Pray for their safety

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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.

As somone who has been on a broken escaltor that was not safe, the breaks can fail and then you have a big problem. Granted I'm not dead and didn't lose any limbs but degloving is still not something I'd like to risk.

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.

This is fked up. Never knew this was possible

A lot of people don't! Escalators are big toothed conveyor belts, with a human-friendly box around it, basically. The mechanisms break down, and there's a chance that box fails and you meet teeth.

Wdym box

The human-safe "box" that surrounds the man eating machinery. The part you as a human actually interface with

U mean the stairs that you step on?

Yes, that is what I am describing. And the railing, the bits that keep you from being pulled around the turns for the stairs..

What turns 😭💀

The turns at the top or bottom, where the stairs retract and go back around the loop

i think imma take the elevator instead

Yeah, man. Fun fact about elevators, in the exceedingly unlikely event of the elevators like, 600 redundancies to keep it from ever entering a free fall all fail, the elevator still most likely won't fall fast enough to seriously injure you. The air in the shaft has nowhere to go as the elevator falls, making it compress and act as a brake. Definitely prefer the elevators.

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.

Yeah it was a Chinese woman and her child. I linked it further up, but from the sounds of it maybe don't go looking for my link lol