Apple Store shoppers rescued from glass elevator
The New York City Police Department on Thursday was called to the site of Apple's flamboyant new retail shop to rescue a group of students that had become stuck inside store's glass-encapsulated elevator system.
The six students were visiting Manhattan as part of a school trip, one wrote in a blog posting about the incident. She said all but herself wound up stuck inside the captivating gizmo for about 45 minutes while the police were called to the scene.
As the students waited to be rescued, Apple Store employees used step-stools to slip bottles of water through the elevator's erratically opening and closing doors. All the students eventually exited safely once police leaked the hydraulic lines, though some were reported to have received minor burns.
The elevator is part of the $9 million 32-foot glass cube that rests atop the new Apple store in the plaza of the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue. It's wrapped by a circular staircase -- also made of glass -- that takes patrons to the 20,000-square-foot subterranean retail space.
According to reports, the cube was designed and paid for by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. In fact, it's also been reported that Jobs demanded he be able to keep the structure at the end of the store's twenty-year lease (though he must replace it with a "comparable structure" before hauling it off).
The Fifth Avenue Apple Store elevator is now "out of order," according to tipsters who swung by location this holiday weekend.
The six students were visiting Manhattan as part of a school trip, one wrote in a blog posting about the incident. She said all but herself wound up stuck inside the captivating gizmo for about 45 minutes while the police were called to the scene.
As the students waited to be rescued, Apple Store employees used step-stools to slip bottles of water through the elevator's erratically opening and closing doors. All the students eventually exited safely once police leaked the hydraulic lines, though some were reported to have received minor burns.
The elevator is part of the $9 million 32-foot glass cube that rests atop the new Apple store in the plaza of the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue. It's wrapped by a circular staircase -- also made of glass -- that takes patrons to the 20,000-square-foot subterranean retail space.
According to reports, the cube was designed and paid for by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. In fact, it's also been reported that Jobs demanded he be able to keep the structure at the end of the store's twenty-year lease (though he must replace it with a "comparable structure" before hauling it off).
The Fifth Avenue Apple Store elevator is now "out of order," according to tipsters who swung by location this holiday weekend.
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Anyone who isn't disabled and gets stuck on an elevator that they took instead of walking a single flight of stairs got exactly what they deserved, IMHO.
Although these kids probably just took the elevator to see how "COOL" it was.
I live near Boulder and saw a bumper sticker a few years back that cracked me up...
Jerry's dead
Fish sucks
Get a job
Don't get me wrong - love the Dead, Anastasio rocks(but I think Fish is a little weird), really love Widespread Panic...
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Originally posted by FormerLurker
Anyone who isn't disabled and gets stuck on an elevator that they took instead of walking a single flight of stairs got exactly what they deserved, IMHO.
IMHOYOS*. How about families with infants in strollers, a person with asthma, etc. If you'd like to take the stairs, that's up to you. To think that you can impose your opinions on others makes you an elitist, just from the other side.
*In My Humble Opinion Your Opinion Sucks.
Originally posted by fahlman
IMHOYOS*. How about families with infants in strollers, a person with asthma, etc. If you'd like to take the stairs, that's up to you. To think that you can impose your opinions on others makes you an elitist, just from the other side.
*In My Humble Opinion Your Opinion Sucks.
Not that humble of an opinion...
While you are right about certain people needing it, these kids didn't have any infants and although I don't know for sure but I doubt any of them had any medical conditions that wouldn't allow them to scale one flight of stairs. Keep in mind he didn't mention those with disablities.
Originally posted by drakethegreat
Not that humble of an opinion...
While you are right about certain people needing it, these kids didn't have any infants and although I don't know for sure but I doubt any of them had any medical conditions that wouldn't allow them to scale one flight of stairs. Keep in mind he didn't mention those with disablities.
He said "Anyone".
Originally posted by fahlman
He said "Anyone".
in all likelihood, the OP meant 'anyone who doesn't have a good reason for circumventing a flight of stairs', which i would say includes the people you mentioned (and a few others most likely).
but i'd agree with the OP, aside from maybe a one time 'hey this might be a fun elevator to ride', it's remarkably lazy to ride an elevator to move up/down a single flight. i mean really, which do you think is faster?
"People who take elevators one floor are lazy" doesn't make any sense when the elevator in question is round and glass and moves through the middle of a glass staircase between a glass cube and an Apple store.
Were I to visit the Apple store in Manhattan I would almost certainly take the elevator at least once, to check it out. Wouldn't you?
Originally posted by T'hain Esh Kelch
Thats it. I'm visiting a Dell store.
You have to pay extra for their elevator, and it's made of ugly plastic.