RatMaster999: Indubitably: LemSkroob: Too bad she didn't die. We need less stupid.

Wrong.

We need less need.

And less of your anger too, please.

Peace.

Less stupid and less anger might lead to less need. At least, I hope it would...

It would.

Tony_Pepperoni: she was able to get up and walk away just fine.

/why need scooter?

Thanks for explaining the joke, Tony.

edmo: what_now: the elevator has been out of operation for 16 months now so....
So... I'm forced to withhold the dumbass comment. For now....

So she's going to sue the city, right?

if she can walk, why the fark does she have a hoveround?

fellow escalator rider: "I'm coming! I'm coming!...I'm coming!..."

FloydA: How could she possibly have thought that would work?


Lazy scumbag didn't need it after all.

Hope her disability people see this and revoke it.

the_foo: fellow escalator rider: "I'm coming! I'm coming!...I'm coming!..."

Video is on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WmZRVsBSM

what_now: On the one hand, that made me laugh my ass off.

On the other hand, that's my station, and it's the second longest escalator in the country, and the elevator has been out of operation for 16 months now so....

I was going to call her a moron until I read that second half.

what_now: On the one hand, that made me laugh my ass off.

On the other hand, that's my station, and it's the second longest escalator in the country, and the elevator has been out of operation for 16 months now so....

Wouldn't that be a risky ADA violation?

skinink: FloydA: Ed Finnerty: That was funny. I completely lost it when the guy hits the emergency stop once she's HALFWAY up.

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Only about a tenth of the way up, actually. That escalator rises somewhere between 80 and 100 feet. The video doesn't show it, but that's a very long escalator.

That escalator (which looks like the Broadway Station) is nothing compared to the one at Porter Station on the Red Line. Now if she had almost made it to the top of the Porter escalator then started to fall down, two days later she still wouldn't have hit bottom.
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The video was better when I imagined Yakkety Sax playing over it.

I love that escalator ride. I think I recognize the douche bag MBTA guy who stops the escalator and just stands there. I hate him.

/this may be wishful thinking.

I just want to point out that this happened in Cambridge, not Boston.

Bummer. She was late for the Tea Party rally.

skinink: FloydA: Ed Finnerty: That was funny. I completely lost it when the guy hits the emergency stop once she's HALFWAY up.

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Only about a tenth of the way up, actually. That escalator rises somewhere between 80 and 100 feet. The video doesn't show it, but that's a very long escalator.

That escalator (which looks like the Broadway Station) is nothing compared to the one at Porter Station on the Red Line. Now if she had almost made it to the top of the Porter escalator then started to fall down, two days later she still wouldn't have hit bottom.
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The video was better when I imagined Yakkety Sax playing over it.

Hmm, the last time I was at the Sprint Center in KC, this escalator freaked me out. Sorry, Fark doesn't let me link the pic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_chalk_jhawk_ku/1535947899/

Hoverounds are made for people who have trouble walking, not for people that can't walk. My 320lb wheelchair would have crushed me like a bug if I tried that.

I tried not to laugh at this. That was until I saw how perfectly fine this woman walked DOWN the escalator.

/*cues up "Yakety Sax" and watches again*

Seems to me this sort of issue could be eliminated completely with one of two things:

A) No more stupid people
2) A first step or bump to block access to those unable to ride an escalator anyway

#2 seems more likely.

christhebloke: Hoverounds are made for people who have trouble walking, not for people that can't walk. My 320lb wheelchair would have crushed me like a bug if I tried that.

This sounds like a testable public safety hypothesis. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against you, I wouldn't even suggest that you be in the study unless you really wanted to be.

Give volunteers willing to sign a waiver some money, or a free scooter or something, and have a wide range of demographic groups try to get up the stairs with the chair/scooter. Maybe have a contest with high school/college students to try to design a safe way to improve the numbers afterward. Fund it with PPV or youtube advertising.

/Difficult and painful walking
//Something I was born with according to the doctors

This is the first time I can remember feeling bad for laughing at a video of someone's misfortune.


Eddy Gurge: markie_farkie: What a rascal she is!!!! Notice how all the other witnesses just hoveround?
You should have written this headline.
/not subby.

No, I'm grasping at the straw of belief that I could laugh Because the headline told me she was ok...



rhiannon: Sorry, but I can't stop laughing at the beginning of that. Good thing she thought "safety first" and used the handrail.

LOL all over again...



But, yeah, when I read the line about how officials thought adding more cameras would help cut down on crime, a tiny part of me thought "It's a trap!"/"She's a stunt woman!"

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This is a good start, but we need it to loop like she never stops falling down the escalator, like a really depressing Cyriak gif.

beefoe: I just want to point out that this happened in Cambridge, not Boston.

No, it's definitely Southie. I was at that station enough times to recognize the shiatty look of it. No Cambridge station looks as bad as that.

The sign was probably dirty.

Snapper Carr: It's hard enough doing this with a lightweight manual chair (you have to have enough arm strength and endurance to hold both yourself and the chair in position until you get to the end, fighting gravity the entire time) - I suspect it's nearly impossible in a power chair.

Actually, once you get it balanced it looks pretty easy.

/used to work with lesser abled persons and once witnessed disco dancing in a wheelchair. To Led Zeppelin.
//probably takes time to build up the skills though

skinink: beefoe: I just want to point out that this happened in Cambridge, not Boston.

No, it's definitely Southie. I was at that station enough times to recognize the shiatty look of it. No Cambridge station looks as bad as that.

My mistake. Other posters said Porter Square, but another article said the station was Broadway. Perhaps a Cambridgian visiting family in Southie?

Johnnyflash: skinink: FloydA: Ed Finnerty: That was funny. I completely lost it when the guy hits the emergency stop once she's HALFWAY up.



Hmm, the last time I was at the Sprint Center in KC, this escalator freaked me out. Sorry, Fark doesn't let me link the pic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_chalk_jhawk_ku/1535947899/

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It's not Fark, it's Flickr.

FloydA: Ed Finnerty: That was funny. I completely lost it when the guy hits the emergency stop once she's HALFWAY up.

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Only about a tenth of the way up, actually. That escalator rises somewhere between 80 and 100 feet. The video doesn't show it, but that's a very long escalator.

Ummm.... this is BROADWAY Station in South Boston.... not Porter....

Porters got two escalators and the stairs from hell.

Situations like this are why you ALWAYS hold the handrail on the escalator... I wonder how many people higher up went face first into jagged metal steps when the thing suddenly halted.

Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard person in a Hover Round which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned the person to fear and respect that escalator.

She is lucky as a motherfarker that she did not get scalped when her head hit the treads.

I really think that if someone were to tomorrow invent the escalator it would never get deployed given our current level of stupid and lawyers.

Good thing she didn't bite it at the top of the Wheaton Metro escalator....(or Rosslyn, or Dupont Circle....)

safeinsane: I tried not to laugh at this. That was until I saw how perfectly fine this woman walked DOWN the escalator.

She moves around better than I do, and I have a job delivering pizzas. She was even able to walk backwards while holding stuff in her arms. Quite a feat, if you ask me.

/not fat just back and joint problems, if you're wondering

what_now: On the one hand, that made me laugh my ass off.

On the other hand, that's my station, and it's the second longest escalator in the country, and the elevator has been out of operation for 16 months now so....

Ok, so it's not the escalator in the article as it's been determined, but WHY aren't people suing the shiat out of the MBTA for this? Why does it take so long to fix an elevator?

/so glad I don't take the T in anymore
//hubby does for work though, ha ha

Why do I get the feeling that we'll be reading a follow up article in a couple of days? It will turn out this lady has been pulling an insurance scam and the video, now viral and on your local nightly news, exposed her ruse.

I laughed way to hard at that.

Finally, the video of the texting woman walking into the shopping mall fountain has been topped!

LordOfThePings: The sign was probably dirty.

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What's that one the lower left suppose to mean, no Davros?

kokomo61: Johnnyflash: skinink: FloydA: Ed Finnerty: That was funny. I completely lost it when the guy hits the emergency stop once she's HALFWAY up.



Hmm, the last time I was at the Sprint Center in KC, this escalator freaked me out. Sorry, Fark doesn't let me link the pic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_chalk_jhawk_ku/1535947899/

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That escalator is definitely shorter than the "stairway to heaven" ones in the D.C. area. I don't recall noticing elevators though which is effed up (IIRC every underground station in Germany had them).

christhebloke: Hoverounds are made for people who have trouble walking, not for people that can't walk. My 320lb wheelchair would have crushed me like a bug if I tried that.


Trouble walking?

If they have trouble walking, they should walk or jog until they don't have trouble walking.

I see way too much of this lazy bullshiat in South Florida. Drives me up a wall.

Paraplegia? Ok. Sure.

Diabetic fat-ass? Fark. That.

Why the hell would someone hit the stop button when she's handicapped and only part way up? If the dude holds her until they reach the top, it'll be simpler for her to get back up and into her chair.

Am I the only one who thinks that this lady knew the elevator was out, went out and got a hoverround and purposely did this to hope for a pay day?

kokomo61: Good thing she didn't bite it at the top of the Wheaton Metro escalator....(or Rosslyn, or Dupont Circle....)

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Exactly.