Trapped in an elevator for 41 hours - video

[01RedDX]

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[porscha.911]

FUCK THAT WAS THE BEST SHIT EVER!

[SHO]

By god I would have serious issues if I was stuck in there for that long cabin fever comes to mind. Also I might have trashed the place.

[vengie]

ahahaa thats epic

[MidnightDreamer]

Umm... yea... So does he not pee for 41 hours? I would literally shit a brick in that time... I got trapped on an elevator at school for 20mins. The first thing that moron asked me when I hit the help button was "Are you breathing alright?".

[BenC]

i would have been one angry person in there
no bathroom breaks? hah

[Green Toast]

You can actually see him take a piss if you watch careful, not sure about number 2 though. I would drop a duece down the shaft, see if you can get noticed that way.

[lexIS300]

holy fuk haha thats worse than jail. i would have been pissed the first hour and start wrecking shit the second.

how do they leave someone there for 41 hours thats just crazy.

[bulaian]

damn i got stuck in an elevator at work for an hour and a bit... luckily i had a book to read though

[lexIS300]

heres the story

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/253587

thats crazy man. i woulda punched the first guy i saw.

like all the fake million dollar lawsuits in the states this guy actually deserves it. and hardly gets 6 figures.

[TomcoPDR]

Why is it release 10 years later??? (video dated Oct, 1999)

[infamous]

wow...i was trapped in 815 8th ave sw around the 18th floor with about 6 other people on the elevator. one guy was claustrophobic (sp?), and no one else spoke english, so i had to talk to the fucking douche bag that answers when you pick up the phone in an elevator....we got moving in like 10 minutes....i couldn't even imagine 41 hours...i'd fucking kill someone.....

[Redlyne_jr]

thats brutal....:confused: is he playing cards?? lol

[boxer23]

really sad....he should write a book titled "next time I will take the stairs":rofl:

[SHO]

Another Beyond First... Read this on the board than came on TV just after...lol

[acura_el]

So I assume nobody really keeps an eye on the security cameras anymore....and it was at the McGraw-Hill building? I guess he got schooled.

Or maybe they were just trying to get him to quit smoking.

[D'z Nutz]

Originally posted by TomcoPDR
Why is it release 10 years later??? (video dated Oct, 1999)

Probably because it wasn't allowed to be released due to a lengthy court process.

[Shift_Perform]

lol wtf? how come 3 of the 4 screens were bwinkin?



and man if i was stuck in there id try to find a way out thru the top...mite be scary but worth a try atleast id smash up the place to kill time :D

[rc2002]

Looks like he tried that. He kept climbing on the rail and checking the ceiling,

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by Shift_Perform
lol wtf? how come 3 of the 4 screens were bwinkin?



and man if i was stuck in there id try to find a way out thru the top...mite be scary but worth a try atleast id smash up the place to kill time :D The ceiling door on elevators is designed only for opening from above, not from inside.

[djayz]

Thats fricken rediculars!!!

I can imagine that happening in some shitty old building with oil ass elevators but a fairly new building with security guards changing round the clock and regular elevator maintainence!

Makes sense that friends and family couldnt find him cuz they wouldnt know where to look but damn thats just crazy.

[2002civic]

that would suck

[Redlyne_mr2]

The twenty five million dollar settlement he was seeking ended with an award far less than he had been anticipating. Though he is not allowed to disclose specifics, the amount has been reported to be hardly 6 figures.

As a result of his elevator ordeal, he lost his apartment, spent all his money, and has searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.

[euro_racer]

Edit: ^^^ beat me to it :poosie:

[eb0i]

do you think he takes elevators anymore?

[nd54]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators

[Supa Dexta]

23 hrs in though before a piss? maybe I missed one before that..

[GQBalla]

wow...

can't believe he didn't win his lawsuit

[Spatz]

just proves that you shouldnt smoke.

[BoostMonkey]

Wow... thats pretty crazy, wonder if that was the longest he went with out smoking?? haha. Did he actually go to the bathroom being in there?

[sputnik]

How does someone lose their job from being stuck in an elevator at their workplace?

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by sputnik
How does someone lose their job from being stuck in an elevator at their workplace?

"Convinced that returning to work would indicate that he had not suffered severe mental trauma, White never returned to work and eventually lost his job with Business Week, a position he had held for 15 years. "


So in other words, he thought he was going to get filthy rich off the lawsuit, and never went back to work, not because he was traumatized, but because he was greedy.

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by MidnightDreamer
Umm... yea... So does he not pee for 41 hours? I would literally shit a brick in that time... I got trapped on an elevator at school for 20mins. The first thing that moron asked me when I hit the help button was "Are you breathing alright?".

You're right, the idiot was checking to make sure you werent panicking/hyper ventilating. Who does he think he is caring about your health :rolleyes:

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by 403Gemini


You're right, the idiot was checking to make sure you werent panicking/hyper ventilating. Who does he think he is caring about your health :rolleyes:
Sucks getting stuck in an elevator, you can get claustraphobic (*spelling) pretty quickly. I was stuck in one once and I had to literally calm myself down because you start to get really hot and your breathing gets heavy. The first couple of hours would be the worst.

[topmade]

That video is pretty crazy. I had a friend that got stuck in a elevator at like the 6th floor that had one wall glass so basically everyone could see you and vice versa. We were all poking fingers at him and laughing, while we were working and wondered why he was just sitting there doing nothing, not even giving us back the middle finger or anything, but it turns out he was scared of heights and was basically too scared to even get close to the glass wall:eek:

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by Redlyne_mr2

Sucks getting stuck in an elevator, you can get claustraphobic (*spelling) pretty quickly. I was stuck in one once and I had to literally calm myself down because you start to get really hot and your breathing gets heavy. The first couple of hours would be the worst.

I've been stuck for 20 min and i agree, gets REALLY warm, and is REALLY shitty when you're stuck in there with more than 1 other person. Its usually pretty easy to keep 1-2 other people calm but in a larger group you get that 1 person who freaks out

[/////AMG]

I don't blame him. He was there for 41 hours without a watch! That would have been days or weeks to him. Small space too and nothing to do but just wait.

And how the hell does security not check the camera? Thats what they usually do anyway. IF he didn't even get 6 figures.... that sad, especially when people get a stupid amount of money over dumb shit.

[funkedelic]

Originally posted by topmade
That video is pretty crazy. I had a friend that got stuck in a elevator at like the 6th floor that had one wall glass so basically everyone could see you and vice versa. We were all poking fingers at him and laughing, while we were working and wondered why he was just sitting there doing nothing, not even giving us back the middle finger or anything, but it turns out he was scared of heights and was basically too scared to even get close to the glass wall:eek:

haha that would suck, but that would be a better scenero than what our fella here had to endure. I would rather be able to see people walking around, even if they were laughing and pointing at me rather than being stuck in an elevator where you couldn't see anything and felt completely like a prisioner. I can't even believe how much you would start losing your mind after so many hours in that thing.

[bobby_lu]

lol, I was stuck in an elevator this morning for about 5 minutes, the door wouldnt open, but it felt like 10x as long....haha I was shitting myself...

Had reception though on my cell.....:drama:

[zxt]

So did the building admin already awarded him something? I mean compensated for being stuck there and almost lose your mind? I wonder why no one saw him on the monitor though, or maybe a few guys already saw him but didn't think theres anything wrong. Either way they are completely useless manning the security monitor.

[Kloubek]

That's seriously messed. I wish they had audio, since I would be screaming obcenities.

[Canmorite]

I would of torn the elevator apart.

[FiveFreshFish]

At least the lights didn't go out.