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Here’s the disturbing story.

(Excerpt from The New Yorker) The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night. White, a production manager at Business Week, was working late.  He wanted a cigarette. He told a co-worker he would be right back.

The offices were on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building.  When White finished his smoke, he returned to the lobby and, waved along by a janitor buffing the terrazzo floors, got into Car No. 30 and pressed the button marked 43. The car accelerated. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. But after a moment White felt a jolt. The lights went out and immediately flashed on again. And  then the elevator stopped.

Here is a time lapsed video of his ordeal. If I was the one stuck in the elevator, I probably would have tried to break thru those bricks.

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