Childhood passtimes…
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We lived in 10 floor buildings. On the ground floor, next to the lift door, there was always an emergency lever behind small glassed door, about 30x30cm (a foot I guess). The small lever door was rarely locked, or the glass was broken.
Lever down - lift stops, its lights off. Lever up - lights back on, lift going back to the ground floor.
I have no idea how many times I rebooted those lifts with people inside. There was a time we had a small lift war - one of us would sneak into the building after one of the other guys went home and switch his lift off before it got to his floor. All the poor guy could do was wait locked in the lift, screaming until an adult would set him free. Problem was, adults had no idea what the levers were for and called maintenance.. This took time.My mom still lives in that building, those levers are properly closed these days.