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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.
Escalator accidents are gruesome
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Link?
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.
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
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 😬
I think the engine driving the escalator can't speed it up much, but yes it's a hell if breaks don't operate properly
It's a Chinese woman throwing her child clear then getting promptly monched
No video associated with this one. Probably a good thing.
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.
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.
This is fked up. Never knew this was possible
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.
Wdym box
The human-safe "box" that surrounds the man eating machinery. The part you as a human actually interface with
U mean the stairs that you step on?
Yes, that is what I am describing. And the railing, the bits that keep you from being pulled around the turns for the stairs..
What turns 😭💀
The turns at the top or bottom, where the stairs retract and go back around the loop
i think imma take the elevator instead
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.
Thank you for curing my new found esclator fear
i don't even want to think about that, that's horrible
Im not trolling u i swear every reply has one thing that i have no idea what your talking about, sorry for replying so much
You're good bud! I didn't think you were trolling.
Escalators are just repurposed meat grinders.
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.
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
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.