My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn't want to believe this
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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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?"
This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
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.
That's why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.
Broken escalators are no joke. My father starved to death because they couldn't fix the excalator in time.
They should've used the excalibur.
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.
Got a sepcific video in mind? all the videos coming up are failures while they're running.
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.
If it hasn't moved in two hours, we can probably assume it's stopped.
I was moreso saying for the sake of the next jackass that gets the bright idea of jumping an 'out of order' barrier, should one of them read it.
Oh, fair point. Good call.
Mitch hedberg is very disappointed in you
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..
Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.
I'm down for more wild lion security at malls.
Acshually, "escalators" are a subset of "stairs". They would've known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
If you integrate stairs you get escalator
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.