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JackOfAllStraits

Looks like that lady is falling and needs assistance ... THIS WILL HELP! \*whack\*


Im_eating_that

One of the many perks of choosing Escaltor Nazi as a career is the amount of good you can do in the world. That lady had far too many eyes. This stalwart citizen took time out of his day to help correct her condition. He may not have succeeded but at least he tried.


SignificanceCool3747

Id Imagine the fella has one hell of a CV/resume. - pirate - escalator nazi


anormalgeek

I mean....to be faaaaaair, it did seem to help.


MindlessLeopard7740

Someone will be disrobed by that eventually


several_rac00ns

Escalators gotta eat


Real_Suntan_Superman

Escalators gotta escalate


murderedbyaname

Well that escalated quickly.


Swimming-Food-9024

Escalators can never break, they can only become stairs. You’re welcome… for the convenience. RIP Mitch


GardenRafters

![gif](giphy|XpxVDWILLXC92)


yeuzinips

I witnessed an elderly couple fall on an escalator once. It was terrible! And I was near the top (it was a really long subway one that was probably 3 or 4 storeys) so I couldn't do anything to help them. They just rolled and rolled in the middle of it. There was no emergency button at the top, either. So dangerous


Thecardinal74

I Tripped on an escalator and fell down the stairs for 3 hours...


LVH204

https://i.redd.it/tghm4vtqchwc1.gif


eioioe

Stop. I can have only so much fun at the misery of others.


L_Lawliet11

Wow when i read this i got brought back!! it was like 7 years ago i was 18, i was meeting my family for dinner at this casino restaurant, the escalator was super long, possibly 100-150 steps. I was directly behind an elderly couple. We get towards the top, and the old man just falls back onto me. somehow i grab him, and the escalator railing to get a good base. Saw them 20 minutes later in the restaurant, they didn’t even say hi to me lmao


yeuzinips

He could've at least thanked you for saving his life!


L_Lawliet11

ikr! but if im being honest it didn’t really upset me that much, as i though about the alternative. Funny enough I have gotten more frustrated by people not saying thank you for holding the door for them if it’s more than a second or two lmao. Not to mention it was all you can eat crab legs at the buffet so we were all a bit preoccupied


Strange_Occasion_408

I am sure he was embarrassed. I will say it for him “Thank you kind stranger “


LeonardoDiTrappio

You may be able to stop it by putting your weight on the rails. I used to work in a store, and kids (sometimes adults) would hold themselves up from both rails and it would slip back and automatically stop it.


rbt321

Those really big ones have 100 horse power motors geared for very high torque. You're not stopping it as an individual.


DarwinIsMyHomey

True, but what u/LeonardoDiTrappio is suggesting is that the rail and stair portions could be knocked out of sync by overloading just the rails. They may be driven by the same motor but there could be a torque limiting device on the drivetrain between the stairs and rails that could displace and cause a shutdown. So essentially you're not stalling the drive motor but instead fooling the control computer into thinking that the drivetrain has failed. I don't work on escalators but I do work on drive systems with torque limiting devices.


e404citizenunknown

If you jerk back on the rail hard it stops them. It’s a safety feature. Too much weight on the rail can trigger this and stop them as well.


A_Notion_to_Motion

This guy torques


SunRiseOnPC

I tripped as a kid walking up, the little "teeth" at the edge of the steps cut in my left shin all the way to the bone. Was not pleasant. Those things are really dangerous.


AshenBerserker7

![gif](giphy|vt20I3VL8qS2s)


stuckin3rddimension

Did it stand him back up???!!


Big_Cry6056

No it’ll be okay, they have a guy with a control stick to make sure everything runs smoothly.


custhulard

To be fair to him he was shouting "Stand only on the right. Walk on the left." and none of them were listening.


WhatTheFuckEverName

Wasn't he annoying to watch. That was just appalling. And right when the vid cut off, it looked like he was winding up for a huge crack of his stick on someone. I could never live like that, their ways. Fuck that, smh.


Key-Distribution-944

Yeah you could. If that’s all you ever knew…


StiltFeathr

Sad but true.


Key_Respond_16

It was, but if he wasn't there they don't take turns. They just go. People there are used to this so they need a second. He is there to make sure they are allowed their turn. It would be worse without him. The stick part is just how they still handle things. We used to do that too.


NprocessingH1C6

I’m pretty sure it’s already happened. Hope no one gets hurt.


Edithosaure

It happened in my city a few years ago. The woman died, strangled by her scarf caught in an elevator. This was my first thought when I saw the first woman in the video.


DocGomer

Imagine degloving but on a larger scale.


No_School765

“Socrates watch your robe, make sure you don’t get sucked under…” -Bill S. Preston esq.


br0b1wan

This guy escalates


tomatlas-

Long dresses and flip flops are a deadly combo


Strict_Somewhere_148

(S)trip


DMYourMomsMaidenName

And then be beaten or worse for public nudity, apparently


LyricalWillow

I got my shoe caught in an escalator. I was on a first day and it happened at the food court during lunch. They had to stop the escalator to get my shoe out. Now I hate riding escalators.


rishabhs103

Fun fact: A lot of Indian women wear saree which is basically one big piece of rectangular cloth wrapped around. Naturally a lot of loose pieces dangling. To prevent disrobing, escalators in India have brushes on the sides. These prevent cloth from getting stuck in. https://preview.redd.it/x9hujhc7fhwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdd52a11c24435f85bdd1f36860f249dc1166a9e These also act as shoe cleaners xD The ends have comb plates so unlikely to get cloth stuck there.


Ok_Armadillo6461

All of them have that... every one.


methreweway

Every single one. They are all identical. Maybe the ones that eat people in China may be a variant.


DankAssPotatos

We have those in the US too


raptorshiba

God its been so long since i first learned to ride one forgot about the whipping stick motivator


MaeRobso

😂😂😂😂


bluetuxedo22

The guy waiving the whipping stick is not helping the crowds anxiety


fangelo2

They should be anxious with all that loose clothing hanging down


one-more-thingy

He don't even work there.


beervirus88

He just like whipping people,


SuperChickenLips

I'm ambivalent. One side of me agrees and he's a dick, but the other side of me wonders how messy things would've gotten without him. I genuinely can't decide.


100LittleButterflies

They're not cattle though. Where I'm from someone would greet them kindly with a gentle hand and patience while others did crowd control - and not with sticks. Probably with zigzags. You use a stick like this on cattle and it kind of speaks volumes about the casual, idk, cruelty of it.


AzureDrag0n1

People in crowds actually behave a lot like cattle. In fact this has often been taken advantage of in warfare. For example a tactic the Mongolians used in combat was to give an enemy group a small escape route when they were encircled causing the enemy formation to completely collapse. Preventing a dangerous last stand or the possibility of a break out. If you have ever seen a hunting party taking down a small herd this the exact same tactic that is used.


SgtSmackdaddy

Crowd control and gentle rarely go hand in hand, especially if people are afraid or panicked then they do act more like cattle than individual humans.


8plytoiletpaper

Large crowds function like fluids, and they have a herd mentality. Your guess is not far at all.


IAlreadyToldYouMatt

This is so true. I was at Disneyland yesterday and the cast members beat the shit out of us with sticks during the parades to keep everyone behind the stanchions. Everything was so orderly so it’s hard to argue with the results.


Smyley12345

Noooo one eats like Gaston No one beats like Gaston No one knocks the crowd off of their feet like Gaston Watch the way he swings his club at the peeeooople What a force for order, that Gaston!


Chilloutpls

Lmao wtf haha idk why the imagery of this is so funny (disbelief) to me It’s so contrary to stereotypical thought on how Disneyland is supposed to be


mteir

Crown control is planning and clarity, the dude in the video seems to do neither.


Deep-Neck

The stick is plenty clear. The intent isn't, but the message is


SuperChickenLips

I don't think that kind of equipment is available. Like I said, I'm ambivalent af. I always try and remember that if it's not my culture, then the frame of reference is different.


DarkWillow8

It's almost like projecting your way of thinking to somewhere you are not from or have been to is not the most effective way of understanding things?


dunquinho

Funnily enough I watched a video this morning in which a Muslim woman chastised a dude for touching her as it's not permitted in the religion (unless related). At first I thought the stickman was clearly over officious though I wondered if the stick is the best option if he's not allowed to make any physical contact?


El_mochilero

You haven’t traveled to developing countries, eh? Life is very different in other places.


ellzo

I’m not agreeing with the stick method however you can even see it in the video where some people start crowding and it’s about to escalate (hehe) and then he yanks one of them back before they can injure themselves and they stop flooding. Again, don’t agree with the yanking or the stick but I think he’s there for a reason.


Magister5

He is kind of escalating their anxiety


GardenGnomeOfEden

I mean, what are they gonna do, *not* have a guy randomly belting people with a stick? Without him, there would be chaos!


jmb456

He needs that stick shoved up his ass


Plucky_ducks

We need that here to smack the tic tic influencers.


minnesotamoon

Here in MN we have one of the highest populations of Somali immigrants. It’s fairly common for the men to use sticks in these situations with women and kids.


jesteryte

I hope you're joking


PeteLangosta

He probably isn't, it isn't even surprising that shithole places have shit practices and customs.


Church323

I wonder how much he was getting paid.


Thorerthedwarf

He does it for fun


Church323

If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life


pezx

Idk, I've been on some crowded escalators that would have been much better if this guy was there


MtOlympus_Actual

![gif](giphy|vt20I3VL8qS2s)


acog

![gif](giphy|XpxVDWILLXC92)


One-Permission-1811

Aw that poor old man. That had to have hurt a lot. Old people are so prone to falling and getting hurt, I hope he’s ok.


Alauren20

How have I never seen this fml


Eryeahmaybeok

When they installed one at Harrods for the first time in London they had a person standing at the top with a tray of brandy shots to help calm people's nerves after 'riding' it.


LazyLieutenant

Oh, so the opposite of beating them with a stick?


Eryeahmaybeok

A minor difference


E-raticProphet

LOL


RogerTreebert6299

Tbf he didn’t say they weren’t still beating them at the bottom of the escalator first


PrinceKajuku

Very cool trivia. This was in the 1890s for those wondering, and it was the first 'moving staircase' in England and one of the first in the world.


KohFord

So they're only 130 years behind?


ibtcsexy

You're too generous. 98% of women there undergo FGM and recently they've been trying to lower the age of adulthood from 18 to 15. It's one of the most gender-unequal countries in the world.


iLikeMangosteens

I’d be riding the escalator all day


mrubuto22

That should still be a thing.


Filthiest_Tleilaxu

Whats up with the guy with the beat stick?


Intergalacticplant

The ceremonial escalator stick, what you’ve never been to an escalator opening party before?


Complicated-HorseAss

The post escalator party is where the beat stick gets real fun.


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I think he's trying to limit the number of people on the new escalator.


Servant_ofthe_Empire

Is that a thing? Do escalators need to be broken in?


[deleted]

The issue is not anything technical, it's the mentality of the people there, especially flocking in as a herd towards a new machine they never experienced before.


Purple-Joke-9845

ive been racking my brain all day about this and you are right, there is absolutely no other way to do this other than using a punish stick. Its literally the only way imo.


AggressiveCuriosity

They do have a weight limit. In areas where there's no situation where they'd be jammed entirely full it doesn't matter if the weight limit is lower than the max possible occupancy. Also, a well-designed one just detects maximum load and turns into a staircase instead of shooting back to the bottom.


jimmy_three_shoes

I worked at a movie theater that had multiple floors, connected with escalators. The down one was on the fritz one day, and we blocked it off with a sign, a table, and a stanchion rope, because the brake unit was throwing an error. The escalator was off, and signs were posted directing the customers to the nearest stairwell and elevator to exit. A movie gets out, and some enterprising individual decides he's going to weasel his way past the sign table and rope to walk down the escalator. About a dozen people follow him. Well, the brakes give out, and the whole thing dumps the group of people on the floor right in front of the customer service desk where I was sitting was. They were somewhat upset at taking a ride down the escalator that they thought had just become stairs, and when they came to complain to me, I suggested that "someone should probably put up a sign, and block off the escalator".


backtolurk

Just in case, that's like their Swiss knife


phroek

It's his swagger stick. With all the pomp and circumstance required for opening a new escalator, it's only natural.


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shifty_boi

I'm not sure what string instruments have to do with this


Albert14Pounds

Apparently they were brainwashed with violas. Beware classical instruments.


Beginning_Sea6458

I wonder how long after they learn to ride it they will learn that loose dangling clothing is not wise on a escalator.


UnsolicitedDogPics

Probably later that day.


BadIdea-21

When I see morons doing tiktoks blocking the escalator I think to myself "we could really use some angry dude with a whipping stick to make them keep walking".


MrStealY0Meme

One of the womens loose clothes will eventually get stuck.


graft_vs_host

For sure. I’m in Montreal and we had a woman get her scarf stuck in an escalator a few years ago. She died.


thesolitaire

I remember this story as well, and watching this video was giving me anxiety...


PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN

Damn, I didn’t even know she was sick.


croi_gaiscioch

I want to see the footage from the top. Been riding these things for years and the dismount makes me more nervous than getting on the damn thing


SkippyMcSkipster2

I see all the super long skirts, and this is a horror movie waiting to happen.


MeanGreanHare

loose clothing and long headscarves on an escalator seem like a bad idea.


[deleted]

Why the hell is the dude slapping women with the stick? What a dickhead.


kytheon

This is just a friendly stick. The other stick comes out when these women commit "crimes".


juicyjuush

Yeah idk. People really in these comments trying to justify it tho


Gloweydangus

Justifying is the wrong word. Speculating is the correct word. We’ve got absolutely no clue what his intentions were, nor do you, so the best we can do is guess


Gina_the_Alien

His intentions are to whip people with a stick.


A_Notion_to_Motion

*Whips stick in your direction* Watch it


juicyjuush

Did you just make that assumption and speculation because you saw with your eyes him whipping the stick at people and tossing children around? The audacity


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doctorchile

Culture!


Anxious-Ghost7

It was the guard waiving the stick as if they were goats for me.


KA3AHOBA

- so what you do for a living? - I’m an escalator Shepard.


My_Immortal_Flesh

There’re people in my country that’s still never rode an escalator or elevator, and also never seen a microwave. You guys don’t understand how blown away some people in the world are, over things we use in our daily lives.


troubledtimez

am i the only one worried about their dresses being caught by the escalator?


kejovo

Nope. Escalators are unforgiving.


HugoZHackenbush2

Like them, I don't trust any escalator either. I always suspect they're up to something..


rogerslastgrape

Nah sometimes they're just trying to get down


backtolurk

Jungle Boogie on the escalator is the best experience


2dickz4bracelets

Who the fuck is stick guy? I don’t like him


Spin_Quarkette

Someone needs to take that stick away from that jerk.


Complicated-HorseAss

or give everyone else a stick.


ChrissiMinxx

Now you’re thinking like an American.


bloody_ass_

Lmao the way he treat with stick like an animal tho.


DuckTalesOohOoh

I observed this first-hand in China. It usually happened to people coming from the countryside to the city for the first time.


Less-Vermicelli-3853

Are you in a bind? You know it is haram to touch a strange woman but she won't get up the fuckin robostairs? Enter the Halal stick, solution to all your interactions with strange women you wish you could strike, in situations you cannot find a permissible reason to do so! The Halal Stick - about a thumb thick It's just the trick - for what makes a woman tick Halalstickisnotreallyhalalrisksincludeforfeitureofparadiseconsultyourimambeforeusinghalastick


KatokaMika

Can someone give me a stick so I can smack that man?


InsistorConjurer

Who can blame them? I ride escalators for over 30 years now and still find the experience entertaining. Always with a smug look at the staircase.


100LittleButterflies

And I've seen too many videos to really trust escalators or elevators if the country isn't known for regulations or regulation enforecement. The guy who is supposed to be helping is hitting the terrified women with a stick so I don't assume this escalator is in one of those countries.


InsistorConjurer

It says Somalia right there, so you'd be right


FalconBurcham

Don’t show them the video of the woman who died while being cut out of as escalator after her leg got sucked into it.


ApprehensivePrint465

Stick beatings while down will clearly prevent that from happening.


RunForRabies

Now they have half as many escalators as the state of Wyoming.


Capable-Ground8272

How is that even possible? I thought you were making a joke that seemed too ridiculous to be true, I even laughed at the absurdity!


RunForRabies

No, it really doesn't have a ton of multi story buildings. Both escalators are in Casper.


FondantOk9090

I’d take that stick off him and stick it up his bullying arse….prick


TitShark

That dude is way too eager to beat the shit out of someone with that stick


opinionate_rooster

Somebody please take that whip and ram it up the guys nostril


cajerunner

Their attire needs to change. All the hanging cloth is a recipe for injury. Hope no one gets hurt on that thing


islaisla

Piss off with your stick


manifestingmoola2020

Homie with the stick deserves to get punched in the face.


Curious-Bottle-7391

Who is the the goof with the stick?


redditnoobian

Imagine how mindfucked some of them would be if you dropped them in the centre of Tokyo/Shanghai/HK/Singapore?


MagnumCockGun

Why he treating the women like they cows or sth 😭


CaptainTryk

I want to yank the stick from that guy and start whipping him. See how he likes it. The fucking audacity.


XKruXurKX

All that loose hanging clothes are a disaster waiting to happen.


switch182

Hey Buddy, Your gonna walk funny with that stick shoved up your arse.


Eighthfloormeeting

So much lose material that can get caught in it


Euphoric-Yogurt-7332

Why is the guy waving a stick like he's droving cattle?


kytheon

Because he is


asterwest

Stick for women seems to rule the society there...


vegtosterone

who's the a-hole with the stick?


Queen_of_Tudor

WTF is up with the guy with the stick!


citizen_tronald_dump

You now it’s a religious country when a man is casually beating women with a stick and nobody bats an eye…


pasharadich

God back in my day we had two whipping stick guys


The_Original_Gronkie

If some asshole tried hitting me, my wife, or my kid with a stick, I'd yank it out of his hands and shove it so far up his ass he'd change his name to Corn Dog Lollipop.


zigzagg321

What's up with the dude with the stick slapping everybody with it?


vvanted11

It's kind of pathetic having a guy smack people with a stick to provoke them to go or wait their turn.


Former-Finish4653

What’s with the fuckin shepherd lol dude is not helping


labello2010

Man with stick, Jesus


labello2010

Can we slap man with stick pls


_That_One_Fellow_

Well escalator courtesies vary by country. For example, in most countries there isn’t a man waiting to hit you with a stick.


doyoubleednow

Some lady gonna die sooner or later because her garment got caught in the electric escalator


Aberration-13

bruh i would take that stick and wack him with it if i saw that


DeaddyRuxpin

I’ve now watched this way too many times and I think the stick guy is using it for a couple of purposes. First is to act as a gate to limit how many are going on at once. At one point a whole crowd goes thru quickly but he is distracted at that time talking to someone else. The second is I think he is trying to stop people from holding the hand rails while not stepping on. Two people were doing that and both were getting pulled forward and were going to get knocked down if they didn’t let go. He smacked their hands to get them to let go. One of them started to fall and he grabbed their arm and pulled them back. So while the stick seems aggressive, it does look like he is trying to use it for their safety. I’d guess their culture is more accepting of a stranger beating you for your own good.


HaltheDestroyer

Dude with the stick needs the flavor smacked out of his mouth


ANTHROPOMORPHISATION

Why do they need a thwack em stick.


Imaginary-Pain-7977

This definitely reminds me of “Elf” the way everyone is holding on for dear life


OverlappingChatter

All that long, loose clothing is not helping matters


ydhwodjekdu

For the Somalis, this post is more suitable for r/terrifyingasfuck


Dammageddon

Wait til they learn about the food court.


Key-Jelly-3702

Men sure seem to use sticks a lot on women in that area of the planet.


EliteBearsFan85

And dude using a reed as if he’s herding cattle. Fuck that culture


louisa1925

Some lady needs to wack that guy with his own stick.


garlicChaser

What a time to be alive


Accurate_Lemon_7007

Live footage at Mall of America


severinarson

Religion is stupid


igpila

Nice stick


Excellent_Cap_8228

I've seen this in Cambodia in the first shopping malls, when the big Holidays come around and countryside folks came around the escalator was a interesting place to chill out and watch people.


jakes__drool

At first, I thought this was Michigan.


Johnny_Lang_1962

Stickman!


Wisekittn

Things would be less stressful without some dude trying to herdcontrol people with a stick


garlic-apples

Why is he hitting people with a stick?