41 Hours in an Elevator

Nick Paumgarten's harrowing New Yorker piece details how Businessweek writer Nick White goes out for a smoke one day and is trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. It ruins his life. He wants to blame someone for negligence. He loses his job. And he's still unemployed.

Here's a video short of shots from the elevator camera. Oh my god. I'd have gone bonkers.

[Hat Tip The Circuit.]

Comments

[mitkid]

We had a guy at work who went out on the back of a railroad test car for a smoke during a locomotive test and took a tumble in the middle of the night into the North Dakota prairie at 30 mph. He survived, and is fine, but it just shows that inhaling is not always the most dangerous part of smoking.