The corpse of a woman trapped in an elevator for a month has been discovered in the Chinese city of Xi’an, maintenance workers having shut down and locked up an elevator in the building in which she lived – all apparently without bothering to check properly whether anyone was inside.
The incident led to the maintenance crew being detained for further investigation of their negligence, with police pursuing the middle-aged woman’s death as a case of involuntary manslaughter.
The workers initially arrived to the building to check on a glitch with the system, turning the lift off on January 30th whilst paying no mind to any who may have still been inside it, with the corpse of their unfortunate victim being discovered a month later on March 1st by another crew who had arrived to conduct further repairs.
Reportedly the woman, who lived alone in the building, went unmissed and showed signs of trying to escape her prison, before succumbing to the inevitable (whether starvation, or more likely, dehydration, is not clear).
Such elevator-centric incidents are sadly not as uncommon as might be hoped in China, a nation still struggling to come to grips with the concept of conscientious maintenance despite its rapid rise…
She must not have had a phone on her, or if she did she had no means to connect to a signal or Wi-Fi; otherwise she could have at least called the police and whether or not she had any personal connections with people would not have mattered.
Why nobody pays attention to the fact that she lived alone in the whole building with functioning elevator? I’m not defending those fucking maintenance bithces or blame the victim in any way, but if you live absolutely ALONE in a WHOLE building, you might wanna reconsider using elevator because nobody would come to help you if ANYTHING happens? Common sense anyone?
You have to reconsider living ALONE.
Or being alone AT ALL.
If you trip on the bath and hit your head, there is no one to hear you fall and try to help you.
If you choke during dinner, there is no one to help you.
One of the things I’ve learned in life is that humans suck at maintenance. They also get shittier when the population density is higher.
China full of stupid and unprofessional workers/engineers. No wonder that lousy and crappy country have to hack into other countries to steal others technology.
Glorious China fucks up again; i wouldnt be surprised if they were to somehow be a trigger to another world war