How 1 Mistake on an Escalator Tragically Killed a Man

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When stepping onto an escalator, many thoughts force their way into your mind… What if you can’t get off in time? What would happen if your shoelace gets caught in the teeth? And, what’s inside the machine that whirrs underneath your feet? Let’s get into it!
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[@Happy-American]

Nice!

[@WIlliamBlox_YT]

BEST VIDEO EVER

[@poppyplays8346]

ty for all ur info videos @aeries_

[@Nogh_the_gamer]

That's crazy nice video brew

[@realcartoongirl]

vpn doesnt protect your privacy the vast majority of the internet is already encrypted

[@theopinionguy2115]

I was already irrationally afraid of escalators and now it’s rational

[@Happy-American]

Elevators will be next…

[@Adiya_55]

Well, I guess by watching this video, your fear is *escalating*...

[@unknown_lifeform_brett]

Same here. I was always worried about getting injured on an escalator somehow, and now that I know it's definitely possible, I'll stick with the stairs, thanks. Much safer.

[@__Poli_]

same lmao

[@anglewillams1009]

@@Happy-Americannah that fear is rational i’ve seen some freaky things happen on them

[@supahmariostyle]

The story about the Mom who threw her child to safety, but wound up being swallowed by an escalator will forever be tragic.

[@captain20986]

I agree

[@user-zp7uw4wp9n]

The kid will be traumatized by the incident 😢

[@Mr110074]

It’s also infuriating because those workers could have easily warned her not to step there and she would have been alive.

[@mikk.t.7824]

I was told that when i was younger i think

[@poppyplays8346]

she gave her life up just for her son 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

[@Dragonemperess]

I saw the video of the second one. That mom was an MVP throwing her child out of harms way with the quickness. Rest in peace, you awesome woman.

[@mhitomorales4497]

Bruh

[@jarehelt]

Kid is scarred for life

[@PauliusGD]

R.I.P, May You Fly High.

[@-Olympia81]

Awh…she’s so thoughtful towards her child.

[@SpectreNoodle]

dragon uwu

[@TheOfficialTarynTots]

This video is perfect for this time of the year when most of us hit the malls. I always worried my shoelaces would suck me under as a kid.

[@Happy-American]

Mhm

[@beargiles4062]

It happens. I don't recall any details but I have seen references to people who had a shoe lace get caught in the mechanism. In a perfect world the shoe would just be pulled off the person's foot, but in the real world I think there's often serious injuries involved. There's a much scarier variant with a hoodie pull cord. You're unlikely to get that caught in the grate (but maybe if you bend over to tie your shoe laces?) but I think there have been cases of one getting caught on the hand rail.

[@machaon7300]

My shoe got stuck once as a kid, so I tripped and some people fell on me (but not like flat to the ground), and a second later I just pulled my leg and went on my way 😅 It's not strong enough to have you stuck, not even that you would need to take your shoe off I think !

[@zachcrawford5]

Velcro for the win.

[@Supersheep.]

Happened once…

[@arvurebantra7639]

Funny escalator story from when I worked mall security. There was an event in a store that was known as "Big Dog" where they brought in several St Bernards, the store's mascot dog. For some reason, the people bringing the dogs in decided to bring then to the second floor, where the store was located, via the escalator instead of the elevator. Several of the dogs got so scared that they pooped on the escalator. That poop then smeared through the mechanisms and every panel. They had to shut it down and take it apart to clean and replace so much.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Here in San Francisco the escalators to our BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit trains) subway stations constantly get jammed and go out of order because of feces. The thing is most of the feces comes from humans instead of dogs.

[@Michael_Insects]

@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassivewhat? why would someone do that in a escalator??

[@w.dgaming2156]

@@Michael_InsectsA) its America B) humans are disgusting

[@snowgrave2475]

​@@Michael_Insects im more impressed on how they do it so fast

[@Michael_Insects]

@@snowgrave2475 lol that too! what is wrong with people that they have to leave feces in a subway station?

[@alexwakeman.1159]

In America, a lot of shopping malls that have escalators don’t have a stairs option and it always frustrates me!

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

I guess I get it. The escalators will just be stairs if they stop moving. And there’s usually an elevator option. Here in San Francisco the escalators to our subway stations constantly go out of order after being jammed by poop. So they are just stairs half the time. And the vast majority of that poop is from humans and not dogs. The elevators are also often closed because people keep using them also as toilets and places to use drugs. I think this broke ADA regulations, so they installed a call button to get an employee to personally activate them if a disabled person needs to use them.

[@Hirundo-demersalis]

I always thought glass elevators in malls would look cooler, anyway. That and the fact that elevators are generally much safer than escalators.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Really? The mall I go to does. I always take the stairs unless I was in a hurry or got lazy. I try to avoid the escalators as much as I can.

[@alexwakeman.1159]

@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj it may be because im in the south but i havent seen any with customer access

[@mcmerry2846]

They are expensive in workload 😂

[@Flyingnems]

As a child, my foot was caught by the escalator as the escalators did not have the teeth to protect your feet. I lost part of my toes. They can be scary for sure and now I'm scared of them.

[@Sgt.Dornan117]

Did this happen over 10 yrs ago at Circus Circus in Vegas?

[@ghostdivision836]

Proof?

[@Thrustql]

"Proof" 🤓​@@ghostdivision836

[@Flyingnems]

@ghostdivision836 looking at my toes everyday and feeling phantom pains is enough proof for me.

[@9852323]

@@ghostdivision836 why would he want to prove it to a complete stranger? Either believe it or not nobody cares if you do or don’t.

[@CaseyDplays]

"He decided to do it alone" Anytime I hear anything like that it gets my attention because from my experience you don't decide something like that unless you've been taught by the place you work at to do so.

[@Bisexualdragon4042]

I hope that womans family was properly compensated. Nothing about what happened sounds like an accident, even I knew as a kid that the red button is there for a reason. Also, safety isn't that difficult it just costs people more time and steps.

[@danielholland3991]

Being it was in China, sadly I highly doubt adequate compensation was implemented.

[@loner1878]

lol its China not the U.S.

[@mcmerry2846]

...how? She is dead anyways

[@Its_Asteria]

​@mcmerry2846 if you use your reading comprehension skills "Compensation for the family of her" Basically the family could sue for negligence or whatever and get compensation financially Which would cover funeral/burial costs

[@AK-jt7kh]

I don't know that the red button would have made a difference. Many people will still walk up the escalators

[@KidarWolf]

I'm in the escalophobic group where getting on and off escalators is the scary part. I know my particular phobia comes from a specific incident that occurred, and was covered by the news, when I was a young child, of someone being caught in an escalator when it grabbed their shoelaces - though they survived the incident, it mangled their feet. I now step very high when getting onto an escalator, and often half-jump half high-step when getting off the escalator.

[@naejin]

I like wearing my shoes where I can easily slip my foot out of it whenever I want.

[@RipVanFish09]

⁠@@naejinsame.

[@Afridico2]

Wait, im not alone? Thats a relief, i thought i was just a wimp.

[@realherobrine5636]

metro boomin make it boom

[@infinitedeath1384]

Before getting on an escalator, I always check my shoelaces. I always exercise extreme caution when getting on a downwards escalator. Imagine how horrifying it would be tripping forwards, down an escalator...

[@cinnamowolf]

I used to have a terrible fear of escalators as a kid. One time, my shoelaces did get caught in the escalator but a lady in the store helped yank it out for me. I also always felt like I was gonna fall when taking the descending one.

[@Declanjhoulgrave]

@@budget-20your never funny

[@ivychong3233]

​@@budget-20dang bro the whole squad is laughing 😐

[@squirrelbusken-cv4wy]

This is fantastic. Can you elaborate on your story? Like how did the lady at the store have time to even notice you where having trouble and then help? When I think of a show lace getting stuck I think of it happing at like the top or bottom where the stairs are flattening out. Like there would be only seconds to react. Did the elevator jame, or stop or something? I have so many questions.

[@cheesecake1767]

​@@budget-20 not funny

[@cinnamowolf]

I don't really remember but it was at the top of the escalator. My shoelaces were completely undone and the escalator just kept going. It only caught onto the end i think.@@squirrelbusken-cv4wy

[@piperbird7193]

Back in 2010 my husband and I went to DC to the Rally to Restore Sanity. Almost a quarter of a million people showed up, which was WAY more than they were expecting. When it was over, everyone started walking back to the escalators down to the metro to leave. There was a huge crowd around the nearest one, so my husband and I decided to just keep walking to another one. Turns out that escalator broke and sped up, dumping everyone at the bottom. Thankfully there were only minor injuries.

[@notorioustori]

Yep, that's my biggest escalator fear. Overweight escalator breaking and turning into a crush situation.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Ooh, just got a horrible flashback of getting my coat caught in the side of an escalator when I was a kid. I had a jacket with big, chunky fake jewel buttons and one happened to get caught somehow in one of the side panels. The jacket stayed, I kept going, until I felt a big yank and I would have fallen backwards if I hadn't managed to lurch upwards and get the button ripped off.

[@houghtonred]

This happened in the UK. When my son was a toddler, his laces were caught in an escalator. His father noticed before he was injured and grabbed him, dragging him free. It was very scary.

[@houghtonred]

@@budget-20 Sorry, meant to say my story .

[@MetaWarrior8775]

Stay safe

[@MinorityHunterRoronoaZoro741]

why are you referring to your self as "his father" is the toddler yours?

[@mng001]

Happened to me in a very similar way.

[@tgioc]

*WHEN MY SON WAS A TODDLE-*@@MinorityHunterRoronoaZoro741

[@ReallySimpleRich]

I was always kinda afraid of escalators because when I was five my younger brother almost have the same accident like the women in this video. Good thing only his side of the panel fell so my mother was able to lift him up before he got chewed, his sandal was torn a bit and his foot was scarred a bit. Really was scary

[@fpfpfpfp2]

A childhood friend and classmate died riding an escalator at Montreal's congress center in 2007. He was only 15. He was leaning back against the railing, lost his balance, tried to hold on but fell dozens of feet down onto the top of the entry lobby.

[@SomeplaceScary]

I'd seen the extended cctv footage of both the first incidences in this video some years ago. Had no idea if the first guy survived or not, but it didn't look like the chances were good. I remember reading that the mom didnt make it in the second clip and just feeling so sad for her son and family.

[@Spyduck]

It pays to always pay attention while on the escalator for hazards before you get off. Those few seconds you have before the landing jaws get you are crucial.

[@Zanthum]

I was on an escalator at the st Louis MO sports dome (I don't know the name or what team played there) when it suddenly stopped. It almost launched myself and my friend, the only other person on the escalator, down the stairs from half way up. We were then yelled at by security thinking that we had done something to it. We were there for a school competition and were involved in the event so it was the first opportunity we had to get something to eat or drink all day and we were exhausted so the risk of not catching ourselves was high. I also think this was day 2 or 3 of the event.

[@avp_youtube]

@@budget-20 ...

[@aparnarai3708]

"Sir, this is Wendy's"

[@AetherAlight]

I've always feared escalators seeing when people died by being injured or them malfunctioning going down fast. The part that makes me so paranoid is getting swallowed whole by one and dying.

[@laylayluvzleen6442]

This is why I’m scared of escalators elevators for life

[@Happy-American]

Until the elevator breaks and free falls

[@Darkshadow.-_-.]

Bro the elevators at my apartment r so trash They would stop working 40% of the time 😭

[@kenirainseeker539]

@@Happy-American I'd rather fall to my death then be crushed by a grinder tho

[@wrenbyrd1093]

@@kenirainseeker539But you’re trapped in a box in an elevator, and if something happens on an escalator you have more chances to react quickly or pull clothing free.

[@evantambolang3052]

What a baby

[@SassyGirl822006]

I've had anxiety over escalators since I was a kid. Mainly about going down, and not so much about going up. It got worse after I heard about an incident where someone got their leg mangled when their pants got caught.

[@_Chessa_]

An escalator fall broke my sisters knee in several different places. It was brutal. Seeing the blood made me dissociate a bit. She was bleeding all over while we were walking around in Las Vegas. We then got a wheel chair and get to a hospital quickly for her. The pain on her face looked awful.. the reason she fell is that she was accidentally shoved on a broken escalator.

[@winteryuki_onna8172]

That kid is going to have huge fear of escalator b/c it took the life of his mother. That poor kid

[@Takumi_Did_Nothing_Wrong]

My anxiety around escalators started when I watched Final Destination 4 as a kid. One of the characters got sucked into an escalator and turned into a bloody pulp.

[@AlwaysKDawg]

Well, this proves that my fear of them since I was a small child is valid and my mom was wrong. I never had an incident with an escalator, but I just have always been quite aware of what is dangerous, so I guess I've just always known. I also LOATHE rotating doors

[@robotomo4249]

I haven't had any bad experiences with escalators, but I am always weary of them. My local shopping centre commonly has random escalators stopped for maintenance, thankfully this happens rather often, however seeing a stopped and blocked off escalator always gives me the slight shivers. It's even more scary to think how many people rode those escalators while it had a faulty part. I remember when I was around 6-9 years old, I saw half the steps of an escalator taken out and inside I saw all the machinery and a piece of cardboard with an oily boot print on it. Nothing bad happened here, but my mind immediately connected the machinery and the boot print in the worst way possible.

[@EH2276cam]

I remember once during a holiday while trying to push my luggage up the escalator, the front wheel got caught on the front step and it tipped and fell onto me. I was lucky that it wasn’t too heavy and I was able to hold it by my stomach all the way to that top. I had other incidents with the escalator when I was young and the incident genuinely shook me up for quite a bit

[@gparyani]

I guess a similar incident is why the train station in Anaheim, CA, USA has signs saying "no roll-on bags on escalators"

[@shifty1927]

Im in the elevator union and we do escalators too. (Especially here in the D.C. area) Escalators turn into giant meat grinders if a person gets caught in one.

[@tylerboothman4496]

And that's why I take the stairs

[@shifty1927]

@@budget-20 whats Ohio have to do with what I said?

[@piperbird7193]

Out of curiosity, were you there for the Rally to Restore Sanity collapse in 2010?

[@ThePinkerton1776]

@@shifty1927got me, but it’s the only state that’s round on both sides and high in the middle.

[@hayleymah4325]

I had my foot caught and twisted between the steps and the brush part on the side of the escalator when I was 12 and I’ve never been able to unease that trauma. Glad to know I’m not crazy for being scared

[@ferretyluv]

The scariest one I saw was a video from a Malaysian shopping mall where a mother and her daughter were swallowed up by an escalator. Also, quay is pronounced “kee.”

[@nerferothdrake559]

You guys never seize to provide us with new phobias. Though I have to say that in most cases tragedies happen because of either faulty maintenance or improper use of the machinery. Freak accidents do happen of course, but people themselves have to be careful and cautious. I mean, a boatload of football fans jumping up and down the escalator - what could possibly go wrong?

[@hyperbolicowl2824]

Never cease, not seize.

[@nerferothdrake559]

@@hyperbolicowl2824 it was an intended pun, maaan)

[@hyperbolicowl2824]

@@nerferothdrake559 All good then, just came off like a misunderstanding.

[@squirrelbusken-cv4wy]

Yah. The storys where basically, don't carry long pols that might colid with the ceiling, matins needs to actually do there job, and don't abuse the equipment.

[@anastasiaklyuch2746]

for some reason this hit me harder than other videos. WHY ARE WE RIDING CHAINSAWS?!?!

[@ruaillanaveP]

That escalated quickly.

[@thisisme3238]

😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍

[@clausberg8395]

Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.

[@APink176]

My mom messed up her knee on an escalator when I was little. She was riding up when something had happened that caused her to trip right before the top step. Her bare knee made contact with the “teeth” between the top step and the part that slides under the platform floor at the top. It caught her skin and basically ripped the skin off her knee in a zig-zag pattern before she pulled herself out. I was behind her and I remember her grabbing me to lift me up and over the step to the top platform and then her just screaming in pain and her leg being covered in blood from the knee down. There were a lot of people around, so we got help really quickly. This was almost 30 years ago and it still gives me chills. My mom is fine now, albeit scarred. She still rides escalators but prefers elevators - I assume this incident is why. I always think about that when I ride escalators and I’m hyper-vigilant when stepping on and off one.

[@bhami]

I recall being frightened as a kid, when I was in a store where the "up" and the "down" escalators were not side-by-side, so I tried unsuccessfully to go up the "down" escalator.

[@heatherduke7703]

That was one of my favorite games as a kid… 😅

[@rebeccaanne9863]

The scariest part about escalators will always be that you have the possibility of being on one with people who are idiots and who will either cause the elevator to malfunction fatally or who will stubbornly block the way of people who are trying to escape a fatal malfunction.

[@clara5924]

I remember when I was a kid, my family and I went to a mall. The escalator suddenly stopped mid flight. Luckily nothing bad happened, but this kinda ingrained in me that we were lucky. It could have been ended much worse, seeing that it was a busy weekend. So now if there’s stairs available, I’d rather walk.

[@mrlox9576]

I remember during the removal of an escalator in a shopping centre, we found something strange below. There were literally over 100 chunks of different people's shoes. Just the tips of them (where your toes would be). Thankfully we didn't see any blood or toes in them, just the 1-2cm from the front of their shoes. We could only guess the front of their shoes were too close to the step infront as the step sunk and leveled out at the top of the escalator, causing the front of their shoes to get wedged and chopped off. As that's the end where all the pieces were found. I remember thinking 'that's alot of people who came very close to losing their toes'.

[@Happy-American]

Well this escalated quickly

[@ruaillanaveP]

Yo we had the same idea lol XP

[@Happy-American]

@@ruaillanaveP😂

[@Trojan-SZN]

That incident in the mall seemed really avoidable.

[@alexlarson2466]

I like how Brew presents the most horrendous disturbing premise in the intro then immediately cuts to the intro roaring 20s style super cheery jazzy song

[@kwadwog8168]

I can only imagine the feeling of the boy knowing he asked his mum to take the escalator

[@sovietraccoon6007]

I so solemnly swear im going take the regular stairs from now on. Thanks for the new fear Brew 👍

[@gragigi7055]

Anyone who's been on gore sites before knows there are tons of escalator and elevator videos where people lose their lives. These things are scary. I was scared to ride either for the longest time cause I watched too many of them.

[@micacarnell1430]

As a kid growing up in the 2000s where boot cut jeans were popular for all ages, I got my extra long pants caught in the escalator while at the mall with my sister and uncle. They took a while to notice and by the time they did I was already getting myself unstuck but for those few seconds in between (maybe up to 10 seconds MAX) I was freaking out so bad and just pulling on just pants leg until I was free. Now when I get on escalators I check my feet for obstacles before approaching (long pants, untied shoelaces, etc.)

[@JessYoMama]

When I was a little kid, I ran UP the escalator and fell. It gave me a crazy wound from the metal teeth. I'm still able to go up an escalator, but my legs shake when I go down. Going down the escalator with a suitcase makes it a whole lot worse!! That's right, I'm talking about you, Airports!!!

[@TehWhiteTiger]

I actually had a huge irrational fear of escalators as a kid. Going through London underground was always a nightmare for me. Maybe I right to be scared..

[@naejin]

You don't have to have escalaphobia to prefer to use the stairs. If you're physically able, it's just healthier to take the stairs. Take the route that takes a bit more physical strenuous effort to get exercise through normal activity.

[@teresafinch7790]

I been in places where there are no stairs available.

[@apchistuz]

@@teresafinch7790 That's a fire hazard

[@KAGdesignsDOTnet]

I've always found them to be infuriatingly pointless stairs are usually far quicker and don't waste a bunch of electric to keep them on all day

[@rendomstranger8698]

@@apchistuz It is. Doesn't stop it from happening. I know at least one store near me here in the Netherlands that only has an escalator at the entrance. Sure, there are probably normal stairs at the emergency exits but the first location people will flee to in case of a fire is the entrance they are familiar with. Not sure why that type of scenario hasn't been outlawed.

[@TheExileFox]

Even though true, elevators make more sense than escalators

[@norwoodwildlife9849]

The late great comedian Mitch Hedberg once said' Escalators never break, they become stairs".

[@remingtonryder]

When there are stairs as an alternative option to escalators, they often follow the same steep grade because shorter is cheaper. An elderly person who has difficulty climbing steep stairs might feel that they have to use the escalator. I don't know if etiquette is different depending on where you are in the world, but here it seems that nobody will try to pass you on an escalator, except maybe if it's a double-wide escalator.

[@ewellynn122]

I live near a mall, and it has really scetchy escalators. They always creak when I step on them, and half of them is usually under maintenance. I always had a fear of them breaking while I'm using them, but there are no normal stairs in the mall.

[@ryanrich7533]

Use the elevator if theres one

[@kotkotlecik7310]

In Ireland, at the mall, the escalator going down was on the left, the one going up was on the right. I get that they drive on the left side, but that was insane. I felt there like a right-handed person trying to write using the left arm.

[@hirokurobane9145]

my shoelace once got eaten by an escalator, pulled it out with sheer brute force before being noticed by everyone else. Also, I usually takes the escalator going only up, and stairs way down, I don't also take elevator, it makes me go dizzy.

[@shacharh5470]

The numbers you cite around 5:03 are for both elevators and escalators, not escalators alone! It says so clearly

[@arcangelgutierrez88]

Did you know that there was a woman who starve/dehydrated to death in an elevator due to the holidays

[@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas]

4:11 So what happened to the mall staff and the mall? Was anyone charged with negligence?

[@DesertBirdie]

It's China, so probably not.

[@Julcaaaa]

I always loved escalators as a kid I went up and then down on the other, I already seen these accidents of the man and the mother with her child but I only see good memories when I go on one

[@Foxfire-xq5ij]

Soooo, who wants to tell Brew about the dangers of stairs?

[@Skinflec]

Can't believe one of the escalators from the montreal"s metro i take a lot could be dangerous. The escalators are all the same at every stations, especially at the station Lucien-Lallier. There are kinda old too. A lot of them are in maintenance.

[@PrimevalWerewolf]

I always get scared getting on them and getting off of them... They are time savers but that will not change the fact that they are scary...

[@jayvuillermin1414]

As a kid, my shoelace was caught in an escalator at a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia. It wasn't the actual steps but the sides, between the steps and the metal. I'll never forget the terror when it started pulling my shoe and ripping at it. It snapped my lace right off thankfully.

[@thisisme3238]

One of your best videos, Brew. 👍

[@Jackamo6200]

I always prefer to go up and down proper stairs, rather than escalators or elevators, but most malls don’t have easy access to anything other than the escalator so I just have to try my best not to panic when going up or down one

[@mistingwolf]

I didn't realize I needed a new fear today. Thanks, Brew!

[@Nobody00061]

It happened to me in 2010 and 2011. I was dragging my foot on the side of the stairs, right when I was getting down and step out my converse shoe got stuck right in the tip, it was strong enough to stop all the stairs and collapse them like a train derailing. Luckily enough I was like 13 and my mom used to buy shoes bigger than my actual size 😂 I was able to release myself just in time. So I learn 2 things, keep your feet in place and that converse used to be strong AF😂. The stairs opened a hole on the tip, I would assumed a normal shoe might get swallowed.

[@ShinyRanger47]

Brew unlocks fears I didn’t know I had 😭

[@marygreen3609]

There was a video on here several years ago where a mother and her young daughter (3-4 yo) were going up an escalator and the girls foot was ripped off. It was really gruesome and the mother kind just stood there. She did call for help but i remember thinking "why doesn't she pick the girl up?"

[@piperbird7193]

Sometimes when something so shocking happens out of the blue like that, the brain literally can't process what it's seeing. It doesn't make sense. It isn't possible. Everything is normal one second and a nightmare the next. So you don't react the way you think you should.

[@rendomstranger8698]

Fight, flight or freeze. We can't pick when we freeze.

[@purplenickname]

New fear acquired. Taking the stairs next time.

[@TheMissing_Sock]

When I was younger i saw the video at 3:35 as well as some others, it absolutely traumatized me that I had nightmares about it. It gotten over the fear mostly but after watching this i don't think I want to use them anymore.

[@pemegangkoencisyurga]

yeah i remember that video back when i was in the collage. It was just haunted me for a week and i always have a uneasy feeling whenever i'm about to step on an escalator ever since

[@XxBrittany20xX]

U made me sacred of desk chairs with the coil in it, and now escalators. Thank you for adding onto my fears besides spiders and heights 😅

[@user-lx3th5on8l]

You mean those gas computer chairs which have a lever for adjusting the height

[@kajerlou]

I do wonder just how their safty track record compares to stairs, all stairs, including those outdoors, even on trails. Like there are some dangerous steep messes in this world. Then, the nature of stairs practically encourages people to try to speed up and down them. Not to even touch the subject of various injuries, balance issues and many other health related conflicts.

[@milesoldfield9109]

I grew wary of escalators when I was about eight years old. I noticed the top plates of the steps stuck out about a half an inch beyond the risers at the back and meshed with a groove in the top plates on the front of the lower steps as they reached the top to make a flat surface as they reached the top. Just the perfect place to lose your toes if you had your feet pressed against the riser of the step ahead of you. I told my parents about it but they assured me the escalator was "safe" or it wouldn't have been there. I had my doubts and have watched my step on those things ever since.

[@Dav753]

Perhaps the best channel on yt uploads again

[@teresadixon2899]

I've never been able to go down escalators because I fell down regular stairs so many times when I was little. Going up has never been an issue.

[@daodolong]

I find these old elevators scary , those without doors and they don't stop . Makes me fear to get crushed between floors if you get off at the wrong time .

[@renefrijhoff2484]

Those are called paternoster lift.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

Years ago, I saw a video of a little boy in China lose his entire foot to the end of the escalator track (I think because his shoe got stuck). It just got sawed off by the machine, leaving him completely amputated. Ever since then, I've been wary of them. I still use them, but they terrify me. My heart pounds fast every time I'm on one.

[@anotakugirl05]

My family is Chinese but we live in Italy, but my parents always follow the news about what happens in China. When the incident with the mother happened, you could see the CCTV footage everywhere. I was little at the time, so my mom never let me see the footage, and although I was curious, I knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to look it up (I still am not able to search for it and watch it, just knowing about it breaks my heart). Everywhere you looked, you could see people and the media covering that incident. Just hearing the details made me incredibly afraid of escalators. I always step away from the metal panel at the end of the escalator as quickly as possible, and generally they to stay the least time possible on the escalator in general.

[@JakeMatthews-OnLo]

I thought it was the story of the mom who rode it with her kid and sadly only managed to saver her kid. I’ve honestly stopped riding them out fear of them.

[@slowhand_dnp2104]

This is why my mom always told us to be careful when using escalator

[@aadvising5259]

Ah Brew adding to our nightmares every week 😂 hola from Churrana (Toronto)

[@krayofsunshine]

I was absolutely tossed in Vegas earlier this year and fell going up an escalator. I was so terrified. I had a flowy dress on and was literally being tumbled by the stairs while I was falling down and so I basically just stayed in one spot trying to get up. It was not fun. And I got some nasty teeth scars on my arm and my thigh.

[@AZACKAL]

Huh really would have thought the escalators would all have automatic shut offs for stuff getting stuck or jammed. I remember one time playing with the arm belt part and using it to squish a can when no one was looking 😂 it shut the whole escalator off. I figured they all would do this maybe i just got lucky the escalator i picked had that saftey option.

[@Dreamheart101]

I think they should all have that option. The fact not all of them do is a safety hazard, in my opinion.

[@45PLAYZ]

I might have developed a small fear of escalators ever since I saw multiple videos of accidents. I've also seen/heard a story of someone crushed under a train. All of this made me pretty scared of getting trapped in machinery and getting crushed and mixed up.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Look up the rotating shaft hazard sign. That one does an excellent job of showing why you don’t want to mess with rapidly rotating shafts.

[@Jeremonkey90]

This happened to someone at a football game I went to last year. It’s truly tragic. Rest in peace all who have been killed 😢

[@AgentCelestia2]

Ya never fail to disappoint! Please post more often, Brew!

[@4t0mm]

Was that a compliment or insult

[@nordicpink]

I’ve always been afraid of them and as an adult have tried to be brave. After this video. I care no more about being brave. I’ll take the stairs.

[@johannvonbabylon]

Hot take: If your shoes are on so tight such that were it a shoelace got caught in the escalator and you were unable to easily yank your foot out of the shoe, you're abusing your feet. :(

[@teenagestacker6063]

This is the first episode in a while that feels a bit more like classic Brew episode! Still miss the characters but I enjoyed it!

[@alexdonthavelastname2182]

when I was little, my mum told me a story on how this little boy got seriously injured or something by their shoe lace getting stuck at the end of the esculator. Let's just say I'm not too fond when getting off as I think I'm going to get hurt. I can't remember what happened to the boy or if it was even a true story. But what I do know is that was kinda f'd up of her to tell me that at such a young age, considering I would've been more than likely fine not knowing that.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

5:57 And that's why I wear Velcro strap shoes. It's just more convenient and safer. Not sure why people would be made fun of for wearing them.

[@S74T]

That’s crazy that people say anything, Velcro is way better!

[@Happy-American]

New fear unlocked: riding on escalators

[@thisisme3238]

Same here

[@AgentCelestia2]

Plus, I gotta give you mad respect for mentioning the Kings Cross Station Fire.

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

In all my 45 years it never occurred to me to be afraid of escalators! Guess I was too focused on my fear of centipedes😬

[@silentvoidx9267]

I used to stick my foot in the brushes on the sides to clean my shoes, never again.

[@Dr_Universe2007]

Remember that escalator scene in The final destination?

[@CrazySpruiker2001]

I do. Just before the cinema explosion scene.

[@mikeloeven]

It seems like it would be a trivial task to set up some more sensors in these things to detect if something was loose or a stair was jammed and stop the machine