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Title: 41 Hours....
Post by: V8Demon on April 22, 2008, 12:51:44 AM
Stuck in an elevator:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators/?yrail


Top right corner of the video
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Post by: yellow86coogr on April 22, 2008, 02:44:05 AM
Wow!
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Post by: 20th anny 5.o on April 22, 2008, 05:01:43 AM
Wow i feel real sorry for that guy i mean  dude was trapped in a 10x10 (if your lucky) cube for almost 2 days.
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Post by: *MAYHEM* on April 22, 2008, 06:21:00 AM
Poor .
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Post by: Bob on April 22, 2008, 07:06:15 AM
WTF! I couldn't imagine 41 hours in there, no food,water, etc..
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Post by: Haystack on April 22, 2008, 05:44:27 PM
I could do it, but why? I dont think he even checked the top of the elevator or the shaft. I've been in a couple and I've always seen a ladder.
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Post by: cougarXLS on April 22, 2008, 05:59:05 PM
wow... that sucks.  I wonder if he could hold his bladder for that long, or if the video was 'conviently edited'.
 
The longest I've ever been stuck in an elevator was 3 hours and let me tell you... I couldn't find the men's room fast enough.
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Post by: 85bird on April 22, 2008, 06:18:39 PM
Don't you watch the show "Man vs Wild" with Bear Giles?  You can drink your own urine and squeeze nutrients out of your shiznit.  And hell, I'm sure there are all kinds of bugs one could eat!

:hick:

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WTF! I couldn't imagine 41 hours in there, no food,water, etc..
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Post by: cougarXLS on April 22, 2008, 06:31:20 PM
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Don't you watch the show "Man vs Wild" with Bear Giles?

Never heard of it...
 
But I have heard of 'reusing' one's waste... but he didn't look like like he had any sort of container...
 
Anyways, I don't particulary want to wander down that road... this is, after all, a family forum.
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Post by: JeremyB on April 22, 2008, 06:31:27 PM
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I dont think he even checked the top of the elevator or the shaft. I've been in a couple and I've always seen a ladder.


New Yorker Article (http://"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all")
Quote from: Nick Paumgarten
At a certain point, he decided to go for the escape hatch in the ceiling. He thought of Bruce Willis in “Die Hard,” climbing up and down the shaft. He knew it was a dangerous and desperate thing to do, but he didn’t care. He had to get out of the elevator. The height of the handrail in the car made it hard for him to get a leg up. It took him a while to figure out and then execute the maneuver that would allow him to spring up to the escape hatch. Finally, he swung himself up. The hatch was locked.

A vertical-transportation axiom states that if an elevator is in trouble the safest place to be is inside the elevator. This holds even if the elevator is not in trouble. Elevator surfing—riding on top of the cab, for kicks—is dangerous. This is why the escape hatch is always locked. By law, it’s bolted shut, from the outside. It’s there so that emergency personnel can get in, not so passengers can get out.



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At a certain point, he decided to open the doors. He pried them apart and held them open with his foot. He was presented with a cinder-block wall on which, perfectly centered, were scrawled three “13”s—one in chalk, one in red paint, one in black... He concluded that he must be on the thirteenth floor, and that, this being an express elevator, there was no egress from the shaft anywhere for many stories up or down. (Such a shaft is known as a blind hoistway.)

Suffice to say, he had no way out.
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Post by: Haystack on April 22, 2008, 07:12:23 PM
Did you just have to school me infront of everyone like that? j/k
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Post by: Carl on April 22, 2008, 07:48:36 PM
Figures it was the 13th floor...
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on April 22, 2008, 08:55:49 PM
Lol - it is funny there is even a 13th floor with so many nitwits in this world that believe in voodoo (superstitious). Many buildings in NY don't even have a 13th floor!

I was in one of those little 3' by 5' elevators in an apartment building recently - I was getting claustrophobic in just the time it took to change floors - I can't imagine how it would feel being stuck in that small elevator full of people for more than a few minutes!
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Post by: cougarXLS on April 22, 2008, 09:09:20 PM
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Many buildings in NY don't even have a 13th floor!

That's not unique to New York... but.. here's my question:
 
Floor 1
Floor 2
Floor 3
Floor 4
Floor 5
Floor 6
Floor 7
Floor 8
Floor 9
Floor 10
Floor 11
Floor 12
Floor 14  => Floor 13
Floor 15  => Floor 14
etc...
 
I never understood that superstition... just because 'they' relabel the floor numbers doesn't mean that the 13th floor is the 14th.  It's still 13 floors up!
 
I don't understand.  :confused: :shakehead :screwy: :shakehead :confused:
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on April 22, 2008, 09:14:49 PM
Asking how that makes sense is like trying to make sense of superstition in the first place! :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :shakehead
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Post by: cougarXLS on April 22, 2008, 09:21:19 PM
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Asking how that makes sense is like trying to make sense of superstition in the first place! :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :shakehead

:iagree:
 
Supersitions are nothing more than thoughts in the mind's eye.  A mere, do I dare say, "belief".
 
By the way, that was a rhetorical question.
 
I love both these little icons...
:screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead :screwy:  :shakehead
 
They just sum up the whole superstition thing... lol, IMHO
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on April 22, 2008, 09:26:56 PM
Yep, and I answered the rhetorical question just so I could use the "crazy" smiley :D
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Post by: cougarXLS on April 22, 2008, 09:28:19 PM
lol, :)
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Post by: *MAYHEM* on April 22, 2008, 09:28:51 PM
Quote from: JeremyB;215279
New Yorker Article (http://"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all")
 
Suffice to say, he had no way out.

But 12 floors of nothing but cinder block wall gave him a good place to take a whiz.
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