Ewwww

[litch]

Good Gods this is just ugly.

Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, was stepping into a second-floor elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital Saturday morning when the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator car moved upward.

A hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the elevator before firefighters rescued her.

Can you imagine?! This poor woman standing in the elevator, doors start to close and this guy rushes to try and make it, he gets stuck, there's an initial moment of humor at the rediculous situation then the danger starts to sink in and this horrible slow decapitation with the guy screaming right at her feet. And then being stuck in the closed little room with his severed head rolling around on the floor.

Comments

[ophelia99.livejournal.com]

Oh... My.. God.. that is SERIOUSLY the stuff my nightmares are made of...

when you think about it.. it's amazing more freakish accidents like that don't just happen..

I just heard a story about a lady in my town.. who SOMEHOW.. got caught up under a semi .. she was apparently just walking (this lady was supposedly really kinda flakey and wouldn't pay attention where she was walking)....so anyway..

she was walking by this semi and somehow got caught underneath it..and the driver didn't know..

so he drove off.. with her legs caught under it..and her head was just... hitting the road over and over and he drove on..

some other driver noticed and told the guy to pull over..

she amazingly lived.. but is doing REALLY BAD with major trama to her head.. probably brain damage.. will never be the same again. she was in her late 40's.

shit like that is what's always scared me.. when I was a kid.. I was never scared of monsters or boogeymen... I was scared of being tortured to death or having some freak accident happen to me.

It didn't say which way the head fell....

[pxdick.livejournal.com]

I mean, perhaps she spent the time instead with a headless corpse.

Which is preferable?

Re: It didn't say which way the head fell....

[litch.livejournal.com]

Since he was stepping into the elevator I'm assuming he went head first.

I think the head is worse, we are so hardwired to react to faces that the 20 minutes in there with it will sear into your consciousness. On the other hand if you get the body you get the lovely bodily voids to ferment in there with you for 20 minutes, the smell would have to be fucking atrocious, but still I think I'd prefer it to having to remember this:

[xephyr.livejournal.com]

Golly, that's a disturbing thought. However, the guy wasn't actually decapitated. According to the Harris Co. M.E., the guy died from "multiple blunt-force injuries to head and body" and that "a portion of the victim's head was severed, but he was not decapitated." Not sure what the distinction is. (from today's Statesman)

[tekelili.livejournal.com]

That's certainly an interesting quandary to ponder-- hmmm, stuck in an elevator with a head, or a headless corpse. I'd have to go with the head. It's small, and one could throw something over it perhaps, if one didn't want to look at it anymore, which I imagine one wouldn't. Unless you happened to be a necrophiliac stuck in the elevator, but I won't get into that. . .

[trav23.livejournal.com]

i've had a bit of background elevatorphobia the last couple years that i've been unable to account for other than the really sad apparent state of the elevators in some of the buildings i've been working in. this bit of the article kinda scares me tho:
Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

now someone tell me why revolving doors have started to freak me out. i never used to worry about things like this, but now i'll avoid revolving doors if there's the option..

Hi

[kukiri.livejournal.com]

I added you to my friend's list because...well...how else am I going to be randomly confronted with elevator decapitation stories and the like?