Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
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.
Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.
Escalator accidents are gruesome
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Link?
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.
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
Well no, chainsaw is an exaggeration, I think it's more of an extruder or meat grinder when one gets caught in it. Thaaaaat one is nsfl and will forever remain a blue link 😬
I think the engine driving the escalator can't speed it up much, but yes it's a hell if breaks don't operate properly
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.
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.
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.
Edit to add:
Could also be this one. Turns out there's a lot of incidents of people being monched.
This is fked up. Never knew this was possible
A lot of people don't! Escalators are big toothed conveyor belts, with a human-friendly box around it, basically. The mechanisms break down, and there's a chance that box fails and you meet teeth.
Wdym box
The human-safe "box" that surrounds the man eating machinery. The part you as a human actually interface with
Escalators are just repurposed meat grinders.
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.
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
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.
Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.
My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn't want to believe this
"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.
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
*cue
Ah, you're right. Silly me.
If only there were some way to fix your earlier comment
And invalidate the person who corrected me? No. I'll live with my shame. I'm pedantic about writing, spelling, grammar. I made a mistake. I'll live with it.
now kiss
Que?
They have somewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications. It does not mention cue ever taking any line-related meaning.
It's not an "alternative spelling" if the words deviated 300 years ago.
Eh. In this circumstance, when you watch a video on YouTube, you're literally adding it to a queue. Both queue and cue are appropriate.
Not really.
Yes really. There is a "now playing" queue that is active even when you're watching a single video.
There's a fundamental misunderstanding; the original commenter didn't mean to use the line-style "queue" meaning, they were using it by mistake and even admitted that in a follow-on comment. They meant "cue" by its distinct definition, not the one that overlapped with "queue" long ago. It wasn't a spelling correction -- it was a homophone correction. It wasn't a suggestion to queue up some Mitch Hedberg on yt, it was a cue for him to enter because one of his trademark jokes is about escalators.
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.
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.
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
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