by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:06 am
Story.
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs.
A guy is trapped in an elevator for over 40 fucking hours. 8 security guards, who had complete access to the video feed, came and went without doing a goddamn thing. The guy goes crazy afterwards.
Oh, and did I mention, there is time-lapse video of the entire thing?
You can see the time-lapse video
here
[url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all]Story[/url].
[quote]The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs.[/quote]
A guy is trapped in an elevator for over 40 fucking hours. 8 security guards, who had complete access to the video feed, came and went without doing a goddamn thing. The guy goes crazy afterwards.
Oh, and did I mention, there is time-lapse video of the entire thing?
You can see the time-lapse video [url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators]here[/url]