Internet Sensation!! What would you do? Honestly?

Video surfaces of man stuck in elevator for 41 hours
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Monday, April 21st 2008, 5:00 PM

A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade.

"After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend," Nicholas White said Monday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America."

Video of his Oct. 15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York's McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker. It can be seen on the magazine's Web site and had been viewed more than 280,000 times on YouTube by Monday morning.

White said he understood why the video has captured people's attention: So many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.

Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a fetal position, prying apart the doors. (He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open.)

White sued the managers of the midtown skycraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.

He was a production manager for Business Week when he left his office about 11 p.m. Friday for a cigarette break. According to the article, it was never determined exactly why the elevator stalled though there was talk of a voltage dip.

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By MitchAlvarez on Apr 21, 2008, 17:35 in Off Topic.

MitchAlvarez says on Apr 21, 2008, 17:37:

thats why every man should carry a cel phone, a lighter, drugs, weapons, and a playboy magazine in their pocket. jaja

honestly i would have gone crazy.

Tengale miedo a una huelga de mujeres o a una escasez de aguardiente. :)

Frank Rizzo says on Apr 21, 2008, 17:39:

Completely agree Mitch....i would have been fine for a couple of hours, then probably lost it..

droble77 says on Apr 21, 2008, 17:56:

Crazy, I work just 2 blocks from that building. Usually, in my office building, if there's a problem with the elevators you call for help and security responds right away. Also, there's ALWAYS someone monitoring the security cameras in these office buildings even during off-hours, although maybe before 9-11, it was a bit more loose.

But yeah, 11 PM on a Friday night, you're gonna be there for awhile, shouldn't be 41 hours though.

goin_south says on Apr 21, 2008, 18:36:

incredible

and, thank you.

MountainTop says on Apr 21, 2008, 18:54:

No emergency phone, no alarm, I don't believe it.

vicshere says on Apr 21, 2008, 19:07:

this should be in off topic man

listo

goin_south says on Apr 21, 2008, 19:28:

Vic for moderator!

and, thank you.

webmanco says on Apr 22, 2008, 05:16:

I would had pray to God for all the sins I had commited and for those sins I had not commited but whose blame want to be put on me.

On a serious note I might had done about the same, only that I would not have come for a cigar.

One wonder is that the poor guy didn´t have anyone to worry about him, almost two days missinig in action.

Amigos de Colombia

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

Portena says on Apr 22, 2008, 15:32:

I was stuck in an elevator for about 10 minutes not too long ago. The other passenger started hyperventilating. Fortunately, there was an emergency button and an intercom system so that maintenance could be promptly alerted. Since then I won't get on a crowded elevator - in the building where I work people pile on in like in those old photos of 20 people stuffing themselves into a Volkswagon (I guess that photo was for the Guinness World Book of Records or something like that). It would be horrible to be stuck for hours with no breathing room!

A coworker tells me she always takes a book and her cell phone just in case...

I feel better! I can smile at it now, I feel better. Ohhhh, better! Gnarls Barkley

Portena says on Apr 22, 2008, 15:32:

I feel better! I can smile at it now, I feel better. Ohhhh, better! Gnarls Barkley

Portena says on Apr 22, 2008, 15:35:

:) Sorry about the multiple posts.

I feel better! I can smile at it now, I feel better. Ohhhh, better! Gnarls Barkley

greg says on Apr 22, 2008, 19:37:

Wonder what the poor guy did when nature called

Robert Jorge says on Apr 23, 2008, 01:36:

I heard he pissed through a crack in the door.

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