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Not for the elevator-phobic — 17 Comments

  1. Your articles begin so provocatively, have good middle sections, then seem to drift off into nowhere. This is a curious piece, but I hope you keep writing, you raise good questions. May you end up on a stalled elevator with Michelle or Jerimiah.

  2. I work in the Sears Tower.. my coworkers and I have the greatest fear of being in one of the express elevators and getting stuck on a floor that has no door. Oh wait, thats the 2nd greatest fear.. the greatest fear is dying in the elevator as some consequence from a terrorist attack.

    It says this guy went on a cigrette break.. he should have started a fire in the elevator, that would have gotten him attention.

  3. I tried to read the article and tell you what I thought just because you asked so nicely. Couldn’t do it. I don’t really want to repair, or design, or install elevators and it was looking like I’d be able to if I read the whole article.

  4. *** The fact that the entire forty-one hours are condensed into three minutes make it less than compelling as a testament to Wright’s agony…***

    I disagree. I was getting ansy at around the 1:30 mark.

  5. I saw an interview with him that said he got so dehydrated he didn’t have to do much of either (he was sweating profusely the whole time). But he was able to open the elevator door to pee when he had to.

  6. What strange elevators are built there in America. In every elevator in Moscow there is a button of two-way voice communication with dispatcher on duty, and I many times was rescuted from stalled elevator by a service team. They arrive in ten minutes.

  7. I think most elevators in the US also have panic buttons. I’m pretty sure there is a specifc fire button.

    What I suspect is that the building management staff was incompetent and not monitoring the communications with the elevators.

  8. It says this guy went on a cigrette break.. he should have started a fire in the elevator, that would have gotten him attention.

    He would also have suffocated had nobody come within a few minutes. Which given the incompetence of the guards, was highly likely.

  9. “I got stuck in an elevator once; I climbed out the hatch in the top and opened the doors on the floor above…”

    The full article on this situation posted why that is a really bad idea…if the elevator was to have started back up again while you were mid-move…oh, that’s not good.

    Neither is 41 hours in an elevator…and I suppose the risk of leaping would make perfect sense when sanity starts to be elusive!

  10. neo-neocon Says:
    camojack: He tried that. The hatch was locked from the inside.

    Ah. Well, I didn’t read the linked article, just your post. 😳

    Traverz Says:
    The full article on this situation posted why that is a really bad idea…if the elevator was to have started back up again while you were mid-move…oh, that’s not good.

    I was able to use the phone in the elevator; they told me how to get the doors open on the next floor once I’d climbed through the hatch…

  11. The article doesn’t really touch on why he chose the trial attorney-led lottery for a multi-million dollar settlement rather than write the book, do the talk shows (can you spell O-P-R-A-H?). It’s a pity, really, that he allowed his career and job prospects to go down the toilet.

  12. This is why cellphones are for emergencies and also why they don’t work in certain buildings.

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