/YyIarztWEa0
That guy popping his head into the elevator would scare the shit out of me If I was really stuck there.
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The elevators in my college had door blockage sensors, but only starting about a foot above the floor and only up to 2 feed below the ceiling. I once let the doors close on a folded newspaper, and sure enough, it was ripped in half.
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I use to manage a small town restaurant in an old 3 story building. The town had a problem of drug addicted kids, so we kind of had to keep an eye on the building for fear of vandalism and robbery. One night I was expediting in the kitchen when one of my staff said there was someone stuck in the elevator. I wasn't really phased, because it was actually a common problem that would resolve itself after a minute or two. Though, in the best interest of our reputation I went ahead and checked. So, the elevator doors are all the way open, the car is actually about 70% up, and I can actually fully see the woman stuck inside. There was a guy in the hallway freaking out. He apparently "took the stairs," while his overweight girlfriend took the elevator. Well, there isn't suppose to be anyone on those upper floors this late at night, so I knew they were up to no good. Being a bit heartless I simply said "Give it some time, it'll come down" and went back to work.
Well, it didn't, for the better part of an hour. So I called the Elevator Emergency people. Well, his advice was to close the doors and keep pressing buttons. She was a bit claustrophobic and not the biggest fan of this idea. Long story short, it wound up working. Apparently with the doors open it just locked up and refused to move. After no less than 2 different elevator techs came out over a 5 day period it was revealed that they were crackheads trying to steal copper components from within the shaft. They had intentionally gotten the elevator stuck at a level where the guy could open the doors, slip out, and jump down to the bottom of the shaft to strip copper. Well, that kinda messed up the whole working of the elevator, and he had to deal with a panicking girlfriend the entire time and never got away with the copper.
TL;DR - Crackheads screwed up my elevator trying to score copper to sell, and wound up getting stuck instead.
Press the "Call" button. This does two things: activates a microphone/camera in the elevator car so that the building operators may see/record your reaction when 2. The trap-door floor opens up, plunging you to your doom.
That's why you climb up on the mini hand railings first. If you do that successfully, you'll get headhunted for plenty of Japanese game shows.
I think you're confusing commercial elevators with that ride at Disney World.
Elevators require a special key to open the doors from the outside...your essentialy locked in if the lift stops between floors or doesn't open in the majority of cases. It can be manualy lowered/risen from the lift motor room.
Source - Hospital Maintenance Engineer
My understanding is that, due to vandals and pranksters forcing doors open from the inside, newer elevators have devices to prevent occupants from opening the doors. During a large scale disaster, I fear being stuck in an elevator, with help never coming.
LPT Take the stairs all the time. You may lose 5 minutes of your day, but you'll add 5 days to your healthy life.
If you lose 5 minutes a day every day for one year, then you are losing ~30 hours a year from taking the stairs (losing a day). So, if you're only adding 5 days to your life, they are only being spent using the stairs.
I'd rather take the elevator
Because an elevator takes no time at all?
My policy is if it's less than 7 floors, i can and will take the stairs.
That policy is actually quite well in effect here in Shanghai.
Residential buildings that are 6 storeys or lower do not have to have elevators installed while residential buildings that are 7 floors or higher have to have to have elevators installed.
Same thing in Russia. 5-story buildings usually do not have lifts, while 7-story and above do.
Huh. Learn something new everyday!
Does that hurt people who need to move in to residential buildings? I would think elevators are crucial for moving heavy things in and out of apartments.
Unfortunately yes... So bad luck to the movers who are moving stuff from the 6th floor of a 6 floor building to the 6th floor of another 6 floor building!
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Hospital Maintenance Engineer
Oh? What do you think of the job?
Elevator repair has its ups and downs...
(sorry coudln't resist.)
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Meh...like most people who've been doing the same job for years it's ok for the most part and it pays the bills I guess. The fact I work at a hospital means I'm on call alot though and if I'm in the building I'm first call for lift trappings and fire alarms too...you can seriously hear my coming with the shear size of the bunch of keys I gotta carry haha
Also, recent designs will not allow doors to be opened above a certain floor in an emergency situation or power failure and running on emergency backup.
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Keep calm and bring a book.
Don't be a hero and try to scale the elevator shaft ala Die Hard. It won't work and you'll just end up getting more hurt than if you stay where you are.
Your elevator's stopped, you won't fall to your death.
Bring a book every time you get on an elevator? With that attitude you should just take the stairs.
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Call the fire department.
While definitely possible, trying to get out by yourself carries with it a non-zero chance of dying by bisection.
Former firefighter ("heavy rescue technician") who has responded to a lot of trapped elevators.
I was told most elevators' doors can be opened with some force when it is stuck in due to a power failure or some other reason.
This is patently false.
Your best bet is to just sit tight. Use the phone in the elevator or your cellphone (if you have reception) to contact emergency services. It's generally pretty easy to get people out of a trapped elevator, but it's a technical process that requires the right tools and access to particular mechanisms in the elevator door mechanism. Forcing the door is a last resort option, and requires serious hydraulics to accomplish. I've never seen this attempted because generally the only tools required are the appropriate drop key for the exterior door and maybe a ladder if the elevator is between floors.
tl;dr: This isn't an "escape" situation, it's a "shelter-in-place" situation. Help is on the way. If it's not, I guess try to go through the ceiling port of the elevator. There will be a service ladder in the elevator shaft, but getting out of the shaft will probably not be easy.
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Slightly off topic, ever consider how weird elevators really are for most people? I know they're great for persons with disabilities, or on tall buildings. But what makes people think to themselves "In order to save a bit of time and energy going up a few floors, I am going to voluntarily lock myself in a small box with strangers, with a non-zero chance that I will end up trapped inside for an indeterminate amount of time".
My roommate got stuck in our building's elevator on our first week in the apartment. He doesn't use it anymore (we're on the second floor).
Only about as weird as strapping ourselves to 2 tons of steel and aluminum powered by burning the remains of plants and dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago to travel at speeds that, for most of human history, could only be approached by jumping off a cliff.
If I could give you gold, I would. This is exactly how I feel. And it doesn't seem to matter how much you say it to some one - people laugh it off and call you crazy. The people who see no potential problem with locking themselves up in an uncontrollable, inescapable metal box with a bunch of strangers - all to avoid a couple flights of stairs!
You stick with the stairs, I'll stick with the elevator. I used to live on the 8th floor of an apartment building and while I would regularly take the stairs simply to avoid the wait for the elevator, I wouldn't carry groceries up 8 flights of stairs. And if the buildng was much higher than 8 floors, I probably would have just waited for the elevator.
The likelihood of failure is statistically very low if you live somewhere with adequate regulations. Even if I got stuck in an elevator tomorrow, that'd be probably 1 in 5000 elevator rides gone wrong. And I probably won't get stuck, so the odds are lower than that in my experience. I don't have any reliable numbers (anything from 1:10000 to 1:lifetime) but you do sound like you've got a tinfoil hat on right now.
Hey, different strokes for different folks!
Like you say, lugging anything up a lot of stairs sucks.
I just wish that there were one of two things for people such as myself:
1.) A more comfortable (re: not all shiny metal walls) elevator or 2.) A society that does not give elevator-averse people a hard time about taking the stairs. This is not in reference to people such as yourself, but rather doormen/lobby workers who look at you like you have three heads when you ask where the stairs are located. Honestly, if this were to change, I'd be perfectly content - I have become desensitized to a lot of stairs (24th floor of a hotel on my honeymoon; sick grandmother on the 18th floor of a hospital; a job on the 12th floor and another on the 14th), but I still hate the looks that I get when I ask for the stairs.
People shouldn't judge. I generally avoid the stairs (in large buildings they're typically concrete), since I've fallen several times on stairs and even slipped down some stairs due to a water leak in an apt. building I used to live in. In my experience, stairs are the more dangerous option! (admittedly the number of stairs I've probably covered in my life is pretty massive, so a few accidents should be expected)
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There are people who don't feel anxious because of the mere presence of other people. Also, it isn't a one time thing, if you live on 17th floor, whenever you go to the store, school, job, out for a walk, or wherever, you should climb the whole mountain of staircase every single time, up and down, and all because of a chance to be near that intimidating old lady from 5th floor, or THAT GUY WITH MUSTACHE? OMG you're totally right!
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I remember being young at my father's condo during a bad thunderstorm. My older brother and I needed to go down to the lobby for some reason and getting to the elevator. I remember telling my brother that we shouldn't take the elevator because the power may go out due to the storm. He replied that that wouldn't happen and not to worry. I listened and got into the elevator, and sure enough, within seconds of the door closing the power went out and it was dark in the elevator. I flipped the fuck out and started crying and crying. I was like 10 years old, and my brother 14. He tried to calm me down, but I wasn't having it, I was scared. After a while the doors were pried open and we got out. I def didn't calmly wait for assistance in my experience.....
Now elevators are programmed to home out to the ground level and open the ground floor using power supplied by the emergency generator.
How long ago did this happen and can you recall how old the building was, does your father still live there?)?
Your situation sounds unique and due to your age waiting patiently for help wasn't within you ability. Regardless, it is the best course of action to keep calm, ring the elevators bell/emergency call system.
If you are still worried about elevators and live in a building with them, or plan to in the future, find out of their elevator cars are monitored. This will get you in touch with a dispatch that will call out the appropriate people to come save you.
Did you kick the crap out of your old/presumably bigger brother?
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As kids we used to pull them open with our fingers. I don't know if you can still do this. But we'd just wedge our fingers in there and pull.
This doesn't get you out though. It just gets you a view of the concrete
I got trapped in the elevator at work last year (elevator was installed in 2009-2010) and the interior doors were easily opened with my fingers (to a lovely view of the concrete shaft, as you say.) The exterior (shaft) doors won't open more than about an inch without something to override the safety interlock, though.
I'm hoping that you posted this whilst stuck.
"Hour 3, no response from Authorities. Reddit is now my only hope."
If you're stuck for more than a minute or two, push the alarm bell or emergency phone and wait for help to arrive. Make sure no one bumped the in-car stop switch or something simple. Don't panic, don't fuck around trying to break your way out of an elevator. You can't climb out into the hatch, because people got themselves killed doing that and now we make it impossible for others to do the same. Odds are there are restrictors on the car doors too, and if so they can only be manually opened from the outside of the elevator. Your best bet is to wait for help, be it elevator maintenance or emergency personnel. Even police and fire have been killed trying to remove trapped passengers; hoistways are a dark, dangerous place for someone who doesn't know their surroundings. Someone is always on call, if people are ever stuck for more than an hour I'd be astounded.
From reading these posts, the way modern elevators are set up specifically to trap you out of fear of vandals is idiotic and dangerous. I don't care how much you want to argue how dangerous escaping from an elevator is, you can't always rely on other people for help and there's always gonna be some case where you have to get out yourself, therefore you should be able to. I'd rather be killed trying to escape an elevator than from being trapped inside one because of douchebags screaming DON'T BE A HERO when some serious shit is going down.
LPT-- program the actual phone numbers for city police and fire departments into your cell phone. I have the Sheriff emergency number and non-emergency number, and the direct dial number for two local cities where I shop and visit a lot.
Usually, when you dial 911 from a cell phone, it goes to Highway Patrol, or some central switchboard if there are multiple jurisdictions.
My father was an elevator repairman.
I tell you what, it's about a million times easier from the outside. There is a little hole in the upper right hand side that is actually a keyhole for a very insecure lock.
The keys look like this
You can easily improvise one with a coat hanger. It's just a thing that goes in and flops down to turn a switch in there. The reason for this is so curious people can't screw around in the elevator shaft.
My real advice is DON'T SCREW WITH THE DOORS. Basically you don't know where you are in a stuck elevator. You might not be in the position to get at the lock mechanism on the door to the building, and what you've done in pushing open the inner doors is made the elevator completely inoperable.
Remember how robocop had those 3 prime directives and he couldn't violate them? Elevators only have 1. Don't do anything if the doors are opened.
If it's during business hours, your best bet really is to sit tight. They will make an emergency call. A guy will be there soon. If it's something very simple like a fuse burned out, or a breaker tripped, relay burnt out etc. the technician can just replace it, but you've gone and fucked with the doors, now haven't you?
You may not be able to get them closed to the elevator's satisfaction, and it WILL NOT DO ANYTHING if the doors are open.
Now someone has to crawl down through the hatch to undo your foolishness, and retirement age is 65 and people start their careers in construction and move on to maintenance.
So there is a reasonable chance your repairman (who is union everywhere but NYC) will be an overweight man nearing late adulthood. He's not going to jump down that hatch like James Bond to rescue you.
He's going to call it in. Who knows who they are going to send? They might have a young guy who is willing to go out on someone else's route and jump down for him, but probably not. Everyone's probably going to be thinking "fuck that dummy who screwed with the doors" so you're going to be waiting for the fire department.
Which is fine if you're in a small town, but in the city you are going to have to wait, because you're not an emergency. It's not life limb or eyesight
Now if it's after hours you may be in for a really long wait anyway because a guy might have to drive out from his home in the suburbs, so you might be stuck in there for an hour. Still unless you know what you're doing, don't just start screwing around with stuff, you're just as likely to make things worse as you are to free yourself.
Let's put it this way, when Hillary Clinton was stuck in the elevator at the white house, she, and the secret service, waited. One of my father's associates met her. That's a good indicator you should probably stay put too.
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I once was stuck on an elevator in the ag building at my university. Luckily there were two six foot football players in with me, they pulled the doors open and there was a lever to open the outer door. The elevator was only a few feet off the ground so we scrambled down and went on our way. I imagine that if the elevator is stuck between floors, it isn't going to do you any good.
I have nervous bowels and now I'm imagining what would happen if I were stuck in an elevator. I would probably feel worse for the people in there with me. :(
I have a similar issue! At least if we were stuck together thered be no pressure
LPT: Escape From A Stuck Escalator
-Walk up or down until you're off.
Yes, they can. I once had a very hard time doing it, though. After about ten minutes I pressed the door open button and the doors opened. So, pro tip: even if the elevator stops and the lights dimm, the button might still work.
I got stuck in the elevator in my building yesterday. Uh...so we called maintenance and they said to call the fire station and then firemen came and got us out. We were trapped like, 30 minutes, tops. It was a minor adventure.
Stay put. Don't try to open the doors. There is a chance the elevator may begin operation suddenly and climbing out the doors may end very badly for you. Source: fireman. Also final destination...
In the office building I work in, the elevators went out. One hapless dude was crawling out when the elevators kicked in. Sliced him in two.
There should be a phone in either a panel under the floor buttons or on the other side. Panel might not be marked. Pick up the phone and it should ring someone who can help
The elevator in my building gets stuck frequently on my floor; the door tries to open, then jams, and the elevator will just sit there. Usually a good bodyslam to the door will let it open the rest of the way normally.
I live in New York City and am literally terrified of elevators to the point where I won't even consider getting on one. Indeed, I become apprehensive at the very idea that I might potentially have to interact with an elevator, regardless of the circumstances. E.g., sick relative in the hospital? hope they don't give me a hard time about taking the stairs. Appointment/interview on a high floor? maybe we can meet somewhere else.
I worked on the 12th floor of a building and took the stairs up and down in the morning, at lunch, and at the end of the day. No elevators for me if it can be at all avoided.
I actually was looking forward to some good info here, but all there seems to be is "wait calmly." I would just like to articulate that this is in fact not an option for everyone.
THANK YOU. I too have an insane fear of elevators, although I do force myself to go in them my heart pounds rapidly, I panic, and have to distract myself with my phone until I reach my floor (Bubble Blaster ftw).
You are the first person I have ever come across who has a similar fear of elevators, and I just wanted to reach out and say to you "hi, me too".
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2014) is a nonfiction novel that describes the 2010 odyssey of Chilean mine workers. Here is the publisher's synopsis.
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The Spain international has enjoyed an illustrious career and won everything possible with the Catalan club, having joined as a 12-year-old.
With his unique blend of effortless ability on the ball and an almost unrivalled eye for a pass, Iniesta has established himself as one of the greatest players in Europe over the last 15 years.
Having made his debut with the first team in the 2002-03 season, Iniesta has written himself into Barca folklore and will go down among their finest players ever.
Regardless of what he achieves in Japan, Iniesta will be remembered for his remarkable career at Barcelona and, with the help of Opta data, we look back on some of the most impressive stats of his time with the Blaugrana.
Thank you forever @andresiniesta8 #Infinit8Iniesta pic.twitter.com/xAJXJklKsT— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 27, 2018
674 – Iniesta has featured 674 times in all competitions for Barcelona, more than any current player and second only to Xavi (767) in the club's history.
459 – Of those 674 matches, Iniesta has been on the winning side 459 times, giving him a 68.1 win percentage.
18 – Iniesta was 18 years and 170 days old when he made his Barca debut in a Champions League clash with Club Brugge on October 29, 2002.
9 – The Barca icon has won nine LaLiga titles in 16 seasons, wrapping up his career at the club with a domestic double in the 2017-18 campaign.
The moment... #Infinit8Iniesta pic.twitter.com/OKFwD6fg6p— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 27, 2018
70 - Iniesta has provided 70 assists in LaLiga. He recorded 16 of those in the 2012-13 season, finishing two assists clear of any other player in Europe's top-five leagues.
35 - Although not regarded as much of a goalscorer, the Spaniard has found the net 35 times in the league for Barcelona.
9 - While never a Ballon d'Or winner, Iniesta has been included in the FIFA FIFPro World XI on nine occasions - only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have more appearances (11).
116 - Perhaps the finest moment of Iniesta's glittering career came in the 116th minute of the 2010 World Cup final, his goal winning the tournament for Spain for the first time. He received the man of the match award as a result.
9 - Iniesta has played for nine different managers in LaLiga. He featured 149 times under Frank Rijkaard, more than under any other coach.
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Q I'm a 23-year-old homo who came out one year ago. Life has done good and bad things to me. Good things include success in the intelligence lottery, a full ride to college and now a job with a six-figure income. Sadly, I find that my place in life is different from the place occupied by most other young gay men. When meeting someone, I am often bummed to discover that they are in a state of transience (between cities, between degrees), or bummed because I detect a difference in socioeconomic upbringing/status that will make it hard for us to relate to each other, or bummed because they are not as smart as I am or most often bummed over a combination of all these things. These thoughts sap my interest in new people, telling me that "it just wouldn't work." Am I right to think that and keep looking, or should I do some substantial "rounding up to one" and go on that second date, even though the odds of compatibility seem slim? --Lots Of First Dates
A I'm tempted to tell you not to go on "that second date" with anyone you feel is beneath you intellectually, socioeconomically or status- or upbringing-wise---not to spare you his ghastly company, LOFD, but to spare him the ghastliness of yours.
Look, Gloria Upson, if dating gay men your own age means exposing yourself to guys who are in "states of transience"---completely normal states for dudes in their early 20s---then date guys in their 30s and 40s. Not that dating older guys is a surefire recipe for romantic success: Your snobbery, classism and elitism are so repulsive that most older guys will be blocking your number before you can call about a second date.
Andrew Sullivan wrote a beautiful post at The Dish a few weeks ago about the egalitarianism of getting laid. He recalled dancing all night in a gay club full of African-American guys back when he was a "cute twinky English schoolboy." And Andrew didn't just dance with the black guys he encountered after moving to Washington, DC.
"There's nothing like dating or fucking a person of another background, race or class to help you see the humanity in everyone," Andrew wrote. "How do you get scared of generic young black men when you've danced with them all night long?... In that sense, I've always felt that being gay was a real moral blessing. I could have been so much worse a human being if I'd been straight."
You're young, LOFD, and I'm being hard on you. But if you don't get a grip on your classism and snobbery, you will become so much worse a human being than you need to be. So snap the fuck out of it, OK? And remember: We gay people are a tiny, tiny minority. If you reject as potential partners, friends and fuck buddies all gay men who aren't of your exact same class, education level, social status (ugh) or salary level (barf), LOFD, you won't be left with many guys to date, hang out with or fuck.
Q I recently started dating a 26-year-old female. I was a little surprised when she told me that she gets nothing out of oral sex, as that has been my typical method for getting my past partners off. Eventually, I was to discover that this was because she has no external glans (clitoris hood/head). It's just smooth skin where a clit would be. I was shocked when she showed me. She is probably the easiest person I've ever met to get to orgasm (thank god!), so this isn't a problem, just a mystery. I know that the clitoris is much larger than just the part you can see---the "head"--- and she gets off on the feeling of pressure on and around where the glans would normally be, so I'm sure she has developed nerves and, I guess, has a clit under the skin. She assumed this was common enough, as none of her gynecologists has ever brought it to her attention. Have you ever heard of this? Is it common? --Clitorless Lad In Torment
A "It's pretty rare, but yes it happens," says Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University, a sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute, the author of Sex Made Easy (among other books), a frequent guest expert for "Savage Love" and the only woman who has ever chased me around a room with a vulva puppet.
When a woman doesn't have an exposed clitoral glans, "there's usually other genital parts that haven't developed or have developed in atypical ways," says Herbenick. "But there have been a few case reports in which the women had other typically developed genital parts---labia, etc.---while the clitoris alone is missing or very small. Some of these women report erotic sensation in the clitoral area."
Should your girlfriend talk to a doctor about it?
"I haven't seen this woman's genitals specifically," says Herbenick, "but sometimes there is atrophy or even 'coverage' of the clitoris (for example, the hood fuses over the glans partially or completely) due to vulvar skin disorders such as lichen sclerosus. Some children have LS, and often it goes undiagnosed for years and, without treatment, her clitoral hood could have fused over the glans. A dermatologist or gynecologist knowledgeable about vulvar dermatoses could look into this possibility via a very small biopsy."
Q My girlfriend and I have a vibrant relationship. Sex is great, but I have one small issue that clouds up the sexual chemistry and turns me into a somber theologian: Since the earliest days of my childhood, I was told by my family that abortion was a horrible, horrible thing. And that thought has complicated my relationships. I simply don't know how to get past this thought and indulge my partner and myself sexually without feeling uncertain about the possible outcome of our getting funky. I feel awful that my girlfriend has to deal with this moral panic of mine, and I'm sick of putting her through it. Help! —Bummed About Bad Experiences
A Use a hormonal birth control method and a condom and pull out before you come. Don't have penis-in-vagina intercourse---you can stick to oral sex, mutual masturbation and doing her in the butt (if being done in the butt is something your girlfriend enjoys). Deposit a few loads at a sperm bank, keep 'em on ice until you want kids and get a vasectomy. Or, hey, you could learn more about abortion while continuing to act responsibly. Abortion is not a horrible, horrible thing. It is a medical, medical thing.
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