Posted on 07/27/2015 8:09:16 PM PDT by MNDude
The scene can only be described as horrific: On an otherwise unremarkable morning, a woman is riding up a shopping center escalator in central China with her son. When she reaches the top and begins to disembark, she steps onto a metal footplate covering the machinery. The plate collapses, dropping the woman into the gears. She shoves her child into the arms of two mall employees, and is crushed to death.
Security-camera video of the incident (Note: The video contains disturbing images.) hit Chinese social media late Sunday, hours after it occurred, with local media identifying the woman as Xiang Liujuan, 30. In a rapidly urbanizing country still plagued by shoddy construction standards and poor building maintenance, the news spread like wildfire.
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You and me both. They have a "pulled under" vibe to them.
The worst thing was the escalator was again hungry thirty minutes later.
HAHAHAHAHA!!
It’s not every day that you see an escalator eat someone like that.
Kinda reminds me of this security cam video taken in a hotel in Taiwan or another Asian country. Some guy is riding one of those mobility carts and runs into the doors of the elevator several times. The doors finally give way and he goes down the elevator shaft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItV3gMDesME
I just climb them the way I would a flight of stairs. I guess that’s why they don’t bother me.
It just ate her up. What kind of civil engineer would make a death trap like that?
I can’t wait for them to build that 2000 foot high dam.
About 40 years ago, I was wearing soft rubber sole slip-on shoes and didn’t lift my foot off the top landing of an escalator in Guam. It grabbed my shoe and sucked it right in. I was able to yank my foot out of the shoe. Scared the daylights out of me. It happened so fast there was no time to think.
The poor woman. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
Ah mannnn
If I were that engineer, I would be packing my things and running away as fast as I can.
When I was very small I fell down an escalator and I still have a small scar on my chin. Everything I do on an escalator is calculated...one, two, three, step. My family would laugh at me too, but I don't think I've ever told them about my escalator phobia.
Yeah, he has a date with an AK. Then they’ll sell his organs.
“It grabbed my shoe and sucked it right in.”
I remember a news story about something just like that happening to a little boy at Macy’s in NYC. It must have been a slow news Saturday or something because it made all the media. I think the kid was basically OK, but it was a close call.
And I also remember when those Crocs shoes first came out, there was some discussion that they weren’t good on escalators.
I pay attention to escalator stories, I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who is scared of them.
Looked fake to me. Not saying it is fake, I just don’t understand how the bottom door opened downward. Then the trash can in front of where the emergency off button would be?
Obama got stranded for a few hours on a stopped escalator.
Obama commanded the SS man to ‘slim Jim’ his personal car after locking the keys inside.
“But sir ...”
No ‘But sir’ Just do it!
“Mr. President ...”
While you stand there arguing, let me be clear—it’s getting ready to rain, to pour actually. And make no mistake about it.
The top is down.
Planned Parenthood called dibs on her organs.
Yeah death by crocodile may have just gone back a notch.
I usually dont take escalators by my nature.
Wasn’t there a “stop” button at the head of the escalator that those 2 idiot attendants could have punched?
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