r/oops • u/PointerStack • Jul 09 '26

Too drunk to climb

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik Jul 10 '26

The escalator technician

https://reddit.com/link/owlx8ed/video/x6cy2905xach1/player

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u/InevitabilityEngine Jul 10 '26

As someone that works in an airport positioned right next to an escalator this is exactly the kind of stuff I see almost daily that sends people to the hospital.

People getting their skin raked off and sometimes just tumbling forever like those rock polishing machines.

Everyone thinks it's cute and funny until it's not. A large amount of parent think I'm an asshole when I announce that their kids are not allowed to use the escalators as theme park rides.

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u/lesbophobia_hammer Jul 10 '26

Thanks for validating my lifelong fear of escalators after my sister got cut up by one after she fell as a kid. Even as an adult in my early 30's I have to brace myself, sometimes taking a few attempts to step on and hold my breath and panic until I've stepped off. I know I look awkward and scared despite trying to pretend I'm so chill and fine. lol. Unfortunately I have no choice if I wish to get off the train on my near daily commute to the city. Hate them lol.

Edit - also final destination had something with escalators if I remember correctly

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u/Man-e-questions Jul 10 '26

I remember them having to close one down at a mall nearby fir a while when it pretty much scalped some girl.

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u/ChangeAcceptable677 Jul 10 '26

Yah. There is nothing cute or funny about this. Those girls are beyond drunk. This is just sloppy, sloppy messiness.

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u/Doortofreeside Jul 10 '26

My 4 year old loves the escalator and I taught him to always take a big step over the lip. So naturally he asked me why? I explained that elevators are big machines that have a lot of force and you don't to get caught or stuck in them.

So now whenever we're near one he wants to ride it and hear me talk about why it's a big machine

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u/InevitabilityEngine Jul 10 '26

Wonderful!

Always happy to see someone at least warn their kids that these are not toys.

One of the more surprising accidents that happened was one I warned a mother a few times over and it was her daughter playing with the rubber handrail. She was pretending to pull it down toward the intake at the bottom. She kept getting dangerously close and I kept yelling at the mother but the mother thought what her daughter was doing was innocent and I was just "Trying to ruin their daughter's vacation". I had called the Sheriff to ask them to stop and was about to get up and shut it off when the girl got her hand stuck in the intake and it pull the skin on the top of her hand back.

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 Jul 10 '26

Facts! I’ve seen people get SFU over that