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Escalator out of control at metro station in Rome, causing multiple injuries
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Sobering reminder that both escalators and elevators are fucking death machines when malfunctioning.
This is legit my greatest fucking fear.
The stop I go to every day has a MASSIVELY long escalator, and I always have a vision of it letting go for some reason...
ALSO, everyone needs to remember emergency stops at the top and bottom of these things... looks impossible to hit in that video, but someone at the top can also hit it and hopefully put a stop to it... god damn.
The stop I go to every day has a MASSIVELY long escalator, and I always have a vision of it letting go for some reason...
ALSO, everyone needs to remember emergency stops at the top and bottom of these things... looks impossible to hit in that video, but someone at the top can also hit it and hopefully put a stop to it... god damn.
I always use the stairs. The escalator on 72nd/2nd in NYC is insane. It goes vertical and it's got to be the highest escalator I've ever seen.
I have elevator-related nightmares several times a year. They creep me out.
Shout out to the guy that tried to pull one guy into the middle section. Boy. People sure do love to wear black hoodies and black pants.....
I Googled it. That station is 99 feet below ground.
Child's play.
Just saying DC because I know it, Rosslyn is 175 below. Wikipedia says the escalator takes three minutes. I get vertigo whenever I use it.
There were reports that drunken football fans were jumping on it, and that caused this situation. Also no, there is some serious injuries, one of them lost his leg.
This reminds me of a old show I watched when I was a kid that detailed accidents like this and how people survived. One was an escalator that failed, basically collapsed and was grinding people up like hamburger meat.
This is legit my greatest fucking fear.
The stop I go to every day has a MASSIVELY long escalator, and I always have a vision of it letting go for some reason...
ALSO, everyone needs to remember emergency stops at the top and bottom of these things... looks impossible to hit in that video, but someone at the top can also hit it and hopefully put a stop to it... god damn.
Given the speed that escalator was going... Ionno. And I'm going to hell for laughing, aren't I? Benny Hill remix coming.
Ooooph, didn't see this.
HEY!!!!! Stay outta my neighborhood Pikachu !!!
I don't live in an area with a metro so when I went to DC the escalator in Rosslyn that thing was gigantic and took like 5 years. I wish it moved this fast tbh. It seemed so steep when you started at the top though. It can give you the jitters if you aren't used to it.
*shudders*
I still get goosebumps thinking about that Chinese escalator incident where the mother falls into a loose plate at the top of the escalator while giving her child she had on her arms to an attendee at the top, just seconds before. She was crushed. (the escalator had an out of order sign)
I still get goosebumps thinking about that Chinese escalator incident where the mother falls into a loose plate at the top of the escalator while giving her child she had on her arms to an attendee at the top, just seconds before. She was crushed. (the escalator had an out of order sign)
Why would they do something so stupid...
Screams in the video was so horrifying, the whole situation just fucking sucks.
Ah shit, and this is the issue... at the bottom of it, plates were ripping off, and those things are basically shears, so you can easily see the injuries happening... HOLY HELL that is scary:
And it's not even the longest? (I don't know, just Googled it myself.)
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Booze in large groups are generally not thinking of consequences.
I saw footage of a similar accident a couple of years ago and the thought of this happening is just terrifying, you'd stand little chance when they're that full of people.
That's terrifying, someone could just fall the wrong way in that clsuterfuck of other people and end up dead if it goes badly enough.