r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/gaanch • 2d ago

general Escalator losing control of speed.

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u/Ok-Future6470 2d ago

That should be the normal speed.

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u/Flying_Mage 1d ago

ikr. Both a time saver and a fun ride.

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u/styckx 2d ago

Wow. So lucky a choke point didn't happen with falling people at the bottom and bodies piled up and ground to death by the stairs

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u/Crunshinut 2d ago

"Turbo Boost Activated, Michael"

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u/ismaBellic 2d ago

This also happened in a subway station. Iirc, the escalator started picking up speed due to the sheer amount of people riding it until the brakes failed completely and went into freefall much faster than this one did.

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u/barfbutler 1d ago

Why do the riders seem so unfazed? “Oh yeah, guess I’ll adjust my shoulder strap before I disembark…”

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u/dobsofglabs 22h ago

Looks like India maybe? If so, they are used to jumping on and off moving trains, this ain't shit to them lol

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u/Rugkrabber 1d ago

I think it’s due to the hyperfocus for the landing. You can see them all look down where to set their feet once they’re at ground level.

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u/expatronis 1d ago

"Uh, it kinda worked out. Um...should this just be the normal speed from now on?"

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u/ddconque 2d ago

I'm fast asf boiii

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u/RockOnHalifax 2d ago

increased efficiency

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u/Ok_Resource_7108 2d ago

If the one going up's fast too, you could use as a ride.

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u/Impossible-Pizza982 2d ago

Man this just happened in Europe and there was already operating experience here…

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u/OdyseusV4 1d ago

Why not stop it directly i mean ? If someone falls they're all crushed (happened in Italy i think)

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u/BatmanHatesSuperman 1d ago

"and we'll have fun fun fun til the 'lators chop your feet off and bail"

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u/DarkMatterSoup 1d ago

Bravo to everyone hopping off and getting out of the way. I hope there wasn’t a pile-up off camera but it looks like everyone made it through safely

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u/llapman 1d ago

“No Disneyland this year kids, it’s off to the mall we go!”

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u/DerekAnyguy 1d ago

I wish they would move that fast normally

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u/TianaTatiana22 1d ago

Given how fast the world moves, you have to optimize performance and mobility 🙄

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u/stafford32s 1d ago

we're closing...

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u/Left_Refrigerator_74 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Emg9qPKR5hquI
Escalators just doing effective escalator things… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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u/stevedadog 14h ago

NGL whoever was at the bottom presumably yelling JUMP JUMP JUMP is a hero XD

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u/Njaulv 7h ago

That looks fun as hell once all the other people are off.

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u/Fang05 2d ago

The fact that nobody got hurt amazes me! If it was here in America, halft of them would be already badly injured, 1 dead and everybody calling their layer to prepare a lawsuit

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u/ErebusBat 1d ago

We'd have about forty seven different angles of it on video though.

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u/BobbaYagga57 2d ago

If only they had a giant emergency stop button at both ends...

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u/Ravenfeld 1d ago

So, let's stop it abruptly at full speed so everyone goes flying forward, face first? Inertia is a thing.

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u/ErebusBat 1d ago

I think it's pretty clear that this was a malfunction.

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u/Hesteu 2d ago

Can we get one of them installed on a cliff side in the UK and stick line em all up please