Escalator consumes person - GIF

**Jon** · Dec 25, 2018, 03:31 PM

Escalator consumes person.

Previously:
100-year-old wooden escalator at Macy's - GIF

**Frank S** · Dec 25, 2018, 07:23 PM

What are the odds that the escalator starts up and the link breaks right at the moment the man steps on it. Auto starting escalators and moving walkways have been around a long time some still in operation after nearly 100 years very little ever goes this seriously wrong with them.

**Frank S** · Feb 18, 2019, 10:25 PM

Most people step off of the escalator instead of waiting to be slid off of it. He is lucky he didn't place his hands inside of the shoes.

**PJs** · Dec 26, 2018, 05:57 PM

They'll be needing one of those escalator cleaning machines (cant find the link) after that and something to scrape out the chunky bits...Good Ghastly O'mighty.

"Then I thought about something Henry Tunstall once said. He watched a man walk to the gallows... saw him hang. He said it was ghastly. Well, I've seen men hang, and that's the word - ghastly.....Ghastly according to the Duke.

**Jon** · Dec 26, 2018, 10:27 PM

Escalator brake fails, resulting in pileup.

**Frank S** · Dec 27, 2018, 12:17 AM

In a hurry to get to the subway much?

**Clockguy** · Dec 27, 2018, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by Frank S

In a hurry to get to the subway much?

Brings to mind that old John Denver song - "Thank God I'm a country boy!"

Worst could happen, a ladder rung may snap in two .....

**Frank S** · Dec 27, 2018, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by Clockguy

Brings to mind that old John Denver song - "Thank God I'm a country boy!"

Worst could happen, a ladder rung may snap in two .....

I'll second that. Before retiring my job required me to travel to a lot of places where there were entirely too many people in 1 place. I've seen escalators that were so long they required turn styles to limit the amount of passengers at any one time.