Made's husband, a man who wants to be called Wayan, recalls watching one man die after an elevator cable snapped and he was crushed by the load of concrete he was accompanying.
Over the weekend, six people visiting Chicago's fourth-tallest skyscraper wound up living out a literal goddamn nightmare when their elevator's cables snapped and sent the thing hurtling towards the ground, dropping 84 floors before it finally came to a halt, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The cogwheel of the Bradbury elevator was heard snapping into action, and Davis set off to perform again.
In other parts of the world, of course, elevator cables were snapping, airplanes were crashing, ships were sinking, motor vehicles were breaking their axles, bridges were collapsing, and on and on.
The Times Square subway station was closed for more than two hours last night after a cable snapped on a construction elevator at 7 Times Square, the authorities said.
For buildings of great height, limiting factors include the elevator cable, which can snap under its own weight if too long, and the decrease in rentable floor area as the tower rises.
George Steinbrenner snapped at a stadium official on Wednesday to help him figure out how to get the elevator to travel to the fourth floor at Legends Field.
We left the apartment feeling hopeful, and it was only when we crammed into the elevator that I realized the agent was staring at me. "Chinese?" "So what if he is?" my girlfriend snapped.
The crash of the left-side remote-controlled Elevator Car was originally a gaffe, caused when the wire pulling the scale model across the "rolling road" unexpectedly snapped.
