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

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

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

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.

Queue Mitch Hedberg…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqOkWWV6a_U

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

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.

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..

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

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.