Before I went to Google to translate the text, I guessed the sign warned users that if your rolling bin catches on the edge of a descending elevator doorway, you could be crushed to death in a really embarassing way. Google says the caption reads “Dangerous to transport goods in elevators without inner door or photocell”.
Looks like a Paternoster elevator.
We used to torment new staff with tales of what happens if you don’t get off at the top.
I challenge anyone to get on with a trash can though – without getting crushed that is.
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16 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Before I went to Google to translate the text, I guessed the sign warned users that if your rolling bin catches on the edge of a descending elevator doorway, you could be crushed to death in a really embarassing way. Google says the caption reads “Dangerous to transport goods in elevators without inner door or photocell”.
That’s Swedish, by the way.
Makes sense to me.
Elevator design fail.
This elevator drops so fast you’ll need a trash can to catch all your puke.
sure Chris, what you’re looking at is pure awesome.
Das ist Claus.
Guten Morgen Claus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4Q4vWy_ck
I don’t know but Texas has ordered 50 of them as a more humane (yet more degrading) form of execution than the electric chair.
Seen this many times IRL. “Warning: Risk of getting squeezed”, and what nkw said.
// one of your Swedish regulars
I could tell you but that would spoil the surprise.
It warns the passenger of riding with cargo in an elevator that lacks an inner door or photocell (with as Jacob says, risk of getting squeezed)
Congrats on making boing boing.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/13/elevator-warning-sig.html
ah, the old risk of getting squeezed!
What gets me is someone probably did this, died, then some other genius decided to make a sign to prevent somebody else from getting a Darwin Award.
Those signs are compulsory in elevators without inner doors in Sweden. There are also plans for a law prohibiting elevators without inner doors.
Looks like a Paternoster elevator.
We used to torment new staff with tales of what happens if you don’t get off at the top.
I challenge anyone to get on with a trash can though – without getting crushed that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster