My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn’t want to believe this
Pray for their safety
Submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 4 months ago
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Of course you can’t walk up an elevator. Sometimes you can manually open the doors, but… Wait, what’s this in the comments?”
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
That’s why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
*cue
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Que?
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Broken escalators are no joke. My father starved to death because they couldn’t fix the excalator in time.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They should’ve used the excalibur.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
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.
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Got a sepcific video in mind? all the videos coming up are failures while they’re running.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Saw it a few years back and don’t care to look for it since that shit scares the shit out of me (used to be a ski lift operator, rollbacks become a phobia in that line of work) but it was a large amount of people marching up the thing like it was a set of stairs when it just gave out.
crashoverride@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mitch hedberg is very disappointed in you
blusterydayve26@midwest.social 4 months ago
If it hasn’t moved in two hours, we can probably assume it’s stopped.
theodewere@kbin.social 4 months ago
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..
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m down for more wild lion security at malls.
llama@midwest.social 4 months ago
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.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Acshually, “escalators” are a subset of “stairs”. They would’ve known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
wigginlsu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If you integrate stairs you get escalator
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
Strykker@programming.dev 4 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.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Link?
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 4 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.
LEONHART@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.
kogasa@programming.dev 4 months ago
Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.