Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
I know it’s a quote, but if the brakes failed on an escalator then yes it would be unusable even as stairs, however you wouldn’t be stuck on it at that point, you’d be in a pile at the bottom.
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
You could probs google it and find it pretty readily, something like ‘escalator failure reddit’ or that. It’s like mall footage of an escalator that has motor failure or something and because it’s… well really heavy it basically it snaps at some point and just rips down with people just falling into the pit where the inner parts stay underneath.
The scene you’re probably thinking of is from one of the Final Destination movies. Not sure I’d count those as the most solid of evidence.
They could also be referring to the time a woman threw her child clear from a failing elevator and then got promptly consumed. Happened in China.
Edit to add:
Could also be this one. Turns out there’s a lot of incidents of people being monched.
C. C I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I don’t watch those movies and the one I’m thinking about was from (iirc) an asian mall CCTV recording or something to that effect.
My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn’t want to believe this
This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
They have somewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications. It does not mention cue ever taking any line-related meaning.
It’s a fake meme.
That said, escalator break downs can kill people. They don’t always just stop, they free wheel and smash everyone into a pile at the bottom.
