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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 115 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it's a quote, but if the brakes failed on an escalator then yes it would be unusable even as stairs, however you wouldn't be stuck on it at that point, you'd be in a pile at the bottom.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Escalator accidents are gruesome

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could probs google it and find it pretty readily, something like 'escalator failure reddit' or that. It's like mall footage of an escalator that has motor failure or something and because it's... well really heavy it basically it snaps at some point and just rips down with people just falling into the pit where the inner parts stay underneath.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh I think I know that one. Based on the previous comment, I thought it got sent into overdrive and was going hella fast that it may as well be a chainsaw lol

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Well no, chainsaw is an exaggeration, I think it's more of an extruder or meat grinder when one gets caught in it. Thaaaaat one is nsfl and will forever remain a blue link 😬

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The scene you're probably thinking of is from one of the Final Destination movies. Not sure I'd count those as the most solid of evidence.

As somone who has been on a broken escaltor that was not safe, the breaks can fail and then you have a big problem. Granted I'm not dead and didn't lose any limbs but degloving is still not something I'd like to risk.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They could also be referring to the time a woman threw her child clear from a failing elevator and then got promptly consumed. Happened in China.

Edit to add:

Could also be this one. Turns out there's a lot of incidents of people being monched.

[–] ImmaculateTaste@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is fked up. Never knew this was possible

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of people don't! Escalators are big toothed conveyor belts, with a human-friendly box around it, basically. The mechanisms break down, and there's a chance that box fails and you meet teeth.

Escalators are just repurposed meat grinders.

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C. C I'm not sure what you're talking about, I don't watch those movies and the one I'm thinking about was from (iirc) an asian mall CCTV recording or something to that effect.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was a Chinese woman and her child. I linked it further up, but from the sounds of it maybe don't go looking for my link lol

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the convenience!

(R.I.P. Mitch)

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago
  • Mitch Hedberg
[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn't want to believe this

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (13 children)
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, you're right. Silly me.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only there were some way to fix your earlier comment

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

And invalidate the person who corrected me? No. I'll live with my shame. I'm pedantic about writing, spelling, grammar. I made a mistake. I'll live with it.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a fake meme.

That said, escalator break downs can kill people. They don't always just stop, they free wheel and smash everyone into a pile at the bottom.

[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

That's why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Broken escalators are no joke. My father starved to death because they couldn't fix the excalator in time.

They should've used the excalibur.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fine to do for getting off the thing if it stopped while you're on it but no, they don't just become stairs when they're stopped. Go look up escalator brake failures if you want to see some horrifying videos of how that can go wrong.

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i bet if you let loose a couple of lions in there, one or two of them would discover some new escalator climbing skills real quick.. maybe just play lion noises through the intercom..

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.

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[–] llama@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of malls in Asia have signs that say not to walk on the escalators. So yeah I guess if it breaks you're SOL if the people in front of you aren't rule breakers.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Acshually, "escalators" are a subset of "stairs". They would've known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓

[–] wigginlsu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.

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