Pray for their safety
Pray for their safety
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My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn't want to believe this
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"Of course you can't walk up an elevator. Sometimes you can manually open the doors, but... Wait, what's this in the comments?"
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This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
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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.
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That's why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.
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Acshually, "escalators" are a subset of "stairs". They would've known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
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I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
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If you integrate stairs you get escalator
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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.
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Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
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.
Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Link?
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.
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.
Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.