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An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs
by a4isms 4y ago
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You
should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign,
just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for your convenience."
--Mitch Hedberg
- ryukafalz 4y agoThis is a funny quote, but for those who don’t know it’s also wrong. Escalators can indeed break, and violently: https://gizmodo.com/catastrophic-escalator-failure-in-rome-sends-crowd-spee-1829954495 https://gizmodo.com/catastrophic-escalator-failure-in-rome-s...
- Toutouxc 4y agoThere's also the fact that an escalator makes for some terrible stairs — the steps are much taller then what would be comfortable (and allowed, AFAIK) for stairs.