Trapped in a 13th Floor Elevator
On October 15, 1999, starting at 11 pm, Nicholas White was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. Although a surveillance camera captured this, security guards didn't notice. Above is footage of the entire time, greatly sped up. You see White fiddle with the buttons, try to escape out the top, and examine the contents of his wallet to kill time. His situation is Kafka-esque, most so when he opens the doors, only to be greeted by a wall. Sadly and understandably, he cracked from the experience. I highly recommend reading the full story at the New Yorker. You will learn a lot about elevators.
7 Comments:
I saw this video yesterday and flipped out, as I've always been paranoid of getting trapped in an elevator. I sincerely hope this guy quit his job as soon as he got out of there, because that's exactly what I would've done... had I not died from a heartattack while trapped in there!
I'm afraid to even read the full article, ha...
Thanks for the article, it was very interesting even if I could have done with some of the data about elevators. You should read it Andrew.
Imagine being trapped in the Knitting Factory's bathroom instead.
That would be a slow death, immense decay.
This is very interesting. I probably would have either done exactly what he did, or died from exhaustion trying to get out through the roof of the elevator.
By the way, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4693690
This includes an interview with Nicholas.
I was just finishing up this article ...thanks for not spoiling the ending too much!
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