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A day after the city announced it would spend $112 million to improve elevators in public housing, a woman fell 10-12 feet down an empty elevator at the East River Houses in East Harlem. Jolanda Joyce, 28, told NY1 said, "I turned around to get my phone from a friend and I opened the elevator door and I took a step and I just fell. There was no elevator there." She also said to the Daily News, "I just didn't want the elevator to come down and kill me." Joyce has severe bruising all over her body and will need physical therapy; NY1 also notes her claim is being investigated: "Sources also cited witnesses who observed Joyce and her companion forcibly opening the elevator doors when the elevator was not present." The NYC Housing Authority refused to release the building's elevator maintenance records. In August, a 5-year-old trying to escape a stalled public housing elevator fell to his death.
Woman Falls in Empty Public Housing Elevator Shaft
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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This was absent from your writeup:
Sources also cited witnesses who observed Joyce and her companion forcibly opening the elevator doors when the elevator was not present.
Thanks, Politburo--I've added it.
I don't want to sound like a dick because obviously falling down an elevator shaft is a serious thing, but how exactly do you fall down an elevator shaft?!? I've been going over it in my mind and I just don't see how it's possible. Do people not look where they are going? I thought it was a natural thing to be polite and stand aside when an elevator comes so the people already on it can get off first. Wouldn't this give you plenty of time to see there is no actual elevator there? I just don't get it.
MT: I was going to post a similar comment before I found the blurb in the NY1 writeup. She does mention turning around to grab a phone from a friend, which is plausible.. but I'm still unable to really picture it in my mind.
seriously. what's next? somebody falling onto the tracks because they thought the train was there?
People are too focused on their phones/ipods/blackberries to notice their surroundings. The folks falling down elevator shafts are probably the same ones walking into traffic figuring out which ipod playlist is best to get run down by a car with.
And just to be clear, even if this person is stupid, that doesn't excuse any maintenance errors, etc.
I agree with MT.
MT is right on point.
anything is possible,
you could get electrocuted walking your doggie.
Stupid woman. Why doesn't she just go ahead and cross Queens Boulevard blindfolded?
MT is on point because this was obviously staged. She wanted money. She only fell 10-12 feet. Just like the lightly scratched "B" on the McCain woman. It's always a conveniently un-dangerous, not-so-painful accident/attack.
I once almost stepped into an elevator that wasn't there. It was on the first floor of building, with the elevator going one floor down. The door opened and I put a foot out and there was nothing there. Luckily I wasn't committed to the step and jerked backwards.
It was terrifying and I wouldn't get into that elevator again for several months.
this is one of those older elevator cabs where you have to open the door yourself.
My experience was also in one of those older elevators where you pull open the door. Though in an old townhouse/office building.
Even the doors that are manually opened have mechanical interlocks that prevent the door being opened without the cab being there.
If she fell down ten to twelve feet as she says she did she would be more seriously injured. A friend of mine did that and had both ankles and several bones in his feet broken. No way would you would just get scratches and some bruises.
I agree with MT....how do you not notice that the elevator car is not there....I always look to see that it is there before I step forward....I don't know if this lady really did this on purpose or what, but someone should breatalyze and drug test her....now she will probably sue the city of New York and get a butt load of money for her 'pain and suffering' and then end up blowing all her money on crap....
I fell six feet once and I broke my foot...how do you fall 10-12 feet and not break one bone....interesting....
"Even the doors that are manually opened have mechanical interlocks that prevent the door being opened without the cab being there."
They're supposed to, but once for me they didn't.
I'm not saying I believe or disbelieve this woman, but mechanical devices can fail. Rarely, if they are built right and regularly inspected.
In the case of elevators, that failure has occurred - I've seen it.