This is a long article, but interesting. Basically, guy gets stuck in elevator for 41 hours and it ends up ruining his life.

here's the time lapse of the 41 hours on security camera

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elev...

Hmm. I submitted this yesterday. I thought the dupe preventer was better than this...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164592

Edit: Oh, I see, this one uses the "print" link. I wonder how this can be prevented in the future.

Highly recommended reading (mentioned in passing in the article): Colson Whitehead's "The Intuitionist", a magic realist novel about a black female elevator inspector. No, really!