ST. LOUIS — It's a Twitter thread that's gotten a lot of attention in the city of St Louis.
One man shared his story of getting stuck in an elevator at St Louis City Hall.
The entire thread is pretty hilarious and thankfully he took it in stride, but the man is wondering why it took the city so long to get him out.
It's a thought that's probably crossed most of our minds, you go to get on an elevator select the floor you want to go to and think well I hope I don't get stuck. Well, that's exactly what happened to one St. Louis man on Monday at City Hall.
"We got up about one floor and the elevator violently shoot and just stopped, it kind of bounced up and down," said Javad Khazaeli.
That's when Khazaeli knew something was wrong.
"Started hitting the alarm button and nobody responded so we kept hitting it over and over for 10 or 15 minutes," added Khazaeli.
Feeling stranded, Javad and his new friend Eddie devised a plan after finding an emergency door with a call button.
"Expected it to be calling somebody and it just said not connected," added Khazaeli.
So Javad and Eddie pried the doors open and gave it one last shot.
"He started screaming at the top of his lungs and I can see two office doors there and after three or four minutes of screaming and screaming we gave up, then we tried it again and finally someone showed up and they're like 'Why are you guys yelling?' Obviously, we were stuck on the elevator," said Khazaeli.
After he was free, Javad hilariously took to Twitter, joking about how he thought he would miss the women's world cup and be stuck in the elevator until after 4th of July fireworks.
All jokes aside Javad said there's a bigger issue.
"Luckily I was in there with someone who was mechanically inclined but what if that was someone who was elderly or in a wheelchair, who knows how long they would've been in there because you couldn't hear us," added Khazaeli.
We reached out to the Mayor's office today for comment on when the elevator was last inspected, but haven't heard back yet.
St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson says a third party company is in charge of inspecting elevators those on city property.
The fire department usually responds to three or four calls of stuck elevators every day.