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I've just had to be rescued by security guard as the lift I ws in got stuck Just me and some laptops that I was taking up to our IT dept.

Has this happened to any other TM members or am I the only one ?

No, never been stuck in a lift, thank goodness.

However I have been stuck in the IT Dept for years!

How long were you stuck for?

I used to be terrified of lifts until I saw a show called "The Secret Life of Machines". They explained about the Otis safety device and how it stops a lift dead within an inch or two if the cables break. Now I think lifts are lovely. Never been stuck in one, but if I am, I can tell the others in there with me all about the Otis safety device.

Lifts lovely? Tell that to the guy in the film Omen 2 who got cut in half when the wire rope snapped!!

Have never been stuck in a lift but I am wary of them, despite working here in London on the 18th floor. Yes, the Otis system is meant to cut in and stop the lift just falling to the ground but there have been cases here of a lift just falling far enough to drop below the level of the open door. Bad news if you are half wayout.

Heronjester

I was only in there for approx 10 minutes (I thuoght to myself, this lift is slow today)

The thing was, i was only going up 2 floors. Thank goodness I don't work at Canary Wharf or some other really tall building When the securty guy opened the doors I was on the floor I wanted, didn't even feel the lfit move

Bit random, my Dad is an electrician and had to do some work in Canary Wharf. Not the top floor, but near the top... (can you see where this is going)...well he went up, things went funny and the lift broke just before he got in. Lucky...ish...he had to walk the whole way down!

I was stuck on a lift on a loading dock when I was a teenager. I was working in a factory and I was taking down some boxes to one of the delivery trucks. On the way back up the lift just stopped. There was no emergency button there were only two buttons. One for up the other for down as it was a freight elevator. I yelled till my throat was shredded. An hour and a half later I guess somebody needed to use it and of course it wasn't working. At that point they called maintance and got me out. When I got back to the floor I worked on the supervisor wanted to know where the HELL I was. That he trusted me to go down drop of some boxes and come back up. Should have taken 5 minutes 10 max. It was not an invitation for me to goof off for over an hour.

I let him yell and scream at me because he really seemed to need to yell and scream. When he was done, he was standing red faced, huffing and puffing. he finally asked me what I had to say for myself. I told him I had nothing to say go talk to the maintanance dept and walked away. I never got an apology.

I still enjoy lifts unless I am with my brother. He has a tendancy to go in and push every botton. I once suggested he do that after we get off not when we get on. He never quite understood.

Rushie,

Bet it felt like 10 minutes too long!

It's bad enough when you're waiting for a lift and it takes an age.

I've been on a mast climber that broke down at the top of a tower block which was 16 stories high. that's one of those things you see going up and down the side of tall buildings when they're refurbing them

That was quite an exerience for the guy who was petrified of them in the first place and a pain in the back side to winch it down to the bottom again.

I got stuck in a stinky pee smelling car park lift on my 21st birthday for about an hour!

Our own fault really. We were trying that thing where you jump just as the lift stops...My Brother and I jumped..looked at each other and cracked up laughing realising we had knackered the thing!