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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -29/+115"...two people burned there [sic] hands badly enough for them to blister on the hot lights in the shaft."
Yep, the elevator was definitely designed by Apple. - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -31/+113At least the elevator didn't "crash" on its way down! That means it wasn't designed by Microsoft :P
- vh1`, on 10/12/2007, -10/+62your friend really doesn't seem too bright
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -17/+60"The Apple cube in New York city broken"
More like the elevator door got stuck! This always happens with new buildings, there are always a few minor things that need to be ironed out, no big deal really. I feel your title is a tad alarmist ;) - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -9/+46Apple doesn't make its own elevators, nor its own buildings. Just as Microsoft doesn't make their own office chairs or paperclips. The headline here is lame and I'm reporting it as such. This is a stuck in an elevator story, not a broken Apple Cube Store story. I've been stuck in elevators before but I was smart enough to realize that Merryl Lynch didn't make the elevator in their building and it's not their fault it broke.
- kismac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37heheheh thats funny, but only cause it's a glass elevator... i wonder how long it would have taken david blane to escape if it was full of water and he was handcuffed...
- Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36Titles a bit missleading... When I read it I pictured one of the top corners of the building missing...
Still... +Digg - mr_cheese28, on 10/12/2007, -14/+40apple should have @ least given those people a free ipod for their trouble.
- CursedMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -10/+35Glass is just a bad idea.
My friend ran through a glass door at a mall because he didn't see it. The store owners just replaced it with a thicker glass door. - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -10/+33Did the quintuple exclamation point at the end clue you in?
Alarmist title linked to an appallingly written blog. Another day at Digg. - percyhanna, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Somehow I doubt Apple themselves made the elevator? Just a guess, since they're not really in the "elevator" business.
- archerx, on 10/12/2007, -20/+40This is why I like functionality over style...
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"Glass is just a bad idea.
My friend ran through a glass door at a mall because he didn't see it. The store owners just replaced it with a thicker glass door."
Seems like a good idea to me, the gene pool isn't going to clean *itself* out, you know. - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Elevators break down all the time, and very often with people in them. This is nothing particularly new or unique to Apple's elevator (which is a hydraulic elevator that pushes up, not a cabled one that drops down -- obviously).
Elevator repair is the place to be...elevators need constant maintenance and component replacement, they break down all the time, and it's a unionized field too. In some places, companies like Otis, Thyssen-Krupp, or Schindler basically have near-monopolies and extended service contracts. Good job option if you don't know what you want to do yet with your life! - paiguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Lets see... getting stuck in an elevator usually makes the news only if something else happens... like a baby delivery, or some crazy escape.
Just because it's an "Apple" elevator, this makes front page? - ThugEsquire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12David Blaine would have probably just drowned.
- luckyjonny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13The application "Lift" has unexpectedly quit.
- percyhanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9... would HAVE never seen... ?
- blckleprd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What I love even more about this s that the guy created a new blog just so he could post this, then created an account on digg to submit it. Not only that, but it's only a ***** elevator. it's not like the cube imploded or something. Marked as lame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Hmm, maybe I should take the stairs...
- SilentPurity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I pictured the whole building in glass pieces....damnit.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you write a headline saying Apple's Cube is broken, I'm expecting the actual glass cube itself to be broken. Not some lame story about a stuck elevator door.
- ltrpmac2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Horrible title. The glass cube did not break, the elevator shut down. A common problem. The title in no way reflects the article at all.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Serves them right. Not one of them appears handicapped and yet they are taking the elevator down one story - laziness.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Terrible write up(!!!!!!)
- ishafer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Where is Willy Wonka when you need him... He would have fixed it in a jiffy. But seriously, not that big of a deal. At least it was glass, much better then when I was stuck in an elevator in SF for 2 hrs.
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i have been stuck in elevators like 5 times.
its pretty normal - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+24To AgentBob: Because their elevator broke? Wow, dude. If that's a joke that's not even near funny.
- heavyphotons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Just as Microsoft doesn't make their own office chairs or paperclips."
Well there was that nasty business with Clippy... - Numfar28, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11What are cures to pi? e? The square root of 2? Pepto-Bismol?
- Dryth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If they did, then every second customer would ATTEMPT to break the elevator for their free iPod. Whether they succeed or not, it could become a serious problem.
This used to happen at my local theme park growing up. One year, a friend of mine realized that it was possible to trigger a release valve on the restraints of a certain ride if you stretched far enough, and that since it was grossly unsafe, they'd give you a 3-year season pass if you did it and played dumb. That year they ended up having to shut down the ride thanks to the mass of kids trying the same thing, and until they could get the problem fixed. - RevHelix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So, where is the story?
I got stuck in my elevator the other day, but it wasn't hard to open and get out thankfully.
Stuff happens. - mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I think a few of you are taking this a bit too seriously. Its just a light hearted story meant to bring a little smile to everyone's faces. Its not a laugh at apple story, although I have thought of a half dozen one liners for this just in the time it took to type my comment.
- bbiggs32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Too much thermal compound....
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Same here. I thought someone managed to break one of the big glass panes.
A stuck elevator is hardly news, and a stuck /door/ is even less interesting. Can you imagine someone going to the trouble to write a story for a newspaper, with photos, that read "Door Sticks on Elevator at Local Kmart"?
I guess I should have been clued in to the innacuracy of this story by the multiple exclamation marks. ranex, you do know that repeating a puctuation mark doesn't actually mean anything, don't you? Try it with a comma sometime, you'll see what I mean. - Jeffrey903, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I was at that Apple store yesterday around lunch time (hours before this occurred), I wanted to use the elevator, but there was an "Apple Camp" sign blocking the entrance to it. I figured I might as well walk instead of bothering someone asking if I could use it.
- dandyhighwayman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bet they at least had cool elevator music...
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well obviously apple didn't design the damn elevator, it's just a joke.
- TheShrike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6In other news, an elevator in "somewhere else" also broke down. No pictures were available at press time.
*yawn*
Who cares? It's a frikkin elevator. This happens all the time all over the world. Let's face it, this is a lame story with one purpose: to open up the fields for cheap shots at Apple. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Yes, hiredgun, that's someone's tit. Someone was standing in the elevator, and they got bored and decided to start undressing in the glass elevator. Then this blogger took an oddly angled photo of it and posted it without comment.
That's exactly what it is.
You've found a photo of a boobie. Now take your laptop into the bathroom and let us know when the coast is clear. - slash101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Reported as inaccurate too. Very misleading name, I thought it had been properly broken, E.G. someone smashed a great huge hole in it.
- domr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm so glad someone finally found a cure for pi.
I've been going round in circles trying to find one. - benwaterworth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i can't believe this story has been dugg even once.
surely the title should be changed to "elevator breaks down"
and why are there "pi cures" to prove it???
if these people get anything free it should atleast be one of those new nike+ipod things...
...encourage people to use STAIRS and all that - moisie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Oh no, an elevator/lift broke down, this is amazing. I've never heard of this happening before, especially on a new one. New things never have teething problems so frankly I'm shocked and appalled. The fact that it's not even remotely related to their computing or music products also seriously makes me reconsider buying one of their products and I have serious doubts about the security of OS X as well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+16Whoever wrote that story needs to take some lessons on proper grammar.
- rammoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"This last thursday- may 26th 2006 I was in New York city on a school trip."
Oh how the public education system continues to disappoint... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10How many times do you suppose that elevator was used before the breakdown? I hope theres an update as to the cause of the elevator failure.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Some people are desperate to be noticed...
- mkaufman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6i think it's some girlie ass....
45 minutes in that elevator and he didn't manage to get a proper boobie shot?
reported as lame... - HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3CursedMonkey:
If I were you, I'd find a smarter friend. And castrate him so he cannot reproduce. -
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