Comment on Pray for their safety

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Strykker@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.

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    • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Escalator accidents are gruesome

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• isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Link?

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    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a Chinese woman throwing her child clear then getting promptly monched

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  • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • ImmaculateTaste@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is fked up. Never knew this was possible

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    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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• LEONHART@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry for the convenience!

  (R.I.P. Mitch)

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Mitch Hedberg

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.

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• kogasa@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.

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