“For 41 hours.”

This week’s New Yorker includes an excellent feature on elevators. It includes the story of Nicholas White whose elevator experience in 1999 eventually lead to a media circus, an eight week trip to Anguilla, his dismissal from BusinessWeek and, somehow, to his current unemployment. It’s hard to believe, but somehow understandable. [YourMonkeyCalled]

In 1999, BusinessWeek production manager Nicholas White went outside to smoke a cigarette and, upon returning, got stuck in an elevator. For 41 hours.

The elevator footage from the traumatic event is on YouTube. [Gawker]