Stupid Fan Tricks

[billroper]

I have been going to science fiction conventions since 1976 and have seen a lot of people do a lot of stupid things. But I'm pretty convinced that the stupidest of all of these happened at a long-ago Windycon at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield.

I was in the huge elevator lobby on the third floor when the doors to one of the elevators opened. But the elevator had not quite arrived at the floor yet. That was bad. But the elevator did not stop, instead continuing to slide past the floor, which was somewhat worse.

But the worst thing of all was that some of the fans in the elevator decided to dive out of the elevator as it was sliding past the floor. Happily, no one was injured, but if they'd mistimed their leap or not jumped as far as they had hoped, they could have ended up leaving part of their body in the malfunctioning elevator and the rest of it out on the third floor.

Ick.

I suppose that jumping out looked like a good idea, but I can't imagine why.

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[madfilkentist]

There was the kid who pulled a fake weapon on a SWAT team. No one got shot, but that one's up there on the Darwin scale too.