June 20, 2010: Helter Skelter

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

A helter skelter could have saved the people on 9/11

But then again if you skelted down 100 floors, you'd be going so fast by the bottom that your ass would be on fire.

Aiyyo, don't wear polyester down the tube thing, man, it melts. Yeah man yesterday some guy burned his nads on that thing.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It's not truly a helter skelter, but there's an old elementary school here that still has emergency exit slides coming down from most rooms on the second floor. Never seen anything like it on any other building.

In japan, I worked in a building that had something like one of these. It sits in a big box bolted down inside the window, in an emergency you open the window, hurl the tube out, and slide down.

This one is from Korea. It is mounted to the firetruck platform but the principle is the same. I guess with a bit of extra length and some maypole dancing you could make a good helter skelter from it.

[glatt]

I'd seen films of those cloth escape tubes. Do you have to go one at a time, or can it hold multiple people? Like links of a sausage.