华盛顿，2011-4-11：一段YouTube视频展示了30名乘客被困在纽约一地铁站电梯的真实经历，事发时他们正要乘坐电梯离站。
　　电梯在晚上8点30分发生故障，导致乘客被困，使得这段本来几秒就可完成的旅程变成了一个小时的痛苦经历。
　　视频中，一名男子在戴着耳机打电话，其他人则聊天打发时间。其中一女子问其他人：“你们最喜欢那首歌？”
　　电梯里没有空调，温度渐渐升高，视频里可以看见一名女子在给一个小孩扇风降温，这个小孩发牢骚这下回家得洗个澡了。
　　后来，人们听到一个声音：“里面的人听着，我现在去把你们放出来。”这是一名消防员在电梯顶部对他们喊话。被困人们兴奋不已，回答“好的！”
　　然后，一部梯子伸进电梯，被困乘客爬了出来，那名小孩第一个爬出来。
　　一名被困乘客为气喘患者，其他乘客经过检查后没有发现问题。

Subway Riders Trapped In Crowded Elevator For An Hour

　　WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY (PIX11) -- A YouTube video depicts the real-life nightmare that 30 straphangers experienced after they tried to take the elevator out of a Washington Heights subway station Friday.
　　The doors on the crowded elevator closed around 8:30 that evening, and the trip that riders thought would surely take seconds, lasted more than an hour.
　　As one man listened to his headphones, many others tried to make conversation to pass the time.  “What’s your favorite song?” one young woman asked the others.
　　Without air conditioning the elevator grew increasingly hot, and a woman can be seen vigorously fanning a young girl seated on the floor of the elevator.  Along with the heat, the girl then began complaining that she had to go to the bathroom.
　　Then, with nerves strained, elated subway riders heard a new voice: “Hey listen, I’m going to come in with you guys,” said a firefighter who was on the roof of the elevator.  One trapped subway rider gratefully said, “’Okay, okay.’”
　　A ladder was lowered into the elevator and the riders crawled out, starting with the little girl.
　　One passenger was reportedly asthmatic, but none of people trapped on the elevator needed further medical attention after the ordeal was finally over