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Rather than nightclubs being deathtraps in the event of a fire just put inflatable safety ramps from decommissioned aircraft in the windows.
Legislate that they must be built no lower than the first and no higher than the second floor of buildings.
Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire
http://www.ezl.com/...ball/Disaster21.htm
Boston, 1942, 492 servicemen killed trying to exit building through revolving doors. [pottedstu, Dec 01 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Did you know Robin went to Disco Tech? |
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Pissed patrons, sliding down big inflatable yellow slides, drinks in hand, appeals to me for some odd reason. |
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I thought this idea was about a club that only played music by 'Men Without Hats'. |
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I like this idea *much* better. |
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80's Canadian music circuit... that's a very scarey thought. With or without hats! |
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"Legislate that they must be built no lower than the first...floor" |
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If this part has to be legislated, I'm quitting. |
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A reference to the practice of putting them in basements, The Tunnel, The Underground, The Cave, The Cellar... |
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[bx]: In UK, the first floor is the one *upstairs* from ground level (which is the ground floor). |
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angel, I know about the floor-numbering discrepancy between the U.S. and Europe, but "below the first floor" still means on the ground floor or lower, where it should be obvious that no slide is needed or useful. |
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UnaBubba, why on earth would it occur to anyone to try to install a slide as a means to exit from an underground location? And why would underground facilities have windows anyway? |
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Not that any of this is really relevant to the idea. I didn't mean to divert the discussion. |
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More on topic, last week I visited the "airplane boneyard" in Tucson, Arizona, and the adjacent salvage and reclamation yards. From the looks of the commercial airliner carcasses there, I'd guess there is an existing market for used aircraft slides (perhaps in still-operating aircraft?). Also, a couple of years ago I flew from Rio de Janeiro to Miami in a jet in which they cordoned off the last ten rows of seats with "crime scene" tape and moved everyone into the seats forward of the tape. A flight attendant said the reason was that the rear exit inflatable slide was missing. Now, of course, this raises all kinds of questions, one of which is "Is there an international ring of aircraft slide thieves that might provide the slides for the Danceclubs," and another of which is, "Would you make my drink a double, please?" |
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If one was installed below ground level it would surely lead to unnecessary deaths in case of fire. Inebriated patrons trying to slide *up* to safety. (Recipe for disaster, this ingredient not optional.) |
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Useful for when the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. |
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We don't need no water, let the...A free drink? Thanks... |
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Not Robin Banks... Robin of Batman and Robin - back in the days of the TV series.
No Runway Parking On The Dance Floor |
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How about a device (high pressure air line, high speed conveyor belt) to shove people up the slide for basement clubs? As the inebreated are more relaxed, injuries should be reduced, or possibly a large bouncy castle to catch them? Although the last club I went into opened onto a narrow road and a river. |
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First of all, for fires, the most important thing is sprinklers. they should probably be in ALL buildings including houses and apartments. those "smoke hoods"
they sell in airline magazines would also buy time although in "crispy critter" situations lik Warwick where people are actually burned alive it isnt enough. |
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for stampedes, I propose that all clubs have rear service bay type garage doors that open up in an emergency. this would evacuate the first floor quickly.
they could put a rolling metal door over it afterhours to avoid breakins. |
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That's a good point. Automatic roller doors, in event of emergency. I've seen a lot of them designed into sports stadia. |
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I worry that the heat from a fire will damage or deflate the inflatable ramps before all the patrons are out. |
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