Girls trapped UNDER elevator at Classen SAS

[Double Edge]

When I was their age I pretty much knew all the underground flood water tunnels of Albuquerque. Never got trapped though.

[Double Edge]

Thought on it a bit more. It's possible that was asked, and answered, but it hit the editing floor to make story fit allotted space.

on the advice or their attorney. (The girls')

[bandnerd]

The girls were on local news the other night. There were allegedly four. The elevator was on the upper floor. The door was claimed to be open or able to be opened. Three girls went in, the fourth stayed out and shut the door. When the door was shut, the car automatically came to the first floor. There was also some info about a possible open maintenance work order out on the elevator but they gave no specifics if it was related to the door or not.

But as you say, no person would go through a door and into an elevator pit under normal circumstances.

I have students who have friends that go to Classen SAS. They told me what they had heard, and it wasn't anything like what the news reported.

Ever heard of the game chicken? Yup.

[Just the facts]

I posted that before they released any audio tapes. Thanks for letting me know though.

No worries - I heard the exact same adjectives used to describe them by members of the national media - who also had not heard the tape yet.

[Architect2010]

I'm just glad nothing worse happened! That must have been the most terrifying thing to happen to those girls.

[Double Edge]

Yes. Thank dog some teens have 9 lives.

[JayhawkTransplant]

I did some STUPID stuff when I was a kid. Right off the top of my head, I can remember ice skating on my pond when it was 60 degrees outside (after weeks of temps in the teens), holding a seance on the roof of my friend's house, driving the wrong way in a roundabout, and playing this stupid game where we had to walk home from school in a perfectly straight line, even if it meant having to climb a fence or crawl over a car.

Why? Because it was some stupid idea my friends and I came up with.

Thank goodness these girls made it out okay!! That was some quick thinking. I'm less appalled by their stupid mistake and more impressed with their problem-solving.

[MuseMOKC]

The girls make the rest of the students look bad. My son is in the 6th grade at Classen, and is in classes with the 6th grader involved. According to him, she gets in trouble all the time. The other students are sick of the media coverage and actually annoyed with all the attention these girls are receiving. They are not being punished, despite the fact that only authorized students were allowed use of elevator (and had keys issued to them). It is ridiculous.
What sickens me most is that there is another 6th grader who attends the school who MUST use the elevator due to her medical condition. In order to attend last week when the elevator was shut down for the investigation, she had to be carried up and down the THREE story building by her parents. How humiliating for her. I'm sure the girls never had to apologize to her either.
I find it sad when my own sixth grader has the common sense not to go into a clearly marked areas under construction per MAPS renovations as well as the elevator (as noted in their orientation materials), but these girls are not? They KNEW what they were doing alright. They facebooked about it.

[RadicalModerate]

I'm just glad nothing worse happened! That must have been the most terrifying thing to happen to those girls.

It's hard to imagine anything much more terrifying than being smashed by an elevator.
I hope they don't go looking for an experience to outdo that one . . .

Maybe they should be forced to read MuseMOKC's post . . .
Encountering nearly pure truth is sometimes fairly frightening . . .
(In case you didn't get it that was a big thumbs up for MMOKC's words)

On the other hand, they could take a cruise on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken . . .

[Double Edge]

Or Occupy something besides an elevator shaft.

[RadicalModerate]

A big thumbs up on that one, too . . . =)

Humor Transcends Politics . . .
(Even so-called "black" humor) . . .

I wonder if that innocuous comment will push somebody's buttons . . .

[Just the facts]

On the other hand, they could take a cruise on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken . . .

Now that was funny.

[Architect2010]

It's hard to imagine anything much more terrifying than being smashed by an elevator.
I hope they don't go looking for an experience to outdo that one . . .

Maybe they should be forced to read MuseMOKC's post . . .
Encountering nearly pure truth is sometimes fairly frightening . . .
(In case you didn't get it that was a big thumbs up for MMOKC's words)

On the other hand, they could take a cruise on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken . . .

Stop being strange.

[RadicalModerate]

Dang:
I musta' accidentally hit the Down Button.

(Them there "architect/minimalist signage dudes" outta make this sorta stuff more clear . . .
You know . . . Like to avoid elevator misuse and potential commercials for how a pair of Red Wing Work/Combat Boots saved three children at the bottom of an elevator shaft.)