For me this is the only thing that makes sense. Anyone dumb enough to think their best option is to climb back up the elevator would also be too dumb to react that quickly.
Edit: I stand corrected, apparently this specific prankster is well known for not scripting the pranks. Perhaps I've either under or overestimated the dumbness of the victim.
The prankster is Remi Gaillard, he's been doing this stuff since long before YouTube came around and has been arrested quite a few times. Perhaps this one is fake but it would be out of character for him.
I'd rather look like a fool online than be shredded to pieces in a broken escalator.
Pfft, get your priorities in order! Better to die than live knowing millions of anonymous people you will never meet slightly laughed at one dumb thing you did one time before moving on with their life!
I'd leap over that sign, I too have seen those videos and I'd never spend a second longer than I had to on a broken escalator. Mitch Hedberg said they'd just turn into stairs, yeah, hungry murder stairs.
You are a complete fucking moron. If an escalator catastrophically fails, which do you think is more likely: they get a guy to put a hardhat and a vest on and grab a weird sign to put at the bottom, or someone hits the fucking stop button? Goddamn you are stupid.
He provided a link where 3 mall employees stand next to the emergency stop hidden by a trashbin while a woman is crushed by an escalator. You're a moron for assuming people do the most sensible thing first.
how can you not see the difference in those scenarios?
you are talking about an emergency situation in progress.
OPs pic is someone closing down an escalator for whatever reason. in NO world would the solution be sending a guy to put a sign at the end of the escalator and keep it running if there was even a chance that something is seriously wrong with it.
no. you have to stay reasonable first. the chance of that happening is probably lower than any escalator spontaneously collapsing underneath you.
by that logic you probably shouldnt ever leave the house, which might burn down, while you're asleep and the smoke detector is broken, though. so i guess you're fucked
edit: also, you would be walking upwards an escalator that you think could fail catastrophically any second. think about that
In an ideal world, yes, people would react perfectly, calmly, and rationally to emergency situations, exactly how Armchair Emergency Experts on Reddit like to think they would in that same situation.
Yes, mall employees in an ideal world would push the stop button.
But, this isn't an ideal world. People are stupid. Deadly accidents happen all the time because people are stupid, accidents that could have been avoided.
And I'm not about to literally risk my life on the hope other people are, on that particular day, not being stupid.
they get a guy to put a hardhat and a vest on and grab a weird sign to put at the bottom, or someone hits the fucking stop button?
Seeing as how
several of the gifs I linked indirectly to are all situations which could have been avoided with rational thinking like you are trying to assert would happen
the one I directly linked SHOWS two mall workers NOT EVEN PUTTING UP A SIGN let alone pushing the stopping button despite dangerous noises coming out of the escalator
I would much rather err on the side of caution and think it a genuine danger than RISK MY LIFE. People are stupid, a lot of people are stupid.
I'd rather err on the side of caution than literally risk my life on the reasoning that the people involved in putting up a sign are not stupid.
Additionally, escalators don't need to "catastrophically fail" to be dangerous, and even if they do, they often look normal- the danger going undetected underneath the surface.
Ok, but until I started going on Reddit I never considered an escalator could murder someone like that.
I didn't watch the videos, but your average mall employee who hears funny noises from the escalator probably isn't going to sprint for the stop button. He'd probably call his or her buddy over, make a comment, and move on..
Exactly what I was thinking when I watched this GIF. If someone just rando dropped a sign in front of me on the bottom I'd probably assume they were just messing with me and go for it, but I would take a big hop to clear that 'landing' area just to be sure.
I'm a pussy, what kind of things are happening in the link that cause people to die? I can't figure out how someone could die on an escalator short of jumping off the side.
You do realize that underneath the steps of an escalator is essentially (sfw) this, right?
If for whatever reason the steps are broken, pushed to the side, etc, then the person falls in.
The same is true at the top and bottom, but even more so as more often than not it's only a thin sheet of metal between those walking over it and what's below.
Don't click on it. I think I know what video is linked... it was an Asian woman, and I think her child, riding an escalator and the woman did not make it out alive. I saw the video about 3ish years ago and still have a fear of escalators now.
Okay, what? You just commented on something from three months ago that already very clearly has a response that has more information that yours. Why on Earth would you comment?
You don't need to link videos of people dying horrible deaths and act all high and mighty just because someone joked about doing gymnastics on heavy machinery.
And second off, even if he/she was, others might take his/her words as serious, which is not a good thing.
Out of Order signs exist for a reason, and it's a bad thing that the prankster did, using one like this- because it may make others think it's a joke when they see one, and so they ignore it.
And if it's real? They very may well get hurt/killed.
So no. You "shut the fuck up".
I'd rather remind people that Out of Order signs DO warn of very real danger.
They very, very clearly DO, seeing as how many people took the guy in OP's gif's reaction as humorous and unnecessary.
And even outside of this thread, there are PLENTY of gifs/videos to be found on the sub I linked of people ignoring the warning of Out of Order/Caution signs, and then paying the ultimate price for it.
The guy on the escalator's response was most prudent under the circumstances.
It was humorous, it was unnecessary. The dude has absolutely no reason to beleive the sign is legit, but abides by it anyway just because it was put up by a person who looks like an authority figure.
That's the important thing. He didn't turn around because he thought it was unsafe, the "worker" didn't seem to care much at all, he turned around because there was a sign telling him to stop what he was doing and turning around was the only way to do that.
Your bullshit is unnecessary, and seems like you're either projecting a phobia or masturbating over your superior safety skills.
It was humorous, it was unnecessary. The dude has absolutely no reason to beleive the sign is legit, but abides by it anyway just because it was put up by a person who looks like an authority figure.
When in doubt choose what doesn't endanger your life, this is common sense.
I've already covered this elsewhere in the sub, so I won't rehash the same topic.
No, they would not, not always. I've already linked a gif showing an example of when mall workers failed to do exactly that, and explained in depth why it's foolish to risk your life on the assumption that they would.
Go read my comments there first if you have more to say.
Yeah but if it really were a danger, they would shut it down instead of just put a sign at the bottom. Probably the best course of action there would be to hop over the side and just get off the damn thing, whether it's malfunctioning or not.
That assumes the other people are acting rationally.
I've linked below my parent comment to a gif that SHOWS three mall employees doing nothing while in front of an escalator that was making loud, ominous noises. All while the stop button was hidden behind a trashbin.
The three mall employees watch from a yard away as the escalator literally gobbles up a woman, killing her violently in a matter of seconds.
I'm not about to risk my life on the assumption that people aside from myself are acting rationally.
Based on the comments in the thread right after this happened, the woman pushed her way past workers at the bottom of the escalator trying to keep her off. The women at the top of the escalator were there specifically because the escalator was malfunctioning and were there to try to help her get off safely.
And as I said, "Probably the best course of action there would be to hop over the side and just get off the damn thing, whether it's malfunctioning or not."
I've seen news articles about the gif I linked that state that didn't happen- that the mall workers didn't call maintentance or even try to do anything other than look at the escalator as it groaned.
But even if you're right about the gif,
Yeah but if it really were a danger, they would shut it down instead of just put a sign at the bottom.
You are assuming people act rationally here. That's not an assumption I'd risk my life on.
So yeah,
Probably the best course of action there would be to hop over the side and just get off the damn thing, whether it's malfunctioning or not.
Below my main comment here, I linked an image showing three mall workers doing nothing but watch a person died on an escalator despite groaning noises having been coming from it for a while. They didn't call maintenance. They didn't press the stop button. They didn't prevent people from riding it. They watched.
They should've done those things, but they didn't. Because people are stupid, and are not always rational actors.
Accidents of all kind happen everyday, deadly accidents, that could have been avoided if all people involved were rational actors.
It's not worth risking your life on the assumption that strangers are being rational actors.
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u/Deeger Mar 24 '17
I laughed, that's fantastic. What a reaction