1. 07-27-15 05:11 PM #1
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    Horrible Escalator Death Caught on Video

    Security camera footage has emerged of a mother saving her young son's life seconds before losing her own on an escalator in China.

    The 30-second video begins innocently enough: As the escalator in a shopping mall almost reaches the top, a woman in a white shirt and black skirt lifts up her young son to get ready to step off.

    But as she does, a metal panel suddenly collapses under her feet and she falls into the gap.

    Struggling with only her upper body above the structure, the mother is seen pushing her son forward. The boy is quickly pulled to safety by a mall employee standing near the top of the escalator.

    Two other mall employees try to drag the trapped woman out -- but within a few seconds she disappears through the hole, into the escalator shaft.

    Despite a four-hour rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters declared the woman dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon, state media reported.

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  2. 07-27-15 05:14 PM #2
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    Saw this earlier.

    Fuk that.
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  3. 07-27-15 05:15 PM #3
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    Why is there a gap big enough to suck a person under on an escalator
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  4. 07-27-15 05:16 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    Why is there a gap big enough to suck a person under on an escalator
    Chinese prank gone wrong?
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  5. 07-27-15 05:17 PM #5
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    1 less Chinese person we have to fight in the war.
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    reddit had the video and story midday sunday. I guess it took 2 hours to get her body out. That shit had to have hurt for at least a few seconds.
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  7. 07-27-15 05:19 PM #7
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    damn that's just brutal.

    saw this one before.

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  8. 07-27-15 05:20 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by MUHerd37 View Post
    1 less Chinese person we have to fight in the war.
    that is so last century. USA and China have the threat of nukes now
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    Is that a prank?

    It does not look like one
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  10. 07-27-15 05:29 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghenghis Kahn View Post
    damn that's just brutal.

    saw this one before.

    Fuk that was brutal and hard to watch.

    And you notice people stand around watching and not running to help the lil guy?

    They are afraid of getting sued.

    http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/12/...-being-framed/
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  11. 07-27-15 05:40 PM #11
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    Brave women made sure her kid was safe
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  12. 07-27-15 05:41 PM #12
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    I wonder why those 2 guys were standing there in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slayer14 View Post
    Brave women made sure her kid was safe
    Pure instinct. Any parent would do that.
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  14. 07-27-15 06:12 PM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Fuk that was brutal and hard to watch.

    And you notice people stand around watching and not running to help the lil guy?

    They are afraid of getting sued.

    http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/12/...-being-framed/
    this world is fukked. no one is willing to help anyone due to lawsuits.
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  15. 07-27-15 08:21 PM #15
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    Regarding the original post, who were those girls at the top of the escalator that assisted the child? What were they waiting for?

    And where is that giant, red button for emergency stops? Does this escalator even have one? If so, punching it should have been the first reaction of any sane bystander the moment the floor fell out.
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    Every escalators should install a emergency button
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddy Munny View Post
    Regarding the original post, who were those girls at the top of the escalator that assisted the child? What were they waiting for?

    And where is that giant, red button for emergency stops? Does this escalator even have one? If so, punching it should have been the first reaction of any sane bystander the moment the floor fell out.
    Good question, I was wondering why those women were standing there as well. Why were they standing in the exact spot where the floor fell out? And normally as soon as an escalator gets a slight jam, it shuts down and has to be reset.

    Not long ago there was a pretty horrific accident in China where a man stepped onto an elevator and it dropped and he got crushed between floors.
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    From another news site site:

    Maintenance had just been carried out on the escalator, and initial reports claim workers forgot to screw the access cover back into place.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3h9HydI2S
    Maybe thats why those women were standing at the top of the escalator? They knew it was lose and somebody could fall in? I dunno.
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  19. 07-27-15 09:50 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghenghis Kahn View Post
    damn that's just brutal.

    saw this one before.


    Where is the parental supervision?
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  20. 07-28-15 06:10 PM #20
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    During a news conference on Monday night, Chen Guanxin, a Jingzhou government official, said that the initial investigation suggested the mall had acted irresponsibly.

    Mr. Chen said the mall’s employees had noticed the loose panel five minutes before the accident but had failed to shut down the escalator before Ms. Xiang and her son boarded.
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