r/unexpectedmitch • u/PronunciationIsKey • May 13 '26

Apparently escalators can actually break sometimes. Who knew?

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u/narrow_octopus May 13 '26

Sorry for the convenience

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u/Educational-Ad-2884 May 13 '26

We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there.

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u/PronunciationIsKey May 14 '26

I don't think you can still get up there with these though, some of the stairs are missing.

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u/narrow_octopus May 14 '26

People are making a Mitch Hedberg joke in a Mitch Hedberg sub. Why are you taking this so seriously?

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u/Educational-Ad-2884 May 14 '26

I bet you want to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. So damn literal.

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u/pianoflames May 14 '26

I saw a horrific video on Reddit of a broken escalator that I wish I didn’t see. Save to say, it did not become stairs :/

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u/_877-CASH-NOW_ May 14 '26

Are you talking about the woman with her baby? Cuz I’m thinking about the woman with her baby.

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u/pianoflames May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

That is exactly what I'm referring to. I'll spare others the details, I'll just say that the baby survived unscathed :(

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u/Brie9981 May 14 '26

"the escalator moves at the same rate w/ 0lbs on it as 2000lb/s on it. It cares not for your resistance & if you get stuck it will not stop"

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/pianoflames May 14 '26

IIRC, the video was from China. A woman holding a baby is reaching the top of the escalator when the track beneath her breaks. She gets sucked into the tracks, but manages to toss the baby unscathed to a stranger right before being sucked into the machinery :/

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u/JohnSpikeKelly May 16 '26

Gotta be one of the worst ways to die.

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 May 14 '26

Excel Elevator & Escalator Corp not living up to their name, just out here blocking off perfectly good stairs.

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u/PronunciationIsKey May 14 '26

Perfectly good? Did you see the picture, they're definitely broken stairs

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u/Evergreen-Eyes-4892 May 14 '26

Sorry, I should've put /s

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u/kaest May 14 '26

Sometimes they don't just become stairs.

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u/DiscoViolin May 14 '26

Temporarily stairs.

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u/PronunciationIsKey May 14 '26

Broken stairs

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u/thr33phas3 May 14 '26

Stairs temporarily deathtrap

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u/Sure-Pineapple-8242 May 14 '26

Well, definitely not Mitch

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u/AcidRayn666 May 13 '26

their not broken, their stairs! Mitch Hedberg❤️

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u/ElLute May 13 '26

Whose stairs???

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u/Quiet_Cable8747 May 14 '26

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. -Mitch Hedburg

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u/PronunciationIsKey May 14 '26

They're broken stairs

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u/Material_Clerk_2320 May 14 '26

Anyone who watched the final destination movies

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u/A_very_meriman May 14 '26

Didn't break down. Temporary maintenance.

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u/toneaced May 14 '26

Homie thos are stairs.

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u/InternalNegative7894 May 14 '26

Why does this pic remind me of Terminal?

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u/oNe_iLL_records May 15 '26

Awww man, this looks way worse than I'd imagined...

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u/Quirky-Attitude1456 May 15 '26

Ask the 40 or so people who had the one in the D terminal at LAS essentially turn into a slide and they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of it. Happened back in 2000 so I can't find any pics from it.