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u/OGTwatkc 6d ago
They managed that situation very well
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u/AngstyPup 6d ago
Seriously: coordinating that many people on the fly with such timing is mad impressive
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u/CorrectPeanut5 6d ago edited 5d ago
That also happened in Italy in 2018 and 24 people were injured. Some seriously.
Modern escalators generally have three safety systems, and when you see videos like this it's almost always because of poor maintenance.
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u/Wonderful_Plant5848 6d ago
I think someone lost a foot in that incident. The video of the incident is crazy.
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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 6d ago
I live in China and the odd thing is, elevators and escalators arell from big brands here. It's one of those products that China still made no attempt to do themselves. All of them receive a yearly check up. Literally non should pass the yearly check up. Everytime something breaks you will find some dude tinkering around in the pit and in typical fashion a week later it's broken again. Even in prime real estate, elevators/escalators can't be trusted. For example in an apartment we lived where properties changed hands for 3-10 million euro a pop, at night the AC wasn't working in the elevator. When I asked management what's that about, it's to save money. It still got their yearly a-ok from Thyssenkrupp.
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u/TrueDay1163 5d ago edited 5d ago
That’s not very true, my friend works for a major brand in the Greater China region. There are literally thousands of elevator manufacturers there, and the competition is super fierce. Most low-cost local brands source key components from a few well known suppliers like Suzhou MCTC, Optimax, etc, but to be fair, the safety standards are sound. But you are right on maintenance, elevator maintenance levels in China can vary greatly. I’ve heard plenty of horror stories from my friend about maintenance incidents and the shortcuts some technicians take, even though he works for a major brand. If you have someone maintaining it every few weeks it’s a good sign, the problem is when technician becomes too lazy to properly maintain the elevator then decides to short some key safety features so he doesn’t have to come to fix the problem.
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u/Formal-Baby-518 6d ago
It is truly unbelievable how well everybody riding the escalator handled this.
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u/foley800 6d ago
That was the first thing I thought! Wow, everyone rode it down and then got out of the way quickly, like they have done this before. Here, someone would have stopped in front blocking everyone else so they could get a pic and complain while stacking bodies!
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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 6d ago
The Denver Aquarium you have to ride an escalator up right after the ticket purchase, and people get off and just stop to try to figure out where to go.
I've had to barrel through people and push by because they are blocking the exit of the escalator. It drives me nuts.
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u/Curiosive 6d ago
A pirate captain walks into a bar with his ship's wheel stuffed halfway down the front of his pants. The bartender looks at him incredulously and asks, "What the hell? You know you have a steering wheel sticking out of your pants, right?"
The pirate replies, "Aye! It drives me nuts."
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u/abbarach 6d ago
What's a pirates favorite letter?
Most people think it's R, but a pirates first love will always be the C...
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u/sumrtym1 6d ago
A pirate has a pet clam. What did he name it?
Me Shell......
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u/skerrickity 6d ago
How much did it cost the pirate to pierce both his ears?
$2
It was a buccaneer!
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u/skerrickity 6d ago
What did the pirate say on his eightieth birthday?
Aye matey!
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u/welding-guy 5d ago
What kind of a ship is most feared by pirates?
The Steady Relation Ship.
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u/Greybeard-MD 5d ago
Dads here furiously memorizing this goldmine of pirate jokes.
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u/_awk_girl_ward_ 5d ago
Did you hear about the new pirate movie?
It's rated Arrrrrr
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u/NeonSith 6d ago
People do this at the Denver airport, too. Had an elderly couple stop immediately to finagle with their phones to pull up boarding passes.
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u/CasualFriday11 6d ago
The Denver airport is a lawless land. I've spent far too much time there getting walked into/stopped up on.
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u/meshe_10101 6d ago
All airports are lawless lands where people forget how to interact with the general public.
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u/HailToTheThief225 6d ago
Agreed. It is insane how many times I can be fast-walking through the airport and giving myself a wide berth around others and a grown-ass adult will still find a way to bump into me as if I’m completely invisible or going too slow. Hell one time I was waiting for my partner outside a restroom, my ass against the wall to give people enough space to walk and a few people would still brush right past me despite having so much room to move over and provide personal space. I just don’t get it.
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u/BullShitting-24-7 6d ago
People’s minds are only on one thing. Getting to where they need to go by all means necessary.
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u/pc2phone 6d ago
I hate that crap, it happens a bunch at a mall I goto that has a legend right at the top of the escalator. When my kids were young I had to take point like an offensive linebacker and I felt bad bothering people because nobody was actually doing anything wrong, but I had 6 more people coming up behind.
Not too long ago I went back there. My kids are grown, so I didn't even have to think about clearing people away from that stupid legend.
Anyways the whole damn place changed so I was reading it trying to figure out where the hell everything got shuffled to, when somebody started pushing on me from behind, because I was blocking people trying to exit the escalator.
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u/ArtificialHalo 5d ago
These kinds of people are the worst. Just no brain activity other than the literal single thing they were doing.
Probably same people that put the shareable scooters right where they don't need it anymore, whether that's in the middle of a pedestrian crossing or on the sidewalk in the most obnoxious place possible.
If I ever encounter the escalator people I'll just move them out of the way, cuz that shit is dangerous as hell if it's busy
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u/SeaSDOptimist 6d ago
I know they don’t need direct access to water bodies but the idea of an aquarium in Denver feels… strange.
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u/SeaSDOptimist 6d ago
I have so many questions now. Does the tiger swim? Is the fish on the menu from the aquarium? And it only gets worse from there…
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u/HomicidalHushPuppy 6d ago
I want to get on SubwayTakes and make the argument that (mild) violence is acceptable against people who block escalators, elevators, aisles, etc
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u/Utensil6591 6d ago
I went to the movies to see IT when it first released. The showing was at the top of an escalator and some genius decided the escalator was the best place to take tickets. I quickly realized this was going to be dangerous but none of my escalator companions did. People were obliviously standing directly in front of the escalator. I started yelling that everyone needs to move forward as soon as I noticed and all of a sudden they found room. The average person seems to be on idle mode unless roused.
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u/IM_NOT_NOT_HORNY 6d ago
I mean the top of an escalator is pretty Shit viewing experience I hope they didn't have you pay too much
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u/L-Ron-Hooover 6d ago
Surprised nobody stepped off at the bottom and just stood there staring at a phone.
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u/Acrobatic_Rush7653 6d ago
Where's "here"? Which fantastical place do you live in where people would block an escalator exit for pics.
The video is definitely in South Asia, and if you think smartphone addiction is bad in the West it's nothing compared to young people in Asia, their screens are never off. South Asia is also where you find folks filming everything at all costs no matter how horrifying or dangerous whatever they are filming is.
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u/_anxiousandannoyed 6d ago
I can already see people trampling each other to run down the escalator as if they wouldn’t all be off it in two seconds anyway.
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u/Own_Huckleberry6591 6d ago
No seriously. It looked like it was all mostly students or young people.
Every time I've seen one of these videos there's always some old person that trips at the bottom and causes severe injuries for everyone else behind them. That was like 50 people that perfectly hit that jump lmao
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u/TaleVisual1068 6d ago
Yes, this was an incredibly forgiving crowd for this to happen to. A retiree crowd would’ve looked far different.
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u/thetragicleonardbast 6d ago
My Mom who taught me to confidently get on and off escalators (I was a scared kid, okay?!) was getting nervous the last time I saw her. It was a mind F.
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 6d ago
My elderly father did something similar on a cruise in Russia and a bunch of muscular Russian men ran down the escalator, picked him up & carried him off at the bottom. (He was neither a small, nor a light man.)
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u/PuzzleheadedBell1079 6d ago
it’s crazy because sometimes this one person falling cause 1-5 deaths
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u/theflyingkoalax 6d ago
I guess because they are all young
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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 6d ago
And sober. Other vids have shown a bunch of drunks causing their own disaster.
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u/bl00dyf00l 6d ago
Yes, also the fact that the country is not for beginners. The youth are quite resilient.
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u/CrunchySockTaco 6d ago
An mostly not obese. Knees, hips and backs able to do evasive maneuvers better.
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u/froo 6d ago
And the fact they got out of the way.
It is unbelievable the number of people locally that just stop when they get off an escalator completely unaware of the dozens of people behind them. I’ve started getting pushy.
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u/ApprehensiveGas85 6d ago
like its a daily occurrence they were so calm, smooth and coordinated.
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u/TheComplimentarian 6d ago
Looks to be in India. Have you ever seen them catch the train? This is nothing.
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u/ExtraExtraMegaDoge 6d ago
Its like that episode of the Simpsons when Bart steals Wiggums car and drives through the "promising young athletes" picnic, and theyre all doing backflips and hurdles over it.
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u/Calvinkelly 6d ago
For real I’ve seen very different videos before. I wonder what caused them all to react so well.
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u/MapleMagicMan 6d ago
Thats impressive that it didnt turn into a moshpit of bodies at the bottom
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u/Mouse_Mallow 6d ago
Very impressive, they were all agile enough to get off without falling then get out of the way quick enough for the people behind
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u/Suspicious-Beat9295 6d ago
I think there were also people on the bottom coordinating them and telling them when to jump.
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u/SnoflakesFKR 6d ago
I expected a huge pile of people at the end
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u/OozeNAahz 6d ago
Looks like a bunch of young people luckily. If there were some older folks on there it would have been ugly.
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u/D1sp0sab1e_k 6d ago
i know a few younger people who have the hand eye coordination of a panda and would not have managed this as well 😭
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u/Alternative_Look001 5d ago
Yeah most are young because it was in brac university Bangladesh.So all were students
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u/ApprehensiveGold2773 6d ago
There probably was, outside the frame 😂
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u/Dizzazzter 6d ago
It pans around at the end, I don't see anyone on the floor
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u/TheAbstracted 6d ago
Crazy how many people apparently don't have the attention span to watch a 16 second video to the end.
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u/iShellfishFur 6d ago
Well that escalated quickly...
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u/suffelix 6d ago
*de-escalated
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u/Sad-Celebration-411 6d ago
That looks fun as hell
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u/Nestevajaa 6d ago
Yeah hell no, escalators low key terrify me.
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u/Mister_Reak 6d ago
I don't trust the slip and slide with metal teeth. I'll just take the stairs.
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u/berlinbaer 6d ago
fun fact: "escalate" is derived from the word "escalator" and not the other way around.
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u/sygboss 6d ago
What the hell. I had to look this up because it sounds like a joke but it's true! Copied from Google:
*"The word was entirely made up in 1900 by American inventor Charles Seeberger, who was working with the Otis Elevator Company to market their new moving staircase. He smashed together a Latin root and an existing English word to make a brand name:
Scala: The Latin word for "ladder" or "steps".
Elevator: The machine that already moved people vertically up and down.
By marrying scala with the ending of elevator, he got "Escalator". Historians note that he likely also had the old French-derived military word escalade in mind—which refers to the act of scaling an enemy's fortress walls using ladders."*
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u/OneSkepticalOwl 6d ago
French-derived military word escalade in mind—which refers to the act of scaling an enemy's fortress walls using ladders."
What was Cadillac thinking? How does that apply or even remotely relate to that land yacht? The only scaling that thing will ever do is get on a CAT scale at a truck stop
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 6d ago
Escalator becoming fun
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u/TorkBombs 6d ago
I always love an escalator because it's like a super slow, low stakes roller coaster
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u/ToastSpangler 6d ago
my favorite part is when someone brings their luggage but is too stupid to a) give it its own step and b) hold it properly, so it's hanging over the edge ready to knock over everyone below like a bowling ball, and you have no choice but to wait as there isn't the space to go around
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u/Wi1dWitch 6d ago
One time my ex lost hold of his giant suitcase on an escalator and it tumbled all the way down from the top and everyone jumped out of the way, and his reaction was to be pissed that no one caught it. I’m sorry you mean you think someone should have put their body in front of that giant hurdling object? Absolutely stupid.
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u/explodingtuna 6d ago
The handled it better than these guys
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u/Stratoraptor 6d ago
Good heads up from the guy that jumped jumped into the median. You know that he wasn't on his phone.
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u/Sanquinity 6d ago
This one also moved faster. So harder for people to get out of the way in time at the bottom.
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u/cool101wool 5d ago
i think that escalator had like a mess of stairs at the bottom afterwards dont remember though
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 6d ago
Wow, they all did a really good job handling that
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u/_paint_onheroveralls 6d ago
I don't think I've seen a group of people so efficiently avoid a catastrophe. Only needed one person to make that a huge multi injury event.
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u/laneyNzack 6d ago
It was quite impressive. I think it helped that it was mostly young agile people on the escalator. A few definitely would’ve died if that were a bunch of me on there.
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u/Popular_Brilliant_26 6d ago
Luckily everyone on it looks young
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u/philff1973 6d ago
……..and not one of them thought to try running back up it just to see if they could.
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u/cupcakebean 6d ago
My kid freaked out just as we were stepping on a regular speed escalator. The other one was on the opposite end of the mall so I ran back up so I wasn't separated from her. It was HARD! It was just a few steps but damn.
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u/rafid_zx 5d ago
This was from BRAC University in Bangladesh, so most of them were under 25 y/o. It would have been very different if it were a mall with old people on it....
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u/Intelligent_Hope_559 6d ago edited 3d ago
Damn is anyone else impressed at how expertly that was handled? Honestly I respect the fact that nobody not even the older woman tripped. What someone else said about the obese people of the United States would not make it I agree.
For the record I am 6'3" and 280 pound 35 yr old male so I believe I am technically obese and from the U.S. I would probably have been ok tbh but I am just saying I know what I am talking about and this would have been a mass casualty event here 😅😆
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u/11sparky11 6d ago
Don't want to be that guy, but reading you describe yourself as 'technically obese' at 280 lbs cracked me up.
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u/Ok-Welder5034 6d ago
He worded it that way probably because it’s not all fat, idk though
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u/EmperorOfNipples 6d ago
I've been on an escalator that went at normal speed....but the place it fed into was packed. Due to a breakdown was two escalators feeding into a platform which only had one feeding out.
it was a metro station in Naples.
That was a bit hairy.....but less so than this.
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u/ltsouthernbelle 6d ago
I was thinking only people in India are skilled enough for this. The paramedics would be on scene if this was the US.
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u/rac3r5 6d ago
Does anyone know why escalators have so many problems?
I'm in Canada. A co-workers husband is an escalator tech. They're always busy with breakdowns. Around malls and transit stations, one escalator is almost always down for maintenance. Bad engineering? Business model? Bad materials?
Worse I read that the old maintenance crew is ageing out.
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u/ThatCelebration3676 6d ago
That ongoing maintenance is what prevents failures like this.
Escalators have a lot of redundant systems. In this case they were either neglected for years of wholly omited to save on cost.
This sort of thing happens every so often in countries that lack robust safety regulations, but incidents are incredibly rare in well-regulated countries.
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u/thirdeyefish 6d ago
I watched a thing on one in some other country that talked about a similar failure. A combination of neglected maintenance and overloading caused that incident.
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u/Fxg120xYXDE5 6d ago edited 6d ago
This one was prominent, actually (maimed) some people, and is recent enough that some here may remember when it happened.
Might be the same one you're talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Rome_escalator_accident
Edit: spelling
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u/modern_Odysseus 6d ago
Yep. In well-regulated countries, the escalator just goes from working/moving to dead stopped when something fails all due to those redundant systems being checked and maintained.
But when those systems stop being checked, maintained, or bypasses put in place to keep the thing running despite failures in the first or second OR THIRD safety system...then you get (potentially) catastrophic failures like this.
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u/guri256 6d ago
It’s not just neglect. It can also be negligence. Part of the reason for the “breakdowns,” is when an escalator is still working but a safety trips because it’s having problems.
There was an escalator breakdown in Rome, where the techs had gotten to annoyed at the safeties, tripping too often, so they ziptied some of the safeties open.
Zip-tying the safeties open almost certainly reduced the number of “breakdowns”, because those safeties couldn’t trip and stop the elevator. But then it led to an emergency when the elevator did something like what we saw here, except with people piling up at the bottom.
Edit: oops. Got the wrong country the first time.
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u/uptonogoodatall 6d ago
I had no idea threre was a difference between neglect and neglicence and I turn 40 soon, ty.
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u/Coveinant 6d ago
Large number of complex mechanical parts all being moved by basically 2 motors. Just one thing going wrong can screw everything thing up. Also doesn't help they are not maintained as often as they're supposed to be.
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u/AcceptablySoiled 6d ago
I work at a hospital and at least one escalator is down for maintenance at any given time. After one was out of service for months they finally gave up and announced it was just being replaced with stairs.
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u/Tramagust 6d ago
It's weird how escalator maintenance was a non-issue for so many years but it's become one over the past 5 years.
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u/LongJohnSelenium 6d ago
In the past you didn't have a global stream of bad news in your pocket.
20+ years ago and you would have simply never heard of this happening.
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u/postpwnedmalone 6d ago
It's comical how many different things you can replace "escalator maintenance" with in this comment and still have it work
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u/godlords 5d ago
Literally they just don't have enough skilled people to fix them so they take longer to fix or sit broken waiting for help to arrive for months, ergo it is far more visible while in the past it might have been fixed overnight
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u/Business_Concert_142 6d ago
Why not ask the dude who fixes them for a living?
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u/solthar 6d ago
I actually asked a guy I used to work with about this once, he did escalator repair for almost 20 years before he switched over to elevators. Me and him were at a BBQ and he thought about it for a really long time, which for him is unusual, and then he says it’s not the engineering. The machines are fine. It’s the attitude.
According to him, escalators are always up to something. You fix one on Monday and by Wednesday it’s sulking again and nobody can figure out why. He said he got used to it after a while, you just learn to roll with it.
Except for one building. The courthouse downtown. Him and his partner used to flip a coin to see who had to go, and the loser would get quiet for the rest of the day. He said it was definately the worst posting in the whole city and he never got a wierd call from anywhere else like he did from there.
So naturally, I asked him what made those ones so much worse than the rest.
He put his burger down, looked me dead in the eye, and said “Buddy. Every single one of them is con-descending.”
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u/ninetailedoctopus 6d ago
Take your upvote and award and get out, preferably via escalator.
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u/DamnitGravity 6d ago
Oh my god, I hate you so much.
No upvote has been as angrily given as the one I am giving. And that's only because I respect a good storyteller, even when the joke is fucking painful.
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u/Unusual-Layer-8965 6d ago
One more, dad - please? 😄
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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 6d ago edited 6d ago
I had this girlfriend in college who I was sure was the one. We had talked about future plans, including marriage, kids, all that good stuff. Basically we were waiting to graduate and get a couple of real adult jobs before formally getting engaged with the ring and all that.
My senior year, I moved into a more affordable apartment off campus and had this roommate named Joseph (most people knew him as Joe). We got along great, although he never seemed to want to talk much about his background. We had a lot in common; same major, similar tastes in music, video games, etc., but I honestly couldn’t tell you where he grew up or anything about him from before college. Whatever, some people don’t like to talk about their adolescence, I get it.
Anyway, this one weekend we decided to celebrate the fact that both of us did really well on a midterm exam that was supposed to be absolutely brutal. We bought a significant amount of very cheap liquor, had some friends over, put Call of Duty on one TV and our school’s football game on the other. About a dozen friends showed up, then more people trickled in with more alcohol. I definitely smelled weed at some point. Pretty typical college party. At one point, Joe was standing on the kitchen counter singing along to Mr. Brightside by The Killers. When he and Brandon Flowers got to the line, “but it’s just the price I pay” he either jumped or slipped off the counter on the word “price” and fell onto our cheap glass dining table, which shattered. He stood up, face covered in blood, and kept singing. People applauded. The glass was tempered, so there weren’t shards sticking out of his face or anything, but I think he caught the edge of the table and got a gash in his eyebrow and one eyelid had ripped a little.
My girlfriend ran up to him (she was a senior in the nursing program) and pulled him into the bathroom, where we had a rather extensive first aid kit under the sink. She got him cleaned up, disinfected, and put a big wad of cotton gauze over the injured eye. At that point, the party was kind of winding down and I was about to pass out on the couch. They both came out of the bathroom to let everyone know he was okay, and it was lights out for me shortly after. Last thing I clearly remembered was seeing the two of them start to sweep up glass. She swept while he held the dustpan, with that big cotton wad taped over his eye. I remember thinking it made him look like a cartoon character with bugged-out eyes.
I woke up the next morning to a surprisingly clean apartment and a note from my girlfriend on the kitchen counter. She said she was very sorry, but they had decided to run away together. She didn’t say where they were going, but asked that I not try to find them and get her back. It’s been over a decade and I haven’t gotten over it. Haven’t been able to date since and honestly haven’t had a friend I felt like I could fully trust. I did learn through mutual friends that they got married the following weekend and that it lasted all of 2 months. No idea what happened to either of them since.
So yeah, that’s the story of my experience with Cotton-Eyed Joe. If not for him, I’d have been married a long time ago. Where did he come from, where did he go? Where did he come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?
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u/not_the_fox 6d ago
More moving parts means more maintenance requirements and higher chance of failure. They also handle significant loads daily.
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u/General_whisky 6d ago
The veritasium video on the escalator incident is quite informative on the engineering of escalators
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u/donnie1977 6d ago
I imagine it's because regulation and quality control isn't the same everywhere.
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u/lootKing 6d ago
You could ask your co-worker's husband who is an expert in why escalators have so many problems instead of asking a bunch of random redditors who have no idea but are going to give you their opinion anyway.
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u/Blambitch 6d ago
I know one guy who works on elevators and escalators, he makes bank, he says there like literally no one else that can fix these things so he’s always busy as hell though.
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u/Time-Cell8272 6d ago
Here in the US that would've resulted in a pile of obesity
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u/KoalaTHerb 6d ago
I don't think it has to do with country. In this case, it is age. A single old person would have caused a huge pile up. By the average age and the fact people all have backpacks, this appears to be a college campus.
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u/iambetweentwoworlds 6d ago
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Not only were these people coordinated AF but I can’t imagine that happening here. Thank goodness there were no elderly people on there.
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u/CankerLord 6d ago
Right? "Why do I have to be fit for?" MF'ers when the escalator decides it's physical fitness day.
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u/donnie1977 6d ago
No manmade elevator could accelerate our obesity to such an extent.
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u/adavidmiller 6d ago
My physics isn't great, but I feel like the obesity helps do the work itself in that scenario.
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u/Ok_Coconut_8499 6d ago edited 6d ago
Good job of people not panicking and getting off safely.
I saw one clip years ago, may be from Spain? Where people got panicked and it resulted in a lot of injuries.
Edit : it was Rome.
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u/Wasabi_Hammurabi1 6d ago
Am I the only one here that would prefer this speed over the default speed?
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u/CuzImBisonratte 6d ago
I get it and especially for the long travelators at airports I wish often they'd be faster, but that is basically never a good idea.
In germany (as we do) we have a norm for this (DIN EN 115-1:2017) and it regulates speed and all that. Maximum speed for normal escalators is 0,5m/s, otherwise the landing area has to be elongated.
Yes more speed would be fun, but really only for fully able-bodied sober people. Fun fact: At Oktoberfest in Munich the escalators from/to the subways are sped up from 0,5m/s to 0,6m/s and even that is a big enough change that basically every year there are newspapers writing about it.
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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 6d ago
I never use escalators anymore. Sure they’re convenient, and the chances of them failing are relatively low but after I saw that video of the woman in China get sucked in through the bottom and pulled into the internals and she threw her kid to safety as her last act in this world, I’m like nah, I think I’ll just take the stairs.
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u/zigs 6d ago
There's also a small chance you stumble and slip and fall and break your neck if you have to walk manually
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u/Asume_Nuthin 6d ago
Finally the world is getting more efficient. Escalator operating as always intended
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u/bwoah07_gp2 6d ago
This is the first self aware crowd I've seen handle a broken escalator. They jumped at the end to make it past safely.
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u/ExtremeDay1043 6d ago
I was about to say that the folks from Delhi(i assume) handled it better than their Roman counterparts but I just looked at the video and those guys had a much larger crowd and the fact that this space was completely open / air lit and the Rome one was basically a narrow underground tunnel make a huge difference!
Nevertheless, glad everyone is safe and no one got injured!
This is the video from Rome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2Lv-t9BHk
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 6d ago
You know that big red button on the bottom and top of the escalator? This is when you hit that...
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u/ColonialSack 6d ago
That generally stops it being actively powered and moved, not moved by gravity.
These types of failure are usually due to that linkage breaking and the sheer weight of the people on the escalator causing it to accelerate.
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u/crybannanna 6d ago
Usually a good idea, in this case where everyone dismounted like acrobats, hitting stop could have injured several, so the result of doing it would have made things worse. Also, it happened so fast there was hardly time to locate it anyway.
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u/kittylover2006 6d ago
I remember there being a rather horrible incident that happened a couple years back that went something like this, the belt just gave out during a convention I think and because there were so many people on it it just got faster and faster, a lot of people were hurt, im glad nobody was injured here tho at least
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u/Designer-Drink-9137 6d ago
If it were us fat assed Americans, there would've been numerous injuries...
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u/azsxdcfvg 6d ago
Can we see this at normal speed?
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u/KnaxelBaby 6d ago
Scrolled way to far to see this only comment pointing out the video is clearly sped up
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u/No-Comparison04 6d ago
Genuinely, I was starting to think I was going crazy because that is CLEARLY sped up but nobody was acknowledging it
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u/Current-Zombie2925 6d ago
I ve seen enough Chinese disasters involving escalators and lifts and as fun as it may look I would be very cautious being on that thing
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u/Frangine_De_Poutine 6d ago
They seem very accustomed with the acceleration.
I would probably be injured or dead.
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u/pustulating_leeches 6d ago
This is from the drive being overloaded. The escalator is undersized.
A lack of maintenance and redundant systems.
The underneaths of escalators vary wildly. This is on the building owner and needs the crap sued out of him.
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u/downloading-a-car 6d ago
well that was efficient. we've been doing escalators wrong this whole time
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u/welding-guy 6d ago
It is sped up double. Have a look at brown saddle bag guy's bag swinging quickly as he enters the shot.
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