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Stuck in an Elevator
2008-04-22, 9:18 PM #1
for 41 hours

piece by the New Yorker about elevators
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2008-04-22, 9:29 PM #2
jesus christ
2008-04-22, 9:49 PM #3
I'm surprised he didn't tear that place up more. I would have been trying to tear my way out after 2-3 hours.
2008-04-22, 9:57 PM #4
Aren't we all like that on the inside, trying to break free of the thick confinement of everyday society?

hah, but seriously. I'm surprised he didn't start jerking off. :v:
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2008-04-22, 9:57 PM #5
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Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.


He lost his life over it!? Man.
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2008-04-22, 10:11 PM #6
I don't get it. Did he get fired?
2008-04-22, 10:43 PM #7
The backstory sounds like bullstat.
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2008-04-22, 11:09 PM #8
I would love to get stuck in an elevator with someone.
2008-04-22, 11:36 PM #9
You would be stuck in the elevator with a person who is in this organization.
2008-04-22, 11:37 PM #10
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I don't get it. Did he get fired?

He got the impression he could win millions in court by suing them, but he couldn't claim emotional/psychological damages so easily if he returned to work. So he didn't go back, they fired him and he didn't get nearly so much money in court.
What's funny is the guy doing maintenance does every lift but his one and that 8 security guards should have at least glanced at the monitor while he was stuck in there.
2008-04-23, 12:14 AM #11
I've been stuck in a couple elevators. Once for 2 hours in a rickety old open-top 10 foot lift. I climbed out and sat on the top-floor door while I waited for the repairman. The second time was with some crabby fat lady for 4 hours at a hospital. I was afraid of getting eaten.
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2008-04-23, 12:47 AM #12
Aw man, I thought this was about Genki being stuck in an elevator. Bah!
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2008-04-23, 1:09 AM #13
I think I would definitely be trying to get out the top.
2008-04-23, 5:15 AM #14
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I climbed out
I call BS.
2008-04-23, 5:41 AM #15
Not an elevator shaft. It's one of those metal lifts for mid-floors. I was stuck in the middle, got super claustrophobic after 10 minutes of waiting, and climbed out.
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2008-04-23, 5:54 AM #16
Originally posted by JM:
I call BS.


I agree.
2008-04-23, 6:10 AM #17
I wonder what I would do in a situation like that.

Probably sing songs.
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2008-04-23, 7:40 AM #18
I'd go crazy in less than four hours if I didn't have a cell phone or sketch book on me. That guy seemed like he had nothing to do except pace for nearly two days. Urgh.
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2008-04-23, 8:28 AM #19
Originally posted by Recusant:
He got the impression he could win millions in court by suing them, but he couldn't claim emotional/psychological damages so easily if he returned to work. So he didn't go back, they fired him and he didn't get nearly so much money in court.
What's funny is the guy doing maintenance does every lift but his one and that 8 security guards should have at least glanced at the monitor while he was stuck in there.


I would have been really ticked at those security guards, even after an hour.
2008-04-23, 11:19 AM #20
Originally posted by Aglar:
I think I would definitely be trying to get out the top.

Though in this case the top was bolted from the outside and even if he had managed to open the top he would've had a ~20 story climb as this was an express eleveator.
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2008-04-23, 11:59 AM #21
Was the thing made entirely of steel? It seems that there must be some way of if you bang the hell of of the right area.
2008-04-23, 12:13 PM #22
Originally posted by Impi:
Though in this case the top was bolted from the outside and even if he had managed to open the top he would've had a ~20 story climb as this was an express eleveator.

Yeah, good point. Those factors combined with the fact that it happened on a Friday evening make this pretty much the worst situation possible. Unless the elevator was like, also on fire.
2008-04-23, 12:20 PM #23
Well, with fire it wouldn't have been so boring...
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2008-04-23, 2:04 PM #24
True, torture does have a way of holding your interest.
2008-04-23, 9:18 PM #25
Yes, I've also heard burning to death does wonders for boredom.
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