omg lol, nice find

DEATH BY TRASHCAN

haha, oh dear!

.....holy….that is like, raarrrr haxors traumatic . head = melon

He should’ve died by erotic asphyxiation. The girl should’ve put him to death on purpose for his stupidity.

But, I hope that in order to make the passage into death as pleasant as possible, he masturbated as he choked.

haha what a silly pic lololol

Well, this actually happend in Maastricht, The Netherlands a couple of years ago killing a 17 year old boy.

its damn funny …
but i guess it might save a life …

omg… that would have sucked!!!

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Those are standard safety warnings on old elevators that don’t have inner slide doors. There is a real danger of that accident happening.
And it most surely has happened to someone already.

DUMBASS FTW

hi i’m from sweden and i don’t think there’s a real accident behind this one. our country is extremely “protective”, that’s all.

These are found all around the globe. Not just Sweden

That totally made my day. Laughed my like hell when i saw it

It looks like something that would happen to a certain someone at my school…Julian…E

what does the associated warning advice say?

Bummer

lol. nobody comments cause this is digg. funny though.

ouch

HAHAHAHAHA

hHhahahahahahahahahaahhahaahahahahahah

Whoa… Agree… That is pretty f’ed up.

I’ve seen one of them!

There is stickers/warnings like that almost at every elevator that is used to transport things, not just humans. And in many countrys. I think I see them 4-5 times every day.

I’ve always hated taking out the trash… didn’t know it could kill you.

THIS IS NOT TRASHDAY!!!!!!!

I shudder to think of the scenario that necessitated the reason for such a warning sign. At least any cleanup would have been quick with a refuse container so close at hand.

you have also this one in elevators in Portugal lol.. i guess it is just precaution

Don’t they know how to make an elevator in Sweden?

lmfao

yeah, we have that exact same sign at my work. nothing unusual, funny pic though.

Klamrisk? That sounds like a very disturbing form of risk, indeed.

This is very real, and happened 2004 at the University of Gothenburg.

http://www.av.se/pressrum/pressmeddelanden/2004/380.aspx

Digg.com comment of the year:

Why is the front of the elevator open? I wouldn’t go near this fucking death trap, with or without a wheelie bin.

Courtesy of ‘adooga’.

@ d5xps: It says not to use the elevator in case of fire.

Also, “klämrisk” means risk of getting squeezed..

Klämrisk = “Risk of getting squeezed”

I’ve seen a couple of those signs. But I hope they dont make elevators like that anymore.

Note from Tristan:

“Even before we saw that sign (which was only posted on the upper floors), my gf would not ride in that elevator & took the stairs instead. It was fear at first sight. When we finally did see that sign, posted there in the dead-quiet hallway to our hotel room, it gave us a chill I’ll never forget…I had no idea I had stumbled upon the Holy LULZ Grail of the Stick-Figure-In-Peril genre.”

FAIL

happens to me all the time

happens to me all the time—> ROFL HAHAHAHA

....doesn’t the door normally close, prohibiting anything from protruding through the door space?

The sign warning says:

“Risk of being pinned or squeezed. It is dangerous to transport….”

The rest isn’t included in the photo

This is why inner doors are mandatory in elevators here in Norway.

Yea, that’s happened here in Finland also. Some of the older elevators do not have inner doors and the risk is real. It’s not that these kind of elevators are “death traps” in any way, the use of common sense applies here also.

and the swedes wonder why norway makes jokes about them:)

im from norway, neighbor of sweden..
And can tell u that, sweden do need that kind of sign! LOL
Its like “dont use this toaster in shower”

I lol’ed

Holy Macaroni, that is one fast moving elevator. I’d love to take a ride and go weightless on it.

This is the reason why I never talk the trash out for a walk.

That f*ckin sucks! I feel bad for that guy.

we have those here (Portugal) also …i always have a laugh each time i see one

FAIL

Whew—that was close. We almost had a Sweden vs. Finland vs. Norway flame war.

We have such elevators in “Cold War Era” apartment blocks here in Poland. The doors are classic swivel doors on a spring (so they close by themselves), the knob is only on the outside. If the elevator is on the move and someone pushes/pulls the door, then it might stall.
These elevators were often faulty. There was one case where the door didn’t lock when the elevator left and a woman with a baby fell into the shaft.
The one in my building used to stall all the time due to a damaged controller – when you chose ground floor it would halt midway between 1 and 0, then go up to the top floor (8). When it went up it made you wonder whether it would stop there or keep going to the machine room…

it see,s like it has happened before…...

Hahahah, I live in Sweden and there are one of those stickers in every floor in our flat. And one in the elevator… as if someone would miss the ones outside:P

I go to a school in Sweden, there’s a sign like that there. And at home in my building aswell, such a cool way to die.

Epic FAIL

No, you’re doing it wrong!

To AlmostWikipedia:

Dude, that’s both hilarious and modestly tragic. It almost feels like it would take intentional genius to build a mechanism that misbehaved so completely.

These are found on all elevators in sweden which are mainly used for transporting goods.

To Tristan:

No, it’s just budget cuts…
Those elevators were installed in times when people had something that the majority of us lack today: survival instinct and a bit more brains. Safety features were pretty much useless. Today accidents are quite rare so modernization of the old elevators seems unnecessary (not that anyone has money to lay out for it).
The part about the elevator ramming into the machine room was a joke – they aren’t THAT deadly. ;-P

I’ve done a little variation:
http://www.29740.com/ma/swedish-elevator-3.jpg

To AlmostWikipedia:

Decovo utterly approves of all Darwinian elevator mechanisms. -T

they probably have a Do not inhale sign on thei waterglases as well:P

i hate it when that happens

elevator of death! lol

I think the industrial psycologist should have his head examined!!!

I found a film that should describe it all:t-shirt film

haha, those sick swedes

Well as a matter of fact I’m swede and I’ve seen that sign lots of times in real life and I too have rofl’d at it.

To James: All swedes aren’t sick…but that doesn’t mean I ain’t.