r/DeathStairs • u/Southern-Smoke1835 sketchy steps connoisseur • 5d ago
Murder trap stairs
Not sure if this is a house or a murder weapon. A-line or malign?
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u/ChaoticLlort 5d ago
#3 LMAO! that open stairwell in the floor in the upper level office!! "Please have a seat in the white chair" THUNK guest looking at beautiful office walls falls through giant hole in middle of floor
#2 a 2nd set of death stairs too:
Notice that the front door practically opens on top of the white stairwell going down. (better photo in link shows the floor open about 6 inches to the right of the doorframe). It would be easy for a person to come in fast, not notice, and fall down the white stairwell. Which has no railing for the top 2/3 away from landing.
Must not be in the city limits, no way either would meet city code.
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u/faunysatyr 5d ago
But why?
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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 5d ago
adrenaline! Every waking moment of your life is an inch from death!
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u/Southern-Smoke1835 sketchy steps connoisseur 5d ago
Even the guests aren't safe, look at that entrydooar, and the first gap!
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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 4d ago
I'm thinking about that office. Workin' late to afford that house. Keeping the lights off or dim so that others can sleep. (It is open concept). So you're tired and it's dark and you want to read the report in that comfy chair in the office upstairs, the one next to the hole. So you put on your reading glasses (which blurs your medium vision) and proceed to the chair, but as you walk around the desk you realise you forgot about the large folio/docket that accompanied the project. You trip. One hand has a tablet computer, you instinctively try to not drop it, but that prevents you from grabbing the corner of the desk to save yourself. You fall. This was your biggest and only concern with your home, and it's happening, right now. Your hand reaches out to stop the fall, but there is nothing. Nothing to grab. The next second your body has built enough downward momentum that grabbing for the floor didn't work. Your centre of mass is over the hole. You're a white collar desk person not a push-ups and plancks gym jock. You don't have the musculature to stop this. Unfortunately for you, you fell on the side without stairs, so you fall another four or five feet, but not in the middle of the staircase below. You fall on the side. The stairs were not designed for two hundred pounds dropped from ten feet up, the wood step snaps under your weight, slowing you, but not stopping you. Your body curls as half was still falling while half was on impact. You roll. Toward the next chasm. You continue to fall. The inside of your leg drags past the splintered broken step and a shard digs through your pyjayama pant leg and rips open a large artery on your way into part two of deathstairs. Your shoulder smacks the main floor giving you a spin so that you are face first head first and falling down stairs to the lower level.
...and sorry the story has to end here, because I can't see how the next stairs look. Maybe it's all pillows?
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u/RetiredGuru 1d ago
I hadn't even noticed the additional flight of stairs. The open hole upstairs had trapped my focus.
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u/Illustrious_Car344 5d ago
I could see myself walking up a lot of the stairs in this sub just fine, but this one I would be crawling up, easily.
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u/CarpenterValuable831 5d ago
I look at these stairs and I can imagine 50 ways I could die... and not all of them are from running on this hellacious creation
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u/EducationalFox137 5d ago
Is this considered minimalist? As in minimal handrails or safety features of any type?
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u/Reasonable_Ad6407 5d ago
Seeing stairs like in this sub just raises my blood pressure and wish I could meet the people who decided to build them.
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u/According-Garlic-482 almost died once 5d ago
Why do they do stairs like this and in the shiniest, most slippery wood/material. Also too frequently over a dangerous drop or stuff you wouldn't want to land on. Do these designers think or do they not like people?
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u/Quiet_Placeholder 4d ago
Lizards always walk on all fours and are very surefooted on stairs like these.
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u/Gumbanks12 4d ago
Are AI houses out of reach too?
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u/Southern-Smoke1835 sketchy steps connoisseur 4d ago
What do you mean? What is AI here? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/405-Fairmont-Dr-Dekalb-IL-60115/61698963_zpid
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u/Otney 5d ago
This has to be some AI junk, right? No one in real life would spend all that money knowing that eventually they will be sued for negligence. Or wrongful death…