No.
This is kind of crazy, especially the first point in this article. My old man just called to tell me this, but I didn’t believe him, but I guess the internet backs him up.
gizmodo.com/380741/things-you-do … -elevators
Earlier today we posted on a New Yorker piece about a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. But the real gem of the article was the mountain of “Did you know…” facts laced throughout. Like that Door Close button you’re always pushing? Yeah, it doesn’t work. Here’s the full list:
* As mentioned above, the Door Close button is there mostly to give passengers the illusion of control. In elevators built since the early '90s. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.
* The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
* Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1/3 more accidents.
* Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.
* Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.
* The Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world’s population in their elevators every five days.
* The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.
* Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
* The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
* Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
* The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that — myth. You can’t jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn’t know when to jump.
* Due to the laws of physics, elevators can’t be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.
my bass i’m selling on eBay has no bids yet but i have had two questions and there are 18 people watching it. tomorrow is crunch time. hopefully they are waiting till the last minute to swoop in like a vulture and grab it when they think no one is looking only to find that there are 17 other vultures moving in. nothing like a good bidding war. especially when you are the one who gets the dough.
^ What kind of bass is it?
warwick fna jazzman with a nice padded gig bag. $650 starting bid.
i hope somebody buys it cuz i’m broke as shit.
I think it’s this one:
I’ve heard there are buttons all over the USA that are all fake.
Elevator close buttons.
Sidewalk crossing buttons (I think NYC was mentioned specifically).
Those big red ones that say DO NOT PRESS.
Just thought I would give you guys an update on little Molly.
Since the last post, she has come out of her coma, she is breathing on her own, and (according to a text that my wife got last night), she has even opened her eyes, and tried to talk!
She still has casts on both her arms, but the docs say that her arms and shoulders are healing very nicely. She also has had her neck brace removed, and is apparently able to move her head from side to side.
The little bit of bad news is that she may be blind for the rest of her life due to the damage that this asshole did to her eyes, but they also said that because she was trying to look around yesterday, they now think that there is a chance that she may regain at least some of her eyesight back.
She’s still got a long way to go, but she has come leaps and bounds from where she was a month ago.
So I just wanted to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. I most definately believe that the power of prayer is working here, so please continue to send your thoughts, prayers, and vibes her way! It’s working!
glad to hear she’s getting better.
so what happened to the bastard that did this? he’s locked up right?
Right now, he’s sitting in jail. He had a bond hearing a couple of weeks ago, and the judge said something to the effect of there not being any bond, so he can’t bond out.
His next court date is scheduled for December 15th. I believe that this is for his sentencing. And from what I’m hearing, he is going to be charged with attempted murder, among other things. He already had seven other warrents out, and he was in possession of and under the influence of heroin when he was caught. So it sounds like he’s going away for a looooooonnnnnnngggggg time.
I have to stress that all the information I’m getting is from a game of telephone. So I don’t know how legit this is, but I do believe that everything about Molly is pretty accurate.
And, God I hope it’s true that those who commit such heinous (sp?) acts on children will get the shit beat out of them while in jail. Even the badest criminals locked up have no sympathy for assholes who do this to little kids. My hope is that he gets beaten just like he did to Molly over and over again. Then, when he heals up, it happens again. and just repeat this for the rest of his life. THAT would be justice…
Dayuummmm! The place i buy mine are $5.10-15 (cant remember). They were 10 bucks here i DEFINITELY would’ve quit by now. But then again i have never been faced with the problem so i guess i don’t really know. Either way 10$ to slowly kill your self sounds like a rip off. One thing that REALLY bothers me about NYs smoking laws is: In NY cigs are taxed sooooo hard, apparently all the way up to 10$. Now taxing death sticks this hard is understandable, but what really makes me mad is the fact that you (the smoker) is stuck paying a majority of the city’s taxes yet you are not allowed to smoke one in public… or even in a bar. IN A BAR FOR GOD’s sake! Thats no way to treat the people who pay most of the taxes is it? I say it should be one or the other. Either the cigs are super expensive but you can smoke freely, or make the smokes cheaper but confine the smokers to their homes. It just seems extremely unfair to me.
Yeah it sucks for sure, but to be fair, you can’t smoke in bars in NC either. Or in most places in the eastern US, as far as I know. City of Asheville recently passed a ban on smoking in public parks and greenways. It’s not really enforceable, but it’s kinda ridiculous that they’re passing laws like that. I mean, I understand the argument in favor of it, but to me, it’s just a restriction of basic freedoms (however cliche that may sound) that I don’t agree with. I bet you would have to get a permit to paint your house a different color in this town. I know in some towns in Vermont you do; I wouldn’t be surprised if you had to here.
So I just finished this test, and I feel so much better. It was like a dark storm cloud hanging over my head, and now it’s gone because I feel like I did really well! I hope I’m right. Thanksgiving next week, fucking right! Can’t wait to go home and have some great food and see some folks.
Super bummed right now…missing Mikey’s show tonight in Chicago due to illness…was hospitalized a couple days ago with a serious upper respiratory infection. I already have asthma, so it hit me pretty hard. Got a good dose of shitty ER care here in the city. Usually I go to Rush Med. Cen., but this time I went to Resurrection (closer to home) because I literally could not breathe. I was treated like SHIT in the ER. Completely profiled because I FORGOT my insurance card—they didn’t believe that I had insurance, so I was treated like an animal. I have GREAT insurance too.
Bad part about it, is I deal with this hospital a lot for work, and I am throwing the book at them. I refuse to pay for the treatment they gave me. I wont get into detail, but let’s just say I know now what it feels like to receive “profiled” treatment in the ER. 
Have fun getting Cactus bombed tonight Chicago–have a drink on me!
oh that sucks man, i hope you get to feeling better.
You are all lucky that today was a very busy day at work. Because this place has been dead today.
gamecat couldn’t post that much, could he?
Sitting at the house, clinging to my last moments of relaxation before I head to the library to study for a history test that I’ve got tomorrow. Sucks ass, but I’ve got motivation: this is the last major academic thing I have to do before I go home for Thanksgiving break. Man, I love the hell out of this town, and right now, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, but it will be really really nice to be home for a few days. I haven’t been home in a long time, and I look forward to hanging with some old friends, and my brother of course. Oh, and not to mention the meal. I want some squash casserole now, dammit! Fuck waiting.
Not making it “home” this year for Thanksgiving, but parents are coming to visit me. 
That’s how it is when you get “older”–all of a sudden you are not the one going home, but parents come to you! I am taking them to see John Mellancamp at the Chicago Theater on Friday night. Should be a great show. Instead of me having to entertain them all evening, I’ll leave it up to Johnny! If you have never seen Mellancamp, I highly recommend it. His band is AMAZING. 
I’m not seeing my family for Thanksgiving and I’m GLAD. Too much bullshit. I’m cooking for my husband and daughter, but that’s it. I will see my mom for a few minutes when I meet her to give her Makenzie for the weekend, but I’m not going with them.
Instead, I’m going with Holt to his parents’ house where I can actually enjoy myself. Eff family drama. The Pearce’s don’t have any of that crap. You just hang out, eat food, drink homemade wine, and if I was so inclined (which I’m not) puff with his dad and brother.
The worst part is their house is a GIANT MESS and it’s kinda gross to be there. Everything’s dusty and there’s literally no empty space it’s so full of junk from papers, buckets, old cash registers, furniture, clothes, etc. Their whole house looks like a big garage sale or something…inside AND out. It’s awful. His dad’s always bringing shit home with the intention of selling it and never does, so it it just sits there. People will be throwing away stuff and he’ll geek out and insist it’s still good and that can make money off of it. But he’s always busy and never has time to mess with whatever it is so it lives wherever he puts it down. Then he brings more stuff home to sell and never does, so it sits there. Then he brings more stuff home…you see where this is going.
I’m not doing Thanksgiving either. Gotta work. I don’t like family gatherings anyways because its usually people acting nice to each other when they really can’t stand them.
Maybe I can talk my boss into letting me work Christmas too 