What would you do if the elevator doors opened and you see a man strangling another man with a rope trying to kill him? Would you scream and run away? Would you pull out your cell phone and call 911? Would try to stop the murder? Or would you pull out your cell phone and start recording the action? Well this actually happened and as a promotional stunt for a new movie starring Terrence Howard and Colin Farrell called Dead Man Down. A company called Modo put together this stunt, by tricking people into showing up at a particular building telling them its for a focus group. However, when the doors to the elevator opened up, the fake murder was in progress with the victim yelling for help. So one lady tries to stop the murder by yelling stop and hitting the would be killer with her bouquet of flowers, another lady screams and throws her coat the scene, another guy grabs a fire extinguisher and zaps the air in front of the murder and another guy pulls out his cell phone and starts to record the murder. Now that guy I dont get. I might snap a pic and then run out the building, but I am NOT going to stand there and take video for longer than 30 seconds! What if the "killer" pulls a gun and shoots me for taking the video? DUH! HELLO!!! Get the fuck out and get help! There were a couple of guys who jumped in tried to break it up. Hmmm, I dont know about that. Risking getting hurt trying to save a stranger? Because, again, what if the doors close while you are trying to stop it and the "killer" finishes with his "victim" and then turns on you and you are now trapped in the elevator with him? Not cool! You never really know how you are going to react until you are actually put in the strange situation. Hopefully, you will make the right decision for all concerned. I'm sure everyone would love to be a hero and stop the murder and apprehend the "killer". But that is not what actually happens in real life. One time when I was a kid, the couple who lived in the back duplex were fighting and the man chased his gf up front to our duplex. She was screaming and running around our building and at one point my mother opened our back door and she let the woman run our apt. The woman was bleeding from the neck and mouth, she was all sweaty and out of breath. My mother gave her a dish towel to put on her neck to try and stop the bleeding. Well the guy starts pounding on our front door and yelling for his gf. My mother grabbed a 10" butcher knife, just in case that guy got through the front door. So he runs around to the back door and starts pounding on that one too. Well, my mother told the lady she had to go, she didn't want to risk us kids, so the woman runs out the front door and unfortunately for her, the guy was coming around the corner of the building and saw her and started chasing her again with a hatchet in his hands. Luckily for her, the police showed up seconds later and they stopped the guy from killing his gf.
So getting back to this prank. This is definitely not something you wanna do, what if one of the focus group people dropped dead from a heart attack trying to stop the murder or trying to get away from it? God forbid! I'm glad that didn't happen. But if it had, that Modo company would be on the hook for a major lawsuit! Oh! If you want to see the video for yourself, go to YouTube, same title as this article. Check it out for yourself.
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