Thursday, April 17, 2008

41 hours in an elevator.


Huck was talking about this guy the other night over beers at the Loon Cafe. Thanks for sending me the link to this as promised, pal. Anyway, staff writer Nick Paumgarten uses this man's ordeal as a starting point for his piece on elevators in this week's New Yorker. It's pretty interesting, but the piece de resistance is this time-lapse security camera footage that captures all 41 hours glorious hours of what had to have been a terrifying ordeal. Check it out here.

6 comments:

Jake Lancaster said...

This is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. I'm walking up tomorrow. 28 floors of up.

Jake Lancaster said...

Does he take a shit at any point?

theryanburk said...

No, he didn't relieve himself in any manner. In the article he says he was trying to be a "model trapped employee" so he didn't even smoke any cigarettes.

Casey Brewer said...

41 hours without dropping a deuce? Seriously?

Employee of the Year?

Neerland said...

I had been calling my hour-and-a-half of being stuck in a Ramp C elevator an "ordeal", but in light of this, i guess it has to be downgraded to a mere "incident" or "occurance". holy crap.

Casey Brewer said...

Ha, that Ramp C elevator blows. It always feels like it's going to crap out. It's fun being stuck in there with a bunch of fat administrative assistants, that smell like Target brand body wash though. Jesus, I just puked in my mouth.