Well 1) yes Amber and I did get stuck in an elevator for 45min! We stepped in, the doors shut, it moved 4ft then stopped shutting the lights off with it.... pitch black and in an elevator. Luckily we had a Thai friend with us who was able to speak to the mechanics and tell them that "yes we are in the elevator, no we cant get out" and they turned the lights on for us... they did not open the doors though. We waited in the elevator, missing class in the meantime....
finally after 45min we heard someone yelling to us from the main floor... they were asking "are you stuck in the elevator" well I thought this was a pretty obvious question seeing as they had already asked... next they asked "what floor are you on?"... this is the type of elevator that has the floor number the car is on lit up on the outside... Cant say I felt too safe after this disscussion
So finally after 45min the solution to get us out... well there was none, they pulled a table up to the outside and we yanked the door open trying to hold both doors open while we climbed through the 1.5ft gap...
and now for real world news.
A tour boat in Halong Bay sank the other day. Very sad and very scary especially since we were on one of the boats only a few weeks ago. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12490523
"Eleven foreign tourists and their Vietnamese guide have drowned after their tour boat sank in Halong Bay in north-east Vietnam.
Fifteen people, including nine foreigners, have been rescued." - BBC World News
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