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Subscribe to RSSCHICAGO -- Firefighters rescued a man who got stuck twice on elevators Sunday night in a downtown Chicago building.
The man called for help after getting trapped in an elevator at 65 East Monroe St. around 9:15 p.m., according to Battalion Chief Michael Gubricky.
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Crews had trouble releasing the elevator, which was stuck between the 21st and 22nd floor, so they had to rescue him from another elevator parallel to the one that was stalled, said Gubricky.
Once firefighters placed the man on the second elevator, that one also became stuck.
After more than three hours, they all made it back down safely.
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Now this is good news reporting.
Yeah, this article is very informative, it makes journalism a very lucrative career. But I'm noticing a lull in articles about Snooki, what gives?
This man is like the proverbial cat without whiskers, perpetually caught behind the refrigerator...
(Bonus points to whomever can tell me what film that line is taken from!)
@WMG-21......A Scanner Darkly?
1, 3 deleted, political derails from Kumar-889209 and Brock-4007240 about it being Obama and Bush's fault, respectively. Politics is over here. Post on-topic.
You're each suspended for a day for violating #4 and #5 of the Code of Honor.
What goes up must come down, eventually!!!!!!!!!!!
Some days you get the elevator. Other days you get the shaft.
That comment escalates to the top of the list!
Nice!
denver bill 2 - u r lillarious! How do u sleep at nite with so much in your head?
Poor guy probably had a $100 bet on a 7 point win for the Patriots too!!
At least he didn't have to call for help the second time.
I'm going to say this was a hint to start taking the stair, the elevator says you need to get into shape. LOL
I like this. It's amusing.
Yes. It is amusing. Almost like something was keeping him there...
LOL.
Exactly. I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Like the time my daughter was screaming her little head off in the car, and would stop as soon as I pulled over, would go again, scream, pull over, go, scream, pull over. Finally after 20 minutes of irrational 1 year old, she calmed down, we left, she didnt cry, and 2 miles down the road was the car that had just passed me the first time I pulled over, smashed in to another car, because the semi driver was drunk, and jack knifed, and managed to land right across the two lane highway. People going both directions were hurt. We would have been dead, as the car that was right behind me was really nothing more than a ball with a trunk. That would have been us.
Sounds like a good plot for the next 'Final Destination' series.........
Just curious but what happened to the fire fighters?
"After more than three hours, they all made it back down safely."
Its weird what happens when you read the whole article...
I hope this man's name isn't Otis.
I don't care who you are - that's funny.
Five will get you ten he starts using the stairs. I sure would. I got trapped one time and spent an hour in the silly thing; and once is enough!!!
With luck like that, i wouldn't bother buying a lottery ticket.
Or maybe that's exactly what he should do. Seems like he's beating the odds already by being stuck twice in the same day.
We used to call fellows like this "snakebit" in my neck of the woods.
The poor guy probably needed to use the bathroom too.
It might have been worse - he could have had to watch the Madonna half time show...just saying.
Elisha G. Otis, the unhappy victim, was quoted as saying, "I'll never ride in a damned elevator again!"
Hopefully the fire fighters weren't coming from a chilli cooking contest!
That is why I don't use elevators; I just know that the one time I do I'll get stuck and I'll have to pee. Or worse I'll get stuck on one with a stranger with bad gas...
They really need to include this guy's picture with the story. I don't think I'd ever want to ride in an elevator with him.
Guess he'll be taking the stairs from now on.
Clearly, this man's experience with these elevators is a sign of the end times!!
And as I read this "Love in an Elevator" is on the radio.
.... and I thought I had a bad day.
Bet he takes the stairs next time..