tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post8725436161372556064..comments2024-03-27T07:37:20.144+00:00Comments on electrichalibut.co.uk: paternoster qui es in sheffieldelectrichalibuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-14460978691630553932017-12-16T09:39:59.526+00:002017-12-16T09:39:59.526+00:00I was at Newcastle university and I remember the i...I was at Newcastle university and I remember the incident. A French student died horribly going over the top. It shocked me terribly as I'd always been tempted to try it. What an unimaginably vile deathAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596637548195657699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-70844535981370434182014-02-13T19:15:17.267+00:002014-02-13T19:15:17.267+00:00Hmm, lovely. Despite some of the comments on the M...Hmm, lovely. Despite some of the comments on the Mail article about how it couldn't happen in the UK, a Reading student died in a lift accident in Sibly Hall a few years ago. I think he might have been drunk, but it sounded pretty gross.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lift+horror+student+dies+in+hospital.-a0102467564" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lift+horror+student+dies+in+hospital.-a0102467564</a>Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404801771576060057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-7079902765545702252014-02-13T14:57:53.274+00:002014-02-13T14:57:53.274+00:00The Wikipedia page makes reference to the paternos...The Wikipedia page makes reference to the paternoster at Newcastle University being replaced after "a passenger undertaking an up-and-over journey became caught in the drive chain". Not sure how you would do that, and details are disappointingly vague. Sounds painful, though.<br /><br />More people <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2557771/Horror-mother-beheaded-young-son-getting-trapped-doors-elevator.html" rel="nofollow">being decapitated</a> in regular lifts in the <i>Daily Mail</i> only today, though.electrichalibuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365477143816746297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33388979.post-358532359384038902014-02-13T09:07:32.504+00:002014-02-13T09:07:32.504+00:00They are indeed peculiar. With the ones at Essex t...They are indeed peculiar. With the ones at Essex there was a sign on the top floor 'Further travel not dangerous but not recommended'. I knew of one woman who evidently didn't quite believe the 'not dangerous' part and flung herself out from quite a height, breaking a leg. It's also best not to travel on them with too many others if you all want the same floor, as by the time the others have got off the lift will have travelled too far up and you'll have to go round again ...Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404801771576060057noreply@blogger.com