Going Down
May 13th, 2008 by timbotron
A Friday night at 11:00pm.
New York’s McGraw-Hill Building.
Nicholas White was working late and stepped into the elevator.
The elevator stopped and Nicholas White was trapped for 41 hours with no food, water, cellphone, or watch.
Here is the NewYorker.com time-lapse video.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
POOR. BASTARD.
Lucky for him that he didn’t have to urgently use the facilities. Trying to explain that to your boss when there is video would have put him in *quite* a difficult situation – although probably equally tough for a boss who would then have to explain why there is 41 hours of video of that poor schmuck chilling in a metal box without any help whatsoever.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
According to the (very long) New Yorker article, he actually did pry the elevator doors apart and urinated down the stairwell. It’s quite a story, with a not-so-happy ending. Sure, he was rescued, but his life was never the same.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
only thing I can say is I wish there was audio on that security tape