[ August 06, 2008, 01:05 PM: Message edited by: Saltah'na ]
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I'd like to have been in that eleavator.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
What a surprise that cheerleaders could be so stupid.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kosh: I'd like to have been in that eleavator.
+1...
the idea of 14 excited and sweaty 16's will get you 20's... excites me... kinda...
hope they learned their lesson.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"'Take the sign seriously,' Ms. Weldon said. 'There are signs everywhere: No more than 15 people or 3,000 pounds.'"
Actually, I'm guessing 26 teenage cheerleaders may quite possibly have totalled less than 3000 pounds.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
This is America. Going by the Standard American Diet (TM), I'm pretty sure that 26 teenage cheerleaders will probably be more than 3000 pounds. Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
They're cheerleaders. Strict weight restrictions, especially for the really hardcore stuff.
My evil ex-roommate was a cheerleader. There wasn't a person over 125 lbs. in the squad. So I'm actually kind of surprised they broke the elevator.
Posted by FawnDoo (Member # 1421) on :
Well, if they were all in the 125lb range then 26 of them would top out at over 3000lbs. I was trapped in a lift once, with just a few people (no army of cheerleaders) and the scariest aspect was just how hot and stuffy it got in a very short period of time. Not to the point that we were fainting, but certainly very uncomfortable very quickly.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, but she said no-one was over 125 lbs. Meaning that quite a few were probably under.
And, if they were trying to maximize their number in the elevator, they probably would have gone with the smallest girls available.
As for why the elevator broke, at a guess I would say it was more about their volume than their weight. If they were pressed up against the door, it may have been deflecting enough to stop it from opening properly. I guess. (I am not an elevator expert.)
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
"Save the Cheerleader....Save the WORLD."
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Ah cheerleaders, nature's little joke. So hot, yet so incredibly stupid.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I've been in an elevator with 15 200lb-ish men at once. It got up to the 8th floor before it sunk slowly back down to the 1st and opened its doors. Why campus authorities decided to put 200 orientating freshmen on the top three floors of a 20-storey dorm....
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
...so when i retire from the navy (one hopes) and go to college for my second career, there's gonna be lots of hot but still stupid former cheerleaders for me?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Uh, depends...how old are you? The Creepy Old Guy at the kegger doesn't usually go home with the cheerleader...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Depends what he's spiking the punch with.
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Yeah, but she said no-one was over 125 lbs. Meaning that quite a few were probably under.
And, if they were trying to maximize their number in the elevator, they probably would have gone with the smallest girls available.
As for why the elevator broke, at a guess I would say it was more about their volume than their weight. If they were pressed up against the door, it may have been deflecting enough to stop it from opening properly. I guess. (I am not an elevator expert.)
Almost certainly a crappy (and slooow) hydraulic elevator. A cable lift would've just snapped- causing serious injury/death to all those aboard.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Actually cable lifts usually are rated for how much a single cable can hold and are made with up to eight cables for massive redundancy; plus, there are both magnetic and physical brakes in case of a cable snap.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Being stuck in an elevator with 5 scared cheerleaders, in need of consolation and manly bravado and consolation, sounds nice. Being stuck with 25 claustrophobic, panicking and fainting girls, oxygen at rock bottom...not the ideal fantasy I think. Unless one is into s/m and autoerotic asphyxiation. Then perhaps being stuck in an elevator with 15 Anton Chigurhs and 15 rubber chickens could be even more nice. Brief but nice.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Actually cable lifts usually are rated for how much a single cable can hold and are made with up to eight cables for massive redundancy; plus, there are both magnetic and physical brakes in case of a cable snap.
Dont rain on my parade, pal! I enjoy the fantasy of my elevator car being suspended by a strand of dental floss...slooowly straining under the weight of it's passengers... ((shudder))
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I was trapped in a lift once, with just a few people (no army of cheerleaders) and the scariest aspect was just how hot and stuffy it got in a very short period of time. Not to the point that we were fainting, but certainly very uncomfortable very quickly.