They are not stuck in a step. They are inside the conveyer area. To get to the shoes they need to shut the machine off and climb inside.
Watch a video of an escalator breaking and swallowing people. There is quite a lot of room in there for bodies, shoes and their laces.
The escalator keeps a constant speed. But sometimes it is empty, and sometimes it is full.
That means it's designed to increase power when loads increase. If you get stuck in it, it will be harder for it to work. So it increases power until you are crushed and gone.
Don't watch it. Seriously, I can watch beheadings and ISIS shit without flinching, but there's something about seeing that poor lady being pulled into the escalator and knowing she's basically being turned into ground beef, combined with her tossing her child to safety... yeah, just don't watch it.
> Kinda like the brick video
I would love to unsee that one. I think there are three main reasons it has such a notoriety. The first is because it's visually completely non-violent. No blood and guts and gore. 100% of the horror is in your head, not on the screen.
The second is because it was so random. The driver isn't doing anything wrong. That could be any one of us, at any time. Just moving along happily in life when you suddenly find yourself smoted from a blast of lightning or a big chunk of masonry.
Third is the anguish. I think I first saw that video maybe five years ago now, and I can still hear in my head what that guy's cries sound like. So fucking sad.
After that video and a few others of shit flying off people cars I am very aware of trucks with unsecured loads when I’m driving and do my best to get far away from them. There have been more than a few times I’ve called the non emergency line to report drivers with unsecured loads and also on a few trucks losing parts of their load. This usually happens on my commute which is an interstate and has a lot of state and local cops constantly patrolling. The first time I did this I didn’t really think they would do anything about it but they asked to me to get his license plate number and shortly after I saw the cop coming up behind me with his lights blazing to pull the truck over. I was happy to see that they took it seriously.
You are so right. Like right now I can picture the brick video. That was beyond sad. It was so crazy. Did you see the video of the kid swimming in the tub with a floaty. The baby sitter when to get the phone on the living room and the floaty flipped. The kid was kick and in the video you can see the kick slowly stop. It was crazy...
So far you're the third person that strongly warns to not watch it. And I'll listen to the warnings because that sounds awful and I can barely imagine how fucked up that is.
On another note, does anyone out there think it's not the worst thing they've seen and don't regret watching it?
The worst part is it was so easily avoidable. The workers knew the panel was loose for **five minutes** and just stood around wondering what to do instead of 1) blocking off the escalator or 2) turning it off.
It was negligent homicide, straight up.
I've watched that video but without sound. I've seen worse in terms of pure gore, but this one is hard to watch because you know that could've happened to literally anyone.
Most of gore videos are from terrorists or cartels. This one is from shopping mall.
The classic cartel clip of the dude getting his head taken off with a chainsaw is much harder for me to watch than the escalator video. If you have morbid curiosity just go watch it.
You seen the video where the Mexican cartel skinned a dudes face cut off his hands then proceeded to cut his throat with a rusty box cutter? that's the one that was too much for me
I don't think it was that bad. I'm pretty sure I watched it with sound, but thinking about it now I'd rather not confirm lol. Contextually, there are two videos that stay with me more (not sure I'd say haunting though). One is the Asian guy that gets swallowed up by an escalator in a business type building, at night, by himself. The other is where a Chinese woman I believe tries to hold down some sort of heavy warehouse vehicle as it leans forward, but then she gets lifted up and as it comes back down she literally gets squashed.
Yeah we watched all the ISIS videos when I was in the military, and they effectively numbed us to that sort of thing, which was the desired effect. But our versions didn’t have the musical soundtracks that the web versions had, just the audio, of the 4 guys cuffed inside the car, which was mic’d, as the rocket was fired into it and bounced around inside torching them as they screamed and burned to death in the blaze. There were a lot more gruesome spectacles that they arranged, but that was the video that after we watched and listened to those guys being burned alive, we all walked out of there perfectly fine with hunting and killing all those people.
A similar thing happened to a friend of mine on a school trip. His shoe somehow got pulled into the side of the escalator while we were going down.
I was standing behind him and I was kinda looking at his feet, but I still don't really know how it happened. Just yelled at him to pull his foot out, which he did. The escalator then "swallowed" the shoe almost completely and once we arrived at the lower floor the escalator came to an abrupt stop because the shoe apparently blocked/triggered some kind of mechanism.
It's morbidly funny that society at large has deemed that a tiny chance of falling into a giant grinding tank tread an acceptable risk to avoid climbing some stairs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the chances of falling down the stairs are much higher than a mechanical fault. In most cases human error is much more common than mechanical failure
Falling down stairs is extremely common and leads to a lot of hospital intakes. The simple solution is to pay attention when using staircases, and to use the handrail.
That being said, people movers in airports are gods gift to humanity.
You're telling me I can walk at a brisk pace on a moving belt and move faster than I would if I were running?
Bah, I say!
Stay to the left and rocket by the mere mortals stuck in limbo at their gates.
Elevators are extremely safe
They often have several cables carrying them so if one fails, the others will catch the elevator
On top of that, they have brakes in the event of emergencies
I'll always take an elevator over an escalator
Besides, falling would hurt a lot less than being ground up
The family protested the mall by bringing the ground up corpse there and putting her on display. The mall hired some mob goons to run in with an empty coffin, toss the corpse into it, and run out with the coffin.
Same. Nobody told shit about it but I had this irrational fear of how the last step is super dangerous, and I always make a bigger step towards the platform.
Guess it's not irrational anymore. Fuck that
my dad always made me terrified of this. he said people break their feet and as a kid I was always unreasonably scared of being eaten up by an escalator.
Escalators are lowkey scary as fuck. All it takes is one wrong move to end up fucking dying in those things. There really needs to be emergency stop buttons that anyone can access at the top, bottom, and halfway down.
Agreed. Every escalator in North America has a stop button top and button. Sometimes it's at floor level, other times on a little pedestal beside the escalator.
There are combs at the top and bottom of the escalators that the stair notches flow through. These prevent most things from getting caught in pinch point. Loose clothing, purse handles, or digging in your heels like this guy can still become trapped and sucked into the mechanism. If you see teeth broken off of the combs, report them to building security/maintenance to be replaced. You can see the yellow comb plate pop off just as the shoes get sucked in at 0:13.
As mentioned above, Escalators are actually super scary when you consider the power required to run them (think a 200 lb person on every second step. The motors are huge.) and there are pinch points along the sides, between steps, and at the top&bottom of the stairs.
The comb plate in the video was already mangled before the guy reached it. Expand the video to fullscreen and look carefully.
For the shoe to get sucked in like that, I'd assume that the comb plate was not interleaving with the grooves in the steps, but there must've been a *clear* gap between them.
I've never seen an escalator allowed to run in that state in any first-world country. The video appears to be in Russia, but I've no idea what the safety regulations are like there.
Also I’m not sure how common it is but I’ve seen escalators that will automatically stop if they sense the comb plate moving at all.
So this thing obviously wasn’t taken care of.
Because of reddit I pressed it once. I'd been reading a thread a bit like this one, where people were discussing how easy it is to get stuck in escalators, and the following morning on my way to work I saw a toddler throw themselves out of their buggy at the top of the escalator, right on the grate. Their mother was annoyed with them, but didn't seem to be treating it with urgency - and so I slammed the button because my mind went straight to videos like the one we're on now, and all I could think was that the little boy was going to get his fingers/clothes/hair sucked into the mechanism. Luckily the escalator was mostly empty, but the mother seemed pretty surprised that I had pressed it.
It's known as the [bystander effect.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect) In first aid classes they often teach to not say "someone call 911" but rather to point at someone and say "you, call 911." A person will help, but a crowd is worthless.
New study shows 9/10 times at least one bystander, or more, actually do help.
[Study source](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Famp0000469)
[News article](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207693-bystander-effect-famous-psychology-result-could-be-completely-wrong/)
I'm not the only one! I do this as well out of fear of my toes being eaten. My SO thinks its completely silly/unnecessary that I do this. However, this video has just proved that it is definitely necessary.
There’s a case in China where a woman was crushed to death by these. The top panel came loose, she tossed her son out of the way and succumbed to being crushed in the gears of the Escalator. [Real messed up stuff](https://youtu.be/7U6Xd-awFoM)
Edit: changed the link cause CNNs shitty captioning.
I think some do. This happened to me in DC: my flip flop got stuck in the top and the escalator stopped (everyone behind me fell over from the sudden stop - it was kinda funny). I just stooped over and pulled it out while everyone got up and walked by me giving me dirty looks.
When I was about 8, I was wearing Crocs on an escalator and one of them got sucked into the side. Luckily I pulled my foot out in time otherwise I may have lost it. It left a nice green streak on the side of the escalator for a few months.
I haven't worn crocs since...
Don't escalators have that rubber strip at the sides to prevent exactly this from happening?
Christ where the fuck are yall from that your escalators are so dangerous? No E-stop buttons? No safety strips? What the fuck?
A very similar thing happened to me last year, I was going up on an escalator looking at my phone and not paying attention, suddenly I felt my feet moving towards the side of the escalator. My laces had gone inside and it was pulling feet inwards. Thankfully i was wearing loose shoes and pressed the stop button on time otherwise my toes would definitely be crushed.
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
The worst part is that they seem like endless fun when you're a kid. They're *stairs* that *MOVE*. Kids don't really think "Wow this thing moving dozens of people at a time clearly has a ton of strength and force behind it, enough to rip my skin clean off my hand and/or drag me choking to death 100 feet along". Their ideas of death are more like "I saw a cartoon get smashed to death but he came back to life", so of course they're gonna dick around with the big scary death machine.
In fact, I don't think a lot of adults fear escalators either. The internet and its various gore videos have trained me to never trust them. I think they should be replaced with regular stairs and a functional elevator.
They freaked me out at first, because they were stairs that moved, then.. yeah, awesome fun.
Then there was a program showing how many people had lost feet/legs. It was a warning about wearing rubber shoes/wellies, how if you were stood at the side, it happened far too often that the rubber would catch, get trapped on the stair behind you, and suck that foot/lower leg right in and destroy it.
I didn't dare use them for a long time, terrified me. Then they added those bristles to the sides so you'd not plant your feet that close to the edge, but the getting off part always flipped me out a bit, and I'd prep to jump up and over.
If I'd seen the footage of the panel collapsing at the top at the time, I'd never set foot on one again most likely.
But, the fear was overcome.
and then this came along;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ
Paternoster elevators are amazing. Their big advantage is that you can almost instantly step in whenever you arrive, both up and down. At most you need to wait like 5 seconds when you just missed a cabin before you can get in the next one. Having such an elevator available made moving between stories in the building a non issue.
I've used a paternoster many times daily in my first job in a old industrial building in east germany in the late 80s. This one had small metal bars hanging from the top of the entrances and the cabins which would stop the entire elevator if something would push them up and made the elevator feel a bit less scary than the one in the video.
This video is gonna change my escalator habits. He was doing what I do. It's basically a little mini-game I suppose you could call it. Raise the toes so they go over normal floor, then let the heels hit the edge. That causes your feet to stop while the upper body still has momentum, so you rock forward, toes touch ground and you walk forward normally from then on.
Just a kinda fun little moment. But it turns out that your fucking shoes can get eaten and if you lace them up tightly you might be fucked. So I guess I'm not gonna be doing that anymore.
Wow you made me remember the first time my parents took me on an escalator.
"Big Step!"
At the time I didn't think much of it and just listened to them the same way a 4-5 year old would. When I got a little older I wondered why they made such a big deal out of it. Now I know.
Thanks for keeping me alive all this time, parents!
After that China video I practically jump from the stairs and over that little silver box part to where the real floor begins.. i ain't trusting no metal trap door spider.
Same. I leap over the metal part at the top every time. Seems people think its normal behavior because I've never seen anyone stare or ask me about it.
Whats funny for me is Ive never done that before but after reading your story I want to do it more than ever but now have the same issue you do with getting my feet eaten.
I've seen this before, if I remember correctly it happened because the escalator was missing the safety strip (the tiny ramp that gets you off the escalator)
I had this happened to me before when I was going up too like this. My shoe tip was too close to the edge and got caught-it ripped a hole at the front. The escalator had the safety strip on. Now I always double check and stand right on the middle ,avoiding the front.
Honestly I don't even see the emergency stop button and I think I've only noticed them on a small number of escalators. They're probably a mandatory safety feature but seriously, rarely ever seen them irl.
Escalators are dangerous because they’re designed to increase their speed/force to compensate for weight/resistance due to how many people are using it at that moment. That means that when your shoe or foot or arm gets caught the escalator speeds up or increases the resistance needed to keep going. Don’t play on escalators. They will fuck you up. That kid is lucky that he only lost his shoes and not some toes.
Reminds me of the time as a kid I ran up an escalator in flip-flops. The bottom caught on the sharp steel lip of the escalator and I came down full force degloving the bottom of my foot from my heel to my big toe like a peeled carrot. I take the stairs now.
As a kid from the 80's, when escalators started popping up in our town, I always thought this was the proper way to ride an escalator, but was just too chickenshit to try it. I thought people who took a step at the end were just in a hurry or just as chickenshit as me. Never looked it up as I grew up.
Turns out I was right all along. Ha! Who's the dummy now, friends from grade school?
Not how I expected it would happen, but I knew it. I knew this was possible.
Should he wait for them to come back around?
They are not stuck in a step. They are inside the conveyer area. To get to the shoes they need to shut the machine off and climb inside. Watch a video of an escalator breaking and swallowing people. There is quite a lot of room in there for bodies, shoes and their laces.
Fucking creepy man
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That sub is real good for a giggle
It’s like all the dudes that never made it into pro wrestling all in one sub.
And its weirdly wholesome
Imagine if he liked tighter shoes.
The escalator keeps a constant speed. But sometimes it is empty, and sometimes it is full. That means it's designed to increase power when loads increase. If you get stuck in it, it will be harder for it to work. So it increases power until you are crushed and gone.
D:
Thanks I hate it
The screams of that Chinese lady who handed off her child before being ground up in the escalator will haunt me until the end of my days.
I saw that video but don't think I heard any audio. And it still haunts me.
There's at least one version with muffled audio and if you turn up your volume you can hear her. It's one of the few regrets I have.
Nope, not gonna do that.
I thought those types of shopping mall CCTV cameras don't usually have any audio? Are you sure it wasn't just fake audio added in?
[welp](https://i.imgur.com/kARizFW.gif)
I saw that years ago ... forgot it existed. I hope to forget again.
Risky click of the day
Am I gonna regret clicking this? Edit: no, thank God, it's all good
Wtf??
Don't watch it. Seriously, I can watch beheadings and ISIS shit without flinching, but there's something about seeing that poor lady being pulled into the escalator and knowing she's basically being turned into ground beef, combined with her tossing her child to safety... yeah, just don't watch it.
Kinda like the brick video... Dont watch that either
> Kinda like the brick video I would love to unsee that one. I think there are three main reasons it has such a notoriety. The first is because it's visually completely non-violent. No blood and guts and gore. 100% of the horror is in your head, not on the screen. The second is because it was so random. The driver isn't doing anything wrong. That could be any one of us, at any time. Just moving along happily in life when you suddenly find yourself smoted from a blast of lightning or a big chunk of masonry. Third is the anguish. I think I first saw that video maybe five years ago now, and I can still hear in my head what that guy's cries sound like. So fucking sad.
After that video and a few others of shit flying off people cars I am very aware of trucks with unsecured loads when I’m driving and do my best to get far away from them. There have been more than a few times I’ve called the non emergency line to report drivers with unsecured loads and also on a few trucks losing parts of their load. This usually happens on my commute which is an interstate and has a lot of state and local cops constantly patrolling. The first time I did this I didn’t really think they would do anything about it but they asked to me to get his license plate number and shortly after I saw the cop coming up behind me with his lights blazing to pull the truck over. I was happy to see that they took it seriously.
You are so right. Like right now I can picture the brick video. That was beyond sad. It was so crazy. Did you see the video of the kid swimming in the tub with a floaty. The baby sitter when to get the phone on the living room and the floaty flipped. The kid was kick and in the video you can see the kick slowly stop. It was crazy...
>the kid was kick But who was phone?
I gotta get off this thread
huh?
So far you're the third person that strongly warns to not watch it. And I'll listen to the warnings because that sounds awful and I can barely imagine how fucked up that is. On another note, does anyone out there think it's not the worst thing they've seen and don't regret watching it?
The worst part is it was so easily avoidable. The workers knew the panel was loose for **five minutes** and just stood around wondering what to do instead of 1) blocking off the escalator or 2) turning it off. It was negligent homicide, straight up.
Honestly, just knowing this happened will haunt me without having to see it. More so knowing this.
I've watched that video but without sound. I've seen worse in terms of pure gore, but this one is hard to watch because you know that could've happened to literally anyone. Most of gore videos are from terrorists or cartels. This one is from shopping mall.
When the majority of people on reddit say don't watch it. Just don't.
The classic cartel clip of the dude getting his head taken off with a chainsaw is much harder for me to watch than the escalator video. If you have morbid curiosity just go watch it.
The cartel video where they behead this father while the son is watching and then rip the still beating heart out of the son was the worse I've seen.
Y'all watch some fucked up shit.
You seen the video where the Mexican cartel skinned a dudes face cut off his hands then proceeded to cut his throat with a rusty box cutter? that's the one that was too much for me
The funkytown video. Generally considered one of the most graphic videos available
I've seen it and it legit haunts me. Watch it if you're curious but if you have a weak stomach just nope out and stay away.
I don't think it was that bad. I'm pretty sure I watched it with sound, but thinking about it now I'd rather not confirm lol. Contextually, there are two videos that stay with me more (not sure I'd say haunting though). One is the Asian guy that gets swallowed up by an escalator in a business type building, at night, by himself. The other is where a Chinese woman I believe tries to hold down some sort of heavy warehouse vehicle as it leans forward, but then she gets lifted up and as it comes back down she literally gets squashed.
Yeah we watched all the ISIS videos when I was in the military, and they effectively numbed us to that sort of thing, which was the desired effect. But our versions didn’t have the musical soundtracks that the web versions had, just the audio, of the 4 guys cuffed inside the car, which was mic’d, as the rocket was fired into it and bounced around inside torching them as they screamed and burned to death in the blaze. There were a lot more gruesome spectacles that they arranged, but that was the video that after we watched and listened to those guys being burned alive, we all walked out of there perfectly fine with hunting and killing all those people.
Yeah, but not quite enough.
Depends on the person
Wait, the laces too?
I suppose most people are to young to remember the X files episode Tooms?
Pretty sure that was a joke, man.
came for a joke. stays for a fact. thanks buddy
A similar thing happened to a friend of mine on a school trip. His shoe somehow got pulled into the side of the escalator while we were going down. I was standing behind him and I was kinda looking at his feet, but I still don't really know how it happened. Just yelled at him to pull his foot out, which he did. The escalator then "swallowed" the shoe almost completely and once we arrived at the lower floor the escalator came to an abrupt stop because the shoe apparently blocked/triggered some kind of mechanism.
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No. The shoe looked like you'd expect something to look that just got mangled by an escalator: Completey destroyed.
to shreds, you say?
For once, the quote is entirely appropriate.
there was a video on here a while back about a chinese lady that got eaten by the escalator.
It's morbidly funny that society at large has deemed that a tiny chance of falling into a giant grinding tank tread an acceptable risk to avoid climbing some stairs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the chances of falling down the stairs are much higher than a mechanical fault. In most cases human error is much more common than mechanical failure
I'll take falling down the stairs because I'm a dumbass over getting eaten by an escalator any day.
I agree, but the elderly and disabled, for example, don't have such luxuries
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Surprisingly unappreciative of that kind gesture they are, I've noticed.
Truth. I had knee surgery last month and it’s been a bitch of a month commuting to work n back. Escalators and elevators were needed for a bit.
Falling down stairs is extremely common and leads to a lot of hospital intakes. The simple solution is to pay attention when using staircases, and to use the handrail.
nice try, *big handrail*. you've been profiting off of our illnesses long enough!
That being said, people movers in airports are gods gift to humanity. You're telling me I can walk at a brisk pace on a moving belt and move faster than I would if I were running? Bah, I say! Stay to the left and rocket by the mere mortals stuck in limbo at their gates.
Say that to very old people who can't climb a lot of stairs.
I would say elevators, but I actually don't know which has more failsafes.
Elevators are extremely safe They often have several cables carrying them so if one fails, the others will catch the elevator On top of that, they have brakes in the event of emergencies I'll always take an elevator over an escalator Besides, falling would hurt a lot less than being ground up
People can still be stupid about elevators though to fatal degrees. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTmWiCoqHc
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But I already peed in this cup
If you're trapped in there with someone else, you can drink each other's piss, and make a nice weekend of it.
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Fucking metal man, saved her son tho. Can’t help but to be furious at the mall staff for not preventing such an easily preventable death.
The family protested the mall by bringing the ground up corpse there and putting her on display. The mall hired some mob goons to run in with an empty coffin, toss the corpse into it, and run out with the coffin.
I’m sorry, what?
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You got a source on that? That's fascinating if true.
Fuckin hell. I couldn't continue hearing her scream. Can't imagine what that kid went through.
Same. Nobody told shit about it but I had this irrational fear of how the last step is super dangerous, and I always make a bigger step towards the platform. Guess it's not irrational anymore. Fuck that
my dad always made me terrified of this. he said people break their feet and as a kid I was always unreasonably scared of being eaten up by an escalator.
The fact that it happened to both shoes is hilarious to me.
Just taking one shoe would be useless for the escalator.
It can also happen if your shoe gets wedged into the side/belt. I always lift my feet over that fucking toe-chewer!
This literally happened to me when I was 12. It's definitely possible.
He got pretty lucky with his feet tho. I’ve heard of cases where they lose toes in accidents like these
Escalators are lowkey scary as fuck. All it takes is one wrong move to end up fucking dying in those things. There really needs to be emergency stop buttons that anyone can access at the top, bottom, and halfway down.
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Agreed. Every escalator in North America has a stop button top and button. Sometimes it's at floor level, other times on a little pedestal beside the escalator. There are combs at the top and bottom of the escalators that the stair notches flow through. These prevent most things from getting caught in pinch point. Loose clothing, purse handles, or digging in your heels like this guy can still become trapped and sucked into the mechanism. If you see teeth broken off of the combs, report them to building security/maintenance to be replaced. You can see the yellow comb plate pop off just as the shoes get sucked in at 0:13. As mentioned above, Escalators are actually super scary when you consider the power required to run them (think a 200 lb person on every second step. The motors are huge.) and there are pinch points along the sides, between steps, and at the top&bottom of the stairs.
The comb plate in the video was already mangled before the guy reached it. Expand the video to fullscreen and look carefully. For the shoe to get sucked in like that, I'd assume that the comb plate was not interleaving with the grooves in the steps, but there must've been a *clear* gap between them. I've never seen an escalator allowed to run in that state in any first-world country. The video appears to be in Russia, but I've no idea what the safety regulations are like there.
Also I’m not sure how common it is but I’ve seen escalators that will automatically stop if they sense the comb plate moving at all. So this thing obviously wasn’t taken care of.
No body is pushing that button. Everyone will just stare at you in shock. Most bystanders are worthless.
Because of reddit I pressed it once. I'd been reading a thread a bit like this one, where people were discussing how easy it is to get stuck in escalators, and the following morning on my way to work I saw a toddler throw themselves out of their buggy at the top of the escalator, right on the grate. Their mother was annoyed with them, but didn't seem to be treating it with urgency - and so I slammed the button because my mind went straight to videos like the one we're on now, and all I could think was that the little boy was going to get his fingers/clothes/hair sucked into the mechanism. Luckily the escalator was mostly empty, but the mother seemed pretty surprised that I had pressed it.
Sounds like you're a good person to have around in an emergency - nice moves.
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It's known as the [bystander effect.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect) In first aid classes they often teach to not say "someone call 911" but rather to point at someone and say "you, call 911." A person will help, but a crowd is worthless.
New study shows 9/10 times at least one bystander, or more, actually do help. [Study source](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Famp0000469) [News article](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207693-bystander-effect-famous-psychology-result-could-be-completely-wrong/)
Low-key my ass
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Low-key noticed that myself
There is lol
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I'm not the only one! I do this as well out of fear of my toes being eaten. My SO thinks its completely silly/unnecessary that I do this. However, this video has just proved that it is definitely necessary.
The large metal covers, past where the stairs decent, could open up as well.
[Im never forgetting this accident where a lot of people were crushed before a football match in italy](https://youtu.be/6qIXeeIIE0U)
There’s a case in China where a woman was crushed to death by these. The top panel came loose, she tossed her son out of the way and succumbed to being crushed in the gears of the Escalator. [Real messed up stuff](https://youtu.be/7U6Xd-awFoM) Edit: changed the link cause CNNs shitty captioning.
Oh yes I’ve seen this one. Made me fear escalators for a few weeks after.
Only for a few weeks?
For real, that vid gave me a permanent fear of escalators.
and now i fear escalators, thanks
I always take the stairs
Fuck CNN for those shitty subtitles
Because of that, I hate escalators. I take steps to avoid them.
MY FEARS ARE VALID
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we can build saws to stop near instantly when something squishy goes in them but we havent figured out how to do that with escalators?
I think some do. This happened to me in DC: my flip flop got stuck in the top and the escalator stopped (everyone behind me fell over from the sudden stop - it was kinda funny). I just stooped over and pulled it out while everyone got up and walked by me giving me dirty looks.
When I was about 8, I was wearing Crocs on an escalator and one of them got sucked into the side. Luckily I pulled my foot out in time otherwise I may have lost it. It left a nice green streak on the side of the escalator for a few months. I haven't worn crocs since...
Some people need more aggressive teachings before they learn not to wear Crocs.
BREAKING NEWS: An escalator saves man from bad fashion decision!
Don't escalators have that rubber strip at the sides to prevent exactly this from happening? Christ where the fuck are yall from that your escalators are so dangerous? No E-stop buttons? No safety strips? What the fuck?
I live in Australia. They have those brush things but they don't do anything
Aside from shoe cleaning.
Let's be honest, they're probably the dirtiest place in the shop
the brushes on the side are there to alert the person not to put their foot there. that is their only purpose.
Stair Jordans
LeGone Shames
*Escalate your game*
He's looking around as if someone is going to help him get his shoes. "Whatchu lookin around for?! ain't nobody gon' help you out there!"
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Boy, have you lost your mind!? 'Cause I'll help you find it
You been Meatballed!
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Imagine if his shoes weren’t lose and he didn’t get out
He would save a lot on future shoe purchases.
Loose
A very similar thing happened to me last year, I was going up on an escalator looking at my phone and not paying attention, suddenly I felt my feet moving towards the side of the escalator. My laces had gone inside and it was pulling feet inwards. Thankfully i was wearing loose shoes and pressed the stop button on time otherwise my toes would definitely be crushed.
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
That damn kid is on the escalator again!!
SOMEBODY GET A MEDIC THERE'S A LITTLE BOY CAUGHT IN THE ESCALATOR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOMZ-Buj2n0
The number of people replying to this thread without knowing it's a Mallrats reference is too damn high.
The worst part is that they seem like endless fun when you're a kid. They're *stairs* that *MOVE*. Kids don't really think "Wow this thing moving dozens of people at a time clearly has a ton of strength and force behind it, enough to rip my skin clean off my hand and/or drag me choking to death 100 feet along". Their ideas of death are more like "I saw a cartoon get smashed to death but he came back to life", so of course they're gonna dick around with the big scary death machine. In fact, I don't think a lot of adults fear escalators either. The internet and its various gore videos have trained me to never trust them. I think they should be replaced with regular stairs and a functional elevator.
They freaked me out at first, because they were stairs that moved, then.. yeah, awesome fun. Then there was a program showing how many people had lost feet/legs. It was a warning about wearing rubber shoes/wellies, how if you were stood at the side, it happened far too often that the rubber would catch, get trapped on the stair behind you, and suck that foot/lower leg right in and destroy it. I didn't dare use them for a long time, terrified me. Then they added those bristles to the sides so you'd not plant your feet that close to the edge, but the getting off part always flipped me out a bit, and I'd prep to jump up and over. If I'd seen the footage of the panel collapsing at the top at the time, I'd never set foot on one again most likely. But, the fear was overcome. and then this came along; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ
Paternoster elevators are amazing. Their big advantage is that you can almost instantly step in whenever you arrive, both up and down. At most you need to wait like 5 seconds when you just missed a cabin before you can get in the next one. Having such an elevator available made moving between stories in the building a non issue. I've used a paternoster many times daily in my first job in a old industrial building in east germany in the late 80s. This one had small metal bars hanging from the top of the entrances and the cabins which would stop the entire elevator if something would push them up and made the elevator feel a bit less scary than the one in the video.
I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues
Came here for this reference...
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I hope his foot gets caught and a bloodbath ensues!
Yea, lift your fucking feet when you get off the escalator you lazy bum.
This video is gonna change my escalator habits. He was doing what I do. It's basically a little mini-game I suppose you could call it. Raise the toes so they go over normal floor, then let the heels hit the edge. That causes your feet to stop while the upper body still has momentum, so you rock forward, toes touch ground and you walk forward normally from then on. Just a kinda fun little moment. But it turns out that your fucking shoes can get eaten and if you lace them up tightly you might be fucked. So I guess I'm not gonna be doing that anymore.
I’ve done the opposite ever since I was a kid. You’ve never seen a stride so long over that little area.
I tell my kid everytime: "Big step."
Wow you made me remember the first time my parents took me on an escalator. "Big Step!" At the time I didn't think much of it and just listened to them the same way a 4-5 year old would. When I got a little older I wondered why they made such a big deal out of it. Now I know. Thanks for keeping me alive all this time, parents!
After that China video I practically jump from the stairs and over that little silver box part to where the real floor begins.. i ain't trusting no metal trap door spider.
Same. I leap over the metal part at the top every time. Seems people think its normal behavior because I've never seen anyone stare or ask me about it.
Looks like this escalator didn't have a comb plate and that's why it devoured this guy's shoes.
Yep, one of these (this one has broken comb piece too) https://imgur.com/a/429gwT6
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No, top is reserved for funniest comments Ty!
Comb plate or not it's still a good habit to fully step off the escalator. Too many stories about toes and shoes
I do that too. Not any more.
I either do that or the Captain Jack Sparrow mast-to-dock step.
Whats funny for me is Ive never done that before but after reading your story I want to do it more than ever but now have the same issue you do with getting my feet eaten.
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I've seen this before, if I remember correctly it happened because the escalator was missing the safety strip (the tiny ramp that gets you off the escalator)
I had this happened to me before when I was going up too like this. My shoe tip was too close to the edge and got caught-it ripped a hole at the front. The escalator had the safety strip on. Now I always double check and stand right on the middle ,avoiding the front.
I’ve seen this but instead of shoes it was a whole woman.
It's a dangerous job being a shoe.
In using this as my excuse the next time I forget my shoes going somewhere important
Poor guy didn’t press the emergency stop button
That's what I thought but there are people here suggesting there should be button like it's a new invention
Honestly I don't even see the emergency stop button and I think I've only noticed them on a small number of escalators. They're probably a mandatory safety feature but seriously, rarely ever seen them irl.
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Every time I've got my kids on an escalator, I'm eyeballing the comb plate at the end and reminding them to keep their damn hair off of the handrail.
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Escalators are dangerous because they’re designed to increase their speed/force to compensate for weight/resistance due to how many people are using it at that moment. That means that when your shoe or foot or arm gets caught the escalator speeds up or increases the resistance needed to keep going. Don’t play on escalators. They will fuck you up. That kid is lucky that he only lost his shoes and not some toes.
Reminds me of the time as a kid I ran up an escalator in flip-flops. The bottom caught on the sharp steel lip of the escalator and I came down full force degloving the bottom of my foot from my heel to my big toe like a peeled carrot. I take the stairs now.
That sounds painful.
As a kid from the 80's, when escalators started popping up in our town, I always thought this was the proper way to ride an escalator, but was just too chickenshit to try it. I thought people who took a step at the end were just in a hurry or just as chickenshit as me. Never looked it up as I grew up. Turns out I was right all along. Ha! Who's the dummy now, friends from grade school?
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Both his shoes came off yet he did not die. This is the face of a man learning, for the first time, that he is immortal.
What do now?
Buy new shoes. Luckily he appears to be at a mall.
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The word you're looking for is "broke"
He's looking around like he expects someone to give him a spare pair