In 1999, Nicholas White became trapped in an elevator. For 41 hours.
Yes. Forty-one. Hours. 2,460 minutes. Jesus.
And it basically ruined his life. In pursuit of a lawsuit, White stopped coming to work and was fired. And in the end, the owner of the building settled for a tiny fraction of White’s $25 million statement of claim.
Here’s the security camera footage of White’s ordeal, complete with piano soundtrack:
Amazing. You can actually see him going crazy. I’m impressed he made it out of there with some semblance of sanity. I would have gone completely bat-shazbot nuts in the first twenty minutes. Via Gawker.
April 14th, 2008 by graeme |
That is just insane…
I will never again complain about being stuck in traffic. Would you be eternally grateful to the person who opened the doors, or really pissed off it took them nearly two days to find you?