trapped on an elevator for 41 hours...

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Old Oct 9, 2009 | 01:20 PM
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trapped on an elevator for 41 hours...

Old story, but CRAZY...



Accompanying story - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...act_paumgarten
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 02:32 PM
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I would seriously go insane. I would climb out the top and either repel down or scale up the cable.

Claustrophobia ftl.
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 02:51 PM
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good thing he didnt have to take a ****
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 02:54 PM
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He did take a pee tho! and the janitor was looking at it as the poor guy left haha
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 03:12 PM
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Psh! They'd be lucky to have just a stream of **** left from me where I that guy - I would seriously **** UP that elevator car!

41 hours is a goddamn joke - I'M STUCK IN A MOTHER ****ING ELEVATOR *****ES GET ME THE **** OUT!

They were at least 20 hour of that where there is no one working or emergency crews on the scene - **** that; I'm ripping through the top of it and no, I'm not paying for the damages - in fact; I'm going to turn right around sue the **** out of the building owner and operator of the elevator system.
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 03:14 PM
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i would have rubbed one out. you know...just to pass the time.
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 04:16 PM
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I got stuck in an elevator in Bulgaria when I was 5 years old. I think that's why I'm claustrophobic now. If I have a choice between elevator and stairs, I always take the stairs.
Old Oct 9, 2009 | 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by R-Dub
I would seriously go insane. I would climb out the top and either repel down or scale up the cable.

Claustrophobia ftl.
It said that it was an express elevator with no stops below the 39th floor... I wonder where he got stuck. 51 stories high.
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Originally Posted by ryball
It said that it was an express elevator with no stops below the 39th floor... I wonder where he got stuck. 51 stories high.
I read the article in the link and it said when he pried the doors apart, he saw the number 13 written on the cinderblock wall, so he was probably on/near the 13th floor with no exit from the shaft anywhere between the ground and the 39th floor. It freaked me out just reading that.
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Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable.
Old Oct 10, 2009 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by stupidchicken03
good thing he didnt have to take a ****
there is another one of these. where the guy was going to smoke and was trapped. and hes goes insane! its totaly nuts. and craps all over the elevator. someone has to have a link to that one. its funny for a second, then it almost gets sad and you start to feel bad for the guy. but still funny. haha
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Originally Posted by AntiochCali
Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable.
waaaaaaa ****ing idiots
Originally Posted by cracker1252
there is another one of these. where the guy was going to smoke and was trapped. and hes goes insane! its totaly nuts. and craps all over the elevator. someone has to have a link to that one. its funny for a second, then it almost gets sad and you start to feel bad for the guy. but still funny. haha
damn that sucks!
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My lady and I once got stuck in a elevator at harveys in lake tahoe for like 10 min.. and We were both kinda freakin out cause it was hella small and it was just the two of us.

Luckily we had a bottle of greygoose with us and we started swigging that to calm us down
For like a year after that I had a fear of taking elevators... I think I might of hung myself with my shoelaces if I was that guy...
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