A video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become an Internet sensation.
The man was trapped in the elevator about nine years ago. Footage of the event recently emerged.
“After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend,” Nicholas White said last week.
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Video of his Oct. 15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York was put online by The New Yorker. It was posted to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of the magazine.
White said he understood why the video has captured people’s attention — many people wonder what they would do if it happened to them.
The video includes classical piano music. It shows White trying to climb the walls, lying down on the floor and prying apart the doors. He said he went to the bathroom down the shaft when the doors were open.
White was working for Business Week when he left his office at about 11pm on a Friday for a cigarette break. Nobody knows for sure why the elevator stalled.(STAFF WRITER, WITH AP)
一則記錄一名男子受困電梯長達四十一小時的影片在網路上造成轟動。
這名男子約九年前受困電梯中，而該事件的影片最近才被公諸於世。
尼可拉斯．懷特上週表示：「受困一段時間後，我知道自己麻煩大了，因為當時正值週末。」
《紐約客》雜誌二十一日為配合該期雜誌中的一篇文章，便把懷特一九九九年十月十五日受困電梯過程的影片放上網路。
懷特說，他能理解為什麼這段影片會引人注意—許多人會想，如果這件事發生在自己身上，該怎麼辦。
影片以古典鋼琴樂做為配樂；片中懷特試圖攀牆、躺臥在地上及撬開電梯門；他說他在門打開時，朝著電梯通風井如廁。
懷特當時任職於美國《商業週刊》，事發當天適逢星期五，他晚上十一點左右離開辦公室，準備到外面去抽根菸休息一下；電梯故障原因至今不明。
（美聯社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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