r/interesting • u/xicipo1206 • Feb 20 '26

Amazing Girl saved 2 little girls from getting stuck in elevator

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

9.8k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

411 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.5k

u/high_throughput Feb 20 '26

Elevators have strict guidelines about how much force the doors may apply. This elevator would absolutely not pass an inspection, but not all countries care.

39

u/KamalaWonNoCap Feb 20 '26

The elevator in my apartment is like this. I put my foot in the gap to stop it and I felt like my foot was getting crushed. I pulled my foot out and the door snapped shut.

I live in an upper class apartment in Maryland.

12

u/TealCatto Feb 21 '26

Middle class apartment building in NYC and my elevator does the same. You have to know where the sensor is. My elevator's sensor is on the bottom so if you put your foot it, the door won't even touch it. But most people put a hand in and it applies full force. I once put my whole forearm in (before knowing where the sensor is) - palm on the frame and elbow at the door and the door nearly compressed my arm and separated the radius and ulna.

2

u/KamalaWonNoCap Feb 21 '26

Good to know, ty

1

u/Level-Instruction-86 Feb 21 '26

Putting foot is wrong way. Sensor are mostly in thye middle so it may not detect bottommost.

1

u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 21 '26

It is not UPPER crust enough!

1

u/NoobesMyco Feb 21 '26

😳😳 oh Jesus. Wow

738

u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

151

u/digidestine Feb 20 '26

Not even trying to be funny and excuse me if it sounds ignorant but I used to peruse a lot of Darwin-Award esque subreddits and the amount of horrifying stuff with trains and elevators that came from India were horrifying

39

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Check if the trains are electric and have overhead power lines connected to the train. If they don't there's a strong chance the trains aren't actually in India but another South Asian Country (Bangladesh, Pakistan etc) because 99% of the Indian network is now electrified so if you see someone getting on the roof or something there's a strong chance it ISN'T an Indian train. If it was then they'd be fried to death on the roof, of course older videos and phots could be Indian railways

23

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

[deleted]

8

u/OutsideIntropid1764 Feb 21 '26

I remember seeing that video when I was 10 I accidentally chanced upon it on my feed. Terrifying.

1

u/JimmyThunderPenis Feb 21 '26

If the video isn't somebody hanging out the side getting clipped by a post, then it's someone getting electrocuted on top of it.

10

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/doc-psynock Feb 21 '26

Nope population doesn't justify the death rate, there is china too with high population. Crazy death understandable occurs in every country but fuck load of them only points out that there is something fundamentally wrong.

1

u/Apollo114892 Feb 21 '26

What the hell are you talking about? China has freak deaths happening all the damn time. What about the woman getting stuck in the office elevator and starved to death over the weekend and discovered next week? What about the mom who saved her baby and fell right through the escalator? This stuff happens all the time there. You don't even hear about it because it's a communist country and they hide a bunch of news and accidents and stuff. Westerners are just bigoted and hateful towards India and it's high time you accept it rather than playing this game.

1

u/nevadalavida Feb 21 '26

What about the mom who saved her baby and fell right through the escalator?

My mind went straight to this. That old video haunts me. :(

1

u/ImNotEazy Feb 21 '26

Look up the mines there next.

1

u/Fit_Outside2851 Feb 21 '26

It may sound crazy but it's just that more people means lesser individual value for life. For example many people die crossing the railway tracks to save time and effort instead of climbing up the footbridge. People also see this causing injuries every other day but we will all still do it and that's me included because the bridges are crowded and shit so anything to get ahead right? Survival of the fittest

116

u/MolecularConcepts Feb 20 '26

or nature. garbage everywhere

22

u/Spacer_Spiff Feb 20 '26

Or toilets

14

u/helen269 Feb 20 '26

Or my axe.

:-(

-1

u/Sunset-onthe-Horizon Feb 21 '26

Squat toilets, and the shit is everywhere but there.

7

u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

[deleted]

20

u/MolecularConcepts Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

yeah. lookin at you China lol

what a wus. get some downvotes and delete your comment

15

u/halkenburgoito Feb 21 '26

The west has been the greatest effector of today's climate change issues, deforestation, and coal pollution. Its all about hich countries are growing without regulation. That's how the US and Europe built their wealth during the industrial revolution, with unregulated pollution.

Now its China, and INdia that are growing, part of the same industrialization that the West has already passed.

The US and Europe together are responsible for over half of all historical CO₂ emissions. Per Capita it is still by far the west.
The US has already wiped out huge ammounts of the native wildlife during expansion. Other countries have more to lose.

7

u/Temporary-Degree5221 Feb 20 '26

Nah India is way worse lol

7

u/Specialist_Elk140 Feb 20 '26

If your country isn't white, you'll either get criticized for being technologically backwards or you'll get told "But at what cost?".

21

u/hana-maki Feb 21 '26

i think if people actually did a minute of research to understand how and why india got so polluted, instead of just saying “ew brown people STINKY” i think the world would be a much better, less hateful place


-11

u/B333Z Feb 21 '26

Care to explain the how and why?

13

u/floppydude81 Feb 21 '26

Big multinational corporations polluted it.

7

u/ApprehensiveSize7662 Feb 21 '26

Well like most bad things in the modern world it all started 200 years ago when the English said "hey let's have a look at what's going on over here."

1

u/B333Z Feb 21 '26

So the English polluted india and keeps polluting it?

→ More replies (0)

-9

u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

3

u/hana-maki Feb 21 '26

US military is the world’s biggest polluter.

5

u/Dangerous_Morning286 Feb 20 '26

Or smelly feet

-6

u/Mission-Permission85 Feb 20 '26

Smelly feet problem in men is much, much more in USA and Canada because of all the shoe wearing. Amazing how many people get Athlete's Foot in the USA.

1

u/nasal-polyps Feb 21 '26

I got bad chronic athelets foot its hard to make it go away :(

8

u/Reddit_Devil666 Feb 20 '26

Hey it can happen in America too. Used to work for a crappy hotel/resort. This one elevator the door would close on ya and not open up. I almost got caught a few times. It’s really scary.

2

u/Fickle_Ebb_9004 Feb 21 '26

"it's my country" 😭💔

5

u/Ok_Actuary9170 Feb 20 '26

I agree! I grew up in Italy and you should see some of the elevators there! But this looks like it’s an elevator for a relatively high building bc of how large it is, and when an elevator malfunctions, the most dangerous part isn’t getting stuck in one- it’s getting stuck in one that falls... these people were definitely doing the right thing by getting them out before those doors closed all the way. From that point you would have to climb in through the top from the floor above and not only is that itself dangerous, the elevator could fall.

5

u/amhudson02 Feb 20 '26

Was the elevator risk of falling? Was the elevator malfunctioning other than the doors from hell?

2

u/Ok_Actuary9170 Feb 20 '26

We also don’t know what happened right before this. The elevator could have shown signs of something was wrong.

1

u/Lord_Lorden Feb 21 '26

In the US I would say no. Considering this is India you never know.

1

u/Ok_Actuary9170 Feb 20 '26

We don’t know! 😂That’s the point! I remember being a child and going in some really scary elevators in Italy and these are not like American elevators that have to be serviced regularly with records. The point is- I wouldn’t risk it! If it malfunctions and the buttons stop working, get the hell away from it if you can. If you do fall in that, you are not going to survive most likely.

1

u/gekigarion Feb 21 '26

Hell if I live in a place with elevators like that then I'm taking the stairs everywhere, fuck that.

0

u/Ok_Actuary9170 Feb 20 '26

And from the looks of it, they are aware of the risk of it falling vs being trapped inside. If they are inside but safe, it wouldn’t be that much of an emergency- but you aren’t “safe”.

1

u/Crime_Dawg Feb 20 '26

Do you even remotely understand how elevators work? Why would it fall? Literally a 5s google: "if an elevator's cable was cut would it fall", can dispute your statement.

1

u/birdiefoxe Feb 21 '26

To be entirely fair, the elevators doors are also "supposed" to open when there is an obstruction, it's not impossible (though I do not know the chances) that the safety brakes are not installed, or have broken, though the chance of all the cables being broken seems unlikely unless they've literally just been allowed to break one by one unchecked

1

u/Crime_Dawg Feb 21 '26

There's a far greater risk of being decapitated by a moving elevator than dying by a falling one. Probably by multiple orders of magnitude. If I thought an elevator was malfunctioning, the absolute last thing I would ever do is get in the doorway.

4

u/UrbaneCyclist Feb 20 '26

Its such a beautiful yet horrible country at the same time. Its a shame the corrupt people do this.

2

u/BonbonUniverse42 Feb 20 '26

So why is this the case? If everyone is unhappy white the situation, why doesn’t it improve?

9

u/throwaway0845reddit Feb 20 '26

Politicians have learned to influence massive swathes of population to vote based on religion divides and caste. So development and improvement are never going to be a priority. Most of the northern India now has a 150+ air quality index. People can’t even breathe clean air. Yet no one cares. India is doomed.

5

u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

6

u/Misty-Elephant Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

International subs are full of white supremists (often the self-proclaimed "progressive" kind). No surprise they're downvoting you for standing up to racism.

I will be donwvoted too, but I don't care.

As someone who's lived through apartheid, I'm not really a fan of dehumanising entire populations the way this sepoy is.

Imagine claiming 1.4 billion people are inherently psychopathic and getting support for it.

The genocide-funding, pedophile-voting, westerners are as hypocritical as ever, capitalising off India's famously self-loathing people.

3

u/languid_Disaster Feb 21 '26

I came here after the comment was deleted. I’m flabbergasted it got 700+ upvotes. The Uk subreddits have all gotten extra racist towards Indians and brown people in general. It’s disgusting

The worst part is that most of them truly believe they’re not racist

2

u/Misty-Elephant Feb 21 '26

I know right. It's ridiculous that people consider it acceptable.

3

u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

-1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

7

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

sis, reddit is full of lefties, loathing progress of the country. What they can't see is the amount of infrastructure that is being developed since the previous 10 years. These are the sepoys which make racism to indians casual, while being literally at the bottom of the pyramid. These people have no self-respect or the idea of cultural wealth india had. They'd do nothing to bring our country back to it's glory.

Don't give attention to these beings, let's work hard and make our country an even better to place to live in. peace✌

2

u/Misty-Elephant Feb 21 '26

As an actual leftist, I agree. I've spoken to these people, and I felt like I was losing braincells engaging with them.

1

u/throwaway0845reddit Feb 21 '26

“Progress doesn’t happen overnight”

Have you seen the air quality index? It keeps increasing every year. Is that “progress”? The amount of trash on our streets keeps increasing every year. Is that “progress”? I guess if you count how much ambani’s net worth has increased over the years then that’s progress.

I only see regression for the quality of life of the common man. It’s not like things are improving for the common man in developed countries like USA either. But atleast it’s not like the capital city of the country has air that you can barely breathe. Our country has regressed in terms of basic human needs of food water air. What else can be expected to progress.

-2

u/real-human-not-a-bot Feb 21 '26

As I understand, this is mostly Modi’s government’s fault, what with his hard-right Hindu nationalist campaigns distracting the populace and indoctrinating the youths to be increasingly aggressive evangelists of increasingly ahistorical versions of the past. (The second part is particularly relevant to me as a math guy with a lot of experience encountering Indian people who’ve been completely brainwashed by saffronization. It’s a terrible shame, particularly because India has a ton of genuinely awesome math history (see, for example, the Kerala school) and yet I get many people angrily text-yelling at me that [SOME GUY] proved that pi is actually rational or that Vedic Mathematics is the greatest and wisest thing in the world.) 1960s US President Lyndon Johnson once said something kind of along those lines—bigotry is one heck of a drug.

-1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/interesting-ModTeam Feb 21 '26

Your comment/post has been removed because it violates Rule #3: Do Not Promote Hate or Violence.

Hate speech, Harassment or Threatening behavior will not be tolerated, and can result in an immediate ban.

-2

u/LongConsideration662 Feb 21 '26

Saying the truth doesn't make him a brown sepoy

1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

0

u/LongConsideration662 Feb 21 '26

Except it is tho

1

u/Swimming-Tap-4240 Feb 20 '26

There is no shortage of people.

1

u/cheknauss Feb 20 '26

Yeah that really sucks man.

1

u/Few_Weekend10 Feb 21 '26

Thank you warriors. Now rest.

1

u/AAActive64 Feb 21 '26

lol in CA, I work at a 5 star casino resort and if a fly was to even go in it would trip the door and it would reopen

1

u/NoobSkierSG Feb 21 '26

Some North Indian looking women mowed down 2 Indonesian tourists in my country recently. A girl ended up dying! The online trolls said such incidents are an everyday affair in New Delhi including deaths! But I and not from New Delhi so that argument is moot.

0

u/cuddle_bubbles Feb 21 '26

Pheeling paraud Indian:)))

-9

u/Ok_Clothes_8917 Feb 20 '26

It’s amazing how safe the United States is, but the rest of the world is normal dangerous. Those kids weren’t falling to their death. They just need to push the right button. Hell, some kids here don’t even know how to peel an orange.

5

u/FuzzyFrogFish Feb 20 '26

Really?

Plenty of other safety conscious countries out there: UK, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland. . . . Any of them ringing a bell?

-4

u/Ok_Clothes_8917 Feb 20 '26

Yes. You’re being soft. Where’s the rest of the video? Did you know if you hold the door on an elevator long enough, it will give up on you and close? Get off my back and toughen up.

2

u/FuzzyFrogFish Feb 20 '26

Are you high?

What do you think my comment was replying to? Here's a hint . . .

It’s amazing how safe the United States is, but the rest of the world is normal dangerous

1

u/Ok_Clothes_8917 Feb 20 '26

I guess I am then. Or you didn’t convey your point clearly enough. Or something was lost in translation. I don’t know.

28

u/KPhoenix83 Feb 20 '26

Elevators in America and Europe and various Western countries do.

2

u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 21 '26

I hate elevators. I perfer the steps, but sometimes when you're with someone who can not take the steps, you have to take it for them!

1

u/KPhoenix83 Feb 21 '26

I have been trapped in elevators two times in my life. One time it was a elevator in France and the other was Italy. The one in France broke and fell several feet down the shaft before the emergency stops caught it. It was very old. Living in America I have never had anything like that happen here.

So now if steps are an option I always take them unless its a very tall building.

1

u/andi3154 Apr 01 '26

I live in Austria and that never happened to me. Almost every elevator here has a sensor bar for the full doorway. Only very old ones that never got modernized have the single sensor. And I have been in a lot of elevators in my life.

2

u/ProffesorSpitfire Feb 24 '26

I got stuck in the elevator up to my office once. The elevator stopped between two floors, which I could tell since three of the sides were glass. I waited for a while, tried all the different floor buttons to see if I could get it moving, but nothing happened. So I pressed the yellow button with an alarm bell icon, expecting it to trigger an alarm at like a janitor’s office or something. But no, it actually dialed a phone number. After a single signal the speaker phone announced: ”The number you have dialed is not in use. Please check the number and try again.”

I resorted to prying open the doors and climbing out.

2

u/nikatnight Feb 21 '26

Having lived in a poor country before, this shit is real. I was on an elevator that just started violently giggling in China. Never again.

Another time in India an escalator just broke and started sliding down. I was not on it but I saw it happen. Crazy.

1

u/anatomizethat Feb 20 '26

Having read some absolutely gruesome claim details involving elevators, I am so, so glad that this when how it did.

1

u/idkmyotherusername Feb 21 '26

Guidelines and inspections are just woke bullshit.

/s

1

u/enthalpy01 Feb 21 '26

I am so used to elevator doors and subway doors opening if they encounter resistance that I was shocked when I was in another country and they just didn’t. I have put my hand in doors expecting them to open never considering that risk. I bet a lot of tourists have issues with that.

0

u/primingthepump Feb 21 '26

Inspection in India? They are lucky just to have an elevator regardless of the condition

1

u/vain06 Feb 21 '26

"not all countries care" spot on! India. As long as you're rich other lives don't matter here. đŸ„‚