Towering Stupidity

The "moron of the day" award goes to the people responsible for the Sydney Tower lift fiasco, the moron lift designer, the morons maintaining the tower and the moron staff who failed to call for help in a timely fashion when the lift went wrong.

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This is a rare situation where praise goes to an intelligent police officer, Steve Adams, who appears to know something about doing his job:
The police officer who lead last night's rescue operation also criticised the management for waiting over an hour before calling his squad.
Senior Constable Steve Adams said the place was in a panic when he arrived.
"People had lost control of things and were running out of options, that's why I had to yell and scream at people and say 'I'm here now, it's my job'," he said.
Mr Adams said he was concerned the long delay in contacting the police had jeopardised the health and safety of the trapped passengers.
Ten people were confined to the tiny upper half of the double decker lift, with no food or water and with cold night winds blowing through the doors.
An eleventh person was trapped on her own in the bottom half.
"I made the point that they shouldn't have been there an hour and a half to start with and I needed to get them out.
"People do deteriorate really quickly, the body starts to shut down."