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TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS

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Uploaded on Apr 14, 2008

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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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  • SkyTigerTV

    I woud go insane if i wer traped in an elevator that long!

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  • darklys9th

    40 hours and did not need to pee?

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  • rtrhhruieo

    I think he could get out in 2:40 not that it matters much after all this time but still

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  • oooshitman9

    When I got out someone would have gotten there head smashed in.

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  • RamiroSkt

    really? when?

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  • kydrice

    He did take a piss. according to his Tosh.0 interview.

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  • byronwhite80

    Lol hows was ur weekend

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  • NickOloteon

    You have an imagination which is infinite. Learn how to use it.

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  • RamiroSkt

    41 hours without take a piss?

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  • Jonathan Jansen

    So what can we all learn from this? Say no to cigarettes! :)

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  • Thomas Gabriel

    Dude, that was the same for me ! =O

    ...But i was 14....

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