A train is seen at the Long Island Rail Road station – Great Neck, NY – Jun 6, 2011 (credit: Mike Xirinachs / WCBS 880)
An elevator at a Long Island Rail Road station has been rendered nearly inoperable due to one very disgusting reason. Officials say it’s because people have urinated on it so much.
The elevator in question is at the Woodside Station in Queens and has only been in operation 58 percent of the time, CBS New York reports.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said all the urine has actually rusted the floor and seeped into the inner workings of the lift, causing operational issues.
LIRR President Helena Williams said the elevator has a “vertical urinal problem.”
Meanwhile, officials are debating whether they should repair or replace the urine-soaked elevator. Patrons would likely prefer the latter for a number of reasons.
“I just knew the acrid urine smell all the time and we just came to get used to it and make sure my daughter didn’t touch anything on the elevators,” one man told CBS New York.
Another woman called the elevator situation “really nasty” and was surprised to hear about such a problem in the area.
Would you still ride this elevator?
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Newtowns-Third-Law
Mar. 14, 2013 at 9:54pmI now understand the debate rules we are using here. When AvengerK deletes my post, it automatically means I have bested him. If one of his “buddies” deletes my Posts, same thing. My message goes away, but i WIN the Debate. The LOSERS gety Owned. I am OK with that.
nzkiwi
Mar. 15, 2013 at 6:19amYou have been posting that message all over the site. Nobody can delete your comment – only a moderator can do that. People might flag it but the moderator makes the final decision, and generally speaking they are pretty tolerant…
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busterpuddles
Mar. 15, 2013 at 11:28am@NZKIWI: Tolerance? Less than half of my posts make it through and not many of those are what I would consider harsh.
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nzkiwi
Mar. 15, 2013 at 11:44amI used to have the same problem but then I discovered that the problem was in my machine.
These days all my posts get through. The Monk is a guy to talk to about this…
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media-bias-steals-elections
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:57pmA listener on the Michael Berry show called and told Michael he figured out why they want to ban big gulps, ha ha.
We never would have guessed?
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JohnnyinthePedros
Mar. 14, 2013 at 11:29pmWhy can’t folks limit this behavior to the proper venue, City Hall elevators?
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Whatmeworry-never
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:28pmWhen you chug a big gulp you got to go when you got to go. Save an elevator ban a big gulp.
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Budrow
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:21pmHere’s a really good idea no one has thought of…
Just ban the act of urinating on an elevator.
That’ll stop it.
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stumpygrim
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:56pmAh new york, cesspool of America…..
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RIDEMODELS
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:33pmAh New-york…..Where large sugary drinks are outlawed, but urinating in public is still considered cool…..Doomberg really is living up to his name these days.
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TROONORTH
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:54pmNothing that a ‘cow fencer’ and a little wire wouldn’t discourage.
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JP4JOY
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:10pmHaving been an elevator service mechanic for 20 years I can attest to this particular problem especially in parking garages. Pigs tend to try peeing into the gap between the car and the floor. I found if the safety edge (that reopens the doors) was wired “creatively” it would prove to be an effective deterrent to that particularly bad behavior. As to the issue going on so long the floor rusted out – oi veh – !! Surprising the NYC elevator guys aren’t more creative with their time. ;-)
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AmericanStrega
Mar. 15, 2013 at 11:42am“Don’t pizz on the electric fence.” (Ren & Stimpy)
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nzkiwi
Mar. 15, 2013 at 11:58am@ American
When I was a small boy and didn’t know about electric fences I did just that. I heard bells ring. An instant education…
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DZ-015
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:33pmGoing up? Going down? Now it don’t go at all.
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RIDEMODELS
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:34pmNo morals…No Class…No Bladder control.
NYC sounds like a magnificent place to visit……
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mikem1969
Mar. 15, 2013 at 9:54amThey need to do just like they do in Japan, they have a urine sensor in the elevator. If someone goes, the elevator stops and does not start back up again until the authorities get there to arrest and fine the individual.
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KyleD
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:07pmThis is why we can’t have nice things.
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flatoutflatulent
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:21pmThe Yellowvator- a book by IP Freely
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The_Jerk
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:28pmDevolution through the schools, media, and government policy.
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TheEDGE
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:38pmCould this have been cause for Bloomberg’s scheme to ban large drinks?
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TJexcite
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:03pmJust one more law put out by “the nanny” and this will not happen.
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Brasil2520
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:02pmI just took 5 words from this report:
1- Disgusting
2- Urine
3- Problem
4&5- “really nasty”
Yup welcome to Queens, I grew up in that toilet of diversity, those 5 words are very accurate
You don’t have to be Nostradamus to figure out a place like Queens with all that diversity would have words like nasty associated with it.
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TheEDGE
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:52pmThat is nothing. In San Francisco we had a bunch of escalators stop working downtown because the homeless were squatting and crapping on them while they were operating. Needless to say, this clogged up all of the inner workings and made for a foul stench. In fact, it was the only part of Market Street that didn’t smell like pee. True story. Google it.
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Eastinfection
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:06pmcrappig on an escalator?
That doesn’t even give you enough time to read the Sunday Comics!
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TheEDGE
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:14pmEast-Or wipe.
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RIDEMODELS
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:38pmEeeeee Gads……But the TV shows show SanFran as such a cool festive place to be.
I dont think any part of Calipornia is safe to visit anymore,and they talk about southern RedNeCkS are the dirty ones…..Who would have thunk..SF and NYC….Who would have thunk.
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Eastinfection
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:49pmin some prison guard towers, the elevators have toilets in them.
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Beej6721
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:47pmAbsolutely replace the elevator … with one of those nice all glass wall ones. See how many people pee in it then.
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TheEDGE
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:17pmSan Francisco. Escalators. Homeless. Poop. Some people can’t comprehend shame.
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Deejay_Les
Mar. 14, 2013 at 9:44pmDoubt it will help. Driving just south of Time Square with a co worker in the 80s and a huge dude was in a phone booth (yeah, this was a while ago) and a huge dude was in there taking a leak, clear glass walls, laughing while he whizzed.
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jeffile
Mar. 15, 2013 at 11:43amSan Francisco. Escalators. Homeless. Poop. Some people can’t comprehend shame.
And those people are called progressives within the city government.
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:47pmWell, it is after all NY. The place where DORA/VERCE and ENCINOM claim to be from.
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AvengerK
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:00pmCareful RJJING…ENCINOM/MONICNE has also claimed to be from “blue Texas”. Nothing these trolls say is to be believed.
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Stoic one
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:42pm“vertical urinal problem”
(chuckle)
Ummmm yummy.Perhaps it is an expression of how people feel about their gestapo mayor?
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republic2011
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:38pmtypical socialist/communist story. We have seen this in other parts of the world where communism was the government of choice (personal experience in the east block). Since the elevator belongs to everyone and belongs to no one, go ahead and piss on it. When it finally breaks down, everyone will just use another route or it will, maybe, eventually get repaired by the invisible fairy. Not their problem. Private ownership instills respect. When things come from the Wizard of Oz and people don’t understand the value, they piss on it. While mass transit is so nice to see in Europe and the big cities of the United States, it is not efficient, is always in debt, and prone to corruption (just look at Bell, CA and what the civil servants have done there). State run “anything” is a drain on the citizenry.
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Larry E
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:37pmI think that the elevator needs to be replaced! Where are all the people going to relieve themselves now? Poor babies! Maybe Mike can issue a proclamation banning urination in elevators in NYC, he seems to have no problem with issuing orders on most everything else.
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Patriot Z
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:32pm“pee free zone” signs didnt work i guess. so lets see, high crime rate, high taxes, bad traffic, no economy, not allowed to defend yourself, high govt control, people pee on everything so much it actually breaks machinery and people are used to the ‘smell’. and yet every new yorker will claim how they are so much smarter, and civilized than us flyover folk. good thing bloomy banned salt and sodies.
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hicksvilleshick
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:46pm^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This!!!!!!
lol
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RIDEMODELS
Mar. 14, 2013 at 8:41pmAnd a ReDNecK from the south takes a whizz on mother earth and that is backwoods…..But pee on the streets is of the highest intelligent nature.
I will never think of a NY citizen as smarter than a Dog…..sorry but at least a dog will use the Fire Hydrant…
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:31pmKind of like putting a elevator in a outhouse.
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Colklink1957
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:59pmWell, typical lierals get everything backwards, they put the outhouse in the elevator, lol. Lord, these “people make me sick.
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STREBOR
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:26pmOf course………..it’s New York. How about enforcing the decency laws………..jackwads!
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ABRAXUS
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:25pmIt is dematard central
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progressiveslayer
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:23pmThe yellow stream express. No I wouldn’t ride that stinky elevator in fact I wouldn’t visit your cesspool of a city for any reason.
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hatchetjob
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:21pmNo one was electrocuted with all of the peeing???
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vendingdude
Mar. 14, 2013 at 7:55pmthe new one will be designed with a hot wire dangling under it somewhere….problem solved
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Zipit
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:19pmIt’s all them damn 261/2 ounce big gulps them stupid people’s is drinkin! Hard to find a bathroom after all that consumin!!!!
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hatchetjob
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:24pmElevator/Porto potty.
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AvengerK
Mar. 14, 2013 at 6:18pmWhat a perfect metaphor for liberal New York.
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