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Trapped
"This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras. "
posted to videos by Brad, Apr 15th
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I just read this from another site. CRAZY!
"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."
The "is inadvisable" is kind of obvious, but what kind of benefit would you get out of crashing a flaming elevator down its shaft?
lulz
I couldn't breathe right and I had to pee the whole time I read this article.
They have medication for both those things, Amanda. You should talk to your doctor about it.
Doctors cost money
Move.
The video was neat enough but the article really worth reading. I always suspected the "close door" button didn't do anything in elevators.