This week, Brianne has to make her own daiquiri at great personal risk, Melanie plans a meeting in Japan, a welfare clerk, some gold miners, a surgery resident, and a high school student meet horrific fates, elevators operate at unnatural speeds with or without power, we offer otter and elephant and goat palate cleansers to get through the intense parts, and Melanie can't cope with the word shaft.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings: mild hand cut, dangerous elevators, gore/decapitation 8:16-10:45, mining disaster, a couple semi-crass jokes, gore 23:40-24:30, decomposition, gore/decapitation 37:00-39:50, death by asphyxiation.

Links:
8 fun facts about adorable otters with animated gifs
10 Tragic Elevator Accidents
15 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Goats
2006 Minato Ward elevator accident
Autopsy of doctor killed in elevator accident finds alcohol
Catching Elevators
Elevator Kills City Worker in the Bronx
Man Decapitated By Runaway Elevator As He Tries to Help Others
Mine Elevator Crash Kills 100 In South Africa
Otters really do hold hands while they sleep: The truth behind the internet's favourite animal facts
Over 100 Gold Miners Killed in South African Accident
South Africa: Orkney: Gold Mine Accident 56 Bodies Recovered
The 29 Most Adorable Facts Ever
Vaal Reefs Elevator Disaster – 1995
Vaal Reefs tragedy commemorated