Bangkok woman’s unexpected fall in lift shaft sparks high-rise rescue

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A Facebook user named NAKON45, also known as Anyawut Po-ampai, reported an alarming incident today. A woman had unexpectedly fallen into a lift shaft within a building located in the Bang Na district of Bangkok.

 

Officials were quickly alerted to assist, with the Ruamkatanyu Foundation dispatching a high-rise rescue team equipped with the necessary tools to help the woman who had fallen into the lift shaft of the building situated in Sukhumvit Soi 66/1, reported KhaoSod. The hope was that everyone involved would remain safe throughout the ordeal.

 

The post attracted a multitude of comments, with many expressing their wishes for the safety of the woman involved. Eventually, officials were able to successfully rescue the woman from the predicament, ensuring her safety.

 

In related news, a TikTok video shared by user @dreamiiqueen has gone viral, depicting a terrifying ordeal of being trapped alone in a lift that continuously ascends and descends.

 

by Nattapong Westwood

Photo courtesy of NAKON45 อัญวุฒิ โพธิ์อำไพ (Facebook)

 

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[VinnieK]

Idiocracy strikes again.

She'd probably was glued to her phone as usual

[hotchilli]

48 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

Idiocracy strikes again.

She'd probably was glued to her phone as usual

Agreed, usually when the doors open one makes sure the lift floor is there to step onto.

[Bangkok Barry]

More half-baked reporting from The Thaiger as the top-notch reporter forgets to tell us how it happened, how a woman can fall down a lift shaft. Was the door faulty? Was the lift being installed and there was no door? Was it under maintenance and Safety First engineers forget to post warning signs and put up barriers?  Did he enquire? Did he ask questions? Did he try to find out how such a thing could occur?

Edited January 5 by Bangkok Barry

[hellohello123]

"woman had unexpectedly fallen into a lift shaft within "

 

You mean there is ever a time when someone expectedly falls into a lift shaft!

[soalbundy]

2 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

And, as usual, this top-notch reporter forgets to tell us how it happened, how a woman can fall down a lift shaft. Was the door faulty? Was the lift being installed and there was no door? Was it under maintenance and Safety First engineers forget to post warning signs and put up barriers?  Did he enquire? Did he ask questions? Did he try to find out how such a thing could occur? Almost every day this reporter only half-reports, and I have absolutely no idea how he has a job.

She was stuck IN the lift at the 58th floor, it went there without her selecting it.

[Bangkok Barry]

20 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

She was stuck IN the lift at the 58th floor, it went there without her selecting it.

 

That was a totally different story, something that The Thaiger likes to tag on to the end of a report if it is remotely connected to the main story. A unique thing to do in my experience, and one that can lead to (your) confusion. Read it again and you'll see In related news...

Edited January 5 by Bangkok Barry

[soalbundy]

Just now, Bangkok Barry said:

 

That was a totally different story, something that The Thaiger likes to tag on to yhe end of a report if it is remotely connected to the main story. A unique thing to do in my experience, and one that can lead to (your) confusion. Read it again and you'll see In related news...

I've been wrong about more important things before.

[Toby1947]

Life is full of Ups and Downs 😂🤣😂

[scorecard]

29 minutes ago, Toby1947 said:

Life is full of Ups and Downs 😂🤣😂

And Ins and Outs, sometimes very fast and numerous times with a minute.

Edited January 5 by scorecard

[mikeymike100]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Agreed, usually when the doors open one makes sure the lift floor is there to step onto.

Whilst you are correct, surely there must some kind of safety mechanism that prevents the doors opening if the elevator is not there? Was there? was it faulty?The article doesn't seem to mention what actually happened!

[PETERTHEEATER]

Look on the bright side. She was supported by 'virtual hugs' and 'positive vibes' 

[hotchilli]

54 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Whilst you are correct, surely there must some kind of safety mechanism that prevents the doors opening if the elevator is not there? Was there? was it faulty?The article doesn't seem to mention what actually happened!

TiT.... nuff said.

[brianthainess]

So she didn't "Fall down a lift shaft" at all Yet another Misleading headline, as the one about an Australian airhostess and Heroin, it had nothing to do with any airhostess at all, it was a Thai student going to Oz, Sack all of these stupid 'reporters' who come up with headlines. Sharks and Eels the lot of them, don't even get me on the monorail rubbish.

[Peterphuket]

3 hours ago, Toby1947 said:

Life is full of Ups and Downs 😂🤣😂

Especially when you live in high rising buildings.....

[RobU]

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

More half-baked reporting from The Thaiger as the top-notch reporter forgets to tell us how it happened, how a woman can fall down a lift shaft. Was the door faulty? Was the lift being installed and there was no door? Was it under maintenance and Safety First engineers forget to post warning signs and put up barriers?  Did he enquire? Did he ask questions? Did he try to find out how such a thing could occur?

Fully agree, apparently she did not fall down the lift shaft at all. She was trapped in the lift which stopped at the 58th floor despite her efforts to halt its progress. I presume the doors wouldn't open hence the emergency services were called. The idiot who wrote this article and created the headline is completely off his trolly.

[brianthainess]

4 minutes ago, RobU said:

Fully agree, apparently she did not fall down the lift shaft at all. She was trapped in the lift which stopped at the 58th floor despite her efforts to halt its progress. I presume the doors wouldn't open hence the emergency services were called. The idiot who wrote this article and created the headline is completely off his trolly.

We seem to be getting more and more of these Idiotic Headlines on a daily basis, tomorrow we'll hear it was only 18 floors high. 

[RobU]

3 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

Whilst you are correct, surely there must some kind of safety mechanism that prevents the doors opening if the elevator is not there? Was there? was it faulty?The article doesn't seem to mention what actually happened!

She didn't actually fall down the lift shaft, she was trapped in the lift which stopped at the 58th floor according to the article, (another contributor to this forum says the building is only 18 floors high). The idiot who wrote this article and created the headline is a moron. I think it is the same 'reporter' who called deep drainage trenches 'sinkholes' when there were 3 separate incidents of the covers breaking and vehicles falling into the same exposed drain (as it crossed under different roads) and failed to link them

Edited January 5 by RobU

[geisha]

As said above the woman stuck in an ascending lift is a completely different article , added onto to the real article.  

[geisha]

The woman actually fell down the lift shaft . What the article doesn’t say, is why, how it happened , which floor was the lift on, and from what floor she fell. Details matter. 

[Bangkok Barry]

5 minutes ago, RobU said:

Fully agree, apparently she did not fall down the lift shaft at all. She was trapped in the lift which stopped at the 58th floor despite her efforts to halt its progress. I presume the doors wouldn't open hence the emergency services were called. The idiot who wrote this article and created the headline is completely off his trolly.

 

The journalist - and I use the term loosely - combined two stories into one article. The woman trapped in the lift was not the same one who fell. Different woman, different location, different time, different social media user.

 

The lead article says A Facebook user named NAKON45, also known as Anyawut Po-ampai

In related news, a TikTok video shared by user @dreamiiqueen has gone viral, depicting a terrifying ordeal of being trapped alone in a lift that continuously ascends and descends.

 

The only 'relation' to the headline story is that it involved a woman and a lift. I can only assume The Thaiger pays peanuts and gets...... This writer is not the only one they employ who wouldn't last out the week at a proper news organisation.

 

[rabas]

7 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

The journalist - and I use the term loosely - combined two stories into one article. The woman trapped in the lift was not the same one who fell. Different woman, different location, different time, different social media user.

 

The lead article says A Facebook user named NAKON45, also known as Anyawut Po-ampai

In related news, a TikTok video shared by user @dreamiiqueen has gone viral, depicting a terrifying ordeal of being trapped alone in a lift that continuously ascends and descends.

 

The only 'relation' to the headline story is that it involved a woman and a lift. I can only assume The Thaiger pays peanuts and gets...... This writer is not the only one they employ who wouldn't last out the week at a proper news organisation.

 

 

That explains it. The reporters are suffering TicFace-TocBook disease. No cure.

[BusyB]

4 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

Whilst you are correct, surely there must some kind of safety mechanism that prevents the doors opening if the elevator is not there? Was there? was it faulty?The article doesn't seem to mention what actually happened!

 

These 'articles' rarely do. You get a half baked half of a story, usually badly written. I have no idea how stuff like this can possibly make it onto the page. It's like they have not only no editors, but not even any editorial p o l i c y.

 

It might be interesting to find out how these 'news gatherers' actually function - if you can call it that.

Edited January 5 by BusyB

[RobU]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

The journalist - and I use the term loosely - combined two stories into one article. The woman trapped in the lift was not the same one who fell. Different woman, different location, different time, different social media user.

 

The lead article says A Facebook user named NAKON45, also known as Anyawut Po-ampai

In related news, a TikTok video shared by user @dreamiiqueen has gone viral, depicting a terrifying ordeal of being trapped alone in a lift that continuously ascends and descends.

 

The only 'relation' to the headline story is that it involved a woman and a lift. I can only assume The Thaiger pays peanuts and gets...... This writer is not the only one they employ who wouldn't last out the week at a proper news organisation.

 

Ye gods the reporter is truly an idiot 

[Caldera]

You have to be pretty dumb (or distracted) to step into an elevator shaft when no elevator is waiting for you.

 

Some more details about how exactly this happened would have been nice.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Pushes elevator call button.

opens phone screen and locks in

Hears 'Ting' as elevator arrives and door(s) hiss open.

Steps forward still gazing at phone 

"Aieeeeeee........."

Sound of dull thud.

[brianthainess]

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

The idiot who wrote this article and created the headline is completely off his trolly.

I think his wheels fell off, seems unsecured like the Monorail. 

[brianthainess]

39 minutes ago, Caldera said:

You have to be pretty dumb (or distracted) to step into an elevator shaft when no elevator is waiting for you.

 

Some more details about how exactly this happened would have been nice.

You could try reading the linked full story.

[RobU]

5 hours ago, brianthainess said:

You could try reading the linked full story.

Unfortunately the linked story seems to be a Mish mash of 2 different incidents the links being both victims were women and there was a lift involved. It's total gobbledygook 

[scorecard]

14 hours ago, rabas said:

 

That explains it. The reporters are suffering TicFace-TocBook disease. No cure.

It amuses me when there's a mention of tik toc for no reason whatever.

Edited January 6 by scorecard