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- cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This does work on the elevators stated in the article IF the "Close Door" button is connected. The only places I've found it connected are in office buildings; most hotels or other such facilities remove it to eliminate elevator rudeness.
- astern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This REALLY WORKS in my office building in San Francisco. I won't say anymore than that, wouldn't want to disclose the location.
Now, with that said, it's a TOTAL dick move to try this with an elevator full of people and you are going to the top floor. :) - Keiser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2gregory read the comments on the link you posted, some said it works, the person who wrote the article didnt even test. what a chum.
- koach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It works dammit!! I work in a downtown office building and rode from the 25th floor to the basement 3 times in a row....during lunch!! No stops! Saweeet!!
- Harami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, this would have came in handy last year. I used to live on residence where people would commonly take the elevator up one floor. We solved this by just holding the doors shut, but this wasn't discreet when there was someone else you didn't know int the elevator (Imagine 2-3 friends pushing the elevator doors shut and someone looking at you like you're an idiot). This way is much more discreet and I'll no longer have to shove those heavy doors together.
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've always done this since I was little and never thought about it being a hack. I discovered this by accident. How about that?!
- methodshop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah. it totally works in my office building. just make sure the "close door" button is functional. many elevators have the "Close Door" button disabled. They are just placebos.
- okan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Uh, people, the majority of elevators don't have the "Close Door" button hooked up."
maybe where you are from. every elevator i've been in has one. and if there isnt a physical close door button you just hold down the floor button and it will act like a close door button. but either way i read about this years ago because i thought i would be able to find something like it. it wasnt that exact page but i tried it in a lot of elevators with no success :( - zarlwilliam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hah.. I just did this!! Worked on 2 of the 3 I tried. Good luck to everyone else.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2okan: Yes, they all have close door buttons, but the button frequently isn't hooked up to anything. You can press it all you like, nothing will happen.
My building's elevator is like this, the close door buttons do nothing. However, our freight elevator (much slower) does have working close door buttons. At my office, half the elevators have it working, and half don't. Kinda annoying, actually.
And this "express mode" trick is fake, BTW. It does not work, on any elevator, anywhere. Sorry guys, but it's just an urban legend. - dfj225, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've always said that if I designed elevators I would include a feature like this. Well, it looks like real elevator designers think like I do.
- kacymartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1did you try pressing say floor 5 button then pressing floor 25+Door Close and see if it would skip floor 5
- GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Oh god I hope this works on the elevators on my campus. I'm tired of slow ass elevators and lazy bastards who have to ride the elevator one floor going DOWN. I'm mean jesus, you're not even going up stairs.
Please let this work...PLEASE! - cybortrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1THIS WORKS. i just tried it out at work...i spent a good 3 minutes going up and down the elevator and i did not have to stop to pick up a single person. people are always on the elevators here so i know it worked. also as a side note, the door closes MUCH FASTER if you use this hack than if you were to just hit the door close button by itself.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some elevators have this feature turned off.
- ppss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2all I'm saying is it works for my office, and just cause I signed up today is irrelevant
- ppss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hate how people declare somthing an urban ledgend and or fake without testing it first,
I just tried this on my work elevator and there is 30 floors, I myself can confirm that this worked on this elevator, but I can imagine that most elevators have this option turned off by now cause its old news!
I thank who posted this digg for saving me time haha - celeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um, do it at lunchtime then
- YoshiAX7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Uh, people, the majority of elevators don't have the "Close Door" button hooked up.
- datig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man I knew this would appear on the front page within the hour. (See my first comment)
- celeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unfortunately Wonka is unavailable for comment =[ mentioned something about an everlasting gobstopper v.2
- GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1^ I only need it to work on a select few, preferably the ones I use when I'm on campus. :)
- Guti, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can anyone confirm this?
- don613, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wish people would stop saying how great and wonderful this is gonna be, before they even try it. I have tried it and it doesn't work! It appears to be an urban legend.
Before you tell me I'm wrong, go try it for yourself "FOR REAL". Get in an elevator in a big building a give it a try. I dare ya. :) - don613, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I just tried it but it didn't work. Maybe the elevator was not the right model.
- jkeyes0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0tried it here a couple of times, and the funny thing to think about is: how will you ever know if it worked or not? it would take a team of people pushing the button on every floor (unless you just had 1 elevator, then just 1 other person...) to get it to work. I work in an office building with 8 elevators going to 24 floors, and it's really hard to tell if someone else is waiting to get on or not.
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just as likely...
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/06/crosswalk_button_hacks.html - DownloadThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I make 3 or 4 unique visits to different buildings each day in Manhattan. I will try this in every elevator I enter. :)
- Rhomboid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Somebody forward this to snopes.com. They will get to the bottom of it. That's about the only urban legend reference source that I trust these days.
I have to agree with the viewpoint that this might work for some elevators but most probably have the button disabled (even though you can push it.)
ppss - It seems that people have figured out that they can create sock puppet accounts to artificially digg crap that they've posted in order to get traffic or google ranking. Whether or not you're one of those people, I don't know. But it is relevent. - mydave, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0Well, it looks like real elevator.
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http://www.omodudu.com - imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I just tried it on this elevator here: http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=TheTwilightZoneTowerofTerrorAttractionPage ... and it didn't work!
- ppss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0well i guess you are saying i am sock puppeting all these comments at engadget?
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000340052853/#comments - dondy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This will not work in any apartment buildings, schools and/ or public elevators!
There's prolly like two elevators that would do this. One in the movies and the other is in the world the guy that posted this is in. - ZhunZi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Do a google search on it. This is an urban legend. It may possibly work for a rare few, but I even tried elevators with the model numbers specified and it did not work.
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have reason to believe that this is NOT just a legend, although I have never had the opportunity to try it myself.
- The close door button is often fake, just for a false sense of security. In these cases, it will not work.
- Even if the close door button does work, the building owner may have opted to have this feature turned off. It -CAN- be turned off as far as I am aware, just that it *used* to be that it was usually left on because at that time pretty much nobody knew about it.
- Because everyone knows about it now, the number of elevators that it works in is likely to decline. Thanks a lot, everybody. - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Well, you could always just make a key.
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I dunno... I'll have to see it. I'm jaded after the "secret code" on crosswalks Digg to make the crosswalk activate rapidly.
- IraqManiac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0ahhh no! I just got back from this place with this slow "otis" elevator that is supposed to work with this and sometimes it would stop at EVERY floor, all 8 of them... that sucked, too bad I didn't know about this before then
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i want more elevator hacks
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Don't digg this. Most elevators have close door buttons, but that doesn't mean they do anything; sometimes they're just placebos. If the close door button actually works, I guess you have better chances... but the reason they disable this stuff is because they know people know about it. They know that people know about it because people who know about it talk about it. :(
So, don't digg this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i dont have any elevators near me but im going to find one tomorrow and give this a try.
- socket, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Here's another one they don't want you to know about.
Every elevator currently deployed in the United States has a big red button in it (generally on the bottom row of buttons on the control panel). Normally this is labeled "emergency stop" or some variation of that. But don't be fooled my hax0r buddies! This button is actually used to cause an explosion of Skittles brand candies from the roof of the building the elevator resides in. Causing a rainbow colored shower of tooth decaying goodness across your city or town. - datig, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Everyone quit "digging" this one!! Keep this a secret.
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0P.S. Want to see the coolest webapp ever?
http://www.otis.com/maintenancedetail/0,1422,CLI1_MID19070_RES1,00.html - SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0site is down. any other hosts up?
- kenkanif, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Awesome this looks pretty sweet I gotta try it sometime.
"Everyone quit "digging" this one!! Keep this a secret."
:D Too late. - don613, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Wow, ppss you've been a member of digg since Ummm today. You've only dugg one story, this one. I guess that makes you an expert enough to comment on other digg users.
For your information, I did test this before I called it a fake. - guy.gregory, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0HOAX!!!! god, you're all so gullible
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/elevator_express/
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