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TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS

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Uploaded on Apr 14, 2008

READ THE STORY: http://tinyurl.com/572u5f

Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage of Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building.

Music: "The Storm Begins," by Jennifer Haines.

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a signature mix of reporting on national and international politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of books, movies, theatre, classical and popular music, television, art, and fashion.

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  • Jason Woods

    Jason Woods 1 month ago

    And not once did he jerk it

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  • TheCitygal87

    TheCitygal87 1 month ago

    Why didn't he masturbate? If you get stuck in a damn elevator for so long time you gotta make the time go faster some way.

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  • Randomness088

    Randomness088 19 hours ago

    That is why you don't smoke

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  • xxshystarxx

    xxshystarxx 1 day ago

    I remember watching this when I was like 9, and was scarred for life. I couldn't sleep for days, thinking that might happen to me lol.

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    saiter10035 2 days ago

    :(

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    saiter10035 2 days ago

    :(

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  • Gru Mock

    Gru Mock 2 days ago

    Friday night to a Sunday afternoon. How terrible.

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  • MrSpence341

    MrSpence341 3 days ago

    He goes twice in the corner.

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  • cincibengals985

    cincibengals985 3 days ago

    See kids? Smoking is bad for you.

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  • Rodgaari

    Rodgaari 5 days ago

    /watch?v=S5PvBzDlZGs

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  • TheCitygal87

    TheCitygal87 5 days ago

    Monkeys do it when they are scared, happy, sad etc, and we evolved from them, we gotta have some génes still in us from em, right? ;)

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