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	Elevator surfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With origins in urban exploration, elevator surfing is an activity (some would call it an extreme sport) involving moving around on top of elevators.
		Surfers can be crushed between the elevator and the top, sides, or bottom of the shaft, be struck by the counterweight, or simply slip off the elevator (or be knocked off by a passing elevator) and fall to their deaths.
		Elevator surfing typically occurs in skyscrapers or on college campuses, especially those with tall buildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elevator_surfing (324 words)

	Elevator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elevators are not an acceptable means of escape during a Fire and should not be used by the Public.
		In general, Elevator Call buttons are numbered one-by-one to indicate the floors or landings that they cause the car to move to.
		The Elevator in the new City hall in Hannover, Germany is a technical rarity, and Unique in Europe, as the Elevator starts straight up, but then changes its angle by 15 degrees to follow the contour of the dome of the new City hall in Hannover.
	elevator.iqnaut.net (4549 words)

	Stealth Force Beta: Operation Up Your Shaft, Part 1 of 2
		They sent the elevator to the second floor, went to the basement level, ensured the coast was clear, and entered the elevator shaft.
		Unless the elevator is at the uppermost level, a vast open space lies above; even on the highest level, at least 4 or 5 feet of open space remains.
		The only danger on top of an elevator car is that you will trip and perhaps a limb might slip into the 6-inch space between the elevator car and the unfinished cinderblock side of the elevator shaft.
	www.spril.com /StealthForceBeta/UpYourShaft.asp (1706 words)

	Great Moments in Science - Surfing Medical Madness
		But Elevator Surfing first made the medical literature in March 1992, when Dr Kohr, a medical pathologist and coroner at Vigo County in Western Indiana in the USA had his paper published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
		The students made their way into the elevator shaft by forcing the lock, and without knowing it, accidentally disabled the “tape switch” - which is a special switch that tells the elevator where it is relative to each floor.
		Kohr mentions that in the Texas case of car surfing, the victim was thrown free and “landed with an initial upright impact on the heels of both feet.
	www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s609279.htm (871 words)

	Vandalism closes Packer elevators
		Elevators in an East Hall dorm were closed last week after students pried open the doors between floors that resulted in the police's involvement.
		The elevators in Packer Hall were temporarily shut down late last week, forcing residents to take the stairs in the seven-floor dorm.
		Elevator surfing, which involves prying open an elevator door between floors to climb in the shaft, is part of the reason for the shut down, said Clifford Lutz, Penn State police supervisor.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2003/01/01-30-03tdc/01-30-03dnews-06.asp (489 words)

	Elevator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elevators are generally sold in prepackaged components which are inherently non-proprietary.
		Some older freight elevators are controlled by switches operated by pulling on adjacent ropes.
		The elevator began to descend while the doors were still open, and he somehow became pinned between the building and the car, causing asphyxiation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elevator (8343 words)

	WB Inside Surfing Media :: Surfing Essay's
		Conversely there are surfing zones established ostensibly not for safe surfing but rather to keep surfers out of the swimmers way.
		The surfing population is exploding and the average age of a summertime surfer is fifteen and has little or no experience.
		The Willis Bros. are surfing experts recognized for surfing the worlds largest waves and teaching thousands in Hawaii and California to surf.
	www.wbsurfing.com /willis/article18.html (1080 words)

	Oleg's Big Party: Urban Exploration
		It is also very dangerous: surfers can be crushed between the elevator and the top, sides or bottom of the shaft, be struck by counterweight, or simply slip off the elevator - or even be knocked off by a passing elevator.
		While this is easier to do, the elevator should not be moving (for obvious reasons).
		Accomplices would often press buttons on different floors to keep the elevator moving (otherwise the surfing would be rather boring).
	oleg.moltenstudios.com /blog/archives/2005/01/urban_explorati.html (394 words)

	Urban Exploring Techniques: Elevator Surfing
		To get on top of the elevator, one must be able to open the inner doors between floors, trip the latch for the outer doors, and climb out and then on top of the elevator.
		The goal is to position the elevator in such a way that you have access to the opening mechanism on the outer doors (typically located near the top of the doors), while still having enough space to crawl out of the elevator.
		Once the elevator is at the desired position, manipulate the latch on the opening mechanism to open the outer doors [Figure 4].
	gene.greger-weltin.org /elevator_surfing (1130 words)

	vadding - FOLDOC Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		People who did it every night were called the "vaders," possibly after "elevator," which was one of the things they played with, or "invader," or "Darth Vader".
		CMU grad students were the known to pry open the inner doors of elevators between floors to see the graffiti on the inside of the outer doors.
		The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is "elevator rodeo", also known as "elevator surfing", a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments).
	www.nightflight.com /foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?vadding (256 words)

	High Rise Resue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It would seem to be a simple matter to require that all elevators be built to accommodate a stretcher, but knowing the strong opposition of some people to installing sprinklers throughout a building confirms how difficult the elevator requirement would be.
		A notable exception is a unique inner-city sport known as "elevator surfing." Youngsters ride on top of an elevator car and jump from car to car as they pass in a common shaft.
		Since the elevators are out of commission, your most likely source of patients will be during self-evacuation of the building.
	www.advancedrt.com /articles/rtarticles/highriserescue.html (4012 words)

	Jessica Scillieri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aside from the history of the building, the main focus of the article is the elevator surfing which is a sport for the students in the dorm and seems to be a way of passing the time when they are bored.
		There is an appeal to riding the elevators — the pitch fl, the danger, and the rite of passage it represents.
		Joel slips and falls between the elevator and the elevator door and is forced between the two.
	www.uvm.edu /~jscillie/lawry.htm (802 words)

	ELEVATOR HORROR IN BX. BUILDING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Steinau told police the elevator had been out of service for a few days prior to to the tragedy, but at the time of the accident the "Out of service" sign had been removed.
		She had rung for the elevator (with the intent of going to the sixth floor) and had already stepped into it and pushed the button for her floor when Nikaidoh tried to get into the car as the door was closing.
		She was carrying a stack of sheets, and when she pushed the elevator button, the door opened even though the car wasn't there.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1637278/posts (1961 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT: A Heather Wells Mystery by Meg Cabot
		Elizabeth Kellogg, a freshman who dies in Fischer Hall, is found at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
		Elizabeth was a preppie; as a group, preppies aren't likely to elevator surf.
		When Heather discovers that the desk elevator key is missing, she contacts Cooper and insists he help her solve the mystery.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0060525118.asp (545 words)

	Vadding - Ursine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		[from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e., ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the ‘secret’ parts of large buildings — basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like.
		The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is elevator rodeo, a.k.a.
		elevator surfing, a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments).
	ursine.ca /Vadding (184 words)

	Powell's Books - Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
		Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges.
		That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
		When students start to die mysteriously while 'elevator surfing' in the building, weight-conscious, romance-obsessed Heather goes on a crazed hunt to uncover the truth — with an unwavering sense of style.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0060525118-2 (587 words)

	Closet Extremist: A new sport!
		He was there to check out a cab that the customer was trying to build himself, and I wanted his opinion as he'll be the guy to give it a pass/fail at the end of the job.
		The elevators were an older design, and did not have a lot of the redundancies and safety features that are included on newer devices, and this is common in a lot of projects.
		Since a lot of these hoistway doors have a locking mechanism that can be openned with a simple screwdriver, a new sport has been devised by the young people who use them called "Elevator Surfing".
	closetextremist.mu.nu /archives/175507.php (398 words)

	Closet Extremist
		Ford's been building elevators for nearly as long as I've been alive, and he was a bit burned out by the time I showed up to help him.
		The entire elevator MUST be perfectly centerred in order for it to work properly, but there was a variance down on the lowest floor that threw me off.
		Over the past 2 1/2 days we've gotten this elevator to the point of: sticking the magnets to the selector tape, mount the cartop box, install the car gate, install the top and bottom limit switches, hang the traveller, put the lights in, install the telephone jack, land everything up, and scan the hoistway.
	closetextremist.mu.nu (10159 words)

	Michael Brown: On Reporting
		If the person died from surfing, that is no fault of the companies.
		Also were there some type of advisories written to the tenants about the dangers of the elevator, was there some type of advisory written to the tenants about the kids who do the surfing on the elevators or was there some flyers put out?
		And we're talking about some killings in some elevators, that is a hard news story, some people who got killed in an elevator, that's hard news.
	www.learner.org /catalog/extras/interviews/mbrown/mb02.html (857 words)

	HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - Car Surfing? Leave this garbage to Johnny Knoxville & ...
		Last month in Wyoming, a 17-year-old girl was sentenced to two years in juvenile detention for her role in a car surfing death.
		The teen was driving when her friend fell off the roof of the car and hit her head.
		Reminds me of 'subway surfing' which was popular in NYC a few years ago...same concept...get on top of a moving train and ride it.
	www.howardforums.com /showthread.php?t=678898 (1123 words)

	Elevator hacking - Engadget
		Apparently lots of elevators have an express mode that lets you override everyone else's selections and go straight to the floor you're going to. You just press "Door Close" and the button for your floor at the same time.
		Haha, its so annoying when you get in the elevator and you're only going to the 7th floor in 18 floor building, and then someone enters and presses "5", and then someone "4", and then "3", and then "6".
		If you hold the "Close" and the floor you want to go to, the elevator may stop on the floor, but the doors stay shut.
	engadget.com /2005/08/02/elevator-hacking (1109 words)

	Review of SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT by Meg Cabot
		Heather's life isn't perfect--people make fun of her size 12 figure--which she insists is average, not fat, and tell her how much better the former assistant director (the one caught stealing) was.
		Not only do girls not elevator surf, they also don't do it right after they had their first college boyfriend--which is what happened.
		Cabot delivers a fun assortment of secondary characters (the women--the men, unfortunately, are fairly generic), with Heather's boss, perfect Rachel, the cafeteria attendant who calls all of the students movie stars (in honor of the long-ago filming of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle episode on campus), and ever-psychoanalysing Sarah.
	www.booksforabuck.com /mystery/mys_06/size_12_fat.html (542 words)

	Romance Book Reviews -- InternetWritingJournal.com
		When students start showing up dead in the elevator shafts after supposedly partaking in the latest thrill rage of elevator surfing, Heather isn't buying it.
		After all, girls don't elevator surf -- but the police ignore her.
		So Heather decides to investigate on her own, while fending off her crazed ex-boyfriend, people who accuse her of looking familiar and trying not to become the next fatality of the elevator killer.
	www.internetwritingjournal.com /apr06/romance.htm (685 words)

	New and Featured at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: 2005 Staff Picks
		Everyone's pretty sure it's a fluke accident, death by elevator surfing.
		Heather's not so sure, since girls don't elevator surf.
		Or has elevator surfing just become a hot fad among lonely, preppy girls who suddenly have their first boyfriend?
	www.clpgh.org /locations/firstfloor/staffpicks/staff/karenb.html (1493 words)

	MINORITY SCHOLARSHIPS NOW VIEWED AS DISCRIMINATORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the activity known as elevator surfing, students stand on the top of an elevator and then ride up and down the shaft.
		Sometimes they may try to jump from the top of one elevator to another while they are passing each other.
		Deliduka was trying to move from the working elevator to the stuck elevator when it started to move, pinning him between the elevator and the shaft wall.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol56/91-04-04.html (5615 words)

	Lawry Letter
		This same author goes on to follow the events of a few kids one fateful night.
		He recalls how bored kids engage in a sport dubbed “elevator surfing,” where they stop the elevator between floors and climb onto the top inside the shaft.
		At some point over the course of this game one of the kids falls off the elevator car and hits a beam at the bottom slicing his body in two.
	www.uvm.edu /~dapechen/letter.htm (822 words)

	Elevator Surfing: A Deadly New Form of Joyriding. Kohr RM . 1992;37(2): 640-645. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Author(s): Kohr RM Title: Elevator Surfing: A Deadly New Form of Joyriding
		Abstract: A new form of joyride, on top of an elevator as it moves up and down the elevator shaft, has surfaced on college campuses and in housing and apartment complexes with elevators.
		This practice is called “elevator surfing,” and an illustrative case is presented, which is believed to be the first such report in the medical literature.
	www.astm.org /jforensicsci/PAGES/1711.htm (87 words)

	Elevator Surfing: A Deadly New Form of Joyriding
		A new form of joyride, on top of an elevator as it moves up and down the elevator shaft, has surfaced on college campuses and in housing and apartment complexes with elevators.
		asphyxia, elevator surfing, forensic science, pathology and biology
		Author Kohr RM Title Elevator Surfing: A Deadly New Form of Joyriding Symposium, Committee on
	www.astm.org /JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/2074.htm (129 words)

	vadding /vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e., ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's
		elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like.
		The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is `elevator
		down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of
	www.anvari.org /fortune/Jargon_File/28578.html (163 words)

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