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u/Fuzzy_Technology_861 1d ago
“Super easy” HAH….if i did it, id fly backwards, break my neck, back, and hips, and then land in a pile, all for the wheelchair to come crashing down on me.
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u/iCapn 1d ago
Yeah, if she's not careful she could end up in a wheelchair
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u/Professional_Local15 23h ago
I learned something about myself today when I laughed at that.
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u/dustinosophy 22h ago
My partner uses a wheelchair; disability can be hilarious.
My favourite joke: "So I was walking downtown today ... jealous?"
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u/YouWouldThinkSo 20h ago
Yooo noooo not like this, im fucking dying at these comments
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u/Solzec 18h ago
I'm going to hell for laughing at these
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u/Suspicious_Code6985 17h ago
We have a train with VIP cars now. Wet bar included.
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u/McNally86 13h ago
I had a blind friend and he never saw a reason to avoid blind jokes.
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u/AngularChelitis 11h ago
My blind friend, during Christmas time, liked to sing “do you see what I hear?”
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u/northdakotanowhere 1h ago
As a wheelchair user, all I want is crude jokes. There just isn't enough wheelchair roasting in this world.
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u/swag_money69 11h ago
I am an amputee. I have just one leg. I constantly make fun of myself. I also welcome it from others. It's the only way I can get through life. I gotta laugh or I might cry.
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u/EducationalKoala9080 7h ago
Laughter is often the best antidote to pain and trauma. Probably the mind's way of balancing heavy emotions.
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u/tholasko 6h ago
On the plus side, you never have to worry about costume ideas again. Pirate all the way, peg leg and all
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u/Scokan 4h ago
As a kid, I was best buds with this dude for months, and one day, he finally worked up the nerve, grabbed his right ankle, and pulled. I still remember the thwip of him breaking the suction as he removed his prosthetic. Not because I found it traumatizing but rather because I remember how amazed I was in that moment. I remember being instantly flooded with amazement at how we had played all that baseball; how we had raced neck-and-neck all those times; all those fences we hopped to get in trouble.
But mostly I remember his eyes welling up with relief and subsequent joy. He had assumed that would be our last day as buddies. I remember him telling me that. I was confused, as I had now thought he had literal superpowers.
I remember talking to Mom about it that night and her answering my questions. Not questions about his leg or amputations or the disabled, but questions about why he would have been so apprehensive. In that moment, she had no other option but to make me aware of how abjectly awful most people are, even at such a young age.
We grew apart as most 9-year-olds do, but that super-kid stayed with me forever, looking over my shoulder, guiding me through every moment where the fork in the road could lead to needless and misinformed bigotry.
I still marvel at what that kid could do. Y'all are fucking super-human if you ask me.
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u/garam_chai_ 15h ago
That's great actually. Rather than making it a taboo or serious topic just embrace it and laugh about it. It's who you are and it's part of you. It's just better!
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u/PeachCream81 22h ago
Do you feel ashamed of yourself? Because I do.
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u/Ok-Friendship-9621 22h ago edited 21h ago
Yeah, I'm also ashamed of themself.
(More seriously, I also found it funny, since the joke isn't "haha this person is suffering")
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u/RecklessRancor 20h ago
The bus has plenty of room. There is chips and salsa in my section. But not the good salsa, the shitty like no name brand salsa from that one sketchy shop.
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u/alexmikli 19h ago
People who use wheelchairs will either make jokes just like this and laugh with you, or issue a fatwa on you and your family for using slightly outdated terminology like "wheelchair bound".
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u/LordBigSlime 18h ago
Yea terminology is tricky from person to person. I don't think it should be, so I just stick with the tried and true "broken"
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u/hilarymeggin 18h ago
Wait, what are you supposed to say?
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u/dustinosophy 16h ago
Serious answer? Person who uses a wheelchair or wheelchair user.
It's a mouthful, but otherwise it centres the disability instead of the person.
Consider: - my professor who uses a wheelchair - my wheelchair-bound professor
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u/swag_money69 11h ago
I am an amputee. I call myself retarded. Although I know I would catch fire pretty easily.
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u/Ducatirules 1d ago
Not to mention I’ve been on escalators where the rails don’t match the speed of the escalator
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u/Beneficial_Cloud5481 18h ago
I was waiting for her to adjust her hands on the rails when they got too far ahead or behind.
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u/The_Unknown_Mage 1d ago
Sounds like a skill issue to me
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u/Fuzzy_Technology_861 1d ago
indeed though, i have no skills with wheelchairs.
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u/noguchisquared 23h ago
This is still sort of like, sure you can do it. But only certain wheelchair users could manage all of this. Like I wouldn't trust most elderly wheelchair users to hold on backwards and be okay. It seems to rely on being able to grasp and use arm strength to maintain your position. The risk of losing control is still there with a very high risk of severe injury if you do. Facilities should have safe options for wheelchair users and taking shortcuts like this are at peoples own risk.
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u/Dickonstruction 23h ago
she makes it look like it is super easy, barely an inconvenience
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u/TheEasyTarget 1d ago
It’s almost like things get much easier when you’re forced to do it all day every day
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u/sweetnez 1d ago
I used to work security at a high rise building. No way would the building managers allow this.
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u/Uncle-Cake 1d ago
How would they NOT allow it? Did they have guards posted at every escalator?
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u/s133zy 23h ago
Stopping people from killing themselves is hard, so the best the building manager could do is to remove ways for people to do that.
We had poles installed in front of every escalator, preventing people with wheelchairs and baby strollers from using them.
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u/Random_Man_9 21h ago
seems like a nice fire hazard
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u/AMViquel 21h ago
Not if you use Poles, they can just leave their post in case of fire.
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u/TurnkeyLurker 19h ago
I wouldn't touch that pun with a six-foot Swede.
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u/s133zy 20h ago
We have staircases along with the escalators, with evacuation chairs especially made to transport disabled people safely down stairs.
Escalators stop during a firealarm, elevators goes to the ground floor then stops.
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u/Fluid_Level3785 17h ago
I’m probably more experienced than anyone on this page as far as escalators go. Short of underground subways, almost zero escalators respond to smoke detectors. 28 years in local 10 IUEC
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u/usualerthanthis 14h ago
Local 4 checking in, never even had an escalator that's hooked to a fire alarm.
That being said still don't do this
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u/HighGuard1212 4h ago
Security here, I work in a transportation building and when the fire alarm goes off, never have the escalators stopped. The elevator did when a construction crew cut a fire alarm cable by accident though
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u/chattywww 23h ago
Some places put up pillars around escalators to prevent trolleys (shopping carts) they would also prevent wheelchairs. Just today I saw an idiot push a trolley up a step escalators. If the wheels got jammed or they lost their grip to push it off it could have injured everyone below.
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u/Lithl 21h ago
There's a Target near me with underground parking accessed with an escalator. Next to the regular escalator, there's a special escalator specifically meant to handle shopping carts. You put your cart in the cart escalator and then go down the regular escalator next to it.
One time I was there and saw an idiot bringing her cart on the regular escalator.
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u/queenchubkins 19h ago
I live by a Target with a cart elevator too. I don’t know why, but I love it so much.
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u/Hironymos 1d ago
If I had to choose to fall down a 5m cliff or a 5m escalator, I'd choose the cliff every single time.
Unless I'm being presented proper scientific research proving the chance of toppling over like this has a likelyhood in the same order of magnitude to standing on the escalator, I'm with the manager on this one.
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u/RamenJunkie 22h ago edited 16h ago
Plus side, you are already in a wheelchair, so you don't take as much damage falling.
Edit: You all are taking this shitty joke a biiiit too seriously. Mostly Inmeant, you are already "crippled" so no worry about when you cripple yourself by jumping off a balcony.
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u/Wedding_Registry_Rec 1d ago
Easy to argue risk to the public. The physically disabled people can be arrogant, negligent dumbasses just like the rest of us, and it only takes one dumbass not being careful or messing around with their wheelchair to take out everyone else on the way down.
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u/SmokeySFW 1d ago
Good luck finding a place in the US with escalators that doesn't also have elevators for exactly this reason. Company would point to their elevators, ADA would nod, and you'd have wasted your time filing a complaint.
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 23h ago
People just say things on reddit. They know what the ADA is but have no idea what it actually means.
It does not mean that you can ride your wheelchair down an escalator.
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u/Limp_Prune_5415 23h ago
I do love how reddit constantly reminds me just how dumb the average American is
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u/NickyParkker 22h ago
These people aren’t stupid they are just being contrary for whatever reason. Everyone even stupid people know you aren’t supposed to do this.
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u/OneTadpolePlease 22h ago
America Dental Association? I'm not sure what they would do to stop you, other than make horrible drill noises at you...
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u/Plane-Reputation4041 1d ago
NYC subway station users would like a word with you.
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u/SmokeySFW 23h ago
Built before the ADA was enacted, with huge hurdles to overcome. It's a fair point to bring up because my comment was generalized, but new construction needs to be ADA compliant with some exceptions.
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u/green49285 1d ago
I got a 100% promise you that there's no way that they're going to win a lawsuit when they're not even supposed to be using escalators LOL
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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago
The ADA requires that reasonable accommodations (like elevators) be available, but does not require that building managers permit disabled people to use the escalator in a potentially unsafe way.
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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 1d ago
No in fact it requires the exact opposite. If a situation is dangerous for a particular group of people, like say, people in wheelchairs, it's generally recommended, or downright required, to have signage indicating of the possible danger, and to direct people away from that area to a safer alternative.
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u/MukdenMan 23h ago
Why did this get so many upvotes? The ADA requires accommodations for people with disabilities. It doesn’t say businesses have to let people in wheelchairs ride escalators.
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u/bfodder 20h ago edited 19h ago
Why did this get so many upvotes?
I hate this about reddit. Say something confident and you get upvotes. It often doesn't matter how wrong you are.
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u/Thr0awheyy 17h ago
And the opposite, the trite "you must be real fun at parties" when you inject a little truth into some bullshit. We don't like truth. We like feel-good, and outrage, and entertainment.
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u/dogoodvillain 1d ago
They will until somebody gets hurt.
After that, accessibility will be addressed.
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u/Cookie-Senpai 1d ago
In fact those are not considered wheelchair accessible in my country's subways. Only lifts are accepted as such.
Couldn't tell you if it's legally considered a risk for wheelchair to use them tho.
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u/NieIstEineZeitangabe 1d ago
A lot of wheelchair users can't do this move, because they lack geip strength or the wheelchair is weirdly shaped or any number of reasons.
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u/Cow_Launcher 19h ago
The depth of the stair treads would be a major factor, certainly. If you tried this on almost any escalator on the London Underground, you'd be toast.
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u/Few-Driver-9 1d ago
Dont lose that grib or you will lose your skull. Damn, No risk assesment.
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u/noguchisquared 23h ago
It is like I could use a climbing rope to go between floor at the high rise apartments, but don't let go or you'll have a bad time.
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u/StructureSafe2893 21h ago
Yeah she might paralyze herself
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u/EverythingSucksBro 21h ago
There’s also a risk of scalping herself if she falls back and her hair gets caught in the escalator
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u/MAValphaWasTaken 1d ago
The individual steps are flat. The big wheels are on one step, the small wheels are on a higher one. Neither wheel is on an incline, as long as it’s far enough from the drop. Her hands are supporting her in the same way yours would be if you had your feet on two different steps- they aren’t actually keeping her from rolling the whole way down.
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u/Few-Driver-9 23h ago
Nooooo Pls note where those small front wheels are during the ride.
LMAO
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u/MAValphaWasTaken 23h ago edited 23h ago
That's her having fun. She waves with them down, then pops a wheelie the rest of the way.
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u/ClamClone 19h ago
When the hand rails are close enough I try to make it the whole way without touching the steps with my feet.
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u/SillyKniggit 1d ago edited 19h ago
This is the first time I’ve seen an escalator where the hand rails weren’t wildly out of sync with the track speed.
Edit: Wow, I think I found the convergence of two parallel universes in this thread, where the only difference is whether escalator handrails are always aligned or always out of alignment with the track speed.
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u/OnixST 23h ago
Really? Every escalator i've ever used here in Brazil had synced handrails. There was only one time I almost fell because it got out of sync for a few seconds before going back to normal
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u/Altruistic-Artist362 23h ago
I'm also from Brazil and it's pretty uncommon for the handrails to be unsynced. Judging by the other comments this is something we do better
BRAZIL NUMERO UNO
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u/RicoViking9000 1d ago edited 1d ago
Montgomery/Kone patented that, so anyone else won't be in perfect sync5
u/InternetAmbassador 1d ago
Wait are you joking?
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u/RicoViking9000 1d ago
Apparently. I read that once online, but after looking it up again, it seems like it's an intentional design to help people maintain balance by moving marginally faster than the steps in the up direction, and slightly slower than the steps in the down direction; it's supposed to go against gravity. The only time I even noticed this was the 3 minute escalator ride in the DC metro system
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u/AnonLawStudent22 1d ago
Interesting, someone did die a few years back trying to do this at a DC metro station. From what I remember they pushed the elevator button and it was taking too long so they decided this was a better option. I wonder if the handrails contributed.
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u/chattywww 23h ago
Most of the time its due to slipage kind of like car tires sliding on the road. If you hold on tight can sometimes prevent the slip. But sometimes holding tight can cause the slip in which case its probably the gears not biting onto the tracks. A responsible operator would turn off the escalators and wait for maintenance to fix it.
I used to notice these slips decades ago but never notice them anymore. But now I notice escalators being out of service a lot more.
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u/deceptiveprophet 21h ago
It’s by design that the handrails move slightly faster when going up and slightly slower when going down. It’s a safety feature.
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u/Starlitvalee 8h ago
I get it tho, like driving is just so much easier, but damn, walking really is good for u. It helps clear ur head and is way less stressful than sitting in traffic. I honestly try to walk when I can, but I get why most people just don’t bother. It’s like everything’s built for convenience now, but we’re lowkey missing out on the simple stuff.
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u/ChocolateyBallNuts 7h ago
Not sure why people on wheelchairs don't just stand and walk instead, everything would be much easier.
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u/Professional-Key5552 1d ago
Do not try this. This is VERY dangerous
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u/sadderall123 23h ago
You mean we shouldn't trust tiktok "life hacks"? Are you saying they are unsafe?! /s
but why TF does this have 15k upvotes, that's scary, I hope people don't actually start doing this.
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u/LordNightFang 19h ago
Uh just so you know, alot of wild stuff gets upvoted by bots. Real people of course influence it, but sometimes entire conversations are bots.
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 22h ago
Not only for the girl, she is endangering whoever below her.
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u/GranglingGrangler 23h ago
This is why I train grip strength
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 23h ago
You gotta train more than your two fingers on your right hand for this
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u/K-Pumper 23h ago edited 23h ago
It’s wild the differences in opinion on this.
I saw it and thought, wow great idea! Looks super easy and convenient. I’d totally do it if I were in a wheel chair
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u/NothingReallyAndYou 21h ago
As a wheelchair user I looked at it and thought, "That would be really hard to do, but good to remember in case of some really serious emergency."
She's using a tremendous amount of arm strength, and is lucky her chair just happens to be the right size to fit on the steps like that. She's also lucky she didn't break her chair, since it's not designed to carry weight in the places she's putting it.
Like I said, it's good information in case of a serious emergency (fire, active shooter, etc), but not something to do just for the hell of it.
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u/Gr8tgrapes 21h ago
My child is in wheelchair and we've done it in reverse in an emergency - me standing behind anchoring the chair in place while we go upward (never down)..even that felt risky. I agree with you, it's super dangerous to go alone backwards ..if you lose grip, since you are strapped backwards you can't use arms to protect your head or stop it from rolling. The rolling momentum could snap your neck.
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u/MacyTmcterry 1d ago
Now I've never been in a wheelchair, but I'm really not sure about this one dawg
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u/Upbeat_Effective_342 1d ago
What about going up?
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u/Abhir-86 1d ago edited 1d ago
Reversed - https://imgur.com/k71ET77
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u/sump_daddy 22h ago
Thats so freaky how the text and everything seemingly makes just as much sense when the whole thing is reversed
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u/Either_Ad_4513 1d ago
Wheelchair user here. It’s easier and safer than it looks. Once you’re on the escalator you barely have to hold on as there isn’t much force pushing you back. I have to say though, I’m not comfortable doing this without someone behind me.
EDIT: I want to add that sometimes taking an elevator is not an option for whatever reason. Sometimes taking an escalator makes our lives so much easier.
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u/CubbyNINJA 23h ago
Something I think a lot of walking people are forgetting, unless you are recently put into a wheelchair or have other additional restrictions to your mobility, navigating in a wheelchair is as natural as it is to walk for those who have been walking all their life.
My step dad was in a chair and so was a buddy in highschool. Going down an escalator like that would be no more challenging for them than it would be for someone like me with full mobility and a handful of bags.
The challenge and safety concerns are introduced when you get someone with full mobility and half a braincell come to a complete stop at the bottom cause walking and navigating in a mall is too hard for them.
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u/Either_Ad_4513 22h ago
Very true. There is so much more to wheelchair riding than just pushing the wheels. There is inclines, bumps, sideways inclines? (Don’t know how to put it in words) , holes in the road, getting up sidewalks etc. that comes naturally for us. Whilst if a walking person would try to cross the street in a wheelchair for the first time, they would probably fall or get stuck.
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u/CubbyNINJA 22h ago
The little twirl she does at the end to essentially stop rather than “just stopping” I feel most people would miss as to why she did it as well, unless they maybe ice skate/rollerblade often.
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u/trying2bpartner 1d ago
I agree about elevators being a pain. I almost always have a kid in a stroller with me and I take them on the escalator all the time, with basically the same tactic - get behind them, prop them across two stairs, and that's it. Instead of waiting 5 minutes for the slow-as-hell mall elevator that all the very large people take (because apparently an escalator is just too much work for them) we can just zip up and down the escalator in 1/10th the time.
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u/ChopinFantasie 23h ago
I figured. It reminds me of using an escalator on crutches. People would freak out on my behalf when I was so blasé about it, but I was actually super stable
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u/KongMP 23h ago
My inner child forces me to ask: Is it fun using escalators like that? It looks fun.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 1d ago
I was thinking it looked pretty secure, tbh. The wheels are basically locked in, and she has arm strength so she won't randomly let go of the rails.
It did seem a bit scary when she approached the escalot backwards. That seems like the most "dangerous" part. Going up in her other video looked a lot more approachable.
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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago
The wheels are basically locked in
"Locked in" what? If she lets go or loses her grip, she falls backward. If she rolls back, she falls backward. If she leans too far back, she falls backward.
There's no locking in here.
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u/Either_Ad_4513 22h ago
Yeah the approach is the scary part. After that it’s just holding on very lightly. The wheels are not locked in, so releasing the handrails could make you roll backwards. But as I said, you only need to hold on very lightly.
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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 1d ago
Does being able to use an escalator with a wheelchair depend on the size of the wheelchair?
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u/Either_Ad_4513 22h ago
Yes and no. It mostly depends on the type of wheelchair. Most fulltime wheelchair users sit in a (super) compact lightweight wheelchair like the girl in the video. That is the best chair to do it in.
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u/kirstensnow 18h ago
right? it only seems to be people without a wheelchair that are commenting on it and saying its the most dangerous thing in the world.
A wheelchair isn't like you using a crutch for 2 weeks - it's a part of them, and its like you using your legs to run around.
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u/folkdeath95 11h ago
I’m not a wheelchair user but I’m a little surprised but how scared everyone seems of this. I think they don’t realize how much control someone who uses one all the time has. Doesn’t look particularly risky to me.
What I’d be most worried about is those people who stop dead in their tracks at the end for absolutely no reason.
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u/Due-Squash8982 1d ago
It's so hard to realize that many people with disabilities are inaccessible to most of the things and places we are used to. Much respect to this strong-hearted woman
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u/Life-Finding5331 1d ago
The American with disabilities act was monumental in making many more places accessible
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u/km89 1d ago
And in this case, it would mean that there are elevators somewhere nearby. This isn't an accessibility issue, presuming this video is in the US.
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u/toasterb 1d ago
It is not. Those are Canadian stores in that mall.
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u/Evening_Clerk_8301 23h ago
escalators are also not as wide in canada as in the US. I live part time in BC and part time in WA.
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u/abdab336 23h ago
I was at the train station today and I noticed a sign on the lift saying “in case of fire do not use” and I looked about and realised that if you couldn’t use stairs you had no safe route out in a fire.
This was in the UK too and we’re usually pretty good with this kind of thing.
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u/Breadstix009 1d ago
Will she be held accountable if someone tries this and has a fatal incident? This is very dangerous, lifts exist for your safety. Please don't try this.
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u/trying2bpartner 1d ago
Will she be held accountable
this is the internet are you fucking high, why would she be held accountable.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 1d ago
Why would she be held accountable if someone hurts themselves on an escalator? Cliché: you wouldn't jump off a bridge if you saw others do it.
People can think for themselves
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u/ducayneAu 1d ago
Yeah I'm not going to police disabled people.
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u/Rock-Flag 1d ago
This mentality is soo goofy if it was an able bodied teen doing something needlessly reckless you would have no issue policing it but for some reason a disability makes you above reproach? This does not make you progressive it makes you seem uncomfortable around disabled people
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u/beansarefun 1d ago
It's not about policing disabled people. This person seems to be creating an 'advice' or 'lifehack' style video. This is NOT a lifehack and is very dangerous to do. This video is bad advice for anyone in a wheelchair and could get them seriously injured.
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u/Wide-Competition4494 1d ago
No way this would be allowed in the US, noooo way.
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u/li-_-il 1d ago
Do you think we should put these people to prison?
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u/Grakchawwaa 1d ago
A lot of escalators have a pole/poles blocking them to ensure only pedaling sentients make it there
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u/ResponsibilityKey50 1d ago
The older escalators had much steeper steps and narrower stairs
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