Trapped!

DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators" target="_blank">trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours</a> - just watch the video!

Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Read about it, god damn I'd kill myself.

    I could understand a couple hours, but 41 hours of negligence? Unacceptable by the security team. This happened in '99 I heard he barely got some cash out of it, and not much.
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    Wtf doesn't the fire alarm button in that thing work?
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1676488:date=Apr 21 2008, 05:59 PM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Apr 21 2008, 05:59 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676488"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Wtf doesn't the fire alarm button in that thing work?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Apparently not.
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  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    I read that a few days ago. That would really suck. It was interesting reading it after getting back from a trip where one of the people was stuck in an elevator for 45 minutes (with a cell phone to call one of us to get the hotel staff to deal with it). Not nearly as bad though.

    The first thing I thought of from reading the title is <a href="http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games3/trapped5/index.html" target="_blank">Trapped</a> (flash game).
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    Yeah that would suck pretty hard. It could have been worse though, he could have been on his way to the bathroom.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1676489:date=Apr 21 2008, 06:20 PM:name=Caboose)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Caboose @ Apr 21 2008, 06:20 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676489"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Apparently not.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think the alarm was blasting the whole time.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    the article is a good read. the new yorker is a good magazine.
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1676512:date=Apr 21 2008, 11:25 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Apr 21 2008, 11:25 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676512"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think the alarm was blasting the whole time.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think I read somewhere that this happened over a weekend, so evidently no one was monitoring it.
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1676533:date=Apr 22 2008, 03:20 AM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Apr 22 2008, 03:20 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676533"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think I read somewhere that this happened over a weekend, so evidently no one was monitoring it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    i read that the alarm had a certain range and since he was in the express elevator which had no stops between 1-31st floors there was no one around it to hear it.

    btw they picked a perfect song for the video
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    edited April 2008
    <!--quoteo(post=1676504:date=Apr 21 2008, 08:59 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Apr 21 2008, 08:59 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676504"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yeah that would suck pretty hard. It could have been worse though, he could have been on his way to the bathroom.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    When he is standing at the doors with them open he's URINATING down the shaft

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Trapped (flash game).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    that was pretty fun for some reason. I didn't work out what you were meant to do with the <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>last boss before i killed it</span> though
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    In the flash game. As soon as I found out that you had to push brown blocks that had absolutely no distinction from unpushable brown blocks. I quit. That's just dumb.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    It's dumb, but that was the only part with pushable brown blocks.
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1676887:date=Apr 26 2008, 04:14 PM:name=[WHO]Them)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE([WHO]Them @ Apr 26 2008, 04:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676887"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    In the flash game. As soon as I found out that you had to push brown blocks that had absolutely no distinction from unpushable brown blocks. I quit. That's just dumb.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't even know what blocks you're talking about. I gave up when there was no apparent way to do anything beyond what I tried... Which may have been the same point in the game.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    I didn't get stuck in the flash game at all... only time I was annoyed was when I realized I should have written down that color sequence I saw like 50 rooms ago and had to backtrack to see what it was -_-
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