decapitator elevator 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Having had not even so many beers at a student friend's flat, the three of us decide it might be a good idea to do a bit of elevator surfing.
We had no problem opening hatch in the ceiling, and soon we were standing on top, joking, beering and admiring the smoothly running cables.
We'd about had our kicks when I, ever inquisitive, noticed that there was this 15 inch gap between the lift and the back wall of the shaft.
Curious if I could see the bottom of the shaft, I leaned over to peek down, when I felt a gentle brush going through my hair. It was the huge rectangular counterweight coming down through the gap, while we were going up.
Had I leaned a bit further, it might well have knocked me down and decapitated me, in what would have made a particularly juicy student stupidity news story.
When I turned around, my friends were still gasping. We left pretty soon afterwards, amazingly sober.
Bruno, the Netherlands Submitted on 02/12/2003
Submitted by:
Bruno
Reference:
personal account, around 1991
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