Even More Elevators--Another Byte of Elevator Captivity

First posted in the summer of 2006: "On May 25th, a tour group from Minnesota, led by my good friend and shining star, Tessa Derfner, visited the new Apple store (on Fifth Avenue) after their Broadway show.  While trying to leave, part of the group took the elevator and these five soon found themselves completely trapped inside the glass cylinder.  Employees of the store tried but could not rescue them, so the NYPD had to be called and the hydraulic fluid had to be drained.  For forty-five minutes, they were stuck in the middle of the illuminated cube, in the center of the plaza, objects of "public ridicule and contempt" to the surprising amount of people walking by at midnight. They spent their time in captivity recreating numbers from Chicago, until the elevator was lowered, the doors were pried open and they climbed up to safety, but not without two of them burning their hands "enough to blister on the hot lights in the shaft."  Click here to read one of the student's accounts.