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Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Amuletta@lemmy.ca to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca

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So if you have no change you get locked out of your home?

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 114 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Disability tax, more like

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

There's always the complaint box:

Edit: Maybe not the best picture. It's a box with a coin slot.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

That will be 2 slips of Latinum please.

[–] archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

In an ideal world I can see this being a deterrent for an able bodied person from using an elevator meant to be used for maintenance workers, disabled persons, and people moving in/out, and that they'd get a code for free use. But we all know that's not the case.