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Escalators
Tom McKay
On Tuesday, The New York Times decided to reignite the age old debate of walking versus standing on escalators. And do you know what the paper concluded? “You shouldn’t walk on escalators.” This is a patently incorrect conclusion for at least four reasons.
Video: When most escalators break down they just temporarily become stairs (as the Mitch Hedberg joke goes). But this one decided to glitch in a way that actively ruined the days of the people riding it.
This is crazy. During John Stewart and Steven Colbert’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ event in Washington DC, an escalator in a Metro station went completely buckwild. Like to the shits. I’m not kidding, the escalator started speeding up and tossing people on top of each other. Just watch. The ridiculousness…
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