Time-lapse video of man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours

[Joker]

in the Sims, I invite my neighbors over, pause, build walls around them, wait for them to die, then put the urns with there ashes in a hidden room on my roof. Does that make me weird?

Also, the button on the elevator set off an alarm on top of the elevator, no one answered the intercom until 41 hours later, the maintenence guys...who knows...and I'm sure there are a ton of cameras the security guys are supposed to monitor, but dont.

 

[Gamma Ray]

STUCK FOR 41

Journey into the life of Nicholas White, average family man who needs to get home to see his wife and children.
When he stepped into the elevator of McGraw Hill in New York City, he had no idea that he would spend the next
41 hours stuck alone. He did not know that when he entered that elevator he had stepped into the TWILIGHT ZONE.​

Post of the year.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

Turns out he was really a mannequin of Santa Claus from another planet that was really EARTH

 

[Mike_D202]

An employee was stuck in our elevator for 2 hours because we had to wait for the elevator technician to travel an hour away after he was done working on another elevator. But 41 hours?!!

I think we need more elevator technicians.

P.S.

This reminds me of that short skit from "Kids in the Hall" when the old man dies and his personal Hell was being stuck in an elevator with elevator music playing for all eternity.

 

[Sugarculted]

Craziest video I've seen in a long time. I think I would've handled it okay...but he really did his best at maintaining a calm state

 

[BatSpider]

I would die of going insane

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

If this happened to me the video would be NSFW.

 

[Damien Rage]

omfg if that happened to me I can not even imagine the fury I would unleash after getting out. I'd demand retrobution somehow someway...and I sure as hell would never EVER ride an elevator again.

 

[The Apocalypse]

in the Sims, I invite my neighbors over, pause, build walls around them, wait for them to die, then put the urns with there ashes in a hidden room on my roof. Does that make me weird?

Also, the button on the elevator set off an alarm on top of the elevator, no one answered the intercom until 41 hours later, the maintenence guys...who knows...and I'm sure there are a ton of cameras the security guys are supposed to monitor, but dont.

Your a sick individual.

 

[Damien Rage]

in the Sims, I invite my neighbors over, pause, build walls around them, wait for them to die, then put the urns with there ashes in a hidden room on my roof. Does that make me weird?

Yes...yes it does. I did that to Bella Goth. During the tutorial I would make her go outside then build the smallest box around her I could and just wait for her to die. I hate her. She would always bring my people down. She needs constant attention, she argues with everyone, nobody and common interests with her. She just had to go. Call me crazy but I swear her husband and child seemed to be much happier after she was gone.

 

[hammy]

Poor guy. I hope he got some serious compensation. It happened in 99, I'm surprised we didn't hear about it sooner.

If I had opened the doors and seen that wall like he did ... I would lose it. *claustrophobic*

 

[kainedamo]

Poor guy. I hope he got some serious compensation. It happened in 99, I'm surprised we didn't hear about it sooner.

If I had opened the doors and seen that wall like he did ... I would lose it. *claustrophobic*

According to the article, not only did he not get decent compensation, his life became ****ed after the experience. Reading about it actually makes me outraged.

White never went back to work at the magazine. Caught up in media attention (which he shunned but thrilled to), prodded by friends, and perhaps provoked by overly solicitous overtures from McGraw-Hill, White fell under the sway of renown and grievance, and then that of the legal establishment. He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures. He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. 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.

Looking back on the experience now, with a peculiarly melancholic kind of bewilderment, he recognizes that he walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another. Still, he now sees that it wasn’t so much the elevator that changed him as his reaction to it. He has come to terms with the trauma of the experience but not with his decision to pursue a lawsuit instead of returning to work. If anything, it prolonged the entrapment. He won’t blame the elevator.

I mean what the ****, he could have died in that elevator.

In a world where Stella McCartney can get millions in the double digits in a divorce, this guy can't even get 6 digits when incompetence almost caused his death??

Several factors bewilder me.

One, there are security monitors. The article says the security were on duty but apparently failed to notice White in the elevator. White used the intercom several times but no one ever answered.

Two, cleaners were working there, cleaned the three other elevators, and seemed to forget all about the elevator White was in.

Three, his collegue didn't alert anybody. In fact she got mad that he didn't return from his smoke break. Granted, how was she to know what happened? It's just bad luck really. But if it were me, I'd think it was weird he didn't come back for his jacket and I would have at least asked around if anybody saw him.

It took 41 hours for them to realize he was in there.

Quite rightly, he decided not to go back to the job. Quite rightly, he decided that he should get some compensation for the ordeal. I mean, what if the lights had went out? If it were me, and the lights went out, I would have went ****ing insane. But the guy didn't get a decent settlement and now can't even find another job. Crazy.

 

[Rocker22]

Great video.

 

[DorkyFresh]

so i'm guessing there was no way of getting out through the top of the elevator? cuz you know...if i was stuck for longer than a couple of hours that's what i would've tried to do. i know i saw him looking at the ceiling and he gave up but i thought all elevators has roof ceiling escapes.

 

[Spider-Who?]

oh man. when i went to college, the elevators in my apartment building were always breaking down...got stuck in them multiple times, but never for 41 hours. That sucks.

 

[kainedamo]

so i'm guessing there was no way of getting out through the top of the elevator? cuz you know...if i was stuck for longer than a couple of hours that's what i would've tried to do. i know i saw him looking at the ceiling and he gave up but i thought all elevators has roof ceiling escapes.

In the article it goes into detail (too much damn detail, I skipped a lot of it) about how he tried to get out. Firstly, it was very awkward for White to get to the roof's panel. Secondly, when he finally managed it he discovered it was locked.

 

[terry78]

When you work late, NEVER take the elevator when you know the building is practically empty. Use the stairs, fool. After hours, maintenace and security act like they off the clock. Probably need the cardio anyways.

 

[Zumi]

in the Sims, I invite my neighbors over, pause, build walls around them, wait for them to die, then put the urns with there ashes in a hidden room on my roof. Does that make me weird?

Not at all. As an avid Sims fan I've done that, killed maids/babysitters/ect. like that. Made them set their house on fire then trap them in a room with the fire. Drown them in the pool. Downloaded the InSIMenator not only for it's other various fun features but also to kill my Sims in new ways(death by flies, satellites, ect.). t:

Though I do have to feel sorry for this guy. Personally I would have kept that whole 'I want to appear as though I didn't freak out' mentality he did though after about eight hours I would have freaked out to the point of passing out(just so I wouldn't be bored anymore).

 

[FaT_tONle]

Oh Boo hooo... 41 hours... anyone can do that time... if it was like 5-6 days then that's an accomplishment... 41 hours isn't even two days...

 

[DorkyFresh]

In the article it goes into detail (too much damn detail, I skipped a lot of it) about how he tried to get out. Firstly, it was very awkward for White to get to the roof's panel. Secondly, when he finally managed it he discovered it was locked.

oh dayum...that's jacked. thanx for the info.

 

[bullets]

Oh Boo hooo... 41 hours... anyone can do that time... if it was like 5-6 days then that's an accomplishment... 41 hours isn't even two days...

In an elevator 41 hours evens out to about 5-6 days in " i'm going crazy because i dont know whats goin on time"

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

ouch man. For 41 hours? I'd be napping.

 

[Batman713]

When you work late, NEVER take the elevator when you know the building is practically empty. Use the stairs, fool. After hours, maintenace and security act like they off the clock. Probably need the cardio anyways.

 

[Rando Aces]

finally the vid didnt shut down my comp. thats friggin amazing.

 

[QueerMike]

It's situations like that which further the arguement for legalized marijuana.