Trapped in an elevator for 15 minutes....call the President and go to DEFCON 4!

Captain RAAF said :

Any ideas at what credible scenario could present itself that may cause such a panic?

Involuntary onset of coma from repetition of boring breakfast radio talk topic?

neanderthalsis said :

Captain RAAF said :

Any ideas at what credible scenario could present itself that may cause such a panic?

1. Continued disruption to internet service

aah, I see your’e with TPG! I feel your pain.

Captain RAAF said :

Any ideas at what credible scenario could present itself that may cause such a panic?

1. Continued disruption to internet service
2. Being overcharged for a pizza/coffee/sandwich etc
3. Waiting for more than 15 minutes for your meal to be served in a restaurant
4. Mark Carmody appearing live in public wearing half a tree
5. The zombie apocalypse (time to start stockpiling tinned food and ammunition)

I must admit, I expected a few of my evil arch enemies to take this topic as an opportunity to take a swipe at me, yeah I’m looking at you fgzk, arsecat etc?

Maybe they have seen my genuine concern for my fellow man and their ability to survive a biblical disaster and thought better of it…..or maybe they slept in today?

Any ideas at what credible scenario could present itself that may cause such a panic?

Skidbladnir said :

p1 said :

It sometimes takes nearly fifteen minutes for the dodgy elevator in my building to make it to the top.

*Thinks*
Scarborough House?

Ah Canberra. You can’t even comment on dodgy elevators without someone being able to figure out where you are.

🙂

fgzk said :

Lifts can be traumatic for some people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8soyvhnOI

That was actually very entertaining.

Getting stuck in a lift – meh.

Getting stuck in a lift with irritating people – PTSD

DEFCON 4?

Oh well, at least they didn’t overdo the threat level. The US is already at DEFCON 4.

busgirl said :

Captain RAAF, you’re making so much sense to me lately…should I be worried?

was almost thinking the same thing. i hope it isn’t true; i can’t handle the truth…

but really, does anyone ever really pay any attention at all to anything anyone on commercial am [or fm, for that matter] radio does says or thinks..? hang on, thinks..?

all i can say, was the firey hot?

p1 said :

It sometimes takes nearly fifteen minutes for the dodgy elevator in my building to make it to the top.

*Thinks*
Scarborough House?

It sometimes takes nearly fifteen minutes for the dodgy elevator in my building to make it to the top. That’s when it is working.

Captain RAAF, you’re making so much sense to me lately…should I be worried?

Why dignify those “two twits jibber-jabbering” with a topic at all?

They have a whole radio station upon which to force their vapid, shallow, regurgitated comments on the community.

Makes me realise how much I love my iPod.

Sounds like a cross-promotion for M. Knight Shyamalan’s latest. Was one of them the devil, perchance?

Lifts can be traumatic for some people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8soyvhnOI

What?! Someone actually listens to 106.3?! You learn something new every day..

john87_no1 said :

Not everyone is versed in the “hurry up and wait” protocol of the RAAF.

John No-one, I learned the ‘hurry up and wait’ protocol in the Army, they be the experts.

Me no fry is correct, when it does happen society will dial out mighty fast….the problem is people just don’t think anything significant can happen that will rock their world enough to warrant turning the volume down on their Ipod, subsequently being trapped in a lift for 15 minutes and waiting an hour in traffic generate partial or significant concern.

A lot of countries to our North fast running out of real estate and resources, like water that will be looking at alternatives……

James-T-Kirk said :

I would *love* to spend 15 minutes trapped in a lift with a couple of hot chicks!

I think I saw a “film” like that once…

I for one am thankful they covered this epic story of adventure and betrayl.

Has film taught us nothing? Hasnt anyone seen the movie Speed. Elavators do fall and saftey breaks do fail.

Plus Not everyone is versed in the “hurry up and wait” protocol of the RAAF.

One thing worth noting though is the trend to form a lynch mob post any disaster of any sort to find a scapegoat. No wonder we all panic when something goes wrong, we’re all worried we’ll have the finger pointed at us as being responsible!

I would *love* to spend 15 minutes trapped in a lift with a couple of hot chicks!

Ah, Captain RAAF – RIOTACT’s other angry man….

Totally agree, we’ve all forgotten what real hardship is – not that most of us ever knew what real hardship was in the first place. I can’t help feeling we’ve all got a big shock coming sometime in the future, and I’m not sure we’ll cope at all well. People complain if their latte is slow coming, how will they cope when there is no latte, no power, no petrol and no food?

Sorry, you’ll have to forgive me, I watched The Road recently.

We don’t want no pukin wimps in Queanbeyan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1yYB85ArHE&feature=related

Tooks said :

Commercial radio – makes me thankful I have a CD player in the car.

Soooooo true. Radio in Canberra is total crap. On a recent overseas holiday I actually found a radio station that played ONLY 80’s and 90’s hair metal! Now THAT is worth listening to.

Really, in this day and age who listens to the radio.

Much too my shame, I admit that I listen to AM stations more often than FM stations. I’m not some high-brow brainiac… but I like listening to ABC FM and another station that features a NPR and a German/Europe news focused show.

Also – oh noes 15 mins in lift. Still, once in the dark past I was a security guard in a public hospital, I ended up on a phone talking to a young man with mental health problems who’d gotten caught in a lift alone for 45 minutes after a series of unfortunate events in his life – I could just hear how close to Postal he was…

I can’t say I’d be any more or less than ‘annoyed’.

Actually Captn RAAF I am with you on this one.

We live in a society where there has to be an immediate response to everything that happens – 15 minutes of inconvenience is 15 minutes too long for most. Got a problem, something happens andwe complain if there isnt an immediate response (I havent got my coffee yet, a machine broke down ON PURPOSE, why didnt they call in the army for god-sake?). Suddenly questions are being asked and the plebs (and radio losers) get ansty.

We need to chill. 15 minutes is nothing in the scheme of things.

Listening to Cam and Lisa? Now that is a bigger problem, however I am also guilty but for only about 15 minutes before I have to change stations.(16 minutes is too long!)

I’m most amazed that they got out in 15 minutes – took the service guys at about 45 min to get me out when I was stuck in one at work. I passed the time by calling a workmate on my mobile to let them know where I was (the lift service company’s services doesn’t seem to include telling anyone else) and having a yarn, s’pose I should have called up the national media outlets instead.

Wow, we should change over to those lift service providers in our building. Minimum turn around is 45 minutes to get a tech in, provided the emergency phone actually connects to the call centre which is in Sydney.

Don’t 40-50 year old single Mum’s listen to 1053 2CA (if that still exists)?

Diggety said :

Mate:
a) it’s Canberra- nothing ever happens.
b) you’re listening to 106.3- are you a 40 single Mum?

I’m 42 mate, a bloke and only listen to 106.3 when Scotty and Nige insist on playing some cRAP music or Hamish and Andy are on holidays, or as I’ve found lately, to listen to first thing in the morning to see what mindless drivel they are starting the day with before I change channels….such as being stuck in an elevator for 15 heart wrenching minutes!

…that and they do play some good music from back when I was normal. =-)

Mate:
a) it’s Canberra- nothing ever happens.
b) you’re listening to 106.3- are you a 40 single Mum?

Commercial radio – makes me thankful I have a CD player in the car.