My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn’t want to believe this
Pray for their safety
Submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 2 years ago
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Of course you can’t walk up an elevator. Sometimes you can manually open the doors, but… Wait, what’s this in the comments?”
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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.
norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
That’s why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 years ago
*cue
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Que?
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
They have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Broken escalators are no joke. My father starved to death because they couldn’t fix the excalator in time.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
They should’ve used the excalibur.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Fine to do for getting off the thing if it stopped while you’re on it but no, they don’t just become stairs when they’re stopped. Go look up escalator brake failures if you want to see some horrifying videos of how that can go wrong.
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Got a sepcific video in mind? all the videos coming up are failures while they’re running.
crashoverride@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Mitch hedberg is very disappointed in you
blusterydayve26@midwest.social 2 years ago
If it hasn’t moved in two hours, we can probably assume it’s stopped.
theodewere@kbin.social 2 years ago
i bet if you let loose a couple of lions in there, one or two of them would discover some new escalator climbing skills real quick.. maybe just play lion noises through the intercom..
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I’m down for more wild lion security at malls.
llama@midwest.social 2 years ago
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.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Acshually, “escalators” are a subset of “stairs”. They would’ve known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
wigginlsu@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 2 years ago
If you integrate stairs you get escalator
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Link?
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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.
LEONHART@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 years ago
But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.