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[–] 119 points 2 years ago (34 children)

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

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (26 children)

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

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    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (19 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (15 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.

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    This is fked up. Never knew this was possible

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (13 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    The human-safe "box" that surrounds the man eating machinery. The part you as a human actually interface with

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (9 children)

    U mean the stairs that you step on?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (8 children)

    Yes, that is what I am describing. And the railing, the bits that keep you from being pulled around the turns for the stairs..

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    The turns at the top or bottom, where the stairs retract and go back around the loop

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    i think imma take the elevator instead

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, man. Fun fact about elevators, in the exceedingly unlikely event of the elevators like, 600 redundancies to keep it from ever entering a free fall all fail, the elevator still most likely won't fall fast enough to seriously injure you. The air in the shaft has nowhere to go as the elevator falls, making it compress and act as a brake. Definitely prefer the elevators.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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