Not very pretty, but it sure is creative.

[Toilet Dress via MSNBC]

Doesn’t look too comfortable, but I guess I would feel safer about shipping Grandma UPS Ground.

• The Door Close button is mostly there to give passengers the illusion of control. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.
• The only known occurrence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945 when a B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building and severed the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable that had fallen, which lessened the impact.

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