The NYU student who was trapped for a day and a half in a tiny building crevice considered pulling a “127 Hours” — chopping his arm off the free himself just like the mountain climber made famous in the James Franco flick.
The mom of 19-year-old undergrad Asher Vongtau said that when her boy bizarrely became wedged in the gap over the weekend, he couldn’t shake thoughts about Aron Ralston, the Colorado outdoorsman who cut off his arm to free himself during a canyoneering expedition-gone-awry.
Ralston’s harrowing tale was brought to the big screen in “127 Hours” in 2010.
“He began to think about the movie where the guy chops off his arm,” mom Habiba Vongtau told DNAInfo.com on Tuesday.
“He thought, ‘Am I gonna have to do that?’ He thought about his family. He thought, ‘I’m not gonna give up.’ He just yelled for help as much as he could.”
The lucky teenager is grateful for the work of FDNY rescuers, who he likened to “Navy SEALS,’’ the mom added.
“He’s in great spirits because he knows he had no business getting out of that hole,” the student’s mom said.
“It was a miracle. It’s an incredible story, really.”
Her political-science-major son somehow tumbled into the narrow space between his pal’s dorm and an adjacent building early Saturday.
It wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that a security officer found his phone and heard his faint moans for help.
Rescuers busted open a wall to get to Vongtau.
“He’s overwhelmed by the Fire Department,” Habiba Vongtau said outside Bellevue Hospital, where her son was being treated for a fractured skull, pelvis and arm.
He appreciated a visit from firefighters Monday, she said.
“One of them came around the day I got here, yesterday,” the mom said. “The minute [Asher] saw him, he was like, ‘Oh my God.’ He said those guys were like Navy SEALs.”