What is the weirdest thing you've found at the bottom of an elevator shaft?

I once accidentally lost my driver's license down the little gap in the elevator doors.

I just dropped it and was super unlucky as it slipped through.

It turned up in my mail ten years later.

Obviously long expired, but still crazy that some maintenance guy found it and bothered returning it.

Pest control tech here, snakes had gotten into the pit and were climbing up and dropping down on people as they rode the elevator.

Good times. Snakes on an elevator. The sequel to the Samuel L. Jackson movie.

Worked at a hotel, guests dropped their phone down the shaft. After a few failed retrieval efforts, we called the elevator guys. They went down and got the phone and also found

a carton of eggs. Rotten, but not cracked. I don't even understand how that could happen, actually.

Because it was no accident. I work in tech now, but while I was in college, I helped an HVAC guy, and he had

once had me put a carton of fresh eggs in the duct of a client's office that had stiffed him

before. When I asked him why he was doing this, he said, if this mother effer doesn't pay up,

he's going to have a new issue. But then the guy paid two days later, and I was sent to retrieve

the eggs. He called it his 99 cents insurance policy.

We found well over 1500 tax returns at the bottom of the ATO's North Brisbane office elevator shaft.

Oh my frickin' God, I know who dropped those? Like exactly who?

A person I know told us a story about how they used to work in the ATO Brisbane

office, and if anything came across their desk that was too hard, it was dropped into the

bottom of the elevator shaft. We were only talking about it the other night having a

giggle about what would happen if they were ever found. They giggled, saying a crap load of files

went missing in that shaft. This was way back in the day, like 25 plus years ago,

before computers and well before the internet. If something needed to be sent out, they'd have to

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