This Notice in a Hotel Elevator
by The_Smart_Barbarian
This Notice in a Hotel Elevator
by The_Smart_Barbarian
31 Comments
Jesus how many times has it been broken that they had to put this sign up…
Jumping in the elevator is likely to trigger its emergency brake. Don’t jump in an elevator.
We went to Canada over the weekend for mother’s day, and they had a sign similar (much more expensive, even with the conversion) and it was sports pictures all around it. There was another sign in the hallway with the same sports decor and telling parents kids are not a lot of the hallways,Throw ice, go to the breakfast bar by themselves, Hang out in the lobby alone, or run around outside.
We’ve stayed at hotels several times when youth team sports going on in the area and toward her staying up the hotel with their team and they’re always running around crazy to the hallways or jumping up and down in their bedroom.
So, my former husband’s job was the elevator worker who got a call at like 3 am for drunk idiots jumping in an elevator. And he only had to be on call part of the time for a few hotels… It happens waaaay more than you think, and this was before Tiktok.
$1000 actually seems cheap to get a licensed elevator repairman rolling out for a quick fix.
They didn’t have a warning for kids pissing on the buttons..
Meanwhile here I am, just being nervous stepping inside an elevator. Every time it makes a slightly different sound I always go ‘Is this the end?’ I can’t imagine people just jumping inside an elevator for fun, what the hell. What’s up with people’s surviving instincts?
When we were little, we used to wait for the elevator to reach flow state and then jump so we were weightless for a second.
Kangaroo Discrimination
so…. my dad used to tell little me (im like 4-5yrs old, small) that if I jump juuuuuust before the landing of the elevator, it wont get me motion sickness.
it worked. we never had a problem with the elevator? but it was just tiny me…
never thought about it again and I stopped doing that around 8 when my motion sickness stopped being bothered by elevators.
I imagine a ton of grown adults would be bad for the elevator….
but what’s it break? like danger of a snapped cable or something from a sudden jerk of jumps? or?
– someone who is always fascinated by clear elevator tunnels but doesnt understand at all how they work
thank you for the responses!!!
Chance I will jump before seeing this sign: 0%
Chance I will jump after seeing this sign: higher than 0%
r/SignsWithAStory
Recently retired firefighter here.
This is a real-ass problem. There was a pair of elevators in a parking garage down the street from my station. Kids would go in them in evenings and weekends and cram in and jump and just basically fuck around. We had to go down there for an elevator rescue on average once a week, and that was only on my shift. The other two shifts would do the same. We started having contests to see who could pick the doors open quickest (11 seconds was the record last i checked.)
It was a huge fucking nuisance and legit safety issue and it just never went away. Im not surprised to see a sign like this, Im suprised to not see them more often.
They definitely host sports teams for middle- and high-schoolers
I am an engineer at a hotel and people do this shit all the time and break down elevators.
This causes the cables to stretch slightly which trips a safety and drops the break at the equipment. The only people that can reset the break is the elevator company which is easily cost $1000
Tell that to the kid who trapped himself inside the elevator by peeing on the control panel!
Having jumped once with my son and getting trapped for over 2 hours when both of us had to pee, I strongly agree with this sign. It was miserable.
‘Entrapment’ doesn’t mean what they think it means…
Unless they are hoping that this sign actually makes you jump…
I’ve jumped in elevators hundreds of times and not once has it stopped or got broken.
Fair enough but if I’m ever trapped in elevator I didn’t jump in please expect me to seek restitution.
Put up the sign, change the elevator music to house of pain’s jump around and then rake in the money all day long
A hotel manager got fed up …
Looks like a sign with a story.
We had a telescoping shaft elevator installed as a retrofit in a mid-rise building where there used to be a more standard traction type. I guess because of the tight spaces we had to work with and they didn’t want a big pit or to make room for a bigger machine room, or something. I came in as regional during this period after costing, planning, site prep and the install had already begun.
As soon as this work was completed: problem after problem similar to this. Jumping kids (and older college kids), then older ppl overloading it instead of using the designated cargo/freight elevators just steps away down the hall. We had another new one going in the shaft where the other elevator was, right across the hall. Chaos!
The jumping/overloading triggered emergency stops between floors and locked the car in place. It’s a safety feature to prevent random, uncontrolled plummeting in case of physical, material defect or a mechanical failure occurs.
You had to call an elevator tech to come in, with the car out of service sometimes for hours, and sometimes you needed to call 911 to have ppl removed safely from the car.
$1000 doesn’t even begin to cover it, esp if it’s after hours or holiday/weekend rates. Even with service contracts in place, it is expensive.
This isn’t what entrapment means.
This isn’t an issue for 99.99% of elevators.
All they are doing is posting a notice that theirs is poorly maintained and/or badly installed. I’m sure their insurance would love that, for a start.
Ha, there is a Homewood Suites near me. I’m going to see if they have one of these.
Nothing kills the vacation mood faster than realizing gravity now has a $1,000 deductible.
My fucking coworker did this to me once.
He was “familiar” with the model we have and wanted to demonstrate how it “wouldn’t care” if there was movement within, so he starts jumping up and down a bunch.
I warn him motherfucker you better not get us stuck.
“No no I promise it’ll be fine” as he continues jumping.
Then the elevator stopped and Safety had to get us out.
Believe it or not, but $1k is “reasonable”. The local elevator for my building charges $1600 minimum for any type of service call no matter how basic. This has led to some rather heated discussions when people make the trick shot of dropping things down the gap and into the shaft.
It was my birthday, and we were on our way down to go for drinks. I took the stairs but about 8 of my friends to the elevator and decided to all jump just for the fun of it. It locked them in, they had to call the fire department, and one girl had a panic attack.