"I walked into an elevator with one kind of life and walked out with a completely different one"

He screwed up royal.

I think I remember something about Mark Twain's family, expecting a big real estate sale. And, just like the guy here, they wasted their lives waiting for the windfall that never happened. All except Samuel, who wrote stories and essays.

I remember the article and video, not sure if in NYer or newspaper. Now to read your link on what happened since...

41 hours is a long time. Surely, he didn't hold "it" for that long! Was it edited out?

I once was stuck in an apartment elevator for an hour. I couldn't imagine 41 hours.

Read it. I do remember he went downhill afterwards, but not the business about lawsuit, etc.

I was trapped in a work elevator at the university on a friday night for a couple of hours after working late, but I didn't get anywhere near his level of fear. I figured pretty fast the janitor might help, and that turned out to be true. But, I can fathom having it be a horrid event.

There was also another kind of story about that situation, since then - crime fiction if I remember, though not the same kind of setting. If I remember more, I'll give a link. It's coming back as I type, a woman trapped in a jewelry vault....

Sounds rather like what my last relationship did for me!

He and the American super-size version of the so-called "nanny state" (ie I'll sue, no matter how ridiculous my claim, and be rich with no effort) and the din of the bottom-feeding lawyers did him.


Sad.

When you see him forcing the elevator door open he was actually peeing down the shaft. I'm still baffled as to how that could have happened.

Oh, is that what he's up to?! Okay, thanks!

birth control, freezers, telephone, airplanes, X-ray, internet, television, radio,

worst - precooked bacon.

The post up above jumped from one thread to another. Weird.

What does he mean he prolonged his entrapment?

He allowed this event to dominate and control his life for years. He staked everything on the payout and lost.