The New Happy Vertical People Transporter

Finally! The folks at Carbon Designs want to make an elevator that goes into space. That's one big god damn elevator! They'd better make it really fault tolerant because I'm thinking no one would be keen on having to use the stairs in case it were to break. Perhaps it can surreptitiously be installed somewhere in Washington D.C., like near the Congressional Republican washrooms. DeLay and his lobbyists would step in, hit the button for the top floor, and be transported up into the stratosphere. Upon stepping out, they'd be exposed to the vacuum of space. Their blood would boil and vaporize, their lungs turn to slush, and their eyeballs would explode just like that guy in Outland, assuming, of course, they aren't rescued against all improbability.