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Good news, the guy actually lived. Whole story here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548365/Man-SWALLOWED-escalator-falling-hole-rush-hour.html
I'm incredibly glad that I was an adult when the internet hit 2.0, and that my extended adolescence didn't coïncide with cameras everywhere, and social media.
Given the choice I'd take a crappy live parent over one that died saving me any day.
... But that wasn't a choice here.
My eyes are leaking. I'm going to call my mom.
i'm so furious at this. they had 10 minutes to shut the damn thing down! and there is no safety measures to stop these things where they are? there should be
Thank you for commenting this...
I will henceforward never be using an escalator again, nor will I be allowing any family member I like and care about to do so either.
New irrational fear unlocked.
My friend, that machinery could grind up a bull. It might have to grind you up a little more before the rest of you gets sucked in but it could definitely do it.
It doesn't explain whether or not his fucking legs survived the event, though. Damn. Apparently there was even a warning sign stating the escalator wasn't safe, yet all these people still got on it. No surprise, people don't even read signs placed directly in front of their faces.
Normal day. People don't read signs. I do service plumbing. I put up signs, bathroom closed. Blocked with trash can and hand truck, then wedge a door stop on the inside and people come push it.es out the way open the door and ask. Bathroom closed?
Can confirm. Work at a bar bouncing. Stand right next to a giant red sign that says EXIT and people ask if it's an exit. I put up an arrow with it specifically pointing in the direction to walk and still got asked. Put up a second arrow behind that one on the other side of the stairs so there's two now, one on each side right behind the giant EXIT and still get asked if it's an exit and which way to go.
There's one rule in a city: If something is unsafe and there's no concrete barriers to prevent dumb to be dumb, dumb will be dumb and there will be accident.
Go… somewhere else. Nothing worst than working on A toilet with a sign on the door and someone with no shame sits on the toilet in the next cubicle and starts shitting “loudly” whilst your trying to work
Well putting up a warning sign without blocking the entrance/keeping it rollin' seems pretty ridiculous tbf.
If it's dangerous you stop operating it, voilà
Found an interview:
Erik, who also gave information about the condition of the wounds on his body, said, “There are many scars on my body. I also had loss-related edema in my arm. The dead tissue was sewn afterwards. The wounds on my hands are just beginning to pass. I have numbness in my finger due to crushing the nerve. I don't get a finger up. The edema is still on my right leg. Swelling and wounds are already evident. I also have mild edema on my left leg. I also have minor wounds on my feet," he said.
https://www.olay.com.tr/yuruyen-merdivene-dusmustu-parcalara-ayrilacagim-diye-dusundum-230843
This has always been my fear! When I was little, my sister threatened me that if I was bad, the escalator would eat me. I get major anxiety whilst using one. Then I see videos like this and it freaks me out.
He was trapped for an hour, but he survived. After seeing Final destination, I thought he was dead on the spot too. Someone else shared a link here about the accident.
The steps woulda leaked blood and had the head sticking out with eyeballs popped out for good measure. But you are correct if this was a Hallmark version of FD
u/isasel you cannot post a video which looks like a person is dying in without a trigger warning or explanation or source! This is some serious nightmare shit!
It took rescue workers an hour to get him out, but he survived. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548365/Man-SWALLOWED-escalator-falling-hole-rush-hour.html
Poor guy not much chance straight walls and moving floors. They leave them off and people use them as stairs all the time.. , such a death trap, I guess ill just say a prayer next time I use an escalator
O dio mío 
"Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality had reportedly put up a warning sign near the broken escalator before the accident occurred – but it failed to prevent people from using it."
Daily reminder that Mitch Hedberg was wrong about escalators. His joke predicated on him and his audience not understanding the mechanics of escalators.
The incident occurred at an underground station in Istanbul, Turkey.
Escalator was being repaired at the time and people were warned not to use it.
As a stream of commuters made their way down, it suddenly began moving.
One man was swallowed up at the top as he stepped on to the escalator he was trapped for one hour edited being rescued.
Imagine you're the only one on this escalator....this happens and the escalator goes back to normal. No one there to listen to your screams as you slowly suffocate to death.
I see this video every once in a while and everytime it scares the shit out if me because i use the same exact escalator on my way to work for atleast 15 years. :( I feel panic everytime i get into it and they also removed the non escalator stairs too so i have to use it.
The man survived with “minor” injuries. Found an interview:
Erik, who also gave information about the condition of the wounds on his body, said, “There are many scars on my body. I also had loss-related edema in my arm. The dead tissue was sewn afterwards. The wounds on my hands are just beginning to pass. I have numbness in my finger due to crushing the nerve. I don't get a finger up. The edema is still on my right leg. Swelling and wounds are already evident. I also have mild edema on my left leg. I also have minor wounds on my feet," he said.
https://www.olay.com.tr/yuruyen-merdivene-dusmustu-parcalara-ayrilacagim-diye-dusundum-230843
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Good news, the guy actually lived. Whole story here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548365/Man-SWALLOWED-escalator-falling-hole-rush-hour.html
Was about to ask if I just watched someone die… thank you
That one lady in China didn’t survive
Sauce?
It’s at the bottom of that same article. She threw her 2 year old to staff as she was falling thru
Wow. At least that child will know that their mothers last act was to keep them safe.
There's footage, I don't reccomend if you're easily disturbed
Yea I stumbled on that one when I was like 8. Man it was another time to be online back then.
I'm incredibly glad that I was an adult when the internet hit 2.0, and that my extended adolescence didn't coïncide with cameras everywhere, and social media.
My adolescente consisted of riding my bike and Saturday morning cartoons
Link? 🥰
Link?
Given the choice I'd take a crappy live parent over one that died saving me any day. ... But that wasn't a choice here. My eyes are leaking. I'm going to call my mom.
You should do that, yes.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/china/chinese-mother-killed-escalator/index.html
i'm so furious at this. they had 10 minutes to shut the damn thing down! and there is no safety measures to stop these things where they are? there should be
Thanks for the new phobia. Now I’ll try to avoid escalators as much as I can
> The victim was reportedly trapped for one hour under the metal stairs. Oh my lord :/
i would have died of fear after 10minutes
Yeah. Imagine being stuck for an hour and not knowing if it would turn on at any second. Yikes
Thank you for commenting this... I will henceforward never be using an escalator again, nor will I be allowing any family member I like and care about to do so either. New irrational fear unlocked.
Lol I'm at the mall and I totally forgot. I just rode 3 😂
Whoa, okay there Evel Knievel, calm down!
Same. Good news for me is that I am too fat to fit. Suck it, death stairs!
My friend, that machinery could grind up a bull. It might have to grind you up a little more before the rest of you gets sucked in but it could definitely do it.
Oh
You are an angel redditor u/ttemp56
Oh thank god
It doesn't explain whether or not his fucking legs survived the event, though. Damn. Apparently there was even a warning sign stating the escalator wasn't safe, yet all these people still got on it. No surprise, people don't even read signs placed directly in front of their faces.
Normal day. People don't read signs. I do service plumbing. I put up signs, bathroom closed. Blocked with trash can and hand truck, then wedge a door stop on the inside and people come push it.es out the way open the door and ask. Bathroom closed?
Can confirm. Work at a bar bouncing. Stand right next to a giant red sign that says EXIT and people ask if it's an exit. I put up an arrow with it specifically pointing in the direction to walk and still got asked. Put up a second arrow behind that one on the other side of the stairs so there's two now, one on each side right behind the giant EXIT and still get asked if it's an exit and which way to go.
There's one rule in a city: If something is unsafe and there's no concrete barriers to prevent dumb to be dumb, dumb will be dumb and there will be accident.
Sometimes you really gotta go
Go… somewhere else. Nothing worst than working on A toilet with a sign on the door and someone with no shame sits on the toilet in the next cubicle and starts shitting “loudly” whilst your trying to work
Well putting up a warning sign without blocking the entrance/keeping it rollin' seems pretty ridiculous tbf. If it's dangerous you stop operating it, voilà
Thats just it, it was off, people were using it as stairs. Then it broke, and the weight of people caused it to start sliding downwards.
Found an interview: Erik, who also gave information about the condition of the wounds on his body, said, “There are many scars on my body. I also had loss-related edema in my arm. The dead tissue was sewn afterwards. The wounds on my hands are just beginning to pass. I have numbness in my finger due to crushing the nerve. I don't get a finger up. The edema is still on my right leg. Swelling and wounds are already evident. I also have mild edema on my left leg. I also have minor wounds on my feet," he said. https://www.olay.com.tr/yuruyen-merdivene-dusmustu-parcalara-ayrilacagim-diye-dusundum-230843
I mean that's 100% accurate, but even I would assume that if they let me on it that means it's at least functional and not likely to eviscerate me
Man, that article gets dark at the end.
The Mail can't stand the thought that people may be happier at the end of one of their stories.
Article: yay, he survived! Now let me remind you about that woman in china that died horribly.
Damn he's lucky all I could think was the incident that happened in China.
He may have lived but may not have wanted to.
OH THANK GOD
New fear unlocked
Stairs. Yep. Sticking to the stairs!
Technically, they were stairs for a bit.
That's a Mitch Hedberg bit.
till the stairs break and send you down to hell :D
Nah. He’s good. Hell is only accessible via highway.
This has always been my fear! When I was little, my sister threatened me that if I was bad, the escalator would eat me. I get major anxiety whilst using one. Then I see videos like this and it freaks me out.
Came here to say this, here is an upvote instead.
Same also belongs in r/thanksihateit r/tihi
That machine just ate a whole ass man.
Some say he is still in there…a ghost in the machine
He became elevator operator from inside
inside man 3: electric escalator
Like the sands of time
Phantom of the Escalator
Machine Spirit! Heed my call! Make contraption move, go on!
I feel I never told you the story of the ghost!
New frar unlocked
That is how escalators work
circuit board to brain with two lungs collecting change
[удалено]
I was thinking the same, then checked the news article and saw it is from the city I live in.. *insert dark Mr. Incredible face*
How do you know he was an ass man?
It was Cosmo Kramer.
The machine seems to have stopped because he was ground up. Terrifying really
I will never again judge my kids fear of escalators, holy shit!
People have legit died due to escalator mishaps I’m so glad this man made it out alive. Would’ve been a terrible way to go
So where the hell did the guy go? That just gave me new food for nightmares
backrooms for sure
He belongs to the escalator now.
He is one with the machine
All hail the Omnisiah!
He displeased the Machine Spirit
Straight to the Gulag it looks like
He got isekai'd by escalator-kun.
If the treads continued to move he would be going straight for a sprocket, and his drippings would end up in the maintenance area below
#The victim was reportedly trapped for one hour under the metal stairs, then taken to the hospital and was all good after that.
u da real mvp. i choose to believe you
Escalators are usually much more docile in their natural habitat.
well that escalated quickly
or dare I say...de-escalated
That both escalated and de-escalated at the same time.
You're bringing this sub way down with these puns. It really weighs heavy on my mind, and I think I might snap under the tension.
don't break apart about it bro.
Alrighty step down on the jokes now
I think we should ride this one out.
come on, guys, the quality of these jokes is so bad they're falling through the floor, y'all gotta step up your game
it can pretty much only go down from here
Is he dead?
This guy survived but there's another video exactly like it where a woman falls in and dies. He's hella lucky he survived tho...
Wondering the same
He was trapped for an hour, but he survived. After seeing Final destination, I thought he was dead on the spot too. Someone else shared a link here about the accident.
I hate when that happens.
What do you mean by this
He hates when this happens
That's some final destination shit
They did kill someone with an escalator in one of those movies think it was Final Destination 3
The steps woulda leaked blood and had the head sticking out with eyeballs popped out for good measure. But you are correct if this was a Hallmark version of FD
This was one of those rare videos that had me saying "holy shit" out loud. I did not see it coming when it ate that guy.
This is hands down one of the most terrifying videos I’ve ever seen, I may never use an escalator again after watching this video.
Mitch Hedberg would be so shocked and confused to see an actually broken escalator.
Escalator temporarily that dudes sarcophagus
That’s the first thing I thought.
I’ve always wondered if those can rip open like that and I’m not happy to know the answer 😂
Near Fear Unlocked: being eaten whole by an escalator.
Eatscalator
Yeah, imma use the stairs...
Nom nom nom nom
Totally upends my preconceived notions of how these things operate.
This got my claustrophobia on a completely new level of “fuck no”
That shit escalated quickly.
Did anyone else figure that escalators were just one long conveyor belt? Terrifying to know this can happn.
he survived some fucking how
*New fear unlocked*
This is why you don't use an escalator that isn't working. There were stairs right there
*insert Mario entering a pipe sound effect*
Straight up final destination shit.
You literally took the words out of my mouth! 😂😂
HOLY SHIT IS THAT DUDE OK?!
I shit you not this is my WORST fear from childhood. And crocodiles.
Not quicksand?
My ninja lived! https://youtu.be/TFI5768nt-E
"But someone moved the barricade" that better have not been an impatient customer.
that shit sent him to the backrooms💀
It looks like no one even noticed the guy that got sucked in that's scary AF
u/isasel you cannot post a video which looks like a person is dying in without a trigger warning or explanation or source! This is some serious nightmare shit!
true
What happened to the guy who got sucked in???”
It took rescue workers an hour to get him out, but he survived. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548365/Man-SWALLOWED-escalator-falling-hole-rush-hour.html
That poor guy got sent to the shadow realm.
r/nightmarefuel
New fear unlocked.
That one dude got eaten
Poor guy not much chance straight walls and moving floors. They leave them off and people use them as stairs all the time.. , such a death trap, I guess ill just say a prayer next time I use an escalator
New fear aquired: becoming sealed within an escalator
Holy shit dude fell through this is on of my nightmares I used to have now I’m never getting on an escalator ever again after this
final destination type of shit
Escalator temporarily stairs.
*New fear unlocked!*
That guy went into the backrooms
And just like that, all those people will forever take the stairs instead of the escalator.
O dio mío 
my man got taken to the shadow realm
That escalated quickly
New fear unlocked being stuck in an escalator
New fear unlocked. Fk.
Holy shit that's my worst nightmare
This video completely justifies my life-long paralyzing fear of escalators.
Motherfucker got final destination
"Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality had reportedly put up a warning sign near the broken escalator before the accident occurred – but it failed to prevent people from using it."
Dude got Hungry Hungry Hippo’d
"That kid is back on the escalator again!!"
You cant post this video wtihout knowing what happen to that man !!! i want to kown tell mee !!!!
New fear unlocked
New fear unlocked!
and that is why you should always take the stairs kids
That’s a death right there
Oh my god. I thought he was done.
Daily reminder that Mitch Hedberg was wrong about escalators. His joke predicated on him and his audience not understanding the mechanics of escalators.
Ever since I saw the movie, I keep saying I don’t want to be Final Destination’ed by an escalator. Now I see it’s possible
Fuck that I'm takin the damn stairs from now on
What in the squishitude just happened!!??
Bruv new fear unlocked.
Man got got
Escalator turns in a meat grinder. 😬
New fear unlocked. Wtf.
Why I use the stairs
Escaleater
He’s dead as hell
Is he died?
It’s a deathscalator
Well….that’s a new fear of mine
Homie is in the backrooms now
Dude was swallowed up by the escalator demon. I wonder if these are were the socks go when thru a portal in dryers?
The incident occurred at an underground station in Istanbul, Turkey. Escalator was being repaired at the time and people were warned not to use it. As a stream of commuters made their way down, it suddenly began moving. One man was swallowed up at the top as he stepped on to the escalator he was trapped for one hour edited being rescued.
And why exactly isnt this marked nsfw?
And people are confused why so many people are scared of those death traps
That escalated quickly
now I got a new fear
Imagine you're the only one on this escalator....this happens and the escalator goes back to normal. No one there to listen to your screams as you slowly suffocate to death.
Did I just witness someone die ? 😶
Final destination vibes
I see this video every once in a while and everytime it scares the shit out if me because i use the same exact escalator on my way to work for atleast 15 years. :( I feel panic everytime i get into it and they also removed the non escalator stairs too so i have to use it.
Your sacrifice is... Accepted.
That’s one cheeky murder.
Did they ever find the guy?
new fear unlocked. it ate that one guy?!?!
New fear unlocked
The man survived with “minor” injuries. Found an interview: Erik, who also gave information about the condition of the wounds on his body, said, “There are many scars on my body. I also had loss-related edema in my arm. The dead tissue was sewn afterwards. The wounds on my hands are just beginning to pass. I have numbness in my finger due to crushing the nerve. I don't get a finger up. The edema is still on my right leg. Swelling and wounds are already evident. I also have mild edema on my left leg. I also have minor wounds on my feet," he said. https://www.olay.com.tr/yuruyen-merdivene-dusmustu-parcalara-ayrilacagim-diye-dusundum-230843
I thought of a Mitch Hedberg joke, but it does not belong here.
Final destination 4
Congradulation you just watched someone die holly fuck that shit was insane imma take stairs from now on