Have you ever been stuck in a lift ( elevator).. and were you afraid ?

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Just read that a post woman ( female mail carrier).. got stuck in a lift while delivering the mail, and wasn't found for 3 days.. and suffered a long slow agonising death.

How horrific it must have been for her.. just a young woman too..

A postwoman has been found dead after being stuck in a lift for three days with no one coming to rescue her.

Olga Leontyeva, 32, was delivering mail on her rounds in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Monday July 24.

CCTV footage showed her stepping into the lift on the ground floor of the nine-storey flat block. She was not seen afterwards.

The mother-of-one was then reported missing on July 26 by her worried relatives, and her body was found the next day in the elevator, which is thought to have stopped working due to a power cut.

A source claimed that 'no-one heard her shouts for help' and the lift's alarm did not sound.

According to reports the lift had been suffering regular technical problems, and had not been properly registered. Breakdowns were also 'common', according to Tashkent General Prosecutor's Office.

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She tragically has left behind her six-year-old daughter who is now being cared for by relatives.

State investigators are examining the incident and a criminal case has been launched, said the prosecutor's office.

An earlier check on the Chinese-manufactured lift had found it to be in working order, said a report, yet it had not been registered according to government regulations.

The power supplier denied there had been an electricity cut.
R.I.P young lady...
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...lift-three-days-without-able-raise-alarm.html
 

Yes,it happened when I was working at a local law firm in the 80's which was located on 3 floors
I was all alone in the elevator, it got stuck between floors so I didn't dare jump out. After about 30 secs, I started yelling for help,pushed the emergency button. After 20 min which to me seemed forever the elevator started working again. I was shaking after I got out
After that incident, I refused to get on the elevators started to walk up/down the stairs instead
 
Got stuck in lift with 9 other people. Between floors 4-5 at the hospital after visiting grandpa once last time as he'd died that morning. I was already distraught, so when the doors finally opened, I shot out and straight across to the stairs door.

Ran all the way down and collapse in the foyer in front of the charity shop. Woke up three days later in my bed at home. Don't know what happened in between but one thing guaranteed I've never stepped into that lift at that hospital ever again.

I'm claustrophobic au naturel. Although, I spent 3 years playing in cardboard boxes, but this was before the box I was in one day got packed away in the back of a truck. I was in there for about an hour, when Papa got home and didn't see my play box.

So, to this day, I only step into clear glass lifts and I flatten every cardboard boxes...
 

Yep, I was on my way to a City Council meeting at which I had to request our organization's annual non-profit fundraising permit. It was the first time I had to do it and I was scared stiff of standing there at the microphone. I had heard they were tough on permits.

I was in the elevator and it stopped between the second and third floor with me alone in the car. I rang the bell and talked to someone who said help was on the way. Someone pried the door open and thankfully, about four feet of the top of the elevator was open to the third floor. I asked that they stick their heads in the meeting and tell them I was stuck.

After a few minutes, someone handed a chair down to me and I climbed on the chair and crawled through the opening. I was only about 20 minutes late to the meeting but unfortunately I had worn my favorite "good-luck" suit which was pale pink and I had dirt and grease all down the front of it.

The Council felt so sorry for me that I didn't even have to give my spiel. They granted the permit immediately and apologized for my ordeal.

If I had my druthers, I would have rather faced the tough City Council than get out of the ordeal by having the ordeal in the elevator.
 
Can you just imagine that poor young woman, not only dying of thirst and hunger over 3 days but knowing that her little 6 year old would have been pining for her. It's just amazing that the family didn't start looking for her for 3 whole days...:( and no-one in the block of flats thought they better get someone to check there was no-one in the lift when they discovered it wasn't working..
 
Only have three story buildings where I live, but my building elevator has lost power a few times. One of those times I was on my way up to the 3rd floor ..
Elevator started up, and got to the 3rd floor, and then without warning slid back - slowly- to the ground level.

But the doors wouldn't open .... pushing the various buttons over and over ... finally arrows to open doors worked... ???
They have HELP! and 911 options too.

And I always carry my phone with me ... When I told the property manager about it, he didn't have anything to say.
 
katlupe said:
That is why I always carry a charged phone with me. Our elevator is only for 3 floors and we could hear if someone was yelling on it. I would be terrified to get on it if that happened and I was on it for a long period of time. I am scared of it breaking down again with someone on it.
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I can't imagine that young lady wouldn't have had her phone with her, but I'm wondering, if she did..if the lift acted as a Faraday cage, and she couldn't make or receive calls
 
Years ago, in the mid 1960's, I was taking an elevator ride to the top of the Eifel tower in Paris, when the elevator lost power for about a 1/2 hour. There were about a dozen of us stuck about 500 ft. above ground. Luckily, the power came back on and we continued to the top. A couple of the occupants got pretty scared, and it was a relief when the elevator moved again.
 
Don M. said:
Years ago, in the mid 1960's, I was taking an elevator ride to the top of the Eifel tower in Paris, when the elevator lost power for about a 1/2 hour. There were about a dozen of us stuck about 500 ft. above ground. Luckily, the power came back on and we continued to the top. A couple of the occupants got pretty scared, and it was a relief when the elevator moved again.
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I've been on that elevator on the Eiffel tower... it's scary enough being on it without having to suffer it failing...
 
hollydolly said:
It's just amazing that the family didn't start looking for her for 3 whole days...:( and no-one in the block of flats thought they better get someone to check there was no-one in the lift when they discovered it wasn't working..
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This is the first thing I thought of, too... the little girl's Mama didn't come home on the 24th... nowhere to be seen on the 25th... and they thought they'd report it on the 26th?! Where was the girl all that time and why wasn't it reported that Mama hadn't arrived home on the 24th? Strange.

It says a criminal case has been launched... that's a good thing.
 
It never happened to me but I have a client who did get stuck in an elevator during a power failure at work. She and I still work together to help relieve her stress over the event even though it's been years since it happened. She still relives it in her mind. It's been disabling for her. :(
 

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