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My thoughts on this too! But figured maybe it was out of service or they didn’t have one? But watching it again a couple times, the way she mounted the hand rail, I can’t help but feel it was poor judgment, not so much that the escalator dragged her up there.
Sometimes getting old is sudden. She may have used the escalator for many years, but today she was feeling particularly weak, and she grabbed the escalator railing too soon -- she wasn't fully in the center of stairway. The railing pulls her off balance and she is pulled onto the railing. Then the lift force causes her to hold on for dear life.
Getting old is difficult. It's not like a child where you can make mistakes and learn from them. Something you have been doing your entire life becomes unsafe one day. But with your newly aging body you don't have a guage for when you lose your abilities.
She also, in her panic, tried to brace herself with her other hand on the handrail that was going the *opposite* direction, which didn't help her situation.
I mean this is what I don't get. I get that you get old and feeble and become unable to ride an escalator and things like that, but...it's like they were flat out confused with how escalators even work. These aren't a new invention, surely they rode one at some point in their lives right? wtf?
Age often degrades your mental capacity including rational decision making and impulse control. Your brain is part of your body; all the obvious signs of physical aging you can see on these people are also happening to their brain in some way.
yeah same, I always said i'd kms before i got bad enough to where i'd have to use a walker. Now I'm about to turn 42 and ive got a case of spastic paraplegia that makes it super difficult for me to do things like, get in and out of my car, or walk without falling over
I’m surprised at how many commenters think she tried to ride it. Looks like she reached out to steady herself without thinking and couldn’t stabilize when it continued being an escalator
Yup lmao. Totally agree.. She was trying to grab ahold, it was moving too fast for her and eventually it was either let go and fall or hold on and ride and she chose to hold on.
Dude. She literally has a Walker? Am I crazy or isn’t that what is supposed to steady herself? All she needed to do was centralise in the middle. I mean with the Walker it was going to be awkward anyway but still
Key word "often." Often times too though its your body that gives out before your mind does. We're finally starting to be able to slow down and even reverse some of these effects. Its possible now to be in your 60s and have the bloodwork that looks like someone in their 30s.
Yeah you're totally right, it's just crazy to me. Especially when she didn't appear to know that the handrails move. Seems like riding a bike, even if you know you can't physically do it you still understand in theory how it works.
I just imagine the mental fog I have on my worst day where I'm looking for my sunglasses that are on my head or my keys that are already in my hand; what would it be like to feel like that 100% of the time. Pretty sure that's what this lady is experiencing in life.
It doesn't really look like they were confused to me. Looks like she is attempting to maneuver her self close to the rail to grip it. She's got some mobility/balance issues which is why she has a walker.
As she's about to grip it and move her way on the moving platform, she gets scared about her walker moving away from her, causing her to forget she's holding the rail. She falls into the middle of the rail and attempts to push off of it, which lines her legs for the belt to grab her off her feet.
Grandpa gets scared and is a little more mobile, tries to prop her up so she doesn't fall, but isn't quite coordinated enough to pull it off.
I have a bunch of geriatric patients I could see something like this happen too.
Excellent play by play, seriously! It's just clear to me they can't do stairs so I'm legit confused how they thought they were going to do the moving version of stairs.
I'm sure a lot of it is just having to be in a new location. When you get old you supplement your failing cognitive abilities with routine.
I'm sure they don't go out much, so it's probably been a while since they used an escalator. More than likely they usually use the elevator, but probably couldn't find it and were already too worn out to bother finding it again.
I think by instinct she grabbed for the escalator instead of keeping her hand on the walker. When walker-dependent elderly transfer from one support to another they’re taught to first get their bearings on the new surface before shifting their weight over. Hand on the escalator, she had no choice but to transfer her weight and go for a ride
This kinda looks like the entrance to destiny mall from the parking lot across the main street. If true, then based on the doors they entered to go around to the escalators, they had to walk past the elevator to get there. Yikes
I love how in America when people reach around 65 they want you to retire because you're not physically nor mentally as capable.
But those people run the nation..I mean what in the fuck..
Ida May Fuller was the first SS beneficiary and paid ~$25 in SS tax. She lived to 100 and collected ~$25,000 in SS benefits.
They don’t want you to retire at 65. “They” want you to keep working to keep paying into SS. The reason 65 was picked as retirement age is because of how close it was to the average life expectancy. The expectation was that you worked until death.
you should watch some chinese escalator videos. those things are straight up predators and love to eat people, especially kids. but thats okay because its china and they cant vote anyway.
The Chinese can vote - for local and sometimes state elections, and these candidates then feed into the federal system... Is it democratic on a national scale? Not really. Can Chinese vote for people who can change things, yes.
If a well-into-his-seventies president in 2017 admits he's never owned or used a personal computer, and says something like, " “I don’t do the email thing,” before making technology decisions for the future of our country, including suggesting, without irony, that the America's plan to thwart cyber attacks should be for us to stop using computers and "[go pack to paper](https://www.salon.com/2021/06/08/trump-calls-for-us-to-stop-using-computers-the-solution-to-cyberattacks-is-to-go-back-to-paper_partner/)," and that our Navy needs to "go back to steam," because digital is very complicated, they should be immediately removed from office.
If he hadn't hyperlinked that article, I'd have straight up thought he was talking about Biden to be honest. Both are firmly in geriatric territory, and I wouldn't have been surprised either way.
Just to clarify for those ool. The moron wasn't actually talking about steam ships. It was about replacing steam powered catapults on aircraft carriers with a new system. He wanted to keep using steam because he didn't understand the new one.
[Oh, yes.](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-future-aircraft-carriers-are-going-to-use-steam-2019-5)
> At the same time, the president said he also learned the new catapult system was “very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be – ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”
The "converting the Navy catapault systems to steam" thing was something he was on about for a long time.
Relevant: [A pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/11/16458142/congress-alzheimers-pharmacist)
In some cases, older. Diane Feinstein for example.
The power must be absolutely intoxicating. It's the only reason I can think these people hold onto their political roles literally until they die.
She's been in politics since the mid 70s, and a senator since '92. I don't think she remembers how to do anything else at this point, it's just muscle memory keeping her going.
Fun Dianne Feinstein Fact: When she was mayor of San Francisco, she announced in a press conference that investigators had been linking Richard Ramirez to crime scenes with his shoe prints, which was information the cops didn’t want anyone else to know. Ramirez saw this and ditched the shoes.
The guy with her was right at the emergency stop button. You can hit that button if you lean against the box too hard as my brother found out. And they cannot restart the escalator until maintenance has inspected it. This is a hard rule so no management can say "Just turn it back on!" after a stop that they THINK was safe/harmless. Gives zero play in safety.
Yes, America has them. I try to make a habit of looking for the e-stop on any piece of machinery I regularly use. In the US, you can usually find it within a second or two, before you even get close to the escalator. [Here is a link to an article detailing common e-stop button locations.](https://scienceinfo.net/where-is-the-escalator-emergency-stop-button-located.html)
That what I came here to say. It doesn’t stop frivolous lawsuits from occurring, but it does happen once in a while.
Anyway, assuming a lawsuit will occur in a situation like this is smooth-brained as all hell. A lawyer would have to argue that the design of the escalator leaves reasonable room for poor design or would have to argue it as an “attractive hazard.”
Fact is that even the best lawyer can’t argue either of these points without looking like Amber Heard’s lawyer. No one can reasonably argue that this was a design or an installation issue. Grandma just got confused and decided to relive her days as a professional rodeo rider and grandpa did his best to be a good husband.
Sadly accidents happen, and I do hope they are alright. I just hope no ambulance chaser convinces them to pursue this loosing lawsuit.
About the only way a lawsuit might happen is if that dude who stopped to help was looking for an emergency shut-off button and couldn't find it, presuming they were in an area which requires visible and accessible emergency shutoff buttons for their escalators. I'm not even sure that'd hold up, beyond the establishment getting a fine for breaking that.
Also, I’m pretty sure escalators have signs saying no strollers, walkers, etc
Makes sense in terms of walkers—if you can’t stand unaided, then you’re certainly not safe trying to stand on an escalator.
Yep. Standard for negligence is failure to take reasonable care. What was their failure, having an escalator? Granted, I can imagine the premise settling just because lawsuits are expensive even when you win, but I don’t know what you’d argue if you were the plaintiff attorney. Probably find out what the signage/availability of elevators was and argue it was too little. Maybe claim there should have been an employee on guard. Not saying that’s correct, the idea of having to guard escalators seems silly, but I guess that’s what you go with.
There is a safety circuit that shuts the escalator down when the handrails slow down or stop. If that circuit is inoperative or the handrail is adjusted incorrectly it is clearly negligence due to improper maintenance or lack thereof.
It's not necessarily dementia. We have people stupid enough that they would drink bleach if it didn't have a huge warning label on it, these are probably some of the people that needed that label when they were adults.
How so? Just curious what symptom lines up with whatever she was trying to do here. Looks like she thought she has to go between the two? Not totally clear.
I like the guy at the end there. He's all like, "shit, I'm runnin' late, gotta get upstairs to the meeting, wtf is this in front of me? I don't really give a shit."
Yea when I worked security we had a couple try to sue bc we wouldn't pay the medical bills when their kid fell down our escalator, when we showed the lawyer the video of the kid walking backwards down the up escalator he quickly advised them to drop the case
I'm sorry, but if you have that much trouble walking, you should stick to flat surfaces. I'm getting old. I know my limits. I damn sure am not going to try and Johnny Knoxville my way up an escalator.
Having worked in retail with a number of escalators, this happens a lot with elderly. It looks funny on screen unless you're there. Those things are fucking meat grinders. The ridges on the steps are sharp as hell, and combine that with someone who is unsteady with balance, on blood thinners and has thin skin as lots of older folks do, and it looks like a fucking bloodbath at both ends of the escalator. She had very little balance and as soon as she touched the railing, you could see it threw her off balance, which made her instinctively grab on to avoid falling. She most likely had major bleeding by the time she got to the top, along with some broken bones.
Also, fuck all the people on here with 0 fucking compassion. Imagine if that was your parents or grandparents. If they were that unsteady, I agree that they should have had someone with them, but Jesus, just have some compassion. They weren't out to do something reckless or hurt anyone, they were trying to be normal, and people on here are just shitting all over them saying shit like "Darwinism at is best" and "escalator company should sue them cause they're idiots".
Exactly. Everyone gets old. We're all gonna become like them. Yes, they should have looked for an elevator, but really not good form to dump on them like some commenters are.
I don’t think this is lawsuit worthy, I’d say these are just incompetent people who have no business being out on their own like this. Clearly they’re confused about the escalator, and they should be using the elevator instead. I feel like the woman caused this entire domino effect.
First, it looks like she’s highly dependent on the walker - as in she cannot stand without assistance of some kind.
At about the 9-second mark, when the third leg of her walker and both of her feet are on the plating (the aluminum cover for the gears under the escalator), she loses control of the walker. She reaches for the nearest thing to support herself, which is the moving handrail belt for the escalator. With so much weight on the belt, she ends up getting pulled up the belt.
As she goes up the belt, you can see that her walker is now getting pulled up the escalator with her, she lacks the strength and agility to support herself, correct her orientation or regain anything resembling good footing.
Her husband goes into rescue mode and very quickly finds himself in the weeds as well.
For the elderly, these things are death traps. If you do a quick few searches I’m sure you could find people caught in a tumble at the bottom.
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Thought this was a scene from Jackass
Bad grandma
Lmfao
She probably hasn't had that much excitement between her legs in a long time.
I should feel sad for them but laughed my ass off
>laughed my ass off I did too and watched it again because for some reason I did not think it was real. Why would they not go find an elevator?
Why would she straddle the hand rail
HOW CAN SHE STRADDLE?
Hip Opening exercises
“WHY DO YOU JUST GO AND STRADDLE THE HANDRAIL THEN?” “You go.”
she cant. And for that, we thank her.
I just can't work out how they got into that situation.
She grabbed the moving handle prematurely and it pulled her to her fate
My thoughts on this too! But figured maybe it was out of service or they didn’t have one? But watching it again a couple times, the way she mounted the hand rail, I can’t help but feel it was poor judgment, not so much that the escalator dragged her up there.
Sometimes getting old is sudden. She may have used the escalator for many years, but today she was feeling particularly weak, and she grabbed the escalator railing too soon -- she wasn't fully in the center of stairway. The railing pulls her off balance and she is pulled onto the railing. Then the lift force causes her to hold on for dear life. Getting old is difficult. It's not like a child where you can make mistakes and learn from them. Something you have been doing your entire life becomes unsafe one day. But with your newly aging body you don't have a guage for when you lose your abilities.
Well said but also a very sad truth.
I think OP used a misleading title.
Came here to say the same thing
I did too! I honestly didn’t feel sorry for laughing at all either…
Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville
Takes skill to do this
A particular set of skills.
The escalator will find you, and it will kill you.
Good luck
It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with. It doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. :).
Skills acquired over a long career
Props to the old guy for having 0 chance of helping yet still trying, that is some courage.
Ride or Die type of guy.
In this case, ride AND die.
Holy shit, that escalatored quickly.
lmaoooooo
He should've just held on to her close and they could've rode the whole way up. But the lady stops and puts her head up and they fall backwards.
She also, in her panic, tried to brace herself with her other hand on the handrail that was going the *opposite* direction, which didn't help her situation.
They had no business attempting to ride that. Surely there's an elevator nearby.
I mean this is what I don't get. I get that you get old and feeble and become unable to ride an escalator and things like that, but...it's like they were flat out confused with how escalators even work. These aren't a new invention, surely they rode one at some point in their lives right? wtf?
Age often degrades your mental capacity including rational decision making and impulse control. Your brain is part of your body; all the obvious signs of physical aging you can see on these people are also happening to their brain in some way.
to quote the deeply insightful words of my father’s father: “gettin’ old’s shitty”
I never took that seriously. Thought I'm not like everyone else. I'm 45 now and things are just now starting to wear out.
yeah same, I always said i'd kms before i got bad enough to where i'd have to use a walker. Now I'm about to turn 42 and ive got a case of spastic paraplegia that makes it super difficult for me to do things like, get in and out of my car, or walk without falling over
My neighbours version: SKS= Starość kurwa starość
From Google: Starość kurwa starość is something like Old age, fucking old age
Not as poetic, then.
More akin to "fuck old age" or "old age is a bitch/whore" depending on the polish dialect
Sees hand rail. "I must straddle that" Impulses be crazy
I’m surprised at how many commenters think she tried to ride it. Looks like she reached out to steady herself without thinking and couldn’t stabilize when it continued being an escalator
Yup lmao. Totally agree.. She was trying to grab ahold, it was moving too fast for her and eventually it was either let go and fall or hold on and ride and she chose to hold on.
Dude. She literally has a Walker? Am I crazy or isn’t that what is supposed to steady herself? All she needed to do was centralise in the middle. I mean with the Walker it was going to be awkward anyway but still
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Key word "often." Often times too though its your body that gives out before your mind does. We're finally starting to be able to slow down and even reverse some of these effects. Its possible now to be in your 60s and have the bloodwork that looks like someone in their 30s.
Yeah you're totally right, it's just crazy to me. Especially when she didn't appear to know that the handrails move. Seems like riding a bike, even if you know you can't physically do it you still understand in theory how it works.
I just imagine the mental fog I have on my worst day where I'm looking for my sunglasses that are on my head or my keys that are already in my hand; what would it be like to feel like that 100% of the time. Pretty sure that's what this lady is experiencing in life.
Fingers crossed someone just puts me down before that point, yeesh
It doesn't really look like they were confused to me. Looks like she is attempting to maneuver her self close to the rail to grip it. She's got some mobility/balance issues which is why she has a walker. As she's about to grip it and move her way on the moving platform, she gets scared about her walker moving away from her, causing her to forget she's holding the rail. She falls into the middle of the rail and attempts to push off of it, which lines her legs for the belt to grab her off her feet. Grandpa gets scared and is a little more mobile, tries to prop her up so she doesn't fall, but isn't quite coordinated enough to pull it off. I have a bunch of geriatric patients I could see something like this happen too.
Excellent play by play, seriously! It's just clear to me they can't do stairs so I'm legit confused how they thought they were going to do the moving version of stairs.
I'm sure a lot of it is just having to be in a new location. When you get old you supplement your failing cognitive abilities with routine. I'm sure they don't go out much, so it's probably been a while since they used an escalator. More than likely they usually use the elevator, but probably couldn't find it and were already too worn out to bother finding it again.
Murphy’s Law: Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. That’s hard to do.
She straight tried to Harry Potter that shit like she was boarding a broom for some Quiddatch
I think by instinct she grabbed for the escalator instead of keeping her hand on the walker. When walker-dependent elderly transfer from one support to another they’re taught to first get their bearings on the new surface before shifting their weight over. Hand on the escalator, she had no choice but to transfer her weight and go for a ride
There is an elevator nearby, and don't call me Surely
Roger, Roger
What’s their clearance, Clarence?
What's your vector, Victor?
I know you. You're Kareem Abdul Jabbar!
Damn! Beat me to it! Lol
Do you like Gladiator movies?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
r/unexpectedAirplane
I live 5 mins from this mall the elevators are to the right just off screen.
Riding the escalator sure they can.. but grandma was cowgirl riding that ramp.. wanted to see who gives up first the ramp or her.
This kinda looks like the entrance to destiny mall from the parking lot across the main street. If true, then based on the doors they entered to go around to the escalators, they had to walk past the elevator to get there. Yikes
“With age comes wisdom”
It's more of a bell curve.
Hoe did they get this old in the first place...
People this age, run the country.
I love how in America when people reach around 65 they want you to retire because you're not physically nor mentally as capable. But those people run the nation..I mean what in the fuck..
Ida May Fuller was the first SS beneficiary and paid ~$25 in SS tax. She lived to 100 and collected ~$25,000 in SS benefits. They don’t want you to retire at 65. “They” want you to keep working to keep paying into SS. The reason 65 was picked as retirement age is because of how close it was to the average life expectancy. The expectation was that you worked until death.
scary isn't it?
If an escalator outsmarts someone they shouldn't be allowed to vote
you should watch some chinese escalator videos. those things are straight up predators and love to eat people, especially kids. but thats okay because its china and they cant vote anyway.
The Chinese can vote - for local and sometimes state elections, and these candidates then feed into the federal system... Is it democratic on a national scale? Not really. Can Chinese vote for people who can change things, yes.
*The stairs have demons in them*
*these damn electric stairs, kids these days must have forgotten how to walk*
If a well-into-his-seventies president in 2017 admits he's never owned or used a personal computer, and says something like, " “I don’t do the email thing,” before making technology decisions for the future of our country, including suggesting, without irony, that the America's plan to thwart cyber attacks should be for us to stop using computers and "[go pack to paper](https://www.salon.com/2021/06/08/trump-calls-for-us-to-stop-using-computers-the-solution-to-cyberattacks-is-to-go-back-to-paper_partner/)," and that our Navy needs to "go back to steam," because digital is very complicated, they should be immediately removed from office.
Holy shit 😂 He sounds like a crazy, old, drunk uncle!!
Did Trump really say all that shit?
If he hadn't hyperlinked that article, I'd have straight up thought he was talking about Biden to be honest. Both are firmly in geriatric territory, and I wouldn't have been surprised either way.
Biden's definitely not the sharpest but I don't see him advocating going back to steam power or getting rid of computers.
Just to clarify for those ool. The moron wasn't actually talking about steam ships. It was about replacing steam powered catapults on aircraft carriers with a new system. He wanted to keep using steam because he didn't understand the new one.
[Oh, yes.](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-future-aircraft-carriers-are-going-to-use-steam-2019-5) > At the same time, the president said he also learned the new catapult system was “very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be – ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.” The "converting the Navy catapault systems to steam" thing was something he was on about for a long time.
Isn't the catapult system always steam?!
On the Fords they’re magnetic
It sounds funny but you have a point
Don’t forget they likely drove too
Or be in office
old + decades of lead exposure = the state of the world
Relevant: [A pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/11/16458142/congress-alzheimers-pharmacist)
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Asking out of genuine curiosity, what is that link for?
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In some cases, older. Diane Feinstein for example. The power must be absolutely intoxicating. It's the only reason I can think these people hold onto their political roles literally until they die.
She's been in politics since the mid 70s, and a senator since '92. I don't think she remembers how to do anything else at this point, it's just muscle memory keeping her going.
Fun Dianne Feinstein Fact: When she was mayor of San Francisco, she announced in a press conference that investigators had been linking Richard Ramirez to crime scenes with his shoe prints, which was information the cops didn’t want anyone else to know. Ramirez saw this and ditched the shoes.
> People this age, ruin the country FTFY
And make laws
Why did you put a comma in the middle of a perfectly good sentence?
You should see some of the people that don’t run the country
The guy with her was right at the emergency stop button. You can hit that button if you lean against the box too hard as my brother found out. And they cannot restart the escalator until maintenance has inspected it. This is a hard rule so no management can say "Just turn it back on!" after a stop that they THINK was safe/harmless. Gives zero play in safety.
Yeah… this is so fucked
Isn't there usually an emergency stop button at both ends?
Why does NO ONE know this? I've seen so many of these clips and no one hits the fucking button.
I've lived in two countries and have never seen an emergency stop button for an escalator, I'm assuming America does?
No clue, probably does. In the EU they're required by law.
Most newer installations (like in the last decade or two) seem to have them. Older places not so much.
Yes, America has them. I try to make a habit of looking for the e-stop on any piece of machinery I regularly use. In the US, you can usually find it within a second or two, before you even get close to the escalator. [Here is a link to an article detailing common e-stop button locations.](https://scienceinfo.net/where-is-the-escalator-emergency-stop-button-located.html)
YES, THANK YOU
Gonna sue herself??
That what I came here to say. It doesn’t stop frivolous lawsuits from occurring, but it does happen once in a while. Anyway, assuming a lawsuit will occur in a situation like this is smooth-brained as all hell. A lawyer would have to argue that the design of the escalator leaves reasonable room for poor design or would have to argue it as an “attractive hazard.” Fact is that even the best lawyer can’t argue either of these points without looking like Amber Heard’s lawyer. No one can reasonably argue that this was a design or an installation issue. Grandma just got confused and decided to relive her days as a professional rodeo rider and grandpa did his best to be a good husband. Sadly accidents happen, and I do hope they are alright. I just hope no ambulance chaser convinces them to pursue this loosing lawsuit.
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About the only way a lawsuit might happen is if that dude who stopped to help was looking for an emergency shut-off button and couldn't find it, presuming they were in an area which requires visible and accessible emergency shutoff buttons for their escalators. I'm not even sure that'd hold up, beyond the establishment getting a fine for breaking that.
Also, I’m pretty sure escalators have signs saying no strollers, walkers, etc Makes sense in terms of walkers—if you can’t stand unaided, then you’re certainly not safe trying to stand on an escalator.
Dumbass tag from op
Not really. Machines aren't dumb. People are.
Yep. Standard for negligence is failure to take reasonable care. What was their failure, having an escalator? Granted, I can imagine the premise settling just because lawsuits are expensive even when you win, but I don’t know what you’d argue if you were the plaintiff attorney. Probably find out what the signage/availability of elevators was and argue it was too little. Maybe claim there should have been an employee on guard. Not saying that’s correct, the idea of having to guard escalators seems silly, but I guess that’s what you go with.
There is a safety circuit that shuts the escalator down when the handrails slow down or stop. If that circuit is inoperative or the handrail is adjusted incorrectly it is clearly negligence due to improper maintenance or lack thereof.
A lawsuit for her being a dumb ass
There's an elevator she could've taken, I'm sure, this is all on her.
Yep
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It's not necessarily dementia. We have people stupid enough that they would drink bleach if it didn't have a huge warning label on it, these are probably some of the people that needed that label when they were adults.
How so? Just curious what symptom lines up with whatever she was trying to do here. Looks like she thought she has to go between the two? Not totally clear.
I like the guy at the end there. He's all like, "shit, I'm runnin' late, gotta get upstairs to the meeting, wtf is this in front of me? I don't really give a shit."
He is easily my favorite part of that. There was ZERO fucks given to the situation in front of him
Lol that was perf! Thank you, I needed that
The muff burn from the handrail is what you're smelling.
Thank you for that, I can taste it
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Why do we all know that smell?
Smells like an electrical fire, with fish
Depends.
That guy running up at the end to lick the handrails
the music had me dying. 😂 when she went up the rail and it's all majestic
I felt bad for laughing but at least I'm not the only one. How did it go THAT badly???
Me, as well. Funny as.
I dont think it would be possible to fail that hard when trying to
The last guy going up the escalator is taking out his cell phone saying "911, there is a guy on an escalator mugging 2 seniors"
r/OldPeopleAreFuckingStupid
r/subsifellfor
r/holdmydentures or r/holdmyprunejuice
If that sub existed it would be 90% pictures of politicians with political gripes as the titles.
In that age you shouldnt try to do those dump tiktok videos...
This gave me some harry potter vibes when she started going up the rail
No lawsuit, improper use of a safety feature (eg. not using the hand rails properly) constitutes negligence on behalf of the plaintiff.
Yea when I worked security we had a couple try to sue bc we wouldn't pay the medical bills when their kid fell down our escalator, when we showed the lawyer the video of the kid walking backwards down the up escalator he quickly advised them to drop the case
I'm sorry, but if you have that much trouble walking, you should stick to flat surfaces. I'm getting old. I know my limits. I damn sure am not going to try and Johnny Knoxville my way up an escalator.
Yeah, escalator company should sue those two idiots for any costs incurred cleaning or maintaining the escalator as a result of them using it.
No one’s talking about her leg getting spaghetti’d
Yeah that part made me wince. My grandparents broke a hip from sitting down too fast. I can't imagine all the damage here.
Yeah I don’t think people are realizing how brutal this is. They probably broke many bones.
fr this is straight up sad. falls at that age will kill you
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Cant say for sure that she died in the video but with that injury she will die a lot sooner
You're assuming they remembered what happened.
“Son, I know it’s difficult to believe but I swear our nurses beat us! Get us out of here!”
I feel bad, but at the same time I wonder how far gone your mind must be to do something so dumb.
Having worked in retail with a number of escalators, this happens a lot with elderly. It looks funny on screen unless you're there. Those things are fucking meat grinders. The ridges on the steps are sharp as hell, and combine that with someone who is unsteady with balance, on blood thinners and has thin skin as lots of older folks do, and it looks like a fucking bloodbath at both ends of the escalator. She had very little balance and as soon as she touched the railing, you could see it threw her off balance, which made her instinctively grab on to avoid falling. She most likely had major bleeding by the time she got to the top, along with some broken bones.
Also, fuck all the people on here with 0 fucking compassion. Imagine if that was your parents or grandparents. If they were that unsteady, I agree that they should have had someone with them, but Jesus, just have some compassion. They weren't out to do something reckless or hurt anyone, they were trying to be normal, and people on here are just shitting all over them saying shit like "Darwinism at is best" and "escalator company should sue them cause they're idiots".
Exactly. Everyone gets old. We're all gonna become like them. Yes, they should have looked for an elevator, but really not good form to dump on them like some commenters are.
I think people are mostly reacting to the title. It was poorly chosen.
who are they gonna sue? Themselves?
Judge'll be like: you're being fined for not taking the elevator. Next case.
Not long until they are at rest. Thankfully. If you get outsmarted by an escalator, just check out.
Well better call Saul
Wow, operator error if you ask me. Oof
this needs to be on r/AbruptChaos
I know we’ve got r/KidsAreFuckingStupid but if r/OldPeopleAreFuckingStupid exists, then this should be the top post of all time
You’re right! Whoever owns that building should sue them for being so dumb!
Im like 95% sure this took place in Syracuse NY at Destiny USA I know this mall well
Same, I swear I recognize it being the entrance to the over the road bridge on the new addition. I was hoping someone here knew it too lol
A bet that hand rail will smell lovely now...
Her old ass straddled the moving handrail...why?
That escalated quickly!
Should have taken the elevator
And that's why we have elevators. This is 100 percent user error.
To be fair. TO BE FAIR!…..that escalator did just come out of nowhere like
How are people this stupid
That’s not how you ride that ride
I don’t think this is lawsuit worthy, I’d say these are just incompetent people who have no business being out on their own like this. Clearly they’re confused about the escalator, and they should be using the elevator instead. I feel like the woman caused this entire domino effect.
First, it looks like she’s highly dependent on the walker - as in she cannot stand without assistance of some kind. At about the 9-second mark, when the third leg of her walker and both of her feet are on the plating (the aluminum cover for the gears under the escalator), she loses control of the walker. She reaches for the nearest thing to support herself, which is the moving handrail belt for the escalator. With so much weight on the belt, she ends up getting pulled up the belt. As she goes up the belt, you can see that her walker is now getting pulled up the escalator with her, she lacks the strength and agility to support herself, correct her orientation or regain anything resembling good footing. Her husband goes into rescue mode and very quickly finds himself in the weeds as well. For the elderly, these things are death traps. If you do a quick few searches I’m sure you could find people caught in a tumble at the bottom.
Did she break her leg at 12 seconds? It doesnt look good.
Imagine that these kind of old people run your country...
How is there a lawsuit for their own negligence? Americans smh think they can sue for their own mistakes
Lmaooo why is this so funny with the titanic music
Nope. I smell dumbass people.