Weirdest Things Found At The Bottom Of The Elevator Chamber (r/AskReddit)

elevator maintenance folks what is the weirdest thing you have found at the bottom of the elevator chamber i once accidentally lost my driver's license down the little gap in the elevator doors just dropped it and was super unlucky as it slipped through it turned up in my mail 10 years later obviously long expired but still crazy some maintenance guy found it and bothered retuning it god pulled over once handed the po my license and he dropped it in the crack where the window would have been we looked at each other for a second he says good luck and walked away it could be a blessing depending on what you did that's when you go to the station explain what happened and ask if their car mechanic can do it or if they want you to just send them the bill for deconstructing the door that's pretty neat worked at a hotel guests dropped their phone down the shaft after a few failed retrieval efforts we called the elevator guys they went down got the phone and also found a carton of eggs rotten but not cracked i don't even understand how that could happen accidentally because it was no accident i work in tech now but while i was in college i helped an hvac guy and he once had me put a carton of fresh eggs in the duct of a client's office that had stiffed him before when i asked him why i was doing this he said if this moth earth doesn't pay up he's going to have a new issue but then the guy paid two days later and i was sent to retrieve the eggs he called it his 99 cent insurance policy but then the guy paid two days later and i was sent to retrieve the eggs he called it his 99 cent insurance policy i'm picturing you standing up a ladder in a busy cubicle setting removing a ceiling tile then coming down with a dozen eggs like its business as usual so that's where i left them welp sire did home repair to help put myself through college get a call that there's a non-waste water leak in an apartment in a second-floor bathroom from a landlord so me and my co-worker go over the water line on the toilet has a leak enough has come out that we need to remove some of the ceiling in the living room to replace it so we cut out a four feet x4 feet area that meets a ceiling joist and we find an egg one single egg balanced on the ceiling joist we gingerly removed it and tossed it out the ceiling had been closed up for at least the last 40 years it was lathe and plaster that old that egg still haunts me can confirm there is weird stuff in ceilings lived in a very old house upstairs bathroom had a leak ceiling collapsed into the bathtub of downstairs bathroom and with it came a pair of sunglasses from 1937. well over 1 500 tax returns at the bottom of yatto's north brisbane office elevator shaft bloody hell where you sent there to retrieve them or did some drongo just lose them and thought no one will find them anyway also were they ethics my gov printouts or the old paper submitted once this is going back quite a few years when i think at all employees were doing favors for people at one time the system was so full of holes employees could do all sorts of things they shouldn't have without fear of being caught my dad was an elevator mechanic for about 15 years he had a very dark sense of humor and would come home with some of the craziest stories for example any time he was in an elevator he would shake it a little or tap on the displays or buttons and go yep total piece of crap inferior piece of crap and i think he mostly did it to freak people out one of my favorites he got a call that someone was hearing weird noises from the elevator he got inside wrote the elevator up and sure enough he could hear it too for half a second he thought it was a baby crying and realized it was a cat when he got to a certain floor he could hear this sad meowing it obviously wasn't in the elevator car so he got into the shaft and found this little orange kitty it had somehow and i don't think he figured out or told us how got into the elevator shaft and was sitting in a spot between the floors where it wouldn't get crushed by the elevator but it couldn't get out my dad saved it and gave it to the building manager to see if it belonged to anyone in the building it was the one time he ever told us a story that involved him saving an animal instead of finding dead ones and i don't think he figured out or told us how cats all made a liquid and i am pretty serious they have a lot of floof and fit through cracks and crevices much smaller than you think should be possible my dad has a great story about this he supervised the mechanics and one of them called him from a mental hospital and said you've got to see this the maintenance guy was called because the elevator wasn't quite sitting level on the ground floor it was about half an inch too high and both patients and staff had been tripping on it but all other flaws were no problem my dad arrived to find the maintenance guy cackling looking into the bottom of the shaft there were probably tens of thousands of magazines down there they had to get a bunch of shovels a small crew and a rolling dumpster to clear it out when it was all done my dad decided to stay behind and pretend to read a newspaper while he sat in the lobby after about half an hour he sees an elderly patient holding a magazine shuffling slowly toward the elevator he stops in front of the doors glances left glances right and quickly stoops down slides the magazine into the gap and shuffles away as fast as he can with a huge grin on his face my dad could not help but laugh hysterically this guy had probably been sliding magazines in there multiple times per day every day for decades i should ask him whether he reported it or let the guy have his fun wouldn't surprise me if my dad went with the latter 10 000 magazines wow this guy sure must have had a lot of time a ton of issues as well as a psychiatrist i've become fairly desensitized to weird patient actions but i appreciate this story for how long this patient was doing this usually the passive aggressive stuff goes away quickly but this man sounds resilient af imagine what he could have done without getting served a bad genetic hand our team dropped a steel anal dilated down the dumb way to shaft by mistake when the technician came down and grabbed it off the floor he'll never forget the look on his face when i told him we need that up here it's got to go in someone's a soon it was priceless i am a technician for a hospital dealing with rectal surgical tools is very normal that poor dilator it got away for a minute thought it was finally leaving that wretched life behind next thing it knows it's lying at the bottom of a filthy dumb way to shaft and just when it's starting to get used to that thinking not much of a view but a lot roomier than i'm used to along comes the elevator tech and it's back to the old day in day out it must gave done something really bad in a previous life i bet it was roy cohn how many purple dildos have you found in your patience none they are brown by the time they get found one of my baseball coaches when i was a kid lost his glass eyeball in the elevator shaft maintenance guy gave a solid wtf one time we were doing a rip out at an old factory they were gutting them and turning them into luxury apartments the elevator we were taking out was a styled freight that hadn't run in years when we finally ran it up we went down to inspect the pit it smelled like a dead body had chilled there for half a century the bottom floor wasn't lit so i shined my flashlight under the elevator and the whole floor started moving roaches nasty haven't really found anything fun though i've cleaned out more pits than i could count too i gave my mom a cheap ring i found found a pair of underwear at a hotel found a full packet at a courthouse of some lady's case transcribed oh i was on a mod once and one of the hoistway doors had an advertisement sticker for a tennis restringing service which was weird because it was somewhere only an elevator guy should be able to reach i called the number but it was out of service i found some cool graffiti from the 40s that's about it i worked on escalators for a year and a half there was a lot more in those bits i was taking home bent up quarters every day there was lots of shoe bits and i was always nervous of coming across used needles in certain units when i redoing a rip out at an old factory i was picturing a bunch of urban explorers gathered round the bong in the dark not a technician but do work at a large hotel a few years ago one of our elevators stopped working turned out when they opened it up they found a three-foot pile of guest folios that were never delivered to the rooms later when we looked on the camera we found it was a security guard that got tired of delivering them to the rooms and instead dropped them down the elevator shaft he did this for months until he was caught guest folios when you check out from a hotel they normally deliver you a folio underneath your door it's the receipt showing the charges for your stay this question should be my jam but unfortunately i've never found anything interesting two dollar coin once a dime bag of some unknown drug plenty of syringes or sets of keys it's mostly just people's junk mail and empty chip bags down there i had a co-worker who was opening a candy bar and dropped it down the shaft by accident hopefully the building's rats were able to enjoy it i think they prefer the term elevator maintenance folk the elevator guys in my dad's office complex found pieces of a dog skeleton not the whole skeleton just random parts the same dog at least i'm sure they did dna tests just to be safe tldr turds obligatory wasn't an elevator tech but hotel maintenance guest reports waterfall sounds in elevator shaft on road to the lobby investigation ensues some pump at bottom of shaft is running constantly water is still coming out of the drain it's connected to after i unplug it find out from notes of third shift maintenance that multiple first floor rooms had repeated clogged toilets all night long plumber cold six-inch sewer drain for the entire building is clogged worst clog i've seen in 15 years washcloths and tp over seven inches of clog in the pipe apparently it was clogged so bad that it was backing up into the laundry room the drain for the elevator shaft and the rooms closest to the main pipe out of the building first floor suites solid turds were left at the bottom of that shaft i quit about a week later for unrelated circumstances i think i would have quit for the related circumstances keys trash bugs if the building is exceptionally shtain mostly dirt and dust found a paint roller that the last guy left there once it was stuck to the floor not a whole lot of weird stuff can make it between the cylinder landing this is the only real answer but folks get a hard on for dildo stories a purple jelly hard on apparently of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo always use the indefinite article a dildo never your dildo worked security in a large department store we routinely had to pop it open to retrieve dropped keys wallets and phones recovered a two thousand five hundred dollar gold necklace covered in poop a would-be shoplifter dotted out of our jewelry department and suitcased the necklace while in the elevator when he realized we were waiting for him at the exit level he went back up a floor removed it and dropped it down the shaft we arrested him anyway much to his surprise this is the type of answer i was hoping to find in this thread suitcased till today i learn tomorrow i poop jewelry at a place where my wife used to work a body there was a crash from the elevator area the boss went to see what it was came back white as a sheet and said do not go out there two maintenance guys had been working on the elevator one was in the bottom of the shaft and the other one made one small error but i'm guessing the single most unusual item ever found at the bottom of an elevator shaft was a right r2 600 aircraft engine on the 28th of july 1945 in the empire state building i used to work at an old 22-story building that had the first automated elevator system in our state the idea was in order to control the flow of people in the lobby you push the button for your floor and the elevator would tell you which one to get on the elevators would make sure the crowd spread out over the big lobby anyway it was the first time i'd ever seen the auto open eyes used to i worked on the executive floor where long-winded executives would often stop me as i was leaving i got used to passing my hand through the doors to break the eye and hold the doors open you guessed it my left hand didn't trip the eye the doors closed on my hand which was prevented from closing completely because of my heavy engagement and wedding rings crushed the whole mess and lost a 2 to cara diamond 22 stories below my hand was only bruised thank goodness for a safety shut off i like to think that someday someone will find a tiny treasure not an elevator repair person but you would be shocked by the number of nurses that drop their keys down the shaft 20 stories up and two buildings away from the parking garage and they already had their keys in their hand i had to call maintenance all the time for retrieval not on earth but i work for them totally unrelated to my comment i once dropped my key stepping into an elevator and they landed on the gap with one key bridging the gap and all the others hanging down in the gap let me tell you i reached down and grabbed the most gingerly i used to keep my work security pass in the card holder in my wallet once my friend bumped me as we were getting out the lift and the same thing happened it landed straight across the gap all those years of playing operation finally get to pay off sooner or later lol as a woman it's better to get your keys out in a well-lit populated relatively safe area than to wait until you get into the parking garage to go digging around in your purse also since we don't keep our keys in our pockets we have to make sure we actually have them and haven't left them sitting around the office somewhere lot of women carry their keys in their hands for safety they double up as a weapon and to stop you needing to pause in a deserted parking lot to rummage around in your handbag and because our clothes have no f king pockets why have so many people in the comments found purple dodos it's all the same shaft so to speak there are at least six people who saw a purple dildo and everyone left it there either all have seen the same purple dildo or purple dildos are more a common sight at the bottom of the elevator's shaft absolutely sure everyone is telling the truth of course they left it there i mean do you pick up every random dildo you find not every dildo just the ones that look like they could use a good home the chamber of secrets yeah a maintenance technician harry holy if this subreddit really never runs out of questions been in the game 12 years now found a full christmas tree last month other fines 5k and 20 pound notes big a bag of drugs roughly 5 kilogram brand new shoes by the box load severed finger no one asked about the severed finger i feel like someone should have been sent off to that one somehow i feel like shu's money drugs finger are related purple dildo left it there found a 20 bill in an escalator in a casino once still have it most elevator pits are just filled with dirt dust and random bits of trash every once in a while somebody drops their keys pretty routine a purple dildo it was kinda weird so i just left it so the next guy will also have the joy of finding it [Music] you

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