If you get on the elevators here, at night, and press a button, the button will flash briefly instead of remaining lit until your floor is reached. Also you will never reach your floor. The elevator will go to the second floor, and remain there without opening the doors. All of the buttons will be nonresponsive, or flash briefly, like they are broken. You can hold a button, and it will flash a couple of times, but still nothing. Just about when you are beginning to think you are trapped, and you start examining the ceiling for a way out, the elevator will take you back down to the first floor and spit you out.
The first time this happened to me, I had failed to find an emergency exit and I had my phone unlocked, ready to dial either 911 or my boss (whichever involved talking to fewer people) when the elevator released me. Another few minutes and I probably would have walked away with some kind of elevator phobia.
The second and third time it happened, I began to realize that something was up. This took a long time, because I almost always take the stairs, and every time an elevator failed me I immediately reverted to taking the stairs. The stairs, by the way, have no access control mechanism. This will become important shortly.
I recently discovered that the reason the elevators do this is because they are "locked." They don't take you anywhere unless you scan the same badge that opens the building doors. Potential burglars are thwarted because they have no way to reach any floor of the building unless they just take the stairs. So I guess our physical security threat model is based on fat people. Idk.
Speaking of Fat People, I think we should change the security b.s. at airports by narrowing the width of the metal detectors, such that, if a person is too fat to fit through a metal detector, they are too fat to fit on an airplane seat. To board they must posses two adjacent tickets. Then they can use the double wide metal detector.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment