THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS TAKE THE STAIRS WHENEVER POSSIBLE. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE IF IT HAD BEEN PACKED WITH PEOPLE? OH MY GOD!!!! I WONDER HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE ME TO SLAP SOMEONE UPSIDE THEIR MOTHERFUZZY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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TEE HEE!
I WONDER IF I'D VOLUNTARILY GO THROUGH THAT IF I COULD DO IT WITH MARIO LOPEZ ROCKING A SPEEDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEE HEE…….I THINK THAT WOULD BE A YES!
OK OK HAD TO CUT IT OFF,WHY WHY MAN BOOZE STORES ARE CLOSING ……….WHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, LET ME LIVE ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT WELL YOU KNOW DO NOT WANT TO LOOK
i was stuck in a hotel room over xmas break waiting for someone to return for a day and a half. and i was in an unfamiliar city….being enclosed like that sucks so bad.
SOMEBODYS ASS WOULD BE MINE AFTER I GOT OUT OF THAT ELEVATOR!! 41 HOURS STUCK IS RIDICULOUS! HORRIBLE MANAGEMENT OF THAT BUILDING, AND A TERRIBLE MAINTENANCE CREW. MAN I WOULD HAVE THEIR HEAD ON A PLATTER WHEN I GOT THROUGH WITH THEM!
guess the moral of the story is not to smoke and maybe if he lit his match the smoke alarm would have been set off so people could automatically assume that someone might be stuck in an elevator.
Diane Saywer has the more thorough story.
He would open the doors (in the video when he opens the doors, he is greeted by wood) and he would pee down there, in the little opening. He did not want to pee in the elevator, that was his living and sleeping area. He also hoped that perhaps someone would wonder why the elevator was leaking and investigate.
I worked in the same building for BusinessWeek a year after this happened. He worked for BW and the story was the talk of the company. He went slightly mad after his ordeal. The story was told as a tale of caution so that no one would get caught in the elevator. We all heard he sued and one a lot of money. To this day I take a cell phone with me when I'm using an elevator. Also, according to the story I heard the lights went out in the elevator for part of his ordeal but that was never confirmed.
I am so embarrassed that I used to look at this site. It has become so boring and stupid (read 13 year olds) that I cannot do it any more. You have become a somewhat phenomenon, Perez, and are as stupid as they are. Stick with the 13 year olds. (p.s., they say FIRST!!!!!!) You must be happy about that, as you are just as juvenile as they. I was going to cancel all of my gossip magazines, and read you, but you just steal from them anyway. I will read them and forget you.
GET A LIFE.
Everyone is so quick to be critical. He didn't decide he wanted that to happen. Doesn't anyone have compassion anymore. I cried watching that. Thinking what he must have been through… think of all the horrible thoughts that must have gone through his head. I would love to meet him and give him a big hug!
White never went back to work at the magazine. Caught up in media attention (which he shunned but thrilled to), prodded by friends, and perhaps provoked by overly solicitous overtures from McGraw-Hill, White fell under the sway of renown and grievance, and then that of the legal establishment. He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building's management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures. He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he'd held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.
omg that was horrible! that poor man i couldnt even imagine…i would go crazy too. esp. since it was 41 freakin' hours. didnt anyone notice he was missing? wtf is wrong w/ ppl?
That was a small elevator too, not one of the big ass ones that you normally find in large Manhattan buildings. I would have gone crazy, seriously. According to that story his settlement was quite small.
Re: Porterville CA – Hey fellow P'Ville'er…just wanted to say HEY…so cool to see another one of us out there! By the way….I really like this post…one of the best Perez has ever done…makes one think about life…very real.
Re: chelleng – Get over yourself you wimp…God just think if something REALLY horrible happened to you…Tell the veterans of horrible wars how you "survived" being stuck in an elevator…What a joke.
That sucks. 42 hours that's so long. I wonder why it took so long to get him out.
don't you wish you had a deadline...
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Re: b. Walker – Oh god, you can smell a frustrated, out-of-work writer from a mile away. Three sentences would have sufficed. Oh but thanks for the article…
Wouldn't he have to use the bathroom? That's my question, ha. How did he not go insane? Wow, that would be somewhat traumatizing and make me like claustrophobic for life.
I got stuck for over an hour in an elevator and I had just returned from an oversea trip that took 2 days to get home and I was sick………that was horrible. I couldn't imagine 41 hours, obviously they edited out the toilet stops…..ewwwwwww! Poor bloke
I practically ha a panic attack by hour 3 when i just watched this! Never again am I getting on an elevator. That or carry food and water with you AT ALL TIMES.
That is so fucked up..it is like a rat in a cage. reminds me of how fragile our lives are and how easy an entrapment can cause insanity..i wonder how this guy is doing!?
a man smokes outside
gets in to go up
cant get out
he is like WHAT!
A man stuck inside a cage
hours pass
he paces
he wonders
A man stuck
finally gets out
ahhhh, sigh
soon he realizes he is still trapped!
fuck that I would have gone insane I think it would be good if they could find this guy so that he could say in his own words about the whole thing. Hopefully him being a smoker (I know you hate smoking Perez but fuck it) he had his ciggies so at least he had something to do. CAPTAIN INSANOOOOOO
i am extremely claustrophobic and have vertigo and i would have started to hurt myself or hyperventilated and possibly asphyxiated. i'm serious. that this man was able to sleep and climb to the top and just wait it out not knowing if the doors would ever open is AMAZING. god bless him. i think he won about $4 million dollars which he deserved considering the horror of that ordeal.
i love how after everything, the doors just open and he walks out… then they put a sign in front of the elevator doors saying "out of order.." i'd be throwing a fit!
Re: b. Walker – if this happened so long ago, why it is just now all ove the internet? i dont get how these blurbs, while interesting, are newsworthy if they are old? im sorry dude, you shouldnt have settled. you could have taken that crazy all the way court and asked for punitive damages and got tons from a jury, im just saying….
In defense of Perez….those of you who post that this is old news may not realize that some people don't go those other sites you mentioned so this may be "new news" to some..so pipe down..why are you bothering to even post that if your so ahead of the times??? Oh btw…I feel horrible for that guy…can you imagine if that was a women? No choice but to pee in the corner at least he could dangle it down the "shaft" pun intended!
I WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD IN THE FIRST 5 HOURS!
ARE U KIDDING ME?
THIS MAN'S A HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just curious, did you not post my earlier comment on purpose?
I responded to the one who wanted to know the music.
And I mentioned Buddha…are you filtering?
What about freedom of speech on your comment pages, hmm?
I bet you probably do have to filter, because you probably get a ton of mean hateful comments. But that was not the case with mine!
yep i know it's the american way but oh my god you would think that after a while they would make it an emergency to get that guy out of there, that they would be working on it non stop, it doesn't look like they did much of anything. I couldn't live with myself as an elevator repair person until that guy was out of there, how terrifying…. It's just fucking scary!
THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS TAKE THE STAIRS WHENEVER POSSIBLE. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE IF IT HAD BEEN PACKED WITH PEOPLE? OH MY GOD!!!! I WONDER HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE ME TO SLAP SOMEONE UPSIDE THEIR MOTHERFUZZY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
.
TEE HEE!
I WONDER IF I'D VOLUNTARILY GO THROUGH THAT IF I COULD DO IT WITH MARIO LOPEZ ROCKING A SPEEDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEE HEE…….I THINK THAT WOULD BE A YES!
OK OK HAD TO CUT IT OFF,WHY WHY MAN BOOZE STORES ARE CLOSING ……….WHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, LET ME LIVE ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT WELL YOU KNOW DO NOT WANT TO LOOK
that poor man! oh my God. i would freak the fuck out.
oh gosh. thirsty???? hungry? needed to pee! poor guy.
41 hours. shit.
Omg - did he pee? Poop? How horrible…
i was stuck in a hotel room over xmas break waiting for someone to return for a day and a half. and i was in an unfamiliar city….being enclosed like that sucks so bad.
SOMEBODYS ASS WOULD BE MINE AFTER I GOT OUT OF THAT ELEVATOR!! 41 HOURS STUCK IS RIDICULOUS! HORRIBLE MANAGEMENT OF THAT BUILDING, AND A TERRIBLE MAINTENANCE CREW. MAN I WOULD HAVE THEIR HEAD ON A PLATTER WHEN I GOT THROUGH WITH THEM!
guess the moral of the story is not to smoke and maybe if he lit his match the smoke alarm would have been set off so people could automatically assume that someone might be stuck in an elevator.
Diane Saywer has the more thorough story.
He would open the doors (in the video when he opens the doors, he is greeted by wood) and he would pee down there, in the little opening. He did not want to pee in the elevator, that was his living and sleeping area. He also hoped that perhaps someone would wonder why the elevator was leaking and investigate.
Morons, he did go pee. The video does not show everything. He peed down the opening, where the doors open.
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Saw him on GMA; he said he peed down the elevator shaft when he would open the doors. Moral of the story: DON'T SMOKE. G'nite all.
So………………why the FUCK didnt anyone realize that one of the elevators wasnt running?? HELLO!! And what happened to firehouse phones on the elevators?
….ugh, horrible ….that would flip me out completely….poor guy…!
I worked in the same building for BusinessWeek a year after this happened. He worked for BW and the story was the talk of the company. He went slightly mad after his ordeal. The story was told as a tale of caution so that no one would get caught in the elevator. We all heard he sued and one a lot of money. To this day I take a cell phone with me when I'm using an elevator. Also, according to the story I heard the lights went out in the elevator for part of his ordeal but that was never confirmed.
Re: KATHY FROM TORONTO –
Wow, you seem really nice and not judgemental at all….fucking bitch!
wtf?
what a mind fuck
Re: lisa – I was wondering the same thing! Where were the security guards? I bet its a hoax.
People have real problems, go to u tube and watch fQtQZsnryfk .Do you know this girl? Who is Jane Hunter?
I am so embarrassed that I used to look at this site. It has become so boring and stupid (read 13 year olds) that I cannot do it any more. You have become a somewhat phenomenon, Perez, and are as stupid as they are. Stick with the 13 year olds. (p.s., they say FIRST!!!!!!) You must be happy about that, as you are just as juvenile as they. I was going to cancel all of my gossip magazines, and read you, but you just steal from them anyway. I will read them and forget you.
GET A LIFE.
People have real problems, go to u tube and watch fQtQZsnryfk .Do you know this girl? Who is Jane Hunter?
That is so sad….I feel like crying. That is what hell must feel like!!
i just farted…. loudly
this was on Break so long ago
Everyone is so quick to be critical. He didn't decide he wanted that to happen. Doesn't anyone have compassion anymore. I cried watching that. Thinking what he must have been through… think of all the horrible thoughts that must have gone through his head. I would love to meet him and give him a big hug!
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omg, you know no one cares about you when you can get trapped in an elevator for 41 hours and no one notices, jesus christ
That would suck soo much I can't imagine what he went through
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White never went back to work at the magazine. Caught up in media attention (which he shunned but thrilled to), prodded by friends, and perhaps provoked by overly solicitous overtures from McGraw-Hill, White fell under the sway of renown and grievance, and then that of the legal establishment. He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building's management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures. He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he'd held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.
i feel SO bad for that poor man!! thats horrible!! and scaryy!!!
omg that was horrible! that poor man i couldnt even imagine…i would go crazy too. esp. since it was 41 freakin' hours. didnt anyone notice he was missing? wtf is wrong w/ ppl?
:( i want to meet him & hug him.
Why didnt he untuck his shirt in those 41 hours?
soo effin' boring.. why even post it?
Hmmm….two New Yorker links in a handful of days… great magazine but makes you wonder if there is an arrangement here to attract younger readers
JUST THROWIN' IT OUT THERE!
Re: classical lover –
very much in the TORI AMOS genre.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE me some Tori!!
That was a small elevator too, not one of the big ass ones that you normally find in large Manhattan buildings. I would have gone crazy, seriously. According to that story his settlement was quite small.
PEREZ THIS IS OLD NEWS, JUST LIKE YOU
Re: Porterville CA – Hey fellow P'Ville'er…just wanted to say HEY…so cool to see another one of us out there! By the way….I really like this post…one of the best Perez has ever done…makes one think about life…very real.
Yes, this was crazy.
Wow, I would have FREAKED out if this would have happen to me….wow….incredible video.
OMG! I had sooooo much anxiety while watching this video. I was so afraid he was going to kill hismelf.
Re: chelleng – Get over yourself you wimp…God just think if something REALLY horrible happened to you…Tell the veterans of horrible wars how you "survived" being stuck in an elevator…What a joke.
where the hell was he pissing…..you KNOW he peed at least once or twice while in there…..
That sucks. 42 hours that's so long. I wonder why it took so long to get him out.
Re: b. Walker – Oh god, you can smell a frustrated, out-of-work writer from a mile away. Three sentences would have sufficed. Oh but thanks for the article…
Wouldn't he have to use the bathroom? That's my question, ha. How did he not go insane? Wow, that would be somewhat traumatizing and make me like claustrophobic for life.
OLD NEWS! boo!
that is INSANE. how could all of those security guards not have noticed him on the monitors??
I remember when this happened because I worked across the street. Amazing how incompetent the security guards were…
OM….GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwd
I got stuck for over an hour in an elevator and I had just returned from an oversea trip that took 2 days to get home and I was sick………that was horrible. I couldn't imagine 41 hours, obviously they edited out the toilet stops…..ewwwwwww! Poor bloke
Boing Boing posted this like last week
that was weird [!!]
I was waiting for him to take a wee…
I practically ha a panic attack by hour 3 when i just watched this! Never again am I getting on an elevator. That or carry food and water with you AT ALL TIMES.
That is so fucked up..it is like a rat in a cage. reminds me of how fragile our lives are and how easy an entrapment can cause insanity..i wonder how this guy is doing!?
a man smokes outside
gets in to go up
cant get out
he is like WHAT!
A man stuck inside a cage
hours pass
he paces
he wonders
A man stuck
finally gets out
ahhhh, sigh
soon he realizes he is still trapped!
lmfao
the only thing that made that thing interesting was the music.
Poor guy, pity he didn't have his mobile phone!
And this is why you go out of your way to only buy FREE RANGE CHICKEN.
Just think about it.
that is creepy as shit, not gonna lie
holy shit!!! 41 hours without a piss
All that time and he didn't get his damn cigarette!!!
Re: welshy –
if you watch it shortly after the 24 hours passed, he pisses in the corner
sue!
old news, perez - mental floss posted this almost a week ago.
42 hours is ridiculous. I dunno what'd I do.
fuck that I would have gone insane I think it would be good if they could find this guy so that he could say in his own words about the whole thing. Hopefully him being a smoker (I know you hate smoking Perez but fuck it) he had his ciggies so at least he had something to do. CAPTAIN INSANOOOOOO
incredible
Aw poor dude
I would have been going mental, like slamming my head off the brick wall lol
thanks btw
I will never ride an elevator again
That gave me the chills, poor guy.
CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY! I think I would have ended up doing something embarrassing like having to pee or scratching hahahaa
Is there any more information about this guy? Why was he forgotten so long? Was he compensated?
lawzy, lawzy, we juzt turned COMMUNIZT…all my 6:00 a.m. commentz have been erazed…itz a ””'conzpiracy””'..help.
the muzlumz are coming.
perez, I know I'm high
but u r fucking with
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That was very strange perez. I feel kinda weirded out now.
Bless his heart! Haha
i am extremely claustrophobic and have vertigo and i would have started to hurt myself or hyperventilated and possibly asphyxiated. i'm serious. that this man was able to sleep and climb to the top and just wait it out not knowing if the doors would ever open is AMAZING. god bless him. i think he won about $4 million dollars which he deserved considering the horror of that ordeal.
i love how after everything, the doors just open and he walks out… then they put a sign in front of the elevator doors saying "out of order.." i'd be throwing a fit!
wow those security guards need to get fired
Re: b. Walker – if this happened so long ago, why it is just now all ove the internet? i dont get how these blurbs, while interesting, are newsworthy if they are old? im sorry dude, you shouldnt have settled. you could have taken that crazy all the way court and asked for punitive damages and got tons from a jury, im just saying….
In defense of Perez….those of you who post that this is old news may not realize that some people don't go those other sites you mentioned so this may be "new news" to some..so pipe down..why are you bothering to even post that if your so ahead of the times??? Oh btw…I feel horrible for that guy…can you imagine if that was a women? No choice but to pee in the corner at least he could dangle it down the "shaft" pun intended!
Nice security, McGraw Hill.
INSANE!
that's sucks!
one hundred millionth
I WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD IN THE FIRST 5 HOURS!
ARE U KIDDING ME?
THIS MAN'S A HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was probably thinking, "damn, I shouldn't have eaten that double double and had that giant diet Pepsi 2 hours ago…"
I would've pissed and shit all over that damn elevator and made art! Now, tHat would've been cool.
I hope he sues their asses off!
that is horrible! i don't know if i can take an elevator again!
Re: OUCH! –
lol hysterical!
I'd seriously go crazy!
Oh my god, I'm speechless
That must had REALLY fucking sucked!!! I probably would had gone insane being stuck in that tiny elevator for so long!
ohh my gosh omggg yeahhhhhhhhh
Re: will –
this is an edited version i'm sure they are not going to put him shitting on camera after all he's been through
That would suck! I'm sure he received a LARGE settlement!!!!
Oh my god what the hell took them so long to figure it out and get it fixed. That poor man.
Re: OUCH! –
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Best. comment. ever.
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Just curious, did you not post my earlier comment on purpose?
I responded to the one who wanted to know the music.
And I mentioned Buddha…are you filtering?
What about freedom of speech on your comment pages, hmm?
I bet you probably do have to filter, because you probably get a ton of mean hateful comments. But that was not the case with mine!
yep i know it's the american way but oh my god you would think that after a while they would make it an emergency to get that guy out of there, that they would be working on it non stop, it doesn't look like they did much of anything. I couldn't live with myself as an elevator repair person until that guy was out of there, how terrifying…. It's just fucking scary!