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I'm going to need a citation that supports your claim that I need a citation.
I'm not arguing that this must have been elevator-man's motivation, but that not wanting to risk asking someone out in front of lots of others is a very common sentiment. I certainly remember the process of trying to ask a girl on a date in high school, and trying to find a moment alone was always a part of it. It's certainly more reasonable than interpreting his actions as a form of intimidation.
There are many places where you can talk to a person alone that aren't elevators that prevent physical escape.
Everyone faces that problem. But even if this is a primary reason for the man's actions (and I have seen nothing to favour the hypothesis), the man still found a really bad solution.
I explicitly said that it doesn't matter whether that in particular was his motivation. There are a number of perfectly acceptable reasons for his behavior and I can think of several off the top of my head that are more plausible than "he was trying to intimidate her into having sex."
Even if we grant this, it doesn't affect the conclusion that Elevator Guy behaved unreasonably. The reason this particular incident attracted so much attention in the first place was because it involved such a perfect storm of disturbing/threatening factors. Each of these factors might have been considered quite mild when taken in isolation, but the problem was 'death by a thousand cuts'.
Here you go. And this. HTH.