Elevator Falls 26 Floors at Las Vegas Hotel

[Bluebear]

Holy cannoli!!!


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Three people are recovering after the elevator they were riding in malfunctioned and fell 26 floors.

It happened at the Fitzgeralds Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Safety mechanisms prevented the elevator from hitting the ground floor.

Nine people were in the elevator at the time as well as a cart full of luggage. Fire officials think the elevator may have been overloaded when the accident happened.


http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6705026

[aquart]

1. No way that elevator shouldn't have been able to handle that load.

Nine were in it and three are recovering? What about the other six???

[Kutjara]

2. Perhaps there are only three now.

Three six-armed, three headed monsters.

[tanyev]

6. Their fall was cushioned by the unfortunate three?

[tridim]

17. Doesn't matter.. The safety brake should have kicked in the split-second it started falling

I smell a lawsuit due to a defective brake.

[MidwestTransplant]

37. If not a lawsuit, at least some comped nights and meals!

[DS1]

3. Aren't some limited to 1500 pounds?

9 times 170 avg = 1530

plus luggage

[Javaman]

7. Checked a few sites. average weight limit is 2500 pounds.

That's even worse 2500/9 = 277.77 pounds!!!!

we live in fat ass nation.

[Bluebear]

I will refrain from buffet jokes...

but only because hese poor people were almost scared to death. :)


Isn't there a ride at Disney called "Tower of terror" or something? I guess some people actually pay for this sensation!

[Nickster]

15. Yeah, Tower of Tower. I rode that, it was a blast.

[rucky]

13. "and a cart full of luggage"

still, your visual is priceless.

[Javaman]

4. "elevator may have been overloaded when the accident happened"

nine people overload an elevator????????

welcome to the American diet.

:banghead:

[Eurobabe]

12. In Las Vegas? Probably

[MidwestTransplant]

36. The elevator had just picked them up on the buffet floor.

[Eurobabe]

45. LMAO!!

:spray:

[Speck Tater]

5. Was the elevator cable made in China? (nt)

[Uben]

8. No, but it was headed there! nt

.....

[KansDem]

42. LOL! Best post of the week!

And it's only Monday! :D

[John Q. Citizen]

10. What difference would that make? n/t

[Speck Tater]

19. Considering their pet food and toothpaste track record...? (nt)

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. I wouldn't want to be the one to clean the floor. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

11. Holy shiite!

That's scary! Thank God no one was killed. :scared:

[Nickster]

14. Holy Cow! That would have sucked! On the plus side, I bet they're getting comped like a son of a gun

[pitohui]

23. i bet they're not

this is really a low ball casino, there is nothing there to comp anyone like "a son of a gun" to begin with, it would be like getting comped to the motel 6

plus giving them anything would be akin to acknowledging guilt and i'm sure the lawyers will not allow this unless someone is concussed enough to sign their rights away for a free spin and a hotdog...

[Nickster]

26. So you're not really a "humour" kinda person are you?

[frazzled]

16. Holy crap ... that is my phobia (one of them)

I have a few irrational, though not excessive or debilitating, fears: bridges and tunnels are two of them--I get really nervous when stuck on or in one. Elevators falling is another, more occasional one. And I take an elevator to my apartment every day.

I always like to tell myself how silly these are: then something like this happens and I think, okay, I'm not that silly. I used to freak when stuck in traffic in the tunnels in Boston--a position somewhat vindicated when that woman was actually killed in one when the ceiling collapsed. Now my flashes about the elevator falling turn out to be not so far-fetched.

Imagine how I feel when the train stops on the elevated bridge over the river. I suppose that's next.

I'd better go find my smelling salts.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. God, me too.

I always check elevators to see if there are bars in them to grasp if I fall.

My other one is having a truck with ladders or pipes or other heavy crap on it suddenly busting free. Mostly because it happened to me once, and I'm terrified that this time I won't be so lucky!

[catmandu57]

20. Twenty six floors and still alive

I'd call that a miracle, after watching the mythbusters episode about surviving an elevator crash it's a wonder they weren't scrapong them up and seperating the parts into body bags, when they get out of the hospital they'de better hit the tables.

[pitohui]

22. well 3 of them are still alive of the 9 who were in the elevator at the time

the article explicitly says THREE are recovering

i dunno, doesn't sound real good to me, and the three "recovering" will likely have permanent damage, they may not even know the extent of the soft tissue damage because it "develops" like film and the pain is actually not as bad at the moment of impact as it could be weeks later...or for the rest of their lives

plus fitzgerald's doesn't have any tables worth "hitting," it's a preferentially shuffling (legal cheating) low rolling joint

all around no reason to feel "lucky" here

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. Everybody should read Colson Whitehead's *The Intuitionist*

A great book "about" elevator inspection...

http://www.amazon.com/Intuitionist-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385492995

[nonconformist]

24. Oh holy shit! I've stayed at Fitzgeralds before...

... I'm thinking that was probably the last time though...

[Selatius]

25. 6 people died. They didn't report that except imply it.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. no

it's reported that all passengers walked out of the elevator. 3 were slightly injured.

Musta been a scary ride!

[Lex]

28. Got a link on that? The article doesn't even "imply" that anyone died.

nt

[Selatius]

29. Well, the article in the OP was only this long:

From this, I inferred that the others died, because it didn't state they walked off.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6705026

Three people are recovering after the elevator they were riding in malfunctioned and fell 26 floors.

It happened at the Fitzgeralds Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Safety mechanisms prevented the elevator from hitting the ground floor.

Nine people were in the elevator at the time as well as a cart full of luggage. Fire officials think the elevator may have been overloaded when the accident happened.

[Lex]

30. Probably they didn't report fatalities because there were none.

nt

[Bluebear]

31. Update: " Three injured in downtown Las Vegas casino elevator plunge"

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three people suffered minor injuries when an elevator descended rapidly and made a "hard landing" in Fitzgeralds casino-hotel in downtown Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon, a hotel spokeswoman said.

Nine people, one cart full of luggage and a bell man were in the elevator when it fell rapidly, but emergency brakes kept it from hitting the bottom of the elevator shaft, said vice president of marketing Teresa Malm.

"It was a hard landing but all the individuals exited the elevator of their own volition," (sic) Malm said.

Two adults and one child suffered minor orthopedic injuries and they were taken to a hospital to be treated, he said. The injured suffered from a hurt back, elbow and knee, Malm said.

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/188979

[Selatius]

35. Now that's a better reporting of the incident than the other link in the OP. Thanks. n/t

[Retrograde]

38. Nine people and a bellman?

Don't employees count as people at that hotel?

[Bluebear]

44. Good catch! nt

[mitchum]

32. What was the action on that?

[Bluebear]

33. :)

[Ezlivin]

34. They should gamble if they have that kind of luck

I would have immediately left the elevator and gone to a slot machine.

Well, that is if I were a gamblin' man...

[BlueIris]

39. Yeah, really.

Near elevator crash and not dead? It's time to start living every day, man.

[Sabriel]

40. No kidding. 6 to 3 is better than keno. nt

[pointblank]

41. Doesn't surprise me

My wife and I were nearly robbed at that hotel (Thank god for my quick wits that saved us! :eyes: )...it was shady and crummy.

[Parche]

43. Elevator Riders

One of them was Dennis Hastert..............:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:



Rep John Boehner was seen crying to congress when told about the elevator incident that involved
his friend...Rep Dennis Hastert
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi: