Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>In a New Yorker Magazine article by Nick Paumgarten that described a number of stories about elevator horrors and dangers, he recounted the harrowing experience of Nicholas White, a special assignment employee who worked in the mid-town Manhattan offices of Business Week magazine.

Nicholas White was a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week. He was working late on a special assignment and wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague that he’d be right back and, leaving his jacket behind, headed downstairs. Thus commenced the longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life, a harrowing experience that began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999.

The Business Week offices were located on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building in mid-town Manhattan. When White finished his cigarette, he returned to the lobby, got into Car No. 30 and pressed the button marked 43. The car accelerated. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. But after a moment, White felt a jolt. The lights went out, immediately flashed on again and then the elevator stopped.</div>
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whoa amazing story unbeiliveable that nobody noticed for 40hours

 

Wow, I wonder if he pooped/peed his pants. I would have gone in the corner if I needed to.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pegs @ Apr 19 2008, 05:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wow, I wonder if he pooped/peed his pants. I would have gone in the corner if I needed to.</div>

He peed down the elevator shaft.

 

That's a sad, sad story.

 

It's sad that the experience made him mentally unstable. Hopefully he recovers somehow, although he at least survived the ordeal.

 

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