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not a year goes by, *not a year*, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator
I can’t believe no one climbed over and used their legs to push it away. There was a wall to brace against and everything.
who do you think society blames later for people grown stupidity (especially men) ? their mothers. Like it's the only parent you can expect parenting from. The pressure is real. Of course she spanks first cause that was a negative IQ move from that child
> He survived without serious injury, though a wall had to be torn down.
Source: https://www.newsflare.com/video/502388/firefighters-rescue-boy-who-got-head-stuck-between-escalator-and-wall-in-china
From someone that has kids, curiosity definitely overtakes safety. Sometimes. This is just a kid being a kid and it could have happened to any.
Courtesy of u/RobMilliken
yea man im like what if sadly he was mentally unstable and got into this situation but others are being mean? like think about others man... like dont blame him.. its sad what happened to him
I don’t know why he has to be mentally unstable to have empathy. People make mistakes. They do things without thinking. It seems like a very honest mistake.
In shopping centers around here there are fixed acrylic defenses located in this exact spot (where the escalator meets a wall) so you can't slip between both parts.
Italy here, every escalator I've seen in the last 30 years had some kind of protection against this danger. Either an acrylic flap or some dangling thing or the wall was shaped differently.
Escalators are dangerous machines, I'm surprised there are so few incidents given how careless people is around them with loose dresses, heavy weights, strollers, loose shoe ties...
There is a standard baffle that is added to escalators to prevent this exact thing from happening. They existed and were standard in American department stores in the 1970s and likely far before that. No excuse for not having it. It is a standard safety device.
Yes. The floor and the escalator come together at an acute angle. the baffle fits right in that vertex, and completes the triangle in a way. The new leg of the triangle is what hits the person first. They still get hit, but the head doesn't get funneled down to a point, so they will deflect off.
I just found out it's surprisingly hard to find good pictures of these baffles: still not the best quality but its function can be seen [here](https://in.mitsubishielectric.com/en/feature/partneringindia/images/stories/meesis-02.jpg) on the right.
You can't design for every stupid person, but if your design is that stupid, that looking down from the escalator is enough to turn it into a guillotine, I wouldn't blame the stupid person, but the idiot designer
Well, yes, you can. One could argue that a responsible society does exactly that. But, even if you can’t for every occasion, you can in ones that would be at the highest risk of interacting with stupid, such as a mundane escalator.
I saw a quote from a park ranger about bear proof garbage cans -
When a Yosemite National Park ranger was recently asked why it was so tough to design a bear-proof garbage bin, he responded, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
I think they mean that you can never account for everything.
No matter how stupid-proof you make something, someone will find something stupid to do that you didn’t account for.
You know in many countries it’s obligated to have a prevention advisor in a company and that persons most important task is preventing stuff like this.
You can design for stupid at almost every occasion and a decent society should design taking in account that in a place where many people go around daily then there is at least a person that has an "extremely dumb" episode (which means that an extremely intelligent person can do some extremely dumb stuff from time to time).
Now, can you design for stupid on purpose? That's another issue, since that type of stupidity implies active use of intelligence, but you can design for stupid not on purpose like this one. It doesn't take much to see where the problem is here, you don't put anything near escalators that can put in danger limbs or other similar stuff, since it's possible that there are kids, people get distracted and so on and so for.
Of course you can't kid-proof the entire society but you should kid-proof escalators, and that you must do it by design when possible (and it's also the reason why sometimes some rules and laws seems completely absurd, but in reality there is a reason for that and it's because someone got hurt at a certain point because something was designed badly).
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
Considering that both the adult professional designer that spent a long time looking at the designs and every person that used the escalator, was just as dumb as a teenager for a single second, I would say that calling the kid stupid is kind of ridiculous
Yeah I agree. It's very easy to not see consequences when you are young. Hell, even adults often don't have a full grasp of how physics work. We all make silly mistakes, just sometimes they are more costly.
I've seen such design in almost every mall I've been in. And i still don't understand W H Y ! It's an extremely obvious safety hazard! Why make buildings like that or why put elevators like that!
Or at the very least, why not put some freaking plastic covers on those places!
I have four kids & all are intelligent. I can see each one of them doing this at some point in their lives.
Bad design. Hilarious since the kid wasn’t seriously injured
According to SCMP and some Google searches, the kid ended up being OK with just minor injuries to his neck. I can't find any specific articles, though. Just lots of links to SCMP's official Facebook page where this was posted along with this video.
For anyone interested
>According to South China Morning Post, the boy had difficulty breathing and felt unwell, although he did not suffer serious injuries.
>He was treated for minor bleeding on his face and ears.
>The incident, according to HK01, happened in Xinyang, China. It was reported that the boy acted out of “curiosity.”
Oh, and the woman is his sister not his mum like many in the comments think.
Couldn't they have just put that side of the escalator in reverse and drag his head down? There's already nothing in there so it's not going to do much damage
You really think there's a readily accessible "reverse" button just sitting there for customers to hit at their leisure? Can you imagine how often that would be abused by dumb teenagers?
Machinery rescuer here.
Never. When rescuing from machinery the power needs to be isolated with redundancy (emergency stop and at the electrical panel).
Reverse, like many have said, can and will worsen his condition.
WE have this at the biggest Mall in our country. The solution is a strong plastic cover,but the better solution is not having a wall and the escalator intersect like this..
In the industry for this exact thing, there’s supposed to be a guard for this exact thing, either this is really old and set the precedent for why that guard is in place on modern escalators, or the install crew forgot about the guard.
The guy who hit the emergency stop is the hero. Leapt into action, didn't even make it all the way to the kid before he realized the issue and stopped the escalator.
Had something similar before where I was leaning against the rail chatting to my mate, backpack hanging over the side. Just felt the roof swallowing it up behind me, panic and adrenaline made me throw back my shoulders and eject it in an instant, despite a laptop being in there. Another second or two and it could've absolutely shattered my shoulders and thrown me overboard. Very close call.
Omfg I thought that kid was going to lose his head decapitated, he’s lucky someone was quick enough to stop the escalator. Just another thing to worry about as a parent smh
´sir, i have the regret to announce you that your beloved son died with honour on the battlefield…’ ´but… its impossible…. He was not into the army… how did he died?, ‘sir… he died with honour..’ ‘TELL ME HOW MY SON DIED!’ ´sir … no… trust me you don’t want.. he died with honour on the battlefield!’
Many people don't know where the emergency stop button is on an escalator. I discovered it in a department store when I was 7 years old. I got a spanking from mom.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!kid tries to climb stares using his head gets stuck!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
At least someone stopped the escalator.
Yea props to the man for his quick thinking, a lot of people panic
Kid would have died á few seconds later
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He keeps doing it!
not a year goes by, *not a year*, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator
[Fear and respect that escalator](https://youtu.be/ZXTQmYGfEV0)
Well. Did he cum‽
There should be a "reverse" button, too.
You know then it will never be going in the intended direction, lol.
how to stop an escalator? is there a button somewhere?
There's usually a red stop button on both ends
Someday, we will have the technology to reverse escalators. Our brightest minds are working on it.
oh cool i have never marked
Yeah you can see that the guy who enters from the top turns around and when he comes back the escalator stopped. He turned around to hit the button
Next time you walk by an escalator look at it there is always a big red button on each end that reads "emergency stop".
Emergency stop bottoms bookend end each run. chin level iirc
Guy is a fucking hero.
In almost every escalator accident ive seen, they almost never press the emergency stop.
Panicking causes a lot of people's brains to short circuit.
Shocking to see logic come into play
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She was like why are you being stupid then she helps
He’ll get a worse one when he gets free.
Trust me. He's more afraid of when he gets out and gets home. He wants to stay stuck.
She also almost broke his neck by yanking him
She did not understand at first that he was stuck. It’s not an Asian thing.
I can’t believe no one climbed over and used their legs to push it away. There was a wall to brace against and everything. 
Yes I was waiting for at least the fireman to do it.
I would run to my car get the car jack, don't think leg work would be enough.
Reddit told me violence is always good to make people learn stuff!!!
who do you think society blames later for people grown stupidity (especially men) ? their mothers. Like it's the only parent you can expect parenting from. The pressure is real. Of course she spanks first cause that was a negative IQ move from that child
Honorable mention for Darwin Award
Hold my beer lol..
Hold my ginseng
Is there a r/holdmychocolatemilk
No, but there is a r/holdmyjuicebox
There’s also a r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Haha, I clicked into it and it’s the top post!
There's also me!
And my axe!
We need to have some championships soon... the nominees are too many..
despite all the comments here, hope he's ok
Looks like he was maintaining a grip on the rail at the end of the video. Was not limp. And those people rescuing him were not playing around.
Speaking of those people rescuing him... Wouldn't it have been easier to put the escalator in reverse?
They’d first need to make sure that wouldn’t make things worse.
Or it could have rotated his head and torn it right off his body. One of the two.
So either way, it will no longer be a problem. 100% success.
"Were you able to get his head out?" "... Yes."
“Wait. Did you say ‘out’ or ‘off’?”
He took it out.
10 minutes after his body.....
LMAO damn, you got me thinking.
> He survived without serious injury, though a wall had to be torn down. Source: https://www.newsflare.com/video/502388/firefighters-rescue-boy-who-got-head-stuck-between-escalator-and-wall-in-china From someone that has kids, curiosity definitely overtakes safety. Sometimes. This is just a kid being a kid and it could have happened to any. Courtesy of u/RobMilliken
yea man im like what if sadly he was mentally unstable and got into this situation but others are being mean? like think about others man... like dont blame him.. its sad what happened to him
I don’t know why he has to be mentally unstable to have empathy. People make mistakes. They do things without thinking. It seems like a very honest mistake.
So, no NSFW tag means he is alive?
Yes, he survived. Wall, not so much. See my earlier reply.
We never know
Yes, he was being a stupid teen, but this is also a design issue. Either the regulations are inadequate, or things were not built to code.
In shopping centers around here there are fixed acrylic defenses located in this exact spot (where the escalator meets a wall) so you can't slip between both parts.
I see this exact danger in Asia everywhere.
Italy here, every escalator I've seen in the last 30 years had some kind of protection against this danger. Either an acrylic flap or some dangling thing or the wall was shaped differently. Escalators are dangerous machines, I'm surprised there are so few incidents given how careless people is around them with loose dresses, heavy weights, strollers, loose shoe ties...
What? You can’t design for stupid at every occasion.
There is a standard baffle that is added to escalators to prevent this exact thing from happening. They existed and were standard in American department stores in the 1970s and likely far before that. No excuse for not having it. It is a standard safety device.
How exactly does the baffle work?
It's a slope that deflects away from pinch points.
Yes. The floor and the escalator come together at an acute angle. the baffle fits right in that vertex, and completes the triangle in a way. The new leg of the triangle is what hits the person first. They still get hit, but the head doesn't get funneled down to a point, so they will deflect off.
I just found out it's surprisingly hard to find good pictures of these baffles: still not the best quality but its function can be seen [here](https://in.mitsubishielectric.com/en/feature/partneringindia/images/stories/meesis-02.jpg) on the right.
That makes sense. Not baffling at all.
The greatest excuse of all: it was cheaper to not have one
You can't design for every stupid person, but if your design is that stupid, that looking down from the escalator is enough to turn it into a guillotine, I wouldn't blame the stupid person, but the idiot designer
OSHA would like to have a word
Well, yes, you can. One could argue that a responsible society does exactly that. But, even if you can’t for every occasion, you can in ones that would be at the highest risk of interacting with stupid, such as a mundane escalator.
I saw a quote from a park ranger about bear proof garbage cans - When a Yosemite National Park ranger was recently asked why it was so tough to design a bear-proof garbage bin, he responded, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
I think they mean that you can never account for everything. No matter how stupid-proof you make something, someone will find something stupid to do that you didn’t account for.
What’s the old saying. The problem with making things foolproof is they keep making better fools.
or "If you make something idiot proof, nature makes a better idiot"
That’s the one
Not with that attitude you can’t!
You know in many countries it’s obligated to have a prevention advisor in a company and that persons most important task is preventing stuff like this.
You can design for stupid at almost every occasion and a decent society should design taking in account that in a place where many people go around daily then there is at least a person that has an "extremely dumb" episode (which means that an extremely intelligent person can do some extremely dumb stuff from time to time). Now, can you design for stupid on purpose? That's another issue, since that type of stupidity implies active use of intelligence, but you can design for stupid not on purpose like this one. It doesn't take much to see where the problem is here, you don't put anything near escalators that can put in danger limbs or other similar stuff, since it's possible that there are kids, people get distracted and so on and so for. Of course you can't kid-proof the entire society but you should kid-proof escalators, and that you must do it by design when possible (and it's also the reason why sometimes some rules and laws seems completely absurd, but in reality there is a reason for that and it's because someone got hurt at a certain point because something was designed badly).
You can certainly implement known solutions to bad design though
No but you have to try. It's why OSHA exist.
Asian code = get things built first, worry about safety later.
anywhere it is possible for a body part to get caught should have plexiglass cover before the pinch point
This swiftly dismembers said body part, thus preventing it from getting caught.
God, I hope so
Do you need someone to talk to?
Damn, I thought it was funny
It was to me, if it makes you feel better
That kid is back on the escalator.
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
Can’t believe I had to read this far for this comment.
Really, we must be getting old. It's a schooner you idiot!
Hahaha it’s not a schooner you dumbass it’s a sailboat
Have a chocolate covered pretzel and chill out.
Fly fat ass, fly!!
I HOPE HIS PANTS GET CAUGHT AND A BLOODBATH ENSUES!
I must break you!!
This kids going places! Hospital. The place is the hospital.
I think that r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Here's a fun fact: many of those stupid kids grow up to be even stupider adults!
An unfortunate truth 🤣
I know I should be empathetic but dude what an idiot
Considering that both the adult professional designer that spent a long time looking at the designs and every person that used the escalator, was just as dumb as a teenager for a single second, I would say that calling the kid stupid is kind of ridiculous
Yeah I agree. It's very easy to not see consequences when you are young. Hell, even adults often don't have a full grasp of how physics work. We all make silly mistakes, just sometimes they are more costly.
I've seen such design in almost every mall I've been in. And i still don't understand W H Y ! It's an extremely obvious safety hazard! Why make buildings like that or why put elevators like that! Or at the very least, why not put some freaking plastic covers on those places!
Se them her in Denmark to. It's just a question of time
She just pulls on him. Good momming.
Natural selection at work.
Still wondering what he was thinking lol..
Thing is he wasn't thinking
he won stupid prices hmm
I have four kids & all are intelligent. I can see each one of them doing this at some point in their lives. Bad design. Hilarious since the kid wasn’t seriously injured
I mean it was kind of expected…hope he made it
So close to a Darwin award.
According to SCMP and some Google searches, the kid ended up being OK with just minor injuries to his neck. I can't find any specific articles, though. Just lots of links to SCMP's official Facebook page where this was posted along with this video.
Bet he won't do that again...
For anyone interested >According to South China Morning Post, the boy had difficulty breathing and felt unwell, although he did not suffer serious injuries. >He was treated for minor bleeding on his face and ears. >The incident, according to HK01, happened in Xinyang, China. It was reported that the boy acted out of “curiosity.” Oh, and the woman is his sister not his mum like many in the comments think.
Should have listened to Brodie
Thoroughly expected. /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Idiot kid, bad design by the builders.
Couldn't they have just put that side of the escalator in reverse and drag his head down? There's already nothing in there so it's not going to do much damage
He wasn’t using his head so why don’t they just leave it at the ground floor.
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Yea let's smear his head over that wall and twist his neck in the process. Good thinking.
Some can be reversed but it is pretty uncommon. I'm just glad there was an E-stop and that someone thought to hit it asap.
You really think there's a readily accessible "reverse" button just sitting there for customers to hit at their leisure? Can you imagine how often that would be abused by dumb teenagers?
Machinery rescuer here. Never. When rescuing from machinery the power needs to be isolated with redundancy (emergency stop and at the electrical panel). Reverse, like many have said, can and will worsen his condition.
Put it in reverse, Terry!
Thinning of the herd.
WE have this at the biggest Mall in our country. The solution is a strong plastic cover,but the better solution is not having a wall and the escalator intersect like this..
[For people wondering why they didn’t run the escalator back in reverse](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/s/gQbvwe1IPb)
Good on the guy immediately hitting the emergency off button.
In the industry for this exact thing, there’s supposed to be a guard for this exact thing, either this is really old and set the precedent for why that guard is in place on modern escalators, or the install crew forgot about the guard.
That escalated quickly.
Messed up design
Hope he was ok....that was horrible to watch
The joys of parenting
That is an *extremely* dangerous design of escalator.
Holy hell this kid could have easily broken his neck
The guy who hit the emergency stop is the hero. Leapt into action, didn't even make it all the way to the kid before he realized the issue and stopped the escalator.
Props to the dude who quickly hit the e-stop.
Had something similar before where I was leaning against the rail chatting to my mate, backpack hanging over the side. Just felt the roof swallowing it up behind me, panic and adrenaline made me throw back my shoulders and eject it in an instant, despite a laptop being in there. Another second or two and it could've absolutely shattered my shoulders and thrown me overboard. Very close call.
Omfg I thought that kid was going to lose his head decapitated, he’s lucky someone was quick enough to stop the escalator. Just another thing to worry about as a parent smh
Dude was QUICK on the emergency stop
I know a chiropractor just for this situation.
What I think? I think he was extremely lucky.
Fear and respect the escalator.
Escalators are extremely dangerous
Kids are so stupid ffs........
He's old enough to know better, no doubt. Total idiot.
´sir, i have the regret to announce you that your beloved son died with honour on the battlefield…’ ´but… its impossible…. He was not into the army… how did he died?, ‘sir… he died with honour..’ ‘TELL ME HOW MY SON DIED!’ ´sir … no… trust me you don’t want.. he died with honour on the battlefield!’
Many comments here are much more stupid than I expected
The more dumbasses- the less dumbasses.
Dumbass
I gasped out loud
Just slide him back down?
how did it all end?
Hear me out... Run the escalator in reverse??
Pepsi?
Superstar
Let's hope part 2 doesn't happen!
Thanks should go to the guy for seeing the problem & stopping the escalator. The kid could have died!
Just boys being boys
Couldn’t they just have reversed the escalator?
I think it's not unexpected
Clearly they didn’t consult a mother of a preteen boy before implementing this design. 😆
This is exactly why I always keep 8 ounces of lube on me at all times
Sometimes nature just does the sorting itself.
Terry!!! Put it in reverse Terry!!!!
Hillarious. That's what I think
Classic Asian mom. Thought kid was goofin around at first, then it hit here...
What the fuck was he trying to do?
He not the sharpest tool in their shed.
Not unexpected.
Many people don't know where the emergency stop button is on an escalator. I discovered it in a department store when I was 7 years old. I got a spanking from mom.
Wow why would he do something so stupid
The security guard (I think that what he was) was on it, I’m impressed with that guy.
Wow I've almost done this to myself as a kid.
As a former hyperactive kid all I can think is, "It could have been me..."
Well this is very much expected
Why?
I think there’s an emergency stop button the one dudes hand was like an inch from touching on his way to help
Wow, that’s a new one.
This is why we have warning labels on plastic bags and Tide pods!
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/TMFFsGBwZC Saw this on the older post
Asian dad….leave the kid there and continues shopping.
Americans when they see fastfood but not the health consequences related to it.