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I remember seeing this awhile back- I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be stuck there for nearly two whole days… and to add insult to injury, he probably ran out of smokes somewhere in that time, so he was fiending for a smoke along with the crippling claustrophobia, dehydration and hunger.
That’s depressing. And then I went and found this: http://overlawyered.com/2008/04/lawyers-…
that was pretty boring, but i LOL’ed at the end when they put the sign in the doorway.
WTF? Why didn’t he go out the emergency hatch in the ceiling? I’ve done it, and way before 40 hours had passed.
@4,
How did he NOT have to pee in the corner?
I would’ve died.
I know! I kept waiting for him to pee or take a twosie.
@6 – No water in, no water out
He peed out the door onto the cinder-block wall. And the emergency hatch was locked from the outside.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/…
Every time someone reminds me of this I die inside a bit again.
Uh, that sucks and all, but the guy sued for TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS and lost his job because he thought returning to work would be disadvantageous to the litigation.
It’s fitting that this happened the same year Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, the Matrix, Office Space, Donnie Darko, and the Truman Show were made.
I wonder if he knew the video was there…might explain why he didn’t decide to jack off. Nothing else to do for 41 fucking hours.
#11, “The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures. “
“White no longer had his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.”