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Old 06-23-2010, 04:56 AM   #16
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Never seen one of these before. Wouldn't you know it, last night watching the tube, there was a show about US beaches. They trotted out some movies of Venice Beach before LA annexed and ruined it,(like everything else), and there in the background was exactly one of these helter skelters!!

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Old 06-23-2010, 08:24 AM   #17
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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.
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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.

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Old 06-23-2010, 08:29 AM   #18
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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.
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Old 06-23-2010, 08:38 AM   #19
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Well they never let me go on it so I can't say, but I think it would have to be one at a time.
On the other hand, this was Japan, so they are probably pushed down in a solid mass that takes on self-organising structures as it goes and automatically directs itself to the officially designated assembly area.
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Old 06-23-2010, 08:46 AM   #20
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On this particular elementary school, they are permanent and hard-sided, just like a playground slide. I think there must be a grate and lock system at the bottom to keep people from climbing up it the wrong direction.
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Old 06-23-2010, 02:44 PM   #21
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But they are probably sized for Japanese people, not you big Australians. Wouldn't that be embarrassing?


I wonder if you would have flashbacks to being born.
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Old 06-25-2010, 01:16 PM   #22
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I wonder if you would have flashbacks to being born.
Not unless they cut a big hole on the top and yanked me out that way.
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