Speaker 1: Everyone has a fear, a fear of falling from heights,
Speaker 1: the chilling fear of spiders, creepy clowns, or the unknown dark,
Speaker 1: and even elevators. Man made machines like these are often
Speaker 1: subjects of our imagination's worst nightmare, and in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: one woman in China was thrown into that nightmare where
Speaker 1: she was trapped in an elevator and the only thing
Speaker 1: is no one was coming to save her, and she
Speaker 1: was left alone, waiting and dying.
Speaker 2: Warning.
Speaker 1: The following podcast contains graphic content and material intended more
Speaker 1: mature audience. Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going. What the I'm Nicola?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm Ben and you're listening to Wicked.
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Speaker 1: Did you forget our intro?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I kind of was like what am I
Speaker 2: supposed to do? We always were changing it up periodically,
Speaker 2: and then I get lost and I'm like you're looking
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Speaker 1: There was like thirty seconds of dead air there. I'm
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Speaker 2: We'll be like are they there? Are they there?
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Speaker 2: Was distracted because Ripley was being really fucking cute.
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Speaker 2: Actually remember but I was like, I think it's all
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Speaker 2: Nuts, it's nuts it is. It floats my boat, it.
Speaker 1: Floats, your boat, floats my boat. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna say it blows my mind, but you went completely
Speaker 1: different directions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like to change it up once in a while.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 2: And I'm drinking delicious cider cheese sandwich. Just kidding, delicious
Speaker 2: cheese sandwiches, a dry apple cider. It's her mermad actually
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear a word what you said because I'm
Speaker 1: still in delicious cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Oh, I cannot. I will never ever be able to
Speaker 2: say delicious without thinking delicious cheese.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, though, Tom Green, if you guys don't.
Speaker 2: Know, I also ate the most moldiest piece of cheese
Speaker 2: in history today, smooth, and didn't even notice until I
Speaker 2: went to take a second bite.
Speaker 1: Tell us the story. Indulgous.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just disgusting. Like my stomach actually hurt most
Speaker 2: to day. But I don't know if that was in
Speaker 2: my head or the mold was actually grown in there.
Speaker 1: I'm growing in there, all right.
Speaker 2: But basically, I have to take this like it was
Speaker 2: a cheese stick thing. Take it from the fridge, put
Speaker 2: in my lunch, open that cheese, said cheese stick. Take
Speaker 2: a bite. It tastes like absolute shit. But I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe my mouth just tastes funny, Like what the fuck
Speaker 2: eat some crackers? Go to take another bite? Holy fuck,
Speaker 2: mold stick, this mold the whole thing was like green.
Speaker 2: You didn't even I was like, okay, well, I'm on
Speaker 2: my way to take photos right now. And now clearly
Speaker 2: I'm not in an observant state whatsoever, so this photo
Speaker 2: shoot might not go so well.
Speaker 1: But she knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 2: Bill I did, but I need to be more observant
Speaker 2: when it comes to eating cheese.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, all right, Well, cheese aside, mold a side.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: You're ready to get on with this case?
Speaker 2: I'm still ready?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, fore warning, this is fucking crazy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all I really got to say. It's it's a rather
Speaker 1: short episode. There's not a whole lot of information to
Speaker 1: go on with this one, but it's it's a wild ride.
Speaker 2: So I am very intrigued because it seems it's like
Speaker 2: a case that I can't comprehend. So I do need
Speaker 2: to learn a little bit more about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's got that wow factor. Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: M hmm, like somebody fucked up. Wow.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, let's put that way up. That's a really
Speaker 1: good way of putting it. Okay, So here it goes.
Speaker 2: You ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: You'd had to finish taking your sip. Sorry, bad timing. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: our story takes place in a city called Xian. I
Speaker 1: think I said that right, No ci ci Cian China.
Speaker 1: I literally researched how to say it, like for half
Speaker 1: fucking minutes.
Speaker 2: That's literally every episode.
Speaker 1: I think it's how you say it. Okay, that's so
Speaker 1: x I a Nann and Sheanne has a rich history
Speaker 1: and culture that dives deep into like literally our history,
Speaker 1: like way fucking back. And it's home to incredible tourism
Speaker 1: with of course delicious food, and it's renowned for its
Speaker 1: terra Cotta Army. Now, the terrrat car Cotta Army is
Speaker 1: a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting an army for the
Speaker 1: first Emperor of China. All the sculptured art pieces were
Speaker 1: actually buried with the emperor in twenty ten to sorry
Speaker 1: two hundred ten and two hundred and nine BCE, with
Speaker 1: the purpose of protecting the emperor. And it's in is afterlife.
Speaker 2: Oh that's really cool.
Speaker 1: There are eight thousand of these life size terracotta fucking statues.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, isn't terra cotta the it's clay. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's like very fragile.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I've I don't know how I'm the pots
Speaker 2: that I've had, I've broken that was our terracotta, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like those like red and rounds, this terracotta.
Speaker 2: That's really cool though, to like visualize that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's eight thousand of these terra cotta soldiers
Speaker 1: life size, and each one has an estimated value of
Speaker 1: four point five million dollars US.
Speaker 2: So can you see them, like are they visible like
Speaker 2: or are they like.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they have for the tourism aspect
Speaker 1: of it, but you can go on Google and see
Speaker 1: a picture of all of them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was just curious to you visit them, right,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's.
Speaker 1: Some in the museum, but I'm pretty sure most of
Speaker 1: them are like stowed away and you can probably visit
Speaker 1: the site where they were excavated.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But anyways, just want to get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit because it was really cool. But hian is
Speaker 1: a bustling city with a population of around eight point
Speaker 1: five million people and around six point nine million million
Speaker 1: people in twenty sixteen when our story takes place.
Speaker 2: Good lord, I can't imagine living in a city that large.
Speaker 1: It's massive.
Speaker 2: We don't even have one hundred thousand people in our city,
Speaker 2: and sometimes I'm like, why are there so many people everywhere?
Speaker 1: People are fucking annoying, let's put that way. So being
Speaker 1: in Chianne, being that it's a busy city with an
Speaker 1: enormous amount of people, it's reasonable to expect that to
Speaker 1: keep up with demands of such thing as like maybe maintenance,
Speaker 1: companies had to look for contractors to keep tabs on
Speaker 1: their facilities so they can focus on other aspects of
Speaker 1: their business. Now, one business that took advance of this
Speaker 1: were property managers and developers. It just made more sense
Speaker 1: to have, you know, professionals come in to the scene
Speaker 1: and fix everything, pay them and be on their way. Now,
Speaker 1: in theory, this works great. However, in practice, as we
Speaker 1: will soon find out, that wasn't quite the case. Now
Speaker 1: there's a woman who has only been identified by her
Speaker 1: last name Wu. She lived on the fifteenth floor of
Speaker 1: an apartment building surrounded by millions of other people. Now,
Speaker 1: Wu was a forty three year old woman who stuck
Speaker 1: to herself. Her neighbors didn't see much of her and
Speaker 1: assumed her to be a bit of a loaner, but
Speaker 1: polite enough when they did meet her in the hall
Speaker 1: in the apartment buildings.
Speaker 2: So she lived alone.
Speaker 1: Yep, she lived alone, just kind of chilled by herself
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Now, Wu's family would also tell a
Speaker 1: bit of small similar details, saying that she liked to
Speaker 1: keep to herself and also had a history of mental illness,
Speaker 1: though that history of mental illness wasn't disclosed on exactly
Speaker 1: what that means, but something like that would, I'm sure
Speaker 1: would be even more difficult to deal with when surrounded
Speaker 1: by millions of people in a bustling city like that.
Speaker 1: And yes, her apartment was undoubtedly her sanctuary.
Speaker 2: I actually just want to touch on that because I've
Speaker 2: been like to Vancouver quite often and like when you're
Speaker 2: on the skytrain and stuff, you're literally like, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is kind of pretty covid. I guess it might
Speaker 2: be back to this, but you're like shoulder to shoulder,
Speaker 2: which is so many people, but like you're just it's
Speaker 2: like the feeling of just being lonely, Like no one
Speaker 2: says anything, no one even tries to look at you,
Speaker 2: like they avoid eye contact, like someone's living in big cities.
Speaker 2: It's like lonely as heck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Vancouver is a small city compared to someplace
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, so yeah, it's you're completely disconnected. You're
Speaker 1: to yourself, and yeah, you're surrounded by people, but you're completely.
Speaker 2: Alone, like at least here. I mean, gosh, every daily
Speaker 2: you go by, like you're probably smiling at a stranger, right,
Speaker 2: there's at least like some sort of contact per se.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Someone holds a door open for you,
Speaker 1: or there's small talk at the cashier register at the
Speaker 1: grocery store, things like that, right.
Speaker 2: Which sometimes can be like so annoying, But then I
Speaker 2: mean comparatively, maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean we bitch about it too lots,
Speaker 1: you know, or you run into someone from you know
Speaker 1: high school that you have to have that small talk
Speaker 1: conversation with or whatever, or maybe a family member or
Speaker 1: whatever that you haven't seen in years, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I got to get on my way, but I got
Speaker 1: to talk to this person. Oh it's annoying. But I
Speaker 1: mean those that makes us not feel quite so alone,
Speaker 1: whether we realize it or not.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So, yeah, I know there's always a moment in
Speaker 2: my head is like how can I get out of
Speaker 2: this situation? But then usually I can't, and then it's
Speaker 2: like enjoyable. So I don't know, that's just me being me.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is, bitch, leave me alone. Well, anyways,
Speaker 1: we're going back to the date. On January thirtieth, twenty sixteen. Now,
Speaker 1: Wu found herself leaving her apartment to venture off into
Speaker 1: the busy city. As she reached the elevator, as she
Speaker 1: always did, she pressed her button and she waited. The
Speaker 1: elevator doors closed behind her, but Wu wouldn't make it
Speaker 1: to the floor she wanted to. You see, the elevator
Speaker 1: malfunctioned with Wu inside, and it stopped stuck between the
Speaker 1: ninth and tenth floor, leaving her stranded inside the elevator
Speaker 1: completely alone.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just hate that.
Speaker 1: And luckily, of course, the maintenance department were quickly notified
Speaker 1: as soon as malfunction was discovered and they came to
Speaker 1: the scene for the repairs. So upon the arrival the
Speaker 1: repair men got there and Wu must I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say I know how long she was
Speaker 1: in there for. I can't find a report on that,
Speaker 1: but Wu mustn't have been waiting very long. I'm going
Speaker 1: to assume maybe like somewhere like under an hour. But anyways,
Speaker 1: the two men got to the scene, but they were
Speaker 1: rather hurried. So it was January thirtieth after all, which
Speaker 1: is you know, and Chinese New Year, and Chinese New Year,
Speaker 1: also called the Lunar New Year, has an annual fifteen
Speaker 1: day festival in China, and Chinese communities around the world
Speaker 1: celebrate this. Their workdays must have been long, these two individuals.
Speaker 1: I'm sure with jobs that a lot of people book
Speaker 1: vacation off before the holidays, during the holidays, after the
Speaker 1: holidays because of all the celebrations going on, and of
Speaker 1: course businesses shut down, so it's pretty strapped for employees
Speaker 1: to be working. People are rushed, they want to get home,
Speaker 1: whether they're you know, tired of their long day shift
Speaker 1: or they're on their edge for vacation as well. And
Speaker 1: being on the verge of vacation is exactly what was
Speaker 1: happening here.
Speaker 2: So your mind is just solely somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yep, you're just like, I just want to get home.
Speaker 1: I just want to get off the job.
Speaker 2: We've all been there, Oh totally.
Speaker 1: We're watching the clock, you know, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's four point thirty. I get off at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: That last half hours ticking by because you just just
Speaker 1: want to go, and you end up like darting for
Speaker 1: the door like three minutes early, but your your bag
Speaker 1: is packed like five minutes early, and you're already dumping
Speaker 1: out the remainder of your coffee cup, you know, ten
Speaker 1: minutes early and washing out your cup.
Speaker 2: You're ready to roll, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the situation here. Their maintenance business
Speaker 1: was closing for the holidays, and that's exactly what was
Speaker 1: going on, and the repair men decided to hold off
Speaker 1: on fixing this elevator until they got back from their vacation.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, so of course we know WU is inside
Speaker 1: and the two men didn't know this. So what they
Speaker 1: did is they shouted into the elevator to see if
Speaker 1: they could hear if anyone was inside. They didn't hear
Speaker 1: any reply.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 2: Was it like soundproof? Don't know, because that's like another
Speaker 2: thing that I'm just curious, like, wouldn't you be like
Speaker 2: yelling and like, I mean, you think someone would hear you,
Speaker 2: even like someone living in the rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's it's hard to say why no one
Speaker 1: heard Wu. It's hard to say if these men actually
Speaker 1: did call out to her, but they claimed they called
Speaker 1: out and tried to see if anyone was in the elevator.
Speaker 2: My brain is so peer I never even went there.
Speaker 2: They could have just been shipped their jobs and not
Speaker 2: even actually checked. And then just later when it's found
Speaker 2: out that shit went down, then they're like, oh, we joked.
Speaker 2: It's so easy to say, not saying that they didn't,
Speaker 2: not saying that they didn't.
Speaker 1: So they the claim is that they shouted to see
Speaker 1: if there was anyone inside, and they did not hear
Speaker 1: a reply. So the two men simply disabled the elevator
Speaker 1: so no one could use it and then left with
Speaker 1: of course Wu still trapped inside and this is one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten percent against any sort of workplace protocol
Speaker 1: for this situation. The men, if leaving the elevator like this,
Speaker 1: would have known that they are supposed to manually open
Speaker 1: the elevator to ensure it was empty before leaving it unattended.
Speaker 1: They literally need to make sure they look inside, not
Speaker 1: just be like it was up anyone in there.
Speaker 2: Like, it's so good, and that was like a rule
Speaker 2: at the time, right, not something that came to be
Speaker 2: after correct. Okay, that's so good because I just feel
Speaker 2: like at this point, I was like, I'm never going
Speaker 2: in another elevator. But no, that that's.
Speaker 1: What they're supposed to do. If they're leaving it unattended
Speaker 1: like that and disabling it or whatever, they need to
Speaker 1: ensure there is no one inside. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty basic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Really, But regardless they chose not to do this. These
Speaker 1: two men made a distinctive choice to walk away without
Speaker 1: checking the inside.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's cringey.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they walked away and alone inside, Wu must
Speaker 1: have heard the men cry out for her. If they did,
Speaker 1: she must have heard them, and she must have cried
Speaker 1: out for help. Even banging on the doors to get
Speaker 1: their attention, but somehow it went unanswered. Now, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you she thought they must be coming back. They will
Speaker 1: go off, they'll need to do what they do, get
Speaker 1: tools or whatever, and they'll back any minute. And so
Speaker 1: Wu inevitably waited and waited. Hours passed, and eventually it
Speaker 1: was the next day, and eventually it was the next day. Slowly,
Speaker 1: Wu would have begun suffering from the effects of dehydration
Speaker 1: before she would have realized no one was coming to
Speaker 1: get her. She tried and tried to pry the door open,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't budge. She would kick it, bash it
Speaker 1: with her fists, anything she could do to try and
Speaker 1: break free, but the door remained closed no matter what
Speaker 1: she did tried, and none of her neighbors in her
Speaker 1: apartment would hear any of the ruck as she made
Speaker 1: or any cries for help.
Speaker 2: Oh, that is just scut wrenching.
Speaker 1: And this might be due to the fact that this
Speaker 1: elevator was closed, so they were using a different elevator
Speaker 1: in a different location, so people may have been avoiding
Speaker 1: this area.
Speaker 2: But so it must not have been next to like
Speaker 2: any apartment apartments or anything.
Speaker 1: I'm unclear on that.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Holy heck, I just like I can't I literally
Speaker 2: can't imagine someone not hearing her. I know, I think
Speaker 2: that people probably would have had to at some point
Speaker 2: heard something funny. But then, like, who's going to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: there's someone stuck in the elevator. You just like think
Speaker 2: it was something else.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean you're in a city of millions
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, you hear some banging on the walls. Oh,
Speaker 1: noisy neighbors again.
Speaker 2: You hear some screening noises all the time.
Speaker 1: Some kid out in the streets screaming away. Someone needs
Speaker 1: to shut up their kid. Like, you never know, right,
Speaker 1: someone may have heard and just didn't realize it.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: So Now, regarding the dehydration, for most people, approximately ten
Speaker 1: days is the average time one can last before succumbing
Speaker 1: and dying. In rare instances, the process can take as
Speaker 1: long as several weeks.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
Speaker 1: In Wu's case, she would eventually pass away while trapped
Speaker 1: inside the elevator, but not from dehydration. It would be
Speaker 1: from starvation. Now, people can expect to last a lot
Speaker 1: longer before they starve, as long as forty three to
Speaker 1: seventy days before we pass away from starvation, which is incredible.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was that long. Like I was
Speaker 2: pretty much like starving because I didn't eat for like
Speaker 2: five hours today. So that really makes me feel like, Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, I believe it was average body mass. You can
Speaker 1: your body can consume up to eighteen percent of your
Speaker 1: body mask before you start to fail and die from it.
Speaker 1: And I believe if you're above that body mass, the
Speaker 1: average it's around twenty percent.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now how long Wu actually lasted is unknown, but
Speaker 1: the repair men returned to open the elevator door a
Speaker 1: month later. I've read different reports anywhere between twenty seven
Speaker 1: days to thirty days later before they opened the door.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: When they did open the door, they found Wu lying
Speaker 1: on the elevator floor, lifeless. It was also noted that
Speaker 1: one of her hands were placed up against the elevator
Speaker 1: door above where she laid were multiple marks, dents, and
Speaker 1: scratches in the door where she tried to free herself,
Speaker 1: and her bare hands were beaten and mangled from trying
Speaker 1: to escape.
Speaker 2: That's too much lot, that is like whoa, my heart, Oh,
Speaker 2: I just can't even imagine, especially if this poor woman
Speaker 2: had like mental health issues and stuff. I mean, anyone
Speaker 2: would have mental health issues in that kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh that is just that has I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's pretty brutal ways to die, but that's.
Speaker 1: Bad, that's heartbreaking, and this is why it's This case
Speaker 1: is known as the loneliest death, just isolated screaming, no
Speaker 1: one can hear you. But just like you had already mentioned,
Speaker 1: you're in a city surrounded by millions of people, but
Speaker 1: you are nothing but alone. And that's exactly what she was.
Speaker 2: Because I honestly think in your mind you would just
Speaker 2: be like, how on earth could anyone how I'm not like,
Speaker 2: I just don't even think you accept it. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: accept that you were dying in there. There's no way,
Speaker 2: there's no way. I'd be like, no, someone's coming, Like
Speaker 2: someone's coming, someone's coming, and they just.
Speaker 1: Never come until a month later. I'm a month oh yeah,
Speaker 1: after their celebration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, how long were they celebrating for?
Speaker 2: They'd probably just like ended up getting busy with other
Speaker 2: jobs and forgetting well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could have been busy from other jobs, could
Speaker 1: have been with vacations on top of it, and they
Speaker 1: didn't have the time to get back. Like, who knows
Speaker 1: what the whole compilation of issues were, but it was
Speaker 1: a matter of the holidays mixed with whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: else for.
Speaker 2: A month went through their brain when they opened that door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine. I'd feel so fucking guilty if
Speaker 1: that were me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Like I wow, I don't even know if
Speaker 2: like to just like carry on after you would just
Speaker 2: never your day would never ever be the same. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Now. Wu's family had reported her missing to the authorities,
Speaker 1: and they had checked up on her apartments but never
Speaker 1: saw any sign of her, and her missing was assumed
Speaker 1: it was due to her mental illness, and they they
Speaker 1: thought she might have run away or she may have
Speaker 1: been a recluse somewhere, and they wouldn't They couldn't locate her,
Speaker 1: and they were just in hopes that she would eventually
Speaker 1: turn up safe. I mean, how do you find a
Speaker 1: missing person in a city of millions?
Speaker 2: Right again, I mean, they probably didn't even consider the
Speaker 2: elevator that was broken down.
Speaker 1: Nope, knocking on their daughter's door. With the broken down elevator,
Speaker 1: they would have had to have gone to the elevator
Speaker 1: shaft realize that all this one's broken and had to
Speaker 1: have gone to the other one to get up to
Speaker 1: her apartment to.
Speaker 2: Look for Oh wow, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So now, needless to say, like her family was fucking outrage.
Speaker 1: That's clear.
Speaker 2: I don't blame them.
Speaker 1: And they weren't alone. There was public outcry over the
Speaker 1: neglect from the maintenance department and how they could have
Speaker 1: overlooked someone being trapped in the fucking elevator, especially since
Speaker 1: it wasn't the first case of neglect.
Speaker 2: Of someone stuck in an elevator, or just neglect.
Speaker 1: Just neglect. There was a protest set up outside the
Speaker 1: apartment against the administrators of the complex and the maintenance company.
Speaker 1: Signs were being held up in protest. People were rallying
Speaker 1: and cried out in a plea for you know, why
Speaker 1: aren't we being treated like fucking human beings? Why did
Speaker 1: she have to die after not being checked on for
Speaker 1: a month when she should have been checked on in
Speaker 1: the first place. Shouldn't have even been hours, let alone
Speaker 1: a month. No, there's one resident who in the protest
Speaker 1: said into a news report and I quote, there's now
Speaker 1: a shadow across my heart. It's scary, and it gives
Speaker 1: me shivers to pass by it when they are referencing
Speaker 1: the elevator.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that just gave me goose bumps, a
Speaker 2: shadow across my heart. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1: Another resident of the apartment complex reported that the building
Speaker 1: management service was poor and routinely ignored residence complaints about
Speaker 1: frequent broken elevators and other matters. So it wasn't abnormal
Speaker 1: to have broken elevators that just didn't fucking work or
Speaker 1: weren't working properly and for them to just ignore it.
Speaker 2: And so it's freaking lucky maybe that this had not
Speaker 2: already happened to something one.
Speaker 1: Hundred percent and it was only a matter of time
Speaker 1: of something like this that was going to happen, because
Speaker 1: unfortunately in the first case, like I don't even know
Speaker 1: where's going with that sentence, but like something was going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: It's very disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know, it's it's brutal. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: didn't happen sooner, but it did happen, and it was
Speaker 1: only a matter of time that was going to happen.
Speaker 1: Now in there's another area in China called chez shen Zen,
Speaker 1: there we go. And on May fifteen teenth of twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: a woman was riding an elevator. Another elevator incident. And
Speaker 1: this is this is prior to Yes, this is a
Speaker 1: few years prior. The woman was riding the elevator and
Speaker 1: she went to exit the elevator doors and she got
Speaker 1: pinched between the elevator doors between her shoulders, and while pinched,
Speaker 1: the elevator quickly dropped and plummeted with her head sticking out,
Speaker 1: and the elevator effectively turned into a guillotine as she
Speaker 1: was decapitated, and her body fell back inside onto the
Speaker 1: crowd that was still in the elevator, and they had
Speaker 1: to wait for the doors to open up at the
Speaker 1: bottom before they could exit, when her lifeless body landed
Speaker 1: on the ground. No, yes, and I do not recommend it.
Speaker 1: But there is CCTV footage of this on YouTube, who
Speaker 1: though it has blurred out, thankfully, I did watch it,
Speaker 1: and I wish I didn't, Okay, if.
Speaker 2: There has ever been a reason to take them on,
Speaker 2: the fuck of stairs? You take the stairs? This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of stairs.
Speaker 2: Oh, are they not safe either?
Speaker 1: On July twenty seventh of twenty fifteen, in a mall
Speaker 1: in China, at ten oh one am, two mall employees
Speaker 1: rode an escalator and when they reached the top and
Speaker 1: stepped off, they found that the safety plate at the
Speaker 1: top landing was loose and they almost fell through into
Speaker 1: the escalator gears and cogs below. Now, they quickly notified
Speaker 1: maintenance and they stood waiting at the top for them
Speaker 1: to arrive. And then nine minutes later, at ten ten am,
Speaker 1: a woman holding her three year old son made their
Speaker 1: way to the top of the escalator. There's again CCTV
Speaker 1: footage of this. I watched it. It's not as graphic,
Speaker 1: but you know what happened, so I don't recommend you
Speaker 1: watch it either. But it shows the two workers standing
Speaker 1: there who had the incident nine minutes before, motioned towards
Speaker 1: that loose plate at the top, almost as if they
Speaker 1: were trying to warn the woman how she supposed to do.
Speaker 1: At that point, it was too late. She stepped on
Speaker 1: it and she fell through. Luckily, she managed to push
Speaker 1: her three year old son past the opening to safety.
Speaker 1: The mall, however, wasn't shut down. The floor was simply
Speaker 1: closed off, while public unknowingly continued their shopping while a
Speaker 1: four hour rescue ensued to rescue the woman who fell
Speaker 1: into the gear system of the escalator, and it took
Speaker 1: that four hours before they found the thirty year old
Speaker 1: woman lifeless and mangled in the escalator steel structure.
Speaker 2: Holy hack.
Speaker 1: So this is not the first incident of neglect of
Speaker 1: maintenance and a severe incident occurring.
Speaker 2: Those are some brutal gas.
Speaker 1: And there's more out there like that. I couldn't keep
Speaker 1: researching them. I was like, I gotta stop this.
Speaker 2: Well, that is just traumatic. There's just like no way
Speaker 2: that you Oh man. I was already afraid of escalators.
Speaker 2: I like, take my sweet ass time on them because
Speaker 2: I'm like, this shit doesn't seem right, like there should
Speaker 2: just be stairs here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not wrong.
Speaker 2: And uh wow, okay, yeah, so it's kind of fucked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I said, there are a whole whopping
Speaker 1: load of cases like this out there. I don't suggest
Speaker 1: you guys go out there and research these ones because
Speaker 1: these ones, it's most of them. They have video evidence
Speaker 1: of these ones, and it's scary.
Speaker 2: And there's just something on my mind though, it's like
Speaker 2: this escalator is fucked up, but we're gonna warn people
Speaker 2: at the very top that it's fucked up. Yes, Like
Speaker 2: does that make any any sense? No, it doesn't because
Speaker 2: at that point, what are you supposed to do? Run
Speaker 2: the fuck down the escalator? Like, yeah, I don't get that.
Speaker 1: That's that's one of the arguments you can see on
Speaker 1: like the YouTube comment section is like, why the fuck
Speaker 1: did those two workers just stand there?
Speaker 2: I mean, at least they were doing they were doing something.
Speaker 2: They didn't just walk off.
Speaker 1: They did something. Yes, they notified maintenance, and they were
Speaker 1: at least standing there in attendance, but they're at the
Speaker 1: wrong end. Their attendance didn't do anything because they didn't
Speaker 1: speak up.
Speaker 2: Oh just to think too that this mom like pushed
Speaker 2: their kid at Oh, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, as for the maintenance in charge of the
Speaker 1: elevator that killed Wu, the company and the maintenance firm
Speaker 1: in charge of the faulty elevator were detained by police,
Speaker 1: and the report stated this, The local police are investigating
Speaker 1: when and why she entered the elevator and why. The
Speaker 1: property management and residents all stated they were unaware. What
Speaker 1: do you mean, Sorry, they're looking into when she got
Speaker 1: in the elevator. And why no one hurt her?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I thought you meant like why she was
Speaker 2: getting in the elevator and leaving, so she was leaving
Speaker 2: her apartment. Okay, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: And that's that's about it. That's kind of where this
Speaker 1: case drops off.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, was there like serious lawsuits and shit?
Speaker 1: Well, all my research has unfortunately come up dry with
Speaker 1: what happened after this. I have read some hearsay that
Speaker 1: they were being charged, but I can't find out with
Speaker 1: what or whether it went through or if it was
Speaker 1: a fine or jail time or anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that is some serious neglect it is.
Speaker 1: However, if it's anything like here in Canada, they will
Speaker 1: undoubtedly or would have undoubtedly be held criminally negligent. Now,
Speaker 1: we have a bill in Canada that speaks directly to
Speaker 1: the workplace, and considering this is couldtech be considered a
Speaker 1: workplace incident? It very well could be applicable in Canada.
Speaker 1: We have something called the Westre Bill or Bill C
Speaker 1: forty five. It's a federal legislation that amends the Canadian
Speaker 1: Criminal Code and it became law in March thirty first
Speaker 1: of two thousand and four. The bill established new legal
Speaker 1: duties for workplace health and safety and impose serious penalties
Speaker 1: for violations that result in injuries or death. Now, it
Speaker 1: basically states that if found negligent in a workplace or
Speaker 1: safety protocols that you took steps specifically to ignore them,
Speaker 1: then you can be held criminally accountable and serve jail
Speaker 1: time or possibly a fine. So, for example, if your
Speaker 1: boss knowingly puts you in a dangerous situation you get
Speaker 1: hurt or killed, they can literally be put behind bars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair, it is.
Speaker 1: This is rather progressive as far as workplace incidents worldwide. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to be brutally honest in my my opinion,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling the company simply got a slap,
Speaker 1: got slapped with a small fine and that's about it.
Speaker 1: Which that's what.
Speaker 2: I think is unreally awful. And I would hope, though,
Speaker 2: of anything that they learned from this, or that there
Speaker 2: was some sort of something that came out of this
Speaker 2: that to prevent it from ever happening again. It needs
Speaker 2: to have I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if really anything is being done though. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can do legislation, you can do protocols.
Speaker 2: But I mean they already had it. Yeah, they already
Speaker 2: had it to look in there and they didn't.
Speaker 1: Exactly people scret around it. They cut corners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're yeah, when you get comfortable and you're
Speaker 2: doing a job for too long, like it does happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is this is something actually I know
Speaker 1: a little bit of because this is my day job.
Speaker 1: I'm a health and safety coordinator, and I see all
Speaker 1: the time people cutting corners just because it saves a
Speaker 1: little bit of time or that whole end of the
Speaker 1: day attitude like it's almost five o'clock, almost going to
Speaker 1: go home. Yeah, people drop their guard and whether it's
Speaker 1: your own life for someone else's, it's going to catch
Speaker 1: up eventually.
Speaker 2: Well, And honestly, I do think it's just like this
Speaker 2: day and age though, and everybody has just so much
Speaker 2: on their mind at every time. Oh yeah, Like people
Speaker 2: are just like overworked. They just have like too many
Speaker 2: family responsibilities. Like I don't know, I just feel like
Speaker 2: there's just always so many things going on inside your
Speaker 2: brain that it gets just easy to sometimes like sometimes
Speaker 2: even like driving, like you're driving, like I'm sure I'm
Speaker 2: paying attention and stuff, but like you get to your
Speaker 2: destination and you're like, whoa, I made it here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that's really bad.
Speaker 1: It is. And like you say, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things in your mind. However, there's there's no excuse at
Speaker 1: the same time, just like if you drink and drive,
Speaker 1: or if you're on your cell phone you drive and
Speaker 1: you get in an accident and you kill someone, it's
Speaker 1: your fault. I'm sorry, it's your faul.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I see a lot of people nowadays text or
Speaker 2: like on their phones while they're driving, like constantly. It's
Speaker 2: a constant thing. It's almost like normal, like, which is
Speaker 2: so bad because holy heck, things can happen on the
Speaker 2: road in an instant.
Speaker 1: Yep, and people just don't think, well it's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen to me, or it's just a second, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm pretty sure there's no one in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well look what happened. There was someone in there and
Speaker 1: you literally killed them in thirty days.
Speaker 2: I just hate how like just her struggle of trying
Speaker 2: to get out of there. Oh, and how you could
Speaker 2: see it on her body and stuff.
Speaker 1: That is just it's got horrifying, horrifying, Yes, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, anyways, we hope you liked this. Episode, and thank
Speaker 1: you for our patrons for selecting this one. You guys suck.
Speaker 1: You made me research this one. You don't suck, but
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it was it was rough.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's been heavier ones, I feel there is, but.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The ones that really get me are
Speaker 1: when there's there's people who just don't do their due diligence,
Speaker 1: when people just walk away from it, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's a witness, whether it's the police, or whether it's
Speaker 1: fucking elevator maintenance.
Speaker 2: When it could very easily have not been in that fate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when it's preventable, that's when that always gets me
Speaker 1: so bad. Yeah, I not that I understand, but I
Speaker 1: realize there's people out there who are just going to
Speaker 1: do absolutely horrendous things because that's who they are, that's
Speaker 1: in their system. Generally, we can't change that that's not
Speaker 1: necessarily preventable. But if a civilian or someone who doesn't
Speaker 1: have that in their system just makes the wrong decision,
Speaker 1: that fucking hurts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was so close to me, but this
Speaker 2: was just a very much so unnecessary death.
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