41 hours in an elevator…
This amazing security camera footage captures the ordeal of one Nicolas White as he takes the longest smoke break ever…not his choice I’m pretty sure, I’ll bet he’s glad it was not a coffee break.
The magazine’s offices were on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building, an unadorned tower added to Rockefeller Center in 1972. When White finished his cigarette, he returned to the lobby and, waved along by a janitor buffing the terrazzo floors, got into Car No. 30 and pressed the button marked 43. The car accelerated. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. But after a moment White felt a jolt. The lights went out and immediately flashed on again. And then the elevator stopped. Read Full Story
