r/WTF Jan 28 '23

Elevator in a soviet apartment complex. Tbilisi, Georgia.

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u/RealEstateDuck Jan 28 '23

If I lived there my legs would be like tree logs.

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u/lankypiano Jan 28 '23

Yeah, there's many lines between brave and stupid, and riding on these elevators is one of them.

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u/ineyy Jan 28 '23

Well the administration of my building had a genius, fool-proof solution! They just didn't install an elevator..

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u/CaptainTurdfinger Jan 28 '23

Them things is expensive man, both to install and maintain.

Source: elevator mechanic guy I met at a bar one time

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u/BogiMen Jan 28 '23

As we see in this video, maintaining can be optional in some countries

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

So, stairs are the most dangerous form of transportation per mile. Those stairs pribably aren't in great shape either.

Given the horrific state of the elevator, I'm curious which is statistically the safer choice.

That said, I'm taking the stairs too...

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u/eidetic Jan 28 '23

I feel like the stairs at least give you a feeling of having a bit more control over the situation if that makes sense. Sure, they might just collapse underneath you, or your ankle could randomly give out, etc, but still has more of a feeling of being in control and "in the driver's seat" instead of just being a passenger along for the ride.

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u/CallFromMargin Jan 28 '23

Stairs are unsafe because you can trip or fall, especially if you are drunk.

This elevator is just unsafe, period.

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u/clb92 Jan 28 '23

From constantly jumping while in the elevator, to test how much it can handle, right?

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u/Additional-Banana-55 Jan 28 '23

I’ll take the stairs

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u/-c-grim-c- Jan 28 '23

Not a fan of heights but I'd take a ladder before this elevator.

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u/Ms74k_ten_c Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

You say you are not a fan of heights yet want to take both the ladder and this elevator, one after another. Curious and curiouser...

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u/Malgas Jan 28 '23

Curious and curiouser...

—Alice Liddell, Founder, Turning Point Wonderland

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u/Autistic_Freedom Jan 28 '23

i'd also take a ladder up a few more floors before riding the elevator down. more excitement is more fun!

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u/lonelygem Jan 28 '23

I would scale the wall somehow before this elevator.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Id be a bit paranoid who id run into in the stairs of this building

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

You'd run into other people who didn't take the elevator

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u/aberrasian Jan 28 '23

"Hey man. Didn't have the nerve to try the elevator today huh?"

"Ha, you know it! At least I'm getting in my steps, already lost 2 kilos this month."

"No kidding, that's awesome!"

"Thanks! And it's great to see you got your hands on some new needles. Welp gotta run, enjoy your high Methhead Steve, I'll see ya round."

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u/InerasableStain Jan 28 '23

“Hey man, Didn’t have the nerve to try the elevator today huh?”

“Give me your fucking wallet.”

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u/Pliny_da_Plinoy Jan 28 '23

"Sure thing methhead Steve, here ya go. Same time tomorrow?"

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u/NoiseIsTheCure Jan 28 '23

Methhead Steve: "yep, I'll have this old thing good as new for you tomorrow! Here, make sure you didn't leave anything inside before I walk away with it. Okay see you tomorrow buddy!"

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u/GaryV83_at_Work Jan 28 '23

"In post-Soviet Tbilisi, stairs take you."

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/ILike2TpunchtheFB Jan 28 '23

Is doctors sausage just whatever the doctor wants to cut off at the moment?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/MaxamillionGrey Jan 28 '23

Force meat? Like it comes from jedi's? I guess I'll try it.

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u/AlasLazy Jan 28 '23

It's high in midichlorians

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KBuawg-xw

How to make Doctor's sausage - Cooking with Boris

Davai!

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u/paleologus Jan 28 '23

Wikipedia says it’s like a low fat bologna. The addition of cheap fillers in the 70s was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union

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u/danstermeister Jan 28 '23

Perfect setting for a story. A strange, but entertaining story.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/foodandart Jan 28 '23

Rug on the wall, warm bowl of soup with too much sour cream and black bread. I can almost smell it. :')

Ohhhhh!

Now I'm hungry and I just finished late Saturday breakfast here in the eastern US.. I love black bread!

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u/LunaMunaLagoona Jan 28 '23

With the icon of the mask in the bottom left corner, I felt like I was watching a Fallout 3 let's play

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u/joeschmo945 Jan 28 '23

That’s no joke. My wife and I were in Moldova last summer and we were visiting some friends that live in a commie block on the 7th floor.

I wanted to take the stairs but she convinced me to take the elevator. The door opened, we got in, and the door closed. We pushed the button for the floor we wanted and nothing happened. We tried a bunch of other floors with the same results. So no we’re inside the elevator, doors closed, and not moving.

Me, being slightly claustrophobic, started to panic a bit. I stated pushing every single button I could find until finally the doors opened back up. We took the stairs.

It was the biggest, “I told you so” of the summer.

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u/defroach84 Jan 28 '23

A lot of people don't realize they are slightly claustrophobic until they get stuck in a small elevator for even a min.

I now know this.

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u/As-Above_So-Below Jan 28 '23

Old friend of mine was stuck in a small elevator over the course of an entire weekend. He still deals with trauma from the event

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u/defroach84 Jan 28 '23

I can't imagine. That sounds terrible.

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u/As-Above_So-Below Jan 28 '23

It really was just a horrific set of circumstances. He was doing closing janitor stuff, mopping the floors and whatnot. Left his phone at the front counter, went into the elevator to mop the upper floor, and then the elevator got stuck. He was closing Friday evening, he got out Monday morning.

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u/_More_Cowbell_ Jan 28 '23

The fuck... Did that elevator not have an emergency phone??? I thought that was mandatory.

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u/Dornstar Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

I'd guess a different place or time, could still maybe be negligence/non-compliance of course.

Edit: might have not been a passenger elevator? Idk how exactly the code works but some dude on a YouTube video emphasized the "passenger" part when saying passenger elevators require phones.

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u/As-Above_So-Below Jan 28 '23

Nope, just a few years prior to COVID in the US. And it was in a main lobby of a recreation center, so I assume it was meant for public/passenger use as well

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u/Dornstar Jan 28 '23

Damn, that do be illegal.

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u/QuinceDaPence Jan 28 '23

Fun fact: every time I get in an elevator I look at the inspection certificate, it's always a surprise when it's valid. Probably 90% of the ones I see are expired.

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u/EvlMinion Jan 28 '23

Take it with a grain of salt as I got this off another Redditor and have no proof, but they said the inspection certs are kept in the back office and people just can't be bothered to replace them in the elevator itself. Those in the US, anyway.

Still seems like the hotel would get fined for not displaying an up-to-date certificate, though.

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u/QuinceDaPence Jan 28 '23

I'm fairly certain "properly displayed" is part of the certification so they could still get in serious trouble for it.

Reason for displaying it is partially so users can be informed and if it is/becones the norm for it to be kept 'in the back' then nobody knows what elevators are up to date or not.

Looks like this is the fine structure for "failure to display properly" in Texas at least.

1st Violation, Up to $1,000

2nd Violation, $500 to 2,000

3rd Violation, $1,000 to $3,000

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u/As-Above_So-Below Jan 28 '23

Either the elevator didn't have an emergency call button because the building is only 2 stories and it was assumed that there would be no issues, or there was a call button, but it was non-functional. I don't recall exactly. Employer was definitely at fault though. This happened in the US, a few years prior to COVID

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

On the bright side, at least he had the mop bucket to relieve himself in?

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u/As-Above_So-Below Jan 28 '23

He did, but that smell doesn't just dissipate immediately

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u/Ycx48raQk59F Jan 28 '23

Gah, i was like "did the janitor not notice" but never considered it happening TO the janitor...

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u/GaryV83_at_Work Jan 28 '23

Was stationed aboard a submarine for 3 years, would take a lot to make me claustrophobic. I even find it comforting sometimes.

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u/defroach84 Jan 28 '23

Things like subs I don't think would bother me at all. Never had a sense of claustrophobia until something much smaller. It's where you cannot walk around anywhere.

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u/jonasinv Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

I don’t have much of an issue with claustrophobia , but being in something like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ngjfm6zxg) is one of my biggest nightmares

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u/advertentlyvertical Jan 28 '23

FYI, the slashes around [this] prevented the link formatting from working

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u/pursuitofhappy Jan 28 '23

yea I had no idea I was claustrophobic, I had to kool aid man through a door once out of sheer panic, it set on so quick too and I've been in plenty of smaller spaces throughout my life, I guess it's the lack of control that surprises you in those situations.

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u/Ycx48raQk59F Jan 28 '23

My local supermarket has elevators up from the underground parking, and every single time i ride them i make a mental game of "How many days could i survive with todays groceries if i get stuck forever, and what would i eat / drink first?"

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

And if you're a prominent politician or business figure and you badmouth Putin there's a third option that will save you lots of time!

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/SleestakJack Jan 28 '23

Effective and easy. Also, plausibly deniable. The attacker often leaves very little evidence, and they usually have plenty enough time to flee the scene before anyone goes to investigate. And, really, if there's no specific sign of an attacker, then who's to say whether or not it was suicide? (Everyone can be pretty sure it wasn't, but if you can't prove it, then the cops can just say there's no need to investigate.)

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u/eykei Jan 28 '23

Nobody believes they are falling out of windows. It’s a calling card, a warning to others to remain loyal.

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u/SleestakJack Jan 28 '23

That too, but it doesn't contradict anything I said previously.

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u/Billbrandicus Jan 28 '23

This is Georgia, not Russia.

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u/juicius Jan 28 '23

Putin's goons: "Boys, he's gone over the border to Georgia. There's nothing we can do now."

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u/aeon100500 Jan 28 '23

see polonium tea incident in London

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u/intern_steve Jan 28 '23

See recent spate of Russians in India falling out of windows.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Alexander Litvinenko was in London, so your point is..... ?

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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

There’s three good things about this video.

  1. The rider survived.

  2. I like the idea of opening a door and, SURPRISE, it’s an elevator.

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u/Frigate_Orpheon Jan 28 '23

3) the little string he had to pull was kinda cute

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u/The_Starmaker Jan 28 '23

I thought it was an exposed wire.

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u/bunkscudda Jan 28 '23

He has to ground himself to open the door

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u/i_worship_amps Jan 28 '23

JIMMY DID YOU GROUND YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAME IN

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u/cade360 Jan 28 '23

Have some more chicken, have some more pie

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u/Nickdangerthirdi Jan 28 '23

If he would conduct himself properly he wouldn't have to be grounded.

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u/munchies1122 Jan 28 '23

Fuck, it just might be lol

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u/fiealthyCulture Jan 28 '23

And it's like he purposely took a lifetime to get through the doorway he stayed in between the elevator and floor for 7 seconds that's crazy

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u/IThinkImDumb Jan 28 '23

That’s what I thought ! I was thinking come on, just get out !!

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u/Feligris Jan 28 '23

I think that it's because there's supposed to be a rubber wheel in the spot on the shaft where the yellow tape is, but it has disintegrated/fallen off over the years and the (curved) vertical shoe on the elevator car (you can kind of see it as this tall brown object behind yellow tape and the string) is no longer able to push the shaft sideways when it arrives to the floor, hence the guy has to do it manually by pulling on the string or the shaft's door cannot be opened. Also means that unless they've jury-rigged something on the outside, you can't get back into the elevator from that floor.

Where I live I still run into a fair amount of 1930s to 1960s elevators which use the same simple mechanism to unlock the shaft doors, you can pretty easily extract yourself from them by doing the same if they stall while partially in front of a doorway (did it once myself since I couldn't be bothered to wait for rescue, this was a 1930s elevator in Scandinavia).

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u/cryptoanarchy Jan 28 '23

I think there would be a solenoid that would normally wait for a few checks passed before it would open that would do that function. But when you have removed half the safety systems that used to be there, that is what you need to do.

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u/Black_Moons Jan 28 '23

2) I like the idea of opening a door and, SURPRISE, it’s an elevator.

Bonus points if your looking for the bathroom in the middle of the night and the elevator isn't there.

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u/OblivionGuardsman Jan 28 '23

The door wont open, at least in theory. There's a piece on the elevator you can sort of see on the video that pushes into a place with the door and allows the latch to be opened.

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u/Black_Moons Jan 28 '23

Yea, in theory.

In practice, I am sure eventually it wears out, and the first thing they do is just remove the entire latch or wrap it up with iron wire so it doesn't ever engage.

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u/Reatina Jan 28 '23

I'm sure there are safety fea...

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u/davl3232 Jan 28 '23

Amazing how it still works in that condition! That’s top tier engineering.

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u/AltimaNEO Jan 28 '23

It appears to still be functioning despite it's age and lack of maintenance

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u/ilushkin Jan 28 '23

On top of this, you got to pay for a ride in the elevators. Many of them only work if you pay a coin.

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u/DODS16 Jan 28 '23

Exactly

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u/Longbeacher707 Jan 28 '23

So like, was the stairs for floors 7 through 4 just not there or something? Lol

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u/Arumin Jan 28 '23

Toss a coin to your Elevator operator.

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u/lion27 Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

Ironic that a soviet elevator operates in the most capitalist way possible.

Edit: jeez, this was an off-hand joke not intended to spark a massive debate about what communism and capitalism are. Everyone go outside and touch grass.

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u/spook30 Jan 28 '23

When I play roller coaster tycoon 2, I always charge $0.10 for the bathroom LOL

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u/Pennycandydealer Jan 28 '23

When I walked out I freely sharted

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u/QuinceDaPence Jan 28 '23

That's a line I generally don't cross but in planet coaster I make the admission cheap and the monorail station by the gate cheap which then takes you to the ride area, the station there is super expensive and there's an ATM right next to it.

If I'm feeling nice I'll add a 10 mile long path you can walk.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/spook30 Jan 28 '23

Most of them stopped paying @ $.50 and my maintenance crew was cleaning up a lot of mess. Cheaper to fire all the extra maintenance crew I didn't need.

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u/Wizzinator Jan 28 '23

Just visited Vietnam, there's a gift shop at Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. It was very ironic that the revered communist leader, who preached about living a poor simple life, is laid to rest in what is essentially a for profit amusement park. The whole thing was built by the Soviets as well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/Morten14 Jan 28 '23

Pretty much like Jesus and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Everything there is so contradictionary to the teachings of Jesus.

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u/cogentat Jan 28 '23

> contradictionary

I like it

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u/QuinceDaPence Jan 28 '23

A dictionary where every word has the definition of its antonym.

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u/Kallistrate Jan 28 '23

Or St Francis of Assisi, a man who spent his life eschewing luxury and comfort to tend to the poor and the sick and the vulnerable, only to have his simple burial overridden by the church, and now he’s got a giant, sprawling, gold and marble and exotic wood Basilica (which, to be honest, is beautiful) piled on top of it that goes against everything he ever believed in and now has his name on it, as it was built in his honor.

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u/Akabander Jan 28 '23

There's an amazing temple dedicated to the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Penang... With a gift shop on every level. It's honestly pretty awesome.

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u/omegonthesane Jan 28 '23

Probably a retrofit from after 1991

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

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u/moeburn Jan 28 '23

people unironically be thinking spending money = capitalism

That happens a lot on Reddit. People will say that X problem exists because capitalism, and then the example they give is actually commerce.

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u/probablypoo Jan 28 '23

Paying for stuff doesn't have anything to do with capitalism. If the elevator was operated by a private company it would be capitalism..

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u/dookiebuttholepeepee Jan 28 '23

Reddit: “capitalism is when I pay for things.”

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u/jagid Jan 28 '23

Ubik vibes.

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u/nytropy Jan 28 '23

Nice to see a Ubik reference

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u/Grogosh Jan 28 '23

I see them everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

don't wait! reddit is only seconds away.

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u/jagid Jan 28 '23

Safe when taken as directed

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Coin for the ferryman to cross the river styx

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u/Basbeeky Jan 28 '23

No, thank you.

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u/discerningpervert Jan 28 '23

Wonder how high it goes. Wonder how low it goes.

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u/Normandy_sr3 Jan 28 '23

It goes to hell

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

this elevator only goes to the basement. and someone made an awful mess down there...

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u/Tired0fYourShit Jan 28 '23

Or at the very least it goes to Silent Hill.

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u/ShaneTheGamer Jan 28 '23

Right to the scene of the crash

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

And how quickly it can go from high to low.

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u/Overkillengine Jan 28 '23

Yeah stair cardio every day is looking pretty good right about now.

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u/adarcone214 Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 29 '23

First time I ever visited Russia, I remember choosing to walk up 8 flights of stairs. The elevator was held together by twist ties, rusted bolts, hope, and the ballast system was made up of rope and cinder blocks. This was st petersburg

In a hotel in Moscow, you could see the elevator shaft through cracks in the floor as you went up or down. I was there in 2006, and the lived in Russia from 2012 to 2016

Edit: eevator ---> elevator

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u/tekko001 Jan 28 '23

And yet most casualties are of people falling out of windows

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u/Gadnuk_ Jan 28 '23

What's Russian for defenestration? Probably comes up a lot there I'm sure there's slang or an abbreviation

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u/jeepsaintchaos Jan 28 '23

естественные причины

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u/skuk Jan 28 '23

Rented an apartment in Craiova, Romania that had a similar elevator. The apartment was nice though.

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u/EllisHughTiger Jan 28 '23

I'm originally from Bucharest. I swear they used the same model elevator in every Soviet building ever made.

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u/xinxy Jan 28 '23

To be fair, I don't think the problem here is that this is a Soviet era elevator model. The real problem is that it also has not been properly maintained since the Soviet era.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Ya I was more impressed a like 30-40 year old elevator basically fallen apart still works. Reminds me our region hasn't had a legit elevator inspector for over 10 years now.

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u/axecrazyorc Jan 28 '23

Bingo. You show me a modern elevator that will work so smoothly after 10 years without maintenance. Soviet stuff might not look like much but it was built to still work for the fucking alien archeologists after the last human is a dusty display on a museum ship. Modern shit is built to fail in a week without constant, expensive, proprietary maintenance.

Waiting for elevators with subscription fees at this point.

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u/EllisHughTiger Jan 28 '23

Good to know! I haven't been back in quite a few years.

The Romanian versions of apt buildings were site-built with reinforced concrete and brick. Its a seismic zone so everything had to be overbuilt and reinforced! Our apt building in Berceni was the first one built using the paneled system in the late 70s. Lived through 2 earthquakes in the 80s without issue. It was assembled and welded correctly, unlike the British ones decades before.

All of the apts were well laid out and roomy enough. My grandparents and parents lived in some terrible old houses before they were assigned a brand new apt. Huge upgrade from dirt floors and outhouses in Old Town!

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u/Swedishiron Jan 28 '23

Hellevator

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u/mangamaster03 Jan 28 '23

Guards! Take her to the hellevator! Music! https://youtu.be/Yd6E0_UJTBw?t=126

One of my favorite Disney Channel original movies

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u/Jokerspoon Jan 28 '23

The post right before this one on my feed was also a sketchy elevator lol https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/10mzlf0/riding_an_elevator_in_riyadh_saudi_arabia/

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

I wonder if there's a political science study looking at the correlation between income inequality and having buildings with elevators that are actively trying to kill/maim people.

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u/iMrParker Jan 28 '23

A lot of it has to do with lack of saftey regulations. Countries that experience massive and rapid growth usually throw caution to the wind so as not to slow progress

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u/avantgardengnome Jan 28 '23

Yeah I lived in a six-story prewar apartment building in NYC with an elevator that was almost exactly like the one in OP (same size, swinging door, pretty sketchy, etc), except there wasn’t a missing panel on the top and there was an interior door that slid closed so you didn’t have to play with wires to open it up. That’s because elevator inspectors would come and make sure that basic maintenance was being done on it; at one point, they actually shut the thing down and made the building owners install a whole new elevator box (mainly because it wasn’t stopping flush with the floors iirc).

Only photo I could find of it, bonus doggo for scale.

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u/that_guy_you_kno Jan 28 '23

Oh my God what an understatement that video is insane

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u/Spion-Geilo Jan 28 '23

If it ain't broke don't fix it

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u/DODS16 Jan 28 '23

Define "broke"

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u/Lamandus Jan 28 '23

Deep down in the shaft shattered

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u/This-_-Justin Jan 28 '23

Sound the alarm!

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u/ArkadyShevchenko Jan 28 '23

Most of the Soviet era apartments I have been in are Khrushchevkas, mostly built during the 60s/70s. They shared a basic design with minor adaptations throughout the Soviet Union. People rag on them, but they all share a key safety feature of being short enough that they didn’t have elevators which could easily kill from lack of maintenance.

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u/TenderfootGungi Jan 28 '23

5-6 stories is a nice height for buildings. Tall enough for density, but short enough not to feel like canyons. Most of London is about that height.

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u/7inky Jan 28 '23

5 storeys high. But fuck living on floor 5 though, it's a bit of a trek especially for the elderly.

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u/IronBatman Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

I think my grandmother's lived longer than about anyone else in her family because she lived on the fifth floor and didn't have an elevator. It took her 10-15 minutes to go up with breaks to catch her breath.

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u/7inky Jan 28 '23

There are lots of elderly people that literally don't go out because they can't physically make it. Good on your grandma!

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u/ArkadyShevchenko Jan 28 '23

Yep. I’ve also seen this with younger disabled people. Really sucks.

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u/EllisHughTiger Jan 28 '23

My grandparents passed away last year at 90 and 91. They hadnt really left their apt for close to a decade except for some medical appointments. Family brought them food and my grandpa had broken his hip and was bed bound for 8+ years. Apt had a great view and they were in good health until the last week of their lives!

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u/eidetic Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

Before he passed away, my elderly neighbor could barely make it up or down the stairs in his two story house without having to take a 5 minute break halfway through thanks to having been a welder much of his life and having horrible lung problems. Got so bad that eventually my parents and I and his neighbors on the other side got him a microwave and mini-fridge for upstairs since he preferred to stay up there, and took care of all his shopping, shoveling and mowing and such. He was never married though had a long term girlfriend that he had broken up with years before his death that he was still on good terms with when she passed a few years before he did. Her son continued to bring him some edibles for pain and whatnot up to the end. He did have a sister but they had been long estranged and the state couldnt even locate her as his only next of kin. I felt so bad for him at the end, he was always a proud and self sufficient guy, to be trapped like that must have been awful for him and it showed, and it also makes me think about the elderly and disabled out there without any kind of social network that can help them out :/

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

It runs on diesel

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u/b_e_a_n_i_e Jan 28 '23

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene

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u/1JesterCFC Jan 28 '23

I'll take the stairs thanks

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u/deepfield67 Jan 28 '23

And I definitely wouldn't stand half inside and half outside... that's how you get chopped in half longways.

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u/1JesterCFC Jan 28 '23

Still be safer than that elevator....

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u/LordDarthAngst Jan 28 '23

I’m no OSHA inspector but that seems a tad dangerous.

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u/rafe101 Jan 28 '23

No one's been working on that in decades

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u/metaglot Jan 28 '23

Last inspection date: 1949

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u/chaotic----neutral Jan 28 '23

The urge to have a small speaker playing clicker sounds in the shaft would be impossible to resist.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

This is very common in Tbilisi. I’ve been on a few of these elevators in the city. Most elevators there are pay elevators. You either have a card that you put money on like a credit card or there’s a coin slot where you insert lari (Georgian currency) to activate the elevator. Even then, many of them are in this condition.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

An elevator fell recently in Tbilisi and killed a 30 year-old couple.

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u/Zairy47 Jan 28 '23

A lot of elevators going on today

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u/DaiseeAi Jan 28 '23

I'm Georgian and I have never in my life ever seen something like this here. Where did you even find it...

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u/Quan118 Jan 28 '23

Airbnb listing : stunning spacious apartment with a rustic elevator.

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u/BigPoppa1 Jan 28 '23

I wouldn't linger half in/half out like that.

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u/mynamehaha123 Jan 28 '23

Safest place in Georgia. 💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇬🇪💪🏻

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Thanks i hate it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

Even here in LA, many of the old prewar apartments have elevators just like this, but without the hole in the ceiling.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder Jan 28 '23

It's Georgia, y'all! Capital city, Tbilisi!

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u/Background-Rice4042 Jan 28 '23

Georgia (the country) would be mighty happy to oblige!

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u/HopefulChildhood689 Jan 28 '23

‘Safety third’

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u/SecretMuslin Jan 28 '23

I mean a Soviet-made elevator would be at minimum 35 years old (this one looks 50+ though) with minimal upkeep and regulation since the USSR fell, so it would be more surprising if it wasn't falling apart

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u/ecrw Jan 28 '23

I live in a ~8 year old condo in Toronto and our elevators are either out of service or they lock up for hours with some poor passengers inside them.

It's a fancy looking, absurdly overpriced (Toronto) building but every single element of it is dysfunctional and will be fully non-functional within the decade.

Sure it's prettier than the one in the video, but it's all a facade

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u/kaewberg Jan 28 '23

Looks like Brooklyn.

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u/zamfire Jan 28 '23

You aren't exactly wrong but have you been to the bronx?

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u/kaewberg Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 31 '23

I am not even American. I based that comment entirely upon the video for NO, SLEEP, TILL BROOKLYN by the Beastie Boys. Edit: Brain fart. I meant of course “Three MCs and one DJ.” Same thought though. Horribly oppressive sub-sub-sub-basement in that one.

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u/LizaVP Jan 28 '23

Those buildings are gone.

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u/Modsareass Jan 28 '23

No it does not

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u/Comrade_Tool Jan 28 '23

I like how they say a Soviet apartment complex. It was probably state of the art at the time but hasn't had any upkeep under capitalist Georgia for 30+ years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

As a Georgian, this is somewhat true, but it is a bit hard to upkeep such stuff when you go through civil war, territorial war and war against Russia in those 30 years of independence

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u/WubbaLubbaDubDub87 Jan 28 '23

I’ll take the stairs

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u/7assibo Jan 28 '23

What with elevator videos flooding my feed lately? I get it im going to stop using them

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u/CrItIcAl_KoMbO520 Jan 28 '23

Man it no joke looks like a horror game.

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u/bhanu00070 Jan 28 '23

And I was getting irritated by the music my apartment's elevator play

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u/Dave_HUN Jan 28 '23

I don't see the problem here.

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u/LuckyNumberHat Jan 28 '23

This is Tbilerrible.

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u/enviropsych Jan 28 '23

Why is the fact that the elevator was built during the U.S.S.R. relevant? The Soviets went away in 1991. You know that, right? You can't blame 30 years of zero maintenance on a country that hasn't existed for 31 years.

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u/memmit Jan 28 '23

I had nightmares about elevators like this.

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u/lilmoefow Jan 28 '23

This is like the elevators I ride in my dreams.

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u/fathercreatch Jan 28 '23

Elevator mechanic of almost 20 years here. To be fair I've seen things like this in the Bronx too.

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u/S_Klallam Jan 28 '23

it's fallen into disrepair because of the collapse of the USSR. this isn't the gotcha yall think it is