Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Weird Things Found in Elevator Shafts


At some time in their life, everyone realizes that there's a really little gap in between an elevator and a building's floor. Hopefully they realize it as a precautionary measure. Others realize this as their phone or keys are sliding through. For a fun story, here's a time an entitled mom tried to speak to an elevator tech's supervisor, but he was it.

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Text - MastaFnog 32.7k points · 1 day ago Q2 Keys. Trash. Bugs if the building is exceptionally shitty. Mostly dirt and dust. Found a paint roller that the last guy left there once. It was stuck to the floor. Not a whole lot of weird stuff can make it between the sill and the landing.

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Text - agentSMIITH1 30.2k points · 1 day ago This question should be my jam, but unfortunately I've never found anything interesting. $2 coin once, a dime bag of some unknown drug, plenty of syringes, or sets of keys. It's mostly just peoples junk mail and empty chip bags down there.

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Text - Myjunkisonfire 27.7k points · 1 day ago 2 2 e5 I once accidently lost my drivers license down the little gap in the elevator doors, just dropped it and was super unlucky as it slipped through. It turned up in my mail 10 years later! Obviously long expired, but still crazy some maintenance guy found it and bothered retuning it.

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Text - Hocktober 21.2k points · 1 day ago 2 Worked at a hotel. Guest dropped their phone down the shaft. After a few failed retrieval efforts, we called the elevator guys. They went down got the phone and also found a carton of eggs. Rotten, but not cracked. I don't even understand how that could happen accidentally. EnriqueShockwave9000 20.0k points · 1 day ago 82 3 O 3 @3 & 5 More Because it was no accident. I work in tech now but while I was in college I helped an HVAC guy and he once had me

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Text - nibiyabi 21.1k points · 1 day ago 3 O 3 & 11 More My dad has a great story about this. He supervised the mechanics, and one of them called him from a mental hospital and said "you've got to see this". The maintenance guy was called because the elevator wasn't quite sitting level on the ground floor; it was about half an inch too high and both patients and staff had been tripping on it. But all other floors were no problem. My dad arrived to find the maintenance guy cackling, looking into

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Text - TheAyre 278 points · 1 day ago Not an elevator technician, but I can tell you some dude, at some point is going to find a kindle at the bottom of a shaft in a Toronto hotel elevator. Rules to remember: Rule #1: Always check that you zipped your carry-on and didn't leave a gap in the bottom Rule #2: Kindles fit through small carry-on bag zipper gaps and elevator shaft gaps

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Text - KnightOfNoir 13.8k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago & E 2 e & 2 More Bundle of Watehmen Watchtower magazines (Jehovah's witnesses pamphlets) wrapped in duct tape. Inside it was a Rossi .44 Special revolver and a screwdriver.

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Text - drdisney 11.9k points · 1 day ago8 Not a technician, but do work at a large hotel. A few years ago one of our elevators stopped working. Turned out when they opened it up they found a 3-ft pile of guest folios that were never delivered to the rooms. Later when we looked on the camera we found it was a security guard that got tired of delivering them to the rooms and instead dropped them down the elevator shaft. He did this for months until he was caught.

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Text - anon577321 766 points · 1 day ago Not elevator maintenance but one time I dropped a set of wheels for a cart in the crack. Im sure some maintenance man is going to be concerned to find loose wheels in the elevator of a nursing home. Like some elder person is walking around with a wheel less walker.

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Text - aimeeerp 10.6k points · 1 day ago 5 3 6 & 4 More My dad was an elevator mechanic for about 15 years. He had a very dark sense of humour and would come home with some of the craziest stories. (For example, any time he was in an elevator, he would shake it a little or tap on the displays or buttons and go 'Yep. Total piece of crap. Inferior piece of crap.' and I think he mostly did it to freak people out.) One of my favourites: He got a call that someone was hearing weird noises from the el

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Text - indigoaway 7.1k points · 1 day ago One time, we were doing a rip out at an old factory. They were gutting them and turning them into luxury apartments. The elevator we were taking out was a shitty old freight that hadn't run in years. When we finally ran it up, we went down to inspect the pit. It smelled like a dead body had chilled there for half a century. The bottom floor wasn't lit so I shined my flashlight under the elevator and the whole floor started moving. Roaches. Nasty Haven't

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Text - AwesomeJohn01 5.7k points · 1 day ago Not an elevator repair person, but you would be shocked by the number of nurses that drop their keys down the shaft. 20 stories up and 2 buildings away from the parking garage and they already had their keys in their hand. I had to call maintenance all the time for retrieval.

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Text - D28wt 991 points · 1 day ago One of my baseball coaches when I was a kid lost his glass eyeball in the elevator shaft. Maintenance guy gave a solid WTF.

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