In summary, you took three unrelated scenarios and tried to weave them into a workable possibility.
Essentially...yes.
Assuming those scenarios were real, I didn't think my scenario would be too far fetched if those elements were incorporated in one sequence and then some...
I'm sure that everything could be staged for the cameras (I'm assuming you are referring to the first youtube link), but I would have to question the motives, as there is not much if anything to be be gained by doing this...
Sure it could be a prank, but those 2 people getting out while the elevator moved would definitely gamble with their life in order to film this, especially one of them being a kid...
Suppose that could be fake too, but now it would be getting too elaborate for such a low quality video I think?...
As far as the teen free falling 5 stories in Bronx, there were several pics on the internet from different news sources, most showing the elevator cabin resting below the ground level, which looks like the actual elevator pit?.
Im assuming, if the emergency brakes have deployed, the elevator cab wouldn't have fallen that far down?
Of course I do realize, that when it comes to the news they like to recycle and re-use certain images, since most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference...
For example I have seen a news image recently titled "Ukrainian troops are moving closer to the border", while the image shown was taken from the NATO war in Kosovo some 15 years ago...(bunch of guys in fatiques marching somewhere, most people will not analyze it)...
Having said that, I think that I do have an above average BS detector as well, but to be honest I really don't think that the first video link was staged...
