A Bad Dream I Wouldn't Have Even Thought to Have: Elevator Accidents

This week, Brianne has to make her own daiquiri at great personal risk, Melanie plans a meeting in Japan, a welfare clerk, some gold miners, a surgery resident, and a high school student meet horrific fates, elevators operate at unnatural speeds with or without power, we offer otter and elephant and goat palate cleansers to get through the intense parts, and Melanie can't cope with the word shaft.SHOW NOTESContent warnings: mild hand cut, dangerous elevators, gore/decapitation 8:16-10:45, mining disaster, a couple semi-crass jokes, gore 23:40-24:30, decomposition, gore/decapitation 37:00-39:50, death by asphyxiation.Links:8 fun facts about adorable otters with animated gifs10 Tragic Elevator Accidents15 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Goats2006 Minato Ward elevator accidentAutopsy of doctor killed in elevator accident finds alcoholCatching ElevatorsElevator Kills City Worker in the BronxMan Decapitated By Runaway Elevator As He Tries to Help OthersMine Elevator Crash Kills 100 In South AfricaOtters really do hold hands while they sleep: The truth behind the internet's favourite animal factsOver 100 Gold Miners Killed in South African AccidentSouth Africa: Orkney: Gold Mine Accident 56 Bodies RecoveredThe 29 Most Adorable Facts EverVaal Reefs Elevator Disaster – 1995Vaal Reefs tragedy commemorated