26 Teen Cheerleaders Squeezed Into An Elevator…
From the archive: published Aug 6, 2008, 18 years ago. Details may have changed since.
It sounds like the beginning of a bar joke, but this is no tall tale: Twenty-six teenage cheerleaders had to be rescued from a tiny dormitory elevator in Texas this week.
The girls, who were attending a cheerleading camp in Austin, packed themselves into the elevator at 6:00 last night. They apparently exceeded its capacity, because when it reached the ground floor, the doors wouldn’t open.
Some of the girls made frantic cell phone calls, bringing police and firefighters to the dorm. Eventually, a repairman got there and got them out — after nearly half an hour of work.
In related news, scores of teenage boys are expected to be lining up outside an Austin, Texas dorm elevator at 5:58 tonight.