Well, that is just one more reason why he should have quit smoking:
A hospital patient was trapped for more than three days in a broken lift after sneaking away from his bed for a cigarette.Relatives, hospital staff and police searched for days after wheelchair-bound Karlheinz Schmidt, 68, went missing from the Charite Hospital in Berlin.
It was only when technicians were finally called out to fix a broken lift that the severely dehydrated man was found – 80 hours after first getting into the lift.
