Boy killed instantaneously after head caught in escalators
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This further reinforces my escalator phobia. When I was a wee lad of 6 I was wearing sandals and decided to not step off the escalator, said escalator then started eating my sandal and scraping the skin of my toes, thankfully I saved my sandal and foot from that hungry escalator.
[QUOTE=devotchkade;34469565]Are you talking about the McDonald's coffee case? Because there's [i]much[/i] more to that case than, "Oh, the woman was too dumb to realize coffee is hot." Using this case as an example that all Americans are 'dumb' is profoundly stupid.
[editline]31st January 2012[/editline]
Oh, late. Sorry.
In any case, [url=http://neufeldlawfirm.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/stella-liebeck-mcdonalds-coffee-burns.jpg]this is what[/url] [url=http://justicebeforecharity.org/images/stella/stella1.png]her burns looked like[/url].[/QUOTE]
Holy shit that looks horrible, I hope she won the case at least, that's fucking despicable if McDonalds get away with it.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;34469195]why do escalators exist[/QUOTE]
Downward escalators are the most pointless thing ever
[QUOTE=RobbL;34476064]Downward escalators are the most pointless thing ever[/QUOTE]
Yeah it's faster to just jump down.
Escalators over here are made without the space underneath them, so it would be impossible to catch your head underneath like that. That and most of them you have to go to the other side of the main area of the floor to use the opposing escalator.
Sounds like it's just a poor design on their part.
[QUOTE=RobbL;34476064]Downward escalators are the most pointless thing ever[/QUOTE]
Maybe they use the old motors from the ascending ones just because they can...
[QUOTE=Swebonny;34462430]My fear over escalators started when I heard the story about a woman that stod on a broken step which broke due to her weight. She fell into the cogs and machinery, which killed her instantly...[/QUOTE]
I hate you, I'll now have to awkwardly take the escalators without standing on any steps.
What a way to go. Seriously, all these escalator stories... I like stairs best!
[QUOTE=The Vman;34463239]
It's so if you want to keep going up or keep going down you don't have to run all the way around to the other escalator, it's right next to you.[/QUOTE]
So alternate the direction of each set of two, you'll still be saving the same amount of space by having alternating sides empty and it'll be easier for someone who needs to turn around for whatever reason
Oh shit remember that asian janitor
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;34463419][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_unTyGZ3k[/media]
Yes.[/QUOTE]
Fuck [I]fuck [B]FUCK [U]FUCK[/U][/B][/I]
[B]DOES THIS HAVE TO BE POSTED IN EVERY FUCKING ESCALATOR THREAD JESUS.[/B]
[QUOTE=Swebonny;34462430]My fear over escalators started when I heard the story about a woman that stod on a broken step which broke due to her weight. She fell into the cogs and machinery, which killed her instantly...[/QUOTE]
Luckily I don't have to worry about that, due to the Helsinki subway system doing a maintenance run on their escalators.
Usually I use normal stairs if the choise exsists. But the subway is escalator only.
[editline]1st February 2012[/editline]
[video=youtube;R6W4qs8-jLE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6W4qs8-jLE[/video]
[editline]1st February 2012[/editline]
Wait! There is more.
[video=youtube;kC15PFpU46o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC15PFpU46o&feature=related[/video]
Wellp, there goes my good mood.
[QUOTE=Gundevil;34462766]Coming from the person who's country is too dumb to realize coffee is hot and things out of the microwave can burn you.[/QUOTE]
If you're talking about the Liebeck case, that was a perfectly valid court case ruling that companies can't serve coffee at "core of the sun" temperatures. Her settlement was also partially reduced because of the fact that she spilled it on herself, though the ruling was that McDonald's was mostly at fault for serving a highly unsafe product.
If you don't want this to happen move here,we have no escaletors of that type.
[QUOTE=SomeDumbShit;34476031]Holy shit that looks horrible, I hope she won the case at least, that's fucking despicable if McDonalds get away with it.[/QUOTE]
Only just saw this now.
She won the case, eventually. Initially she sought to settle for $20,000. This was considered a reasonable offer - her loss of income was $5,000; her medical expenses were ~$10,500; and future medical expenses were estimated at around $2,500. McDonald's, however, offered her $800 (after having previously settled similar cases by doing the same). It was only after this that she sought a lawyer, and several attempts to settle before a trial ended up with McDonald's refusing.
Eventually the jury found that McDonald's was 80% at fault, and Liebeck 20%. She was given $2.7m in punitive damages (which was reached by calculating the profits McDonald's makes in two days on hot coffee alone), in addition to $160,000 compensatory damages. However, the judge reduced the punitive damages to $480,000, which was appealed by both parties. They ended up settling out of court for an undisclosed amount, but we know it was less than $600,000.
The main problem was that McDonald's was overheating their coffee significantly - far more so than comparable food chains - and also that it knew that it was causing damage to its customers, but refused to stop. This lawsuit has been offered time and time again as 'proof' of frivolous litigation in America, but IMHO, when people say this, they rarely know the details of the case. There's a documentary that features this case significantly that came out last year, called, appropriately, [i]Hot Coffee[/i]. I sincerely recommend you download it if you're interested in this case, or, more generally, in the issue of tort reform (if you're unsure what that is, the movie does a great job of informing you about the situation, and why it's something to get angry about).
That's just sad. All I can say is at least he didn't suffer or anything, it was instant. Still scary though.
You had to bump an escalator-horror-story thread that's been inactive for a [I]week?[/I]
Welp, there goes my mood. [I]again.[/I]
how did it kill him? i've read some earlier explanations but i still don't see how unless the escalators in china go really fast or something
He was on a stairway to heaven... but it ended up in hell.
Don't other countries have those hanging warning things?
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fzd9540bmxw/TVF6j8tKfvI/AAAAAAAAADc/swtDJT_df_A/s1600/escalatorwarning.jpg[/img]
These things are mandatory here.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;34470033]I never understood why anyone likes the Final Destination movies, either. It's nothing other than bad acting and gore with zero understanding of biology or anything else, for that matter.[/QUOTE]
I've always found them interesting if you take them from the angle that it's one big Rube Goldberg machine. Exactly how many unrelated parts can come together to cause somebodies head to pop like an orange, etc.
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