Oh the irony...
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:23 am
Here's one for you...a former elevator repairman is trapped for 3 days when the elevator breaks down.
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Man trapped in elevator for 3 days
Reuters News Service
BERLIN - A German retiree and former elevator repair man had to survive on just a packet of cookies while he was stuck in a broken hospital elevator for three days.
Karlheinz Schmidt, 68, who had arrived for a routine appointment at a Berlin hospital, slipped out of his wheelchair during the 80-hour ordeal in which he repeatedly pushed the elevator's alarm button without anyone hearing his call for help.
"I was lying on the floor and the elevator went up and down for a bit. I pushed the alarm button several times, but nothing happened," the daily Bild quoted Schmidt as saying. "I thought to myself ... 'Karlheinz, that's it. You're on your own now.' "
Schmidt, who appeared on German television looking pale and weak, was finally discovered Monday after a nurse reported the broken elevator. Schmidt's son had launched a hunt for his father but rescue workers after scouring the hospital grounds had concentrated efforts on dredging a nearby canal.
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Man trapped in elevator for 3 days
Reuters News Service
BERLIN - A German retiree and former elevator repair man had to survive on just a packet of cookies while he was stuck in a broken hospital elevator for three days.
Karlheinz Schmidt, 68, who had arrived for a routine appointment at a Berlin hospital, slipped out of his wheelchair during the 80-hour ordeal in which he repeatedly pushed the elevator's alarm button without anyone hearing his call for help.
"I was lying on the floor and the elevator went up and down for a bit. I pushed the alarm button several times, but nothing happened," the daily Bild quoted Schmidt as saying. "I thought to myself ... 'Karlheinz, that's it. You're on your own now.' "
Schmidt, who appeared on German television looking pale and weak, was finally discovered Monday after a nurse reported the broken elevator. Schmidt's son had launched a hunt for his father but rescue workers after scouring the hospital grounds had concentrated efforts on dredging a nearby canal.
