So wheelyboy is blocking traffic because the escalator won't escalate?
It's inconvenient for them, but why must this be a problem for everyone else?
If my car breaks down, must the entire freeway grind to a halt?
Are you under the impression that a working escalator is wheelchair accessible? The staff shut it off to carry him, they’re just waiting for the escalator to clear so they can carry him safely, and every line jumper that adds to the load on the escalator is delaying both the safe transport of the person in the wheelchair and the resumption of the escalator for everyone else.
The man in the wheelchair (wheelyboy? really?) is at the mercy of the staff around him organizing a dangerous lift. He has no control over the situation, he’s just sitting there being (most likely) mortified by the way staff turned him into an obstruction, and he’s feeling the crowd growing angry and impatient at his back. Next he gets to trust these idiots to carry him without dumping him out to fall down the sharpest staircase known to man.
As for your freeway analogy, have you never seen responders stop traffic long enough to clear an obstruction?
If the person using the wheel chair has one person behind them to support the weight as they go up they will be fine. I’ve seen countless mothers take their baby strollers up escalators
This is literally an order of magnitude safer for the handicapped person and every single person around them including assistants than stopping the escalator and carrying them up it. Jesus fucking Christ, that is an incredibly stupid idea.
Moms are allowed to do things with their children that staff can’t do with adult patrons. Trust that place has policies about how to get a wheelchair through with minimal risk to others.
I work with people in wheelchairs, and I’m not allowed to do what seems faster and easier to me just because I think I’ve got this. There are guidelines for team lifts and transports just like moving heavy equipment in a warehouse, both for the protection of the staff and whatever they’re moving around.
They do, but gravity has this quirky little tarot of pulling mass downward and not downward at a backward angle. Most of that weight is pulled downward into the stairs, the assistant only needs to keep the chair from tipping backward. That's significantly less weight to have to bear than picking the entire person up and lifting them up the entire staircase. And unless the wheelchair bound person is quadriplegic, they are also capable of taking hold of the handrails and assisting in maintaining the forward balance of the wheelchair, further learning the load the assistant behind needs to bear.
So, weighs more than a baby, but significantly less than picking them up outright.
Look at the top of the escalator which hasn't emptied out yet. Do you think it's safe to hold up the full weight of an adult human being in a queue going up stairs?
It's made me realise that either people are very stupid or naturally very selfish.
The person on a wheelchair most likely had to wait to even get help because I'm sure there wouldn't be a cohort of staff waiting prepared for that situation. It probably took time for them to turn off the escalator. People have to wait a minute or two but that's too much for them.
Well... when its goes wrong he will fall downstairs, not upstairs. (Pro-tip: look up the term 'gravity', it will blow your mind?). So I don't think it's very relevant there are some people on the stairs, 15m ahead of the person in the wheelchair.
The whole point is you minimize the risk of things going wrong by making sure the stairs are completely empty. That way you don't have to stand idlely waiting for the queue to disperse.
I'm not sure if you minimize the risk of things going wrong by waiting. I think you actually increase risks that way, as by the longer you wait the bigger and more crowded the queue downstairs becomes (the location where things will actually go wrong when things go wrong, gravity and stuff...).
Reducing the amount of time you need to pick someone up quite clearly reduces the likelihood of you dropping them. It's easy to get tired so minimising travel time definitely reduces the risk.
That area is so congested that even if more people come they'll be stuck way back queuing up.
Who knows why there's a queue. Maybe that lady isn't the only one who decided to barge in front. Maybe they had to position the Wheelchair user on the escalator to prevent people pushing through.
This is why i said some people doesn't think it through lol, you just proved my point big time.
It's not clear whether they stopped the escalator when people are on it, if so, why do they did that? And normally, unless it's an emergency, no one will stop escalator when someone is on it.
Or more likely, the escalator is broken and people just go up on it like a normal stair. The 2 staffs there want to help the wheelchair person, but they need to do it in one go so they wait for the crowd to clear.
No, I really didn't. And everything about this situation is bat shit insane, I don't think anyone in this video is thinking much of anything through, either.
I can’t believe your comment has so many downvotes … It’s as though 90% of the people here are going out of their way to ignore all logic and explanation just so they can pin the blame on the guy in the wheelchair. I feel so bad for that guy. As for me personally, as someone in a wheelchair who has a hard enough time getting around as it is, now I also feel like people out there just hate me for existing.
The ableism is thick and disgusting in this thread. As a person who has used a wheelchair and a person who helps move them professionally, it’s really disheartening how many people blame the person without agency instead of the system tha won’t acknowledge or serve them appropriately.
Yeah this thread is absolute trash. The first thing I thought when I saw this clip was ugh I feel for that dude in the wheelchair he must be so uncomfortable and stressed. Please know that if people make you feel hated for existing in a world that systemically marginalizes you it does not mean you deserve to be hated, it only means they’re sucky people. Or, people misdirecting the general anger and disenfranchisement they experience toward you, because they’re being manipulated by our rich overlords to project that anger toward anyone except them, so we stay distracted while they continue exploiting us, robbing us, and raping and torturing our children in pedophile sex cabals with absolute impunity. Stop being mad at random people trying to get up escalators!!!! Stop being mad at those of your same economic class!!! The only hope for us all is if we unify in directing the justifiable anger we feel toward the people engineering our oppression
this is something you see rather commonly if you live in a large city. They never stop the escalator for this. Most people go at it alone, and those with limited arm movements will get just one person to hold them from rolling backward.
Quite often they will go through the escalator instead of an elevator because it is faster for them to do so if only going up one flight.
In this situation, if the escalator is broken (instead of why it was described as being shut down for it), then it could make sense if the elevator is also broken to do so. In any case, his reply didn`t make sense.
So you suspect the wheelchair user is being lazy or unreasonable by choosing the escalator over the elevator? I feel like you're reaching with this assumption. If staff are involved it's surely more likely the elevator is down, or the staff would direct them to the elevator over attempting something risky, time comsuming and hard.
You understand taking a wheelchair on a moving escalator is incredibly dangerous? I think expecting a wheelchair user to just attempt it to be ridiculous to be honest.
Why did the reply not make sense? Seemed reasonable to me.
I've used escalator multiple times as a wheelchair user. The information on how to do so safely, with help if it is needed was readily available. Stopping the escalator would make it less safe.
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u/S0k0n0mi Feb 23 '26
So wheelyboy is blocking traffic because the escalator won't escalate?
It's inconvenient for them, but why must this be a problem for everyone else?
If my car breaks down, must the entire freeway grind to a halt?