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Elevators are traps of the modern world, benign-looking snares waiting for the unwary to step aboard and be lifted to some unreachable location between floors where they dangle at the whim of rusted cables, gears and pulleys.

Several people became victims of the prank one morning, stranding them for nearly half an hour. The penal time was spent in absolute silence, as though such an edict had been issued by the metal tyrant. The four walls of the tiny car stared at them as one man read the morning paper, another stared at his watch and the two women examined their nails, folded their arms and sighed impatiently. Continue reading →