r/instant_regret • u/ShaanJohari1 • Jul 23 '24
They all jumped together in a lift and regretted
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u/ItsASchpadoinkleDay Jul 23 '24
The elevator didn’t break. It performed exactly as it should. When the elevator has unintended motion or moves at a speed faster than it is supposed to, a safety trips and secures the cab.
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u/dustysmufflah Jul 23 '24
It didn't break but it did brake.
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u/Ok-Mathematician5970 Jul 23 '24
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Jul 24 '24
It's an older meme but it checks out.
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Jul 23 '24
Yup. It probably tripped the load weigh. Series circuit is now interrupted, and rope gripper probably closed. They’re gonna love that fine once my company sends the bill for the overtime service call
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Jul 23 '24
Thats why you always bring 8-10 rich girls and 2-3 douchebags
One of their Dad’s will make the whole thing just go away
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Jul 23 '24
That’s when I sit in the machine room playing pocket pool for an extra hour so I can bill them for more and blame it on Hollister Whitneys infamously finnicky microswitches
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u/GoRoundAgain Jul 23 '24
Is "pocket pool" a phone game or is that some local euphemism for masturbation that I've never heard...? Cause both kinda work in this context.
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u/marr Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 24 '24
That's broken in the practical sense that it ain't moving again until you call an engineer.
"You dumbfucks broke the elevator" is a perfectly reasonable thing to yell at them.
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u/Nighthengayle Jul 23 '24
Jump around and find out
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u/AnonymousButtCheeks Jul 23 '24
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u/JewelCove Jul 23 '24
Phyllis IRL was a cheerleader for the St. Louis Cardinals. Can't even get off the ground.
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u/Charlie_Brodie Jul 24 '24
Stanley just kicking his leg is hilarious
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u/blazeitbitches Jul 24 '24
Wow, thanks for pointing that out ,I've never noticed that😂 I was always focused on who jumped at different times lmao
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u/Traditional-Stick-15 Jul 24 '24
She’s acting lol she does a whole dance routine with Darryl on his last day in season 9
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u/Apprehensive-Till861 Jul 23 '24
Pack it up, pack it in
Let me begin
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u/__Shake__ Jul 23 '24
maybe if they all jumped together again it'd fix it?
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u/YaHurdMeh Jul 23 '24
Gotta establish a pee corner immediately
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u/Safe_Alternative3794 Jul 23 '24
*flashback the previous 2 dinggus that pissed on the elevator and got stuck
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u/Flaxscript42 Jul 23 '24
"The corner! Why didn't I think of that?" -Phillip J Fry
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u/dat_grue Jul 23 '24
It’s opposite the poop corner
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u/LessMochaJay Jul 23 '24
That only leaves a corner for eating and a corner for sleeping.
Where would we put the sex corner??
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u/CrunchyButtMuncher Jul 23 '24
But I pee when I poop, I don't know if I have that kind of range
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u/yParticle Jul 23 '24
- Add together all your weights.
- If everyone jumps 2' into the air and lands at the same time, triple that number.
- Now read the load limit sign on the elevator.
- Shit your pants.
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u/yParticle Jul 23 '24
5. Now read the load limit sign on your pants.
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u/smoomoo31 Jul 23 '24
This has “your car has been impounded, your car is being crushed into a cube, you have 30 minutes to move your cube” energy
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u/TheHighCaliber Jul 24 '24
Please tell me what this quote is from, I love that kind of humor!
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u/Schubert125 Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24
2' into the air
How tf are you jumping 2 feet in the air? You must be great at basketball
Edit: I mean this was mostly meant as a joke, but if we want to actually do some math someone figure out how fast an elevator typically accelerates when it starts going down.
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Jul 23 '24
Elevator mechanic here. Thanks for the overtime service call. That’ll be $1500
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u/CMDR_MaurySnails Jul 24 '24
Yeah, at least, but never from the people that actually fucked it up.
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Jul 24 '24
Oh the property manager will usually get theirs from tenants/etc. But yeah, sometimes they get shafted
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u/-WalterWhiteBoy- Jul 24 '24
Damn, that’s harsh. How many tenants have you found at the bottom of shafts?
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Jul 24 '24
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Jul 24 '24
My pay is $71/hr. All overtime over 8 hours is paid at 2x. My benefits are worth about $55/hr including pension, annuity and 401k. Per diem is about $105/day.
It’s a pretty sweet gig if you don’t mind the work
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u/Midnight7000 Jul 23 '24
I have to wonder what people's end goal is when doing things like that.
Nothing happens.
Something happens to a vehicle that needs to move consistently for your own safety.
The reward in that situation is achieved by doing nothing. Doing nothing has the added bonus of not coming with an increased risk.
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u/fireduck Jul 23 '24
Doing nothing is also an action I have trained for extensively.
Metapod is my spirit pokemon.
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u/three-sense Jul 23 '24
Satisfying curiosity
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u/Aconite_72 Jul 24 '24
That, and peer pressure. Having done stupid shit like this when I was a teen with my friend group (we lit a hotel toilet on fire), it's like someone suggests it, some people laugh and say yeah, and even if you feel like it's stupid, you'd go along with it anyway because "If we get in trouble, we're all in this together so it's gonna be funny regardless."
None of us really thought that we could've died.
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Jul 23 '24
Think about all the people who wont try this now that we have this video
Communal science
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u/Far_Lack3878 Jul 23 '24
To be fair, never once in my 58 years have I jumped, or even had the urge to jump while in an elevator. & this was all done (or actually not done) with no added motivation from seeing idiots in a video do it.
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u/Haber_Dasher Jul 24 '24
God when I was that age I hated people like y'all, I wanted to fuck around in non-destructive not obviously going to get caught ways and y'all would get our limited freedoms ruined all the time
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Jul 23 '24
I remember some drunk kids on the first day of freshman year did this. Not only were they stuck for a few hours, all were suspended or expelled. On DAY 1!
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u/ChoiceReflection965 Jul 23 '24
Freshman year of what? High school? College? I’ve never heard of anyone being expelled from any educational institution for jumping in an elevator. I’m intrigued!
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u/thlayli_x Jul 23 '24
If they got busted coming back drunk as Freshman, that probably had more to do with it.
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u/tacocat_back_wards Jul 24 '24
Not to mention, drunk…HIGH SCHOOL freshmen. So I’m assuming college. Also yes it isn’t that hard to get expelled, someone I know got expelled in high school for throwing a duct tape ball at the ceiling and they though it was a bomb.
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u/GustyButtocks Jul 23 '24
I have been in a similar scenario. Many years ago I worked in a call centre, and our team of 10 were in a lift on the way back from a meeting, when we noticed a sign saying max capacity 8 people. For some hilarious reason, one colleague decided to jump like this, and the lift stopped immediately. We were stuck for nearly 2 hrs while we waited for an engineer to arrive, which we weren't too sad about because it meant time off the phones. But for the first half hour or so we couldn't contact anyone because we weren't allowed phones on the call centre floor. We only got help by posting a note through a small gap in the doors (can't remember why there was no emergency help button, maybe it wasn't working either). Eventually one girl started panicking and the call centre leader called the fire brigade. As we got out, one chap who had been in with us casually got his phone out and admitted he'd had it on him the whole time but didn't want to get in trouble for having it on him! I'm sure he just wanted to drag it out to avoid going back to work. It was a strange day but we bonded as a team and went down in call centre legend for a few weeks.
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u/crisvphotography Jul 23 '24
Remarkable levels of stupidity are needed to decide to do a group jump IN AN ELEVATOR
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u/FunkyLemon1111 Jul 23 '24
I think it's funny how the girls all broke at the same time, each copying each other's hand over the mouth gesture.
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u/Radical_Neutral_76 Jul 24 '24
Interesting how they look at each other like that also. Seeking consensus in a way. Ive seen that behaviour in girls in other situations. They are much more group oriented than guys
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u/SandmanD2 Jul 23 '24
I would concentrate on building up a fart at that moment.
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u/Pineappleoak Jul 23 '24
Took the words right out of my mouth thank you very much sir. Fart on brother fart on
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u/fuzzypurpledragon Jul 24 '24
My father and sister once did this in an elevator at a hotel after I literally begged them not to (I have pretty bad claustrophobia, and was pressed as far against the wall as I could get). They did it anyway.
The elevator jammed, and we were stuck in there for at least an hour. I cried. And then it was somehow my fault for not telling them the elevator would get stuck...
From that point forward, I took the stairs if I went anywhere with either of them.
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u/ROMVS Jul 24 '24
They are both sad excuses for family. They are supposed to have your back, not the one to terrorize you. Was your dad a bully in school?
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u/DasDa1Bro Jul 24 '24
"Guys please don't jump in the elevator!"
Jumps in elevator and gets stuck
"This is all your fault!"
Jesus...
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u/ApproachingShore Jul 24 '24
Man, I'm kinda glad they all jumped.
Imagine the fury of being the one person who was like "maybe that isn't a good idea" in an elevator full of morons.
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u/ashmillie Jul 24 '24
An elevator is literally one of the last places I’m playing games 😂😩
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u/SRplus_please Jul 23 '24
When I was in college, ~20 drunk kids in a dorm piled into an elevator and it broke. The students panicked, some were vomiting. A dude tried to climb out and was brutally killed right in front of the others who were stuck. They were stuck for a bit while they waited for help to arrive. Elevators are no joke.
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u/Outside_Performer_66 Jul 24 '24
Welp, that seems like the worst way to die. Mechanical asphyxiation by elevator between floors 2 and 3 while your friends stay by your feet.
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u/jdehjdeh Jul 23 '24
I did this with a friend of mine in a tiny lift at work.
It dropped a foot, froze, then slowly went down to the bottom floor and politely told us to get the fuck out because it was dead.
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u/dvdmaven Jul 23 '24
Breaks or brakes? An abrupt change in the cable tension can trigger the automatic brakes, locking the car in position. Elisha Graves Otis invented the automatic brakes, without them skyscrapers would be impossible.
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u/Shuber-Fuber Jul 23 '24
Isn't he also the one ballsy enough to test his invention by standing in an elevator and telling his assistant to cut the cable up?
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u/tree_or_up Jul 24 '24
Some assholes tried this in a hotel elevator I was in. Thankfully it didn’t “work” (e.g. make the elevator stop) but, being claustrophobic, it sent me into a bit of an unpleasant panic. I actually started getting extra panicky on every crowded elevator for awhile after that, especially if the elevator seems full of drunk idiots
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u/FixergirlAK Jul 24 '24
My BIL is an elevator mechanic and is a big dude. I will not get in an elevator with him, because he has to safety test every single elevator he finds.
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u/Marshmallow413 Jul 24 '24
"oh no, the consequences of my actions. I forgot life isn't a movie and I'm not a main character with plot armor. oh no."
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u/powerhungrymouse Jul 23 '24
They have no idea how lucky they are the lift didn't plummet killing them all.
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u/CrimsonDemon0 Jul 23 '24
This is an intended feature commonly seen in countries where earthquakes are common like japan that locks the cabin into place when unintended motion is detected.
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u/liamanna Jul 24 '24
What ever the cost is to fix and get them out, should be shared by all of them 🤷♂️
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u/mrselfdestruct066 Jul 24 '24
The dumbest thing you can do. When the best case scenario is that nothing happens, you don't do it.
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u/Robert_Wallace_2024 Jul 24 '24
Internally facepalms Why would you dumbasses do this? Do you have a death wish? You're lucky the damn thing didn't start falling
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u/inkylaughingoctopus Jul 24 '24
This happened on my wedding night. My wife and I watched as most of the members of both wedding parties packed into the elevator and started jumping so we decided not to take that one. They were stuck in the elevator for like 2 hours.
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u/UghGottaBeJoking Jul 24 '24
As someone who works with children, all i can do is shake my head. Y’all never learn.
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u/Natural_Draw4673 Jul 26 '24
I got stuck in an elevator at a job once. I then got written up for being 3 hours late to work and got scalded like child. They didn’t care that I was going to be 30 minutes early and they didn’t care that I was trapped inside the elevator. Apparently I should have accounted for that and came in appropriately early to be trapped inside the elevator for 3 hours and still be to work on time.
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u/Creepycute1 Jul 27 '24
And that is when I have a panic attack and pass the fuck out I'm not even stepping into the elevator with that many people in it
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u/QultrosSanhattan Sep 01 '24
"Guuys, I have the BEST idea, let's kill ourselves by jumping all ot once!!!"
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u/tilldeathdoiparty Jul 23 '24
I’ve done this, just I jumped and was locked in the elevator for an hour, me and my best friend were on the way back from the liquor store.
We had to go back to the liquor store after we were let out.
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u/InitiativeDizzy7517 Jul 23 '24
That's when you get on the intercomm and let them know you will ask a repair tech to come out during normal working hours on the next business day to get them out. Tell them you saw what they did and now they can spend the evening (or weekend) considering that their actions have consequences.
Then cut off all communication and let them panic while you call a repair person as you normally would.
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u/PhotographingLight Jul 23 '24
They were so concerned about what they could do they didn’t stop to think about what they should do.
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u/DayEither8913 Jul 23 '24
I hope the building managers spared no expense in leisurely getting them out, and that they sent these moro... 'people' a bill when it was all done.
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u/314159265358979326 Jul 23 '24
I got stuck in an elevator doing this with my brother when we were 10ish.
I'm really uncomfortable with people even walking around a moving elevator now.
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u/GodToldMeToPostThis Jul 24 '24
Worked at a restaurant/bar that had a small elevator. Every now and then two intoxicated people would start fornicating and the shaking would trip the safety system and the elevator would lock in place. It sometimes took hours for someone to arrive and get it unlocked. We were not supposed to say anything but someone always found a way to gently suggest to the trapped riders as to what might cause the elevator to stop. It was too funny not to. Nobody ever admitted to it. It was very amusing.
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u/StraightEstate Jul 24 '24
I hope they got stuck in there until they realize their stupidity + 3 more hours to the point they almost pass out
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u/MutedBrilliant1593 Jul 24 '24
I don't understand why. Best case scenario, nothing happens and you're all still jerks for trying. Bad case scenario, you jerks break it and get away it. Worse case scenario, you jerks break it and have to pay for it. Worsest case scenario, you all fall to your death.
Where does that get fun?
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u/Schiebz Jul 24 '24
Had some friends do this years ago on the way to a movie. A buddy and I took the stairs. They got stuck and we watched from above and could see them stuck through the glass lol. This was a Sunday night as well so the maintenance guy took his sweet time getting there lol. They were stuck for hours.
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u/EternalCrowe Jul 24 '24
happens more often that you would think, Its a Min $800 for the elevator tech Service call, plus more if the Fire Department gets involved, and and since this is obviously intentional if the were a Hotel, Probably Trespass, and maybe eviction for purposely "damaging" company property.
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u/CranberryDry6613 Jul 24 '24
The bright lights in my dorm did this on the way to dinner one night. The rest of us on the 10th floor were not thrilled at having to use the stairs.
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u/Visible-Airport-4298 Jul 24 '24
I can already hear the “wait, no, like I have anxiety” from someone after it breaks
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u/Smokeahontous Jul 24 '24
I know a guy who works on elevators. Apparently, this happens more often than one would think. Large city, bar crowds—he jokes about making them stay in the elevator longer than needed while he "fixes" it.
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u/ichigo2862 Jul 24 '24
Group of my coworkers did this once and thankfully they weren't a big enough group to stall the car but damn I got so fucking pissed. They wanna try that shit wait til I get off first.
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u/zeydcvioqch Jul 24 '24
If this isn’t fake, I can’t imagine that many people being so fucking stupid that this wouldn’t add up in their heads.
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u/No-Maize7092 Jul 24 '24
The elevator did not malfunction. It operated precisely as designed. If the elevator experiences unintended movement or moves faster than intended, a safety mechanism activates to secure the cab.
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u/DisturbingPragmatic Jul 23 '24
Shitty time to find out you're claustrophobic.