Man trapped in elevator accidently urinates on his rescuer!

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Man trapped in elevator for 40 hours! Forced to urinate down elevator shaft and it lands on janitor tryng to climb up the shaft to save him! Later they become best friends and join the Navy. This unfortunate but gripping tale. Video courtesy of The New Yorker. Music courtesy of GRM Records and Darren Farris Publishing (ascap) Powerpop song - Nobody But You . Created by Morris the great!
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NEW YORK - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade.


"After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend," Rick White said Monday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America."


Video of his Oct. 15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York's McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker. It can be seen on the magazine's Web site and had been viewed more than 280,000 times on YouTube by Monday morning.


White said he understood why the video has captured people's attention: So many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.


Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a fetal position, prying apart the doors. (He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open.)


White sued the springfield managers of the midtown skyscraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.


He was a production manager for Business Week when he left his office about 11 p.m. Friday for a cigarette break. According to the article, it was never determined exactly why the elevator stalled though there was talk of a voltage dip.

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[morrislane2]

Anyone know whatever happened with this story in the end?

[Aaecus]

What are you talking about? The guys name was Nicholas White, and I've never heard anything about him urinating on anyone. He finally got a call over the intercom and that's how they knew he was there. He knew when they were coming to get him, I don't think he would be urinating when he knew help was on the way.  Sorry to ruin a good story.

[cunderwood26]

Same here. Need a slowed down version... I thougght I caught something toward the middle. The poor guy.

[Skyrodude]

Quote from description:

''Man trapped in elevator for 40 hours! Forced to urinate down elevator shaft and it lands on janitor tryng to climb up the shaft to save him! Later they become best friends and join the Navy.''

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WTF??!?!

[pakesboy]

what? it never even a rescue guy or pee!!

[VCat2006]

@humanice2 That part is false, yes.

[humanice2]

no it says he takes a piss on some guy trying to rescue him and then became best friends. that's not true.

[VCat2006]

@humanice2 Looks okay to me.

[galloway6204]

how dumb is that?!?!

[humanice2]

the description is bullshit.

[PilotMan71]

@Dysbulic They are bolted from the outside to allow rescuers in, not for passengers to get out

[scottayownsu]

because not all elevators have them