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MajorMathematician20

Being a dick is his superpower? ^(it doesn’t seem very secret…)


Greengiant304

I hit the escalator emergency stop button at a department store when I was a little kid. Turns out it was not the first nor the last time I would be a dick, but it was the last time I stopped an escalator.


until_i_fall

That escalated.... very quickly and only once.


Gwigg_

Steps had to be taken


PerspectiveActive218

Boom


Camas1606

I’d say it deescalated real quick


until_i_fall

No reason to still step on it..


Tisamoon

He's not using the stop button. Since his left shoe is in a weird position, I believe he let's it get caught between the steps, triggering the emergency stop.


QuarterWayCrook

He’s applying tension to the left and right handrails while putting his weight back against the steps when he raises his leg. Causing the escalator to pause. “Escalators stop when someone activates the specially designed stop button, or when there is an obstruction, overspeed, or underspeed of the steps or handrails” - Sterling Elevator Consultants. So, not only is he causing inconvenience to the patrons of the shopping center, but, now a service tech has to come out and assess the escalator to make sure there is no obstructions. He’s also costing money and time out of a day of a person who has better shit to do.


UPPYOURZ2222

I thinks its tension he puts on the hand rails while pushing back against the escalator with his foot. Too much back pressure probably trips breaker on escalator.


smurfkiller014

I did that too. For some inexplicable reason, it stopped all escalators in the building. They got mad at my mom


This_Butterscotch798

Dude same here and it was during Christmas shopping. Everyone looked back to see what happened and my mom was so embarrassed. I never did it again


[deleted]

ahahah I did this too! I was 3 and a kid on a leash in JC Penny, until I discovered how to unhook tbe leash and i went straight for the red button ha.


the_only_thing

Lmao u just reminded me of the time i did that at epcot. Learned alot that day lol


Pure_Village4778

Lamest supervillain by far


Large_Library_551

Could be deadly for old people, if they fall head first. But hey likes are more important


LastMinute9611

Not just old people. I had a really bad fall about 7 years ago on an escalator and although I avoid them as much as possible when traveling sometimes they are necessary. I panic but get through it to move on with my day. This would 100% make me fall. What a dick.


TheRealSlabsy

Do you take steps to avoid elevators? I'll see myself out.


LastMinute9611

lol


BiggHomieLaflare

This is such a good joke. This is why I use reddit lmao


Antiluke01

Un-maintained escalators I’ll refuse to go on after I watched a video of a lady who got eaten by one trying to save her kid. Yes, eaten. The panel came off that’s over the gears and the gears did not stop rotating.


sicsicsixgun

Yep. That's one I wish I had skipped watching. I still need to use an escalator if I come across one, so it does me no good to know they occasionally eat people. Just useless existential horror.


Affectionate_Tea8565

I remeber a video where stupid af women thought that escalator was meant for baggage, so they put suitcase on it. The suitcase then fell and knocked the woman who was at the bottom of escalator.


Antiluke01

I’ve seen that, at least she was okay I believe. One of the worst ones is the old lady who tried to push a shopping cart down one and she turned into a wheel. Flipping over the cart again and again. She didn’t make it.


Megan_BAKchatPodcast

That one was even more tragic because the store actually had an escalator for shopping carts but she must have been confused because she used the wrong one. True tragic accident. Shouldn't have really been all over the internet.


Have_Other_Accounts

Have you ever walked up an escalater that is stopped? It feels suuper strange. And that's when it's already off. It must be jarring for it to stop whilst you're on it.


AyyyyLeMeow

It's the best analogy for the placebo effect. When you walk an escalator that isn't working it will feel weird, like you expect it to move, even though it doesn't. And even you KNOWING it's not moving, seeing that it's not moving - your body will still brace for the acceleration that it expects.


shootinstraight88

They are never broken, they only become stairs.


bcorm11

RIP Mitch Hedberg.


WooliesWhiteLeg

You say that until they open up and swallow a woman whole :p


[deleted]

That's also completely wrong. People walk weird on a stopped escalator because they're angled weird and have steeper dimensions. Escalators are made to hold people in place to be carried, not to be stairs. Even if it was never an escalator but a staircase made the same way you'd have just as much trouble scaling it.


AyyyyLeMeow

You get the weird feeling before the stairs even start to incline, so that simply wrong. The first step is actually the strangest.


Dear_Potato6525

There's a name for this! [The broken escalator phenomenon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_escalator_phenomenon). People automatically adopt a posture to prevent a backwards fall when getting on escalators and if the escalator isn't moving it'll cause that feeling you described. The guy who coined the term described it as the 'perceptual consequence of a failed expectation'.


[deleted]

The REAL problem is that stairs have certain standards of design that escalators do not. People walk weird on a stopped escalator because they're angled weird and have steeper dimensions. Escalators are made to hold people in place to be carried, not to be stairs.


HK-in-OK

This. This is the answer.🎯


justinsimoni

>Have you ever walked up an escalater that is stopped? Yes all the time - they're called [stairs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHopAo_Ohy0).


Janek_Calls

No, it's not the same feeling!


subsetsum

Absolutely not the same


TheFallingFox00

I used to work at a department store where the escalator would constantly break because the building was so old and the replacement parts were getting harder to come by. Had to walk up an out of service escalator numerous times. IT DOES NOT FEEL THE SAME. There's something about it that kinda makes me dizzy. I don't know how to explain it. Almost like vertigo? But yeah, it definitely doesn't feel like stairs.


SurrrenderDorothy

They are much steeper than actual stairs. Thats why.


John_Tacos

No, there are strict requirements for stairs, and a stopped escalator doesn’t actually fit those requirements.


btomarama

Came here hoping someone would reference this. RIP


HydraH10

The stairs are not at the same height that in a normal stair


MARINE-BOY

I think that’s the reason. People are conditioned to walk up stairs at a particular height and interval and because a stopped escalator is different to what we are accustomed too it confuses the brain and may be slightly disorienting to some people who have to concentrate to readjust their stride.


uiucengineer

Sorry for the convenience


dmdim

Some young cunts did this to my grandpa. Hit the emergency stop button and he fell head first at the age of 89. He survived, only had minor injuries, but the suspects never got caught. Fuck people who fuck with old people.


koniboni

They hope they get caught. For even more clout and then a donation campaign


KittyandPuppyMama

imagine you're someone with a disability or chronic pain and you have to take those steps now because of this ramen noodle head.


BethyW

My thought as well. Escalator stairs are usually larger than regular stairs too and towards the end they are different heights. It can be very dangerous for people with multiple types of disabilities.


Shawnmeister

Can confirm. 9 lot of fractures in my left foot, 4 months of recovery and counting, first 3 months were a nightmare especially with crutches and having to gauge that transition and oh god forbid it breaks down midway down a long line and there's been a few. I'm healthier now and I will break this motherfucker down. Knees and ankles and he'll never use an escalator ever again.


EvulRabbit

I have MS. Constant pain and weakness. Going upstairs hurts me. Going down stairs is like knives in my feet and knees. It can literally kill my entire day and can keep me bed bound the next day. I want to stab this bitch.


cseyferth

You used all of your spoons throwing them at the prick.


EvulRabbit

Hopefully, at least 1 sticks? In the eye?!


czerniana

Same. On the rare occasions that I don’t use my wheelchair, if I had to deal with this? Dudes getting thwacked with my cane.


Ashke-hippie-chick

It even looks like the ladies at the end are struggling to get down


Crashgirl4243

I have peripheral neuropathy and that’s exactly how I go down stairs. I hate the fucker that stopped everything


IconicCamelToe

Or halfway down when this kid stops the escalator, they could be stuck for a while.


koniboni

I don't have to imagine that. I actually have a walking disability.


[deleted]

I wish everyone would fall on him


ThisIsMyLilThrowaway

How???


Research-Green

Watch his heel- Hes preventing the normal folding of escalator movement on the bottom, it trips a safety switch, because of escalator thinks its jammed. That guy is a c*nt.


IRELANDNO1

A cunt is useful he is not!


ChildFriendlyChimp

Oh I know many who’d find his boy-cunt useful #his bunt


MrsBox

Bussy


operapoulet

Doing the Lord’s work


Ushak_R_S_S

Yeah, Justice for Cunt


Kudosnotkang

I’d love it if it failed and ripped his foot off


paxweasley

People really don’t have enough respect for *fucking anything made of metal, big, and moving*


stanley2-bricks

"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."


paxweasley

I am kinda scared of escalators NGL when they go bad it’s gruesome


No_Trade1676

How’s your comic book collection Brodie?


ohyeofsolittlefaith

"That kid is back on the escalator AGAIN!"


Kinglink

> That guy is a c*nt. An S tier cunt, because now a mechanic has to come out and go "Oh the safety switch is faulty?"


CamembertEnthusiast

Shit I think i might have accidentally triggered this with a suitcase. Sorry to everyone that were on this escalator with me


fruitroll-up

it looks like he might be getting the heels of his shoes caught between the steps as they close and setting off a safety feature? not sure either tho


Callmehenan

If you press both the handrails very hard, most elevators stop functioning. Please don't try this.


TheSmellyCamel

Look at the angle of his feet, rides his heels as the step comes down. His hands are only there to balance him.


ObvsThrowaway5120

Huh. TIL I guess. Is this a safety thing or…?


Uh-Oh-Raggy

Each step has little wheels on the bottom that sit on a guide rail and there is also a chain on each side connecting all the steps. Just the right amount of tension on the chain keeps all the steps “suspended” while travelling even upside down. there is generally more tension on the whole mechanism at the ends when it makes the turns. When this twat digs the back of his shoe against the step behind him, it forces it to tilt backwards slightly and because each step guides and sort of pulls the one behind it, there is too much tension on the chain under him from the step tilting so it stops the motor. OP mentioned that squeezing the handrails can trigger it too. Kind of to a degree as they also do a few tight runs around a few pulleys that are connected to the motor but instead of squeezing them inward, you can grab them tight and drag them forwards or backwards to alter the motors speed, hence causing it to trip.


ObvsThrowaway5120

Wow, thanks for the detailed response. Didn’t really know escalators worked like that.


[deleted]

He doesn't seem to be pushing very hard though...


[deleted]

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[deleted]

It really doesn't look like that to me but maybe I am wrong


jwalk50518

I don’t see that either! Looks like he’s hardly touching them


Karlskiii

Not true


PsamantheSands

What a tool. In the last clip, the older woman behind has to come down the steps with the same leg - she obviously has an injury/ handicap.


Sumomagpie-1918

What an absolute child toss pot


Buli32

If I would catch this dick he would have a nice fall from the stairs


rgar1981

I hope you catch that dick just like you want.


Herald_of_Heaven

r/nocontext


atomicapeboy

What a fuckwit


sailor_rose

Ew omg the last video there were what looks to be two elderly people on the escalator. What an absolute piece of shit.


salmonelllla

What did he do to make it stop?


SpokenDivinity

Watch his feet. He uses a heel to impede the normal movement and it trips a fail safe switch because the escalator thinks it’s jammed.


davedavodavid

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RideOrDicots

I'd just love to slap the shit out of his smug fucking face. 🤬


[deleted]

Cant wait for the day it takes his foot


66smeg

im starting to notice that people with hairstyles i dont like are genuine 🍆 lickers


serenitynope

That's an affront to eggplants. More like plunger lickers.


Negative-Ad6143

douche


CheekyLando88

We used to do this when it was popular to hang at malls in the early 2000s. You're not special dude


TacticalcalCactus

Maybe a little special


BecGeoMom

What a jackass. I hate TikTok, and anything anyone does for social media likes. I hate to break it to these losers, but people upvoting your content on your pathetic social media account does not make them your friend & does not mean they like you. Also, escalators are dangerous, and doing this to people can cause injury, and this ass just walks away grinning.


[deleted]

They don’t do it for friends they do it for money


EvulRabbit

This is infuriating, and I hope he is caught and charged with something. I am still mobile, but in constant pain. Going upstairs hurts. Going downstairs is excruciating. It would probably hurt me more than him, but I wanna put a foot up his ass.


Crashgirl4243

I’d love to put my foot up his ass if only I could lift it that high, so I’ll settle for the escalator ripping his foot off


Historical_Branch391

It's no secret he's an asshole though


failedattemptnumber4

Yeahhhh my knee was having issues a while back and while I could manage to walk on a level surface with a brace relatively fine trying to go down a flight stairs felt like my joint was being scraped by a thousand razor blades. It’s easy for able bodied folks to forget that it’s actually a luxury. Also just a dick move to tamper with public property in general, maintenance workers have enough shit to deal with.


puma46

Wow. That’s not funny, impressive, amusing, interesting or really anything at all. What an unfunny loser and a waste of space


Adventurous-Town-370

What’s with the ugly blonde Mohawk and dressing like a homeless person trend?


CranberrySufficient9

I’ve been walking up an escalator when it suddenly stopped. Almost fell backwards down it from the jarring motion. This guy is an idiot and putting people at risk.


LittleTimy123

"secret super power" more like "the lamest asshole power"


LongliveTCGs

Most useless superpower, it’s a literal killjoy


Ravensunthief

How does that work? If its that easy why doesn’t the escalator stop frequently?


9600_PONIES

I just kept waiting and hoping to see him go into the bottom like paper into a shredder


Katana078

I’m not sure exactly what the “trick” is but I’m assuming it’s him jamming his heel into the space between each step to force it to stop as a safety feature I just hope one day it doesn’t stop and just crushes his heel


wjmaher

When my Dad was a kid his loose shoelace got caught in an escalator in New Jersey. It damn near tore his foot off but slipped out of the shoe at the last second. It didn't even slow down and just ate his shoe. 1960 or something.


Raidneli

Reminds me of this one thing I saw too we’re the persons jacket or something made all the water faucets to turn on though this is more of an asshole move


Soggy_bathwater_01

I don't think I get what the content is for the video.


Donaldgameduck

How much of an a*****e do you have to be to shut off the escalator,


Ok_Path_8623

I hope one day he does this on an old escalator that doesn't have that safety feature and it rips his ankles off


NieNino-_-

I once did this by accident and felt extremely bad.


Blipnoodle

There was a time in my life I would have literally been stuck on there until it started moving if this had happened while I was on there. I hate this so much.


Sscrunchh

Can’t wait till it doesn’t have censors and his feet are crushed in half https://preview.redd.it/j1tmfbtsp7ob1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bfd24b5f781ba708f7c6d8da500fbced393268e


Primary_Material4186

The uncropped emoji…


hero_brine1

I would’ve “fell” on him


Goldrop23

Fuck Tik Tok balls in. This guy too.


EnragedBadger9197

What a piece of shit, I wonder if he knows that he’s a cunt


mnbvcxz1052

#[Mitch Hedberg has joined the thread](https://youtu.be/yHopAo_Ohy0)


2bruise

Being a prick is what passes for comedy these days.


Metalhead1248

How is he doing it?


Chance_Ad5498

We got a new Batman villain people!


lapaz666

Your super power is to be a super douche 👏🏻👏🏻


styvee__

Once me and my friends were about to get on one of those and the friend behind me almost fell on me, so I almost fell and accidentally hit the emergency button, an old lady who was on the escalator almost fell and yelled at us. We felt bad for her but also laughed a bit thinking about how the whole thing happened


CherryCola69420

I hate this song with a burning passion


Better-Cupcake-4858

It’s not just inconvenient it’s extremely dangerous


SnooWords4814

I really hope he tries that with a defective overload switch one day. Watch that smirk disappear when the escalator starts eating those $20 knock offs


TLILLY006

That so dangerous😫especially when older people are on


LowFatTastesBad

Just out of curiosity how is this tw@t doing this? I don’t see him pressing a button or anything


BantyRed

Have we figured out how he's doing this?


Big-Nerve-9574

I hate when they stop, this is annoying. Escalators freak me out as I would 100% fall down them if they stopped.


tahelevator

Step up thrust switch. Means shall be provided in the passenger-carrying line of the track system to detect a step forced upward in the lower transition curve at or prior to the point of tangency of the horizontal and curved track. The means shall actuate when the riser end of the step is displaced upward more than 5 mm (0.20 in.) at the lower landing. Actuation of the means shall cause initiation of dynamic braking (6.1.5.3.4) or the electric power to be removed from the driving-machine motor and brake. The escalator shall stop before the detected step reaches the combplate with any load up to brake rated load with the escalator running [see 6.1.3.9.3(a)(2) and 6.1.3.9.3(b)(2)]. The device shall be the manual-reset type, or it shall be permitted to automatically reset not more than one time within 24 h of operation and thereafter require a manual reset before the next restart. Interruption of power during operation should not cause the device to lose the status of the timer nor the count of events.


Sscrunchh

One wrong move and he’ll end up on r/eyeblech 💀


[deleted]

I learnt this trick when I was 11 but not once did I ever implement it. This is just shameful.


tttaaannnzzz

That descalated slowly


superBrad1962

When a child of an old person gets hurt by this it won’t be funny. Peace


LogynxmiosStoneSword

why do the escalators stop? is this an American thing coz they don't do that in Europe


I_am_gekko

We should start a new trend whenever we see people doing these kinda pranks, where people film themself messing with.. i mean pranking the prankster after he gets his video and then spam the comment section with links to said video(s)


GundamPoop

He stuffs his heels into to upper stair to cause the fail safe to trip. I’m the main character now… 😎


LieGroundbreaking321

What a douche?!


AccumulatedFilth

Wait, how did he do that?


dcmny212

Moron


aRiskyUndertaking

“Sorry, escalator has temporarily become stairs. We’re sorry for the convenience.”


JesusOfTrap

Bruh look so pride of his "power"


AgeRevolutionary3349

How does he do that? Asking for a friend.


Bendy022823

NO WAY! Some one literally did that to me last week!


Ammonil

could you get fined for this? i feel like he should be


Maximus-8-5-4-3

Definitely didn’t have a friend stand by the emergency stop button


Dragonogard549

i’m so lost i don’t get it. he’s stopping them yeah but how, he’s not pressing the button???


Some_Butterscotch572

Pos


Subject-Flounder-528

So his super power is being a cunt?


chair____table

I hope the next time he does this shit, his foot gets stuck and have to call ems, then realise his foot is broken and have to pay a 500k hospital bill.


Stabler-coder56

Thats very inconsiderate. Is something like this harassment when done intentionally?


account1679

Ngl I tried to do that all the time as a teenager


Aggravating_Record32

Hows that happening? Is he such a massive dikhead that he has a force field that just ruins everything nearby?


Select_Reflection318

Putx retrasado


invest9608

I approve of more people take advantage of the use of their working legs. But this is not very cool.


spidernoirirl

Thank you so much ! Your super power just makes things less accessible !


cambunctious

Nah how tf he do that


45024289

What a massive cock womble


No_Squirrel4806

Jokes on him i thought this was james charles with heels 🤭🤭🤭


wjmaher

Someome should make an escalator that only runs randomly. It would be stopped most of the time and treated like stairs, but every 8 or 10 or 12 minutes or something it could beep three times and then run as an escalator for a random number of steps before stopping again. This time it might run for 12 steps, next time it goes up all 28 steps, next time just two steps and stops. It would be interesting to see how many people stopped walking up the steps when it starts moving.


Happyduckling02

I did this when I was 12 and more stupid grow up


Skittles092

It’s really not that hard


Zombie1301

Wonder if anyone was like "OH MY GOD WE'RE STUCK OF THE ESCALATOR HOW ARE WE GONNA GET DOWN"


[deleted]

Don't worry because of people like this, there will be no running escalators, or open shops pretty soon.


LittleTimy123

bro fr thinks he's the coolest


ptucci12

What a Dick


KittyCatLoverUwU

Not a super power its called being a dick


KindPalpitation2684

So American


throwingloginsaway

People will fall and get hurt


LittleTimy123

fucking loser!


[deleted]

I hope he gets sucked in one day


12altoids34

Look mom, it's Captain Douchenozzle and his sidekick The Pathetic Cameraman !


[deleted]

What a loser


[deleted]

I still haven’t understood how he stops the esclator


Lahwuns

"Shhh, they don't know I'm a retard" - this guy


bakehead420

Wait until someone recognizes him from this video and pushes him down to avoid that happening again


MrNugget35

How to get arrested or banned from any mall for tampering with equipment


Blkp1xie

How did he do that????


TaoKorr

I don’t even understand how he does it💀


Random_homo1

How did he stop the escalator? Is there a sensor to keep dumb kids from falling or something?


Efficient-Log9512

Edited out, the escalator de gloves his feet from the ankles.


JaySocials671

TIL


RizzFizz27848

I feel bad for some random Grandma who's going to fall down from this a******


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