• Walk_blesseD
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    19 hours ago

    You’ve piqued my curiosity: how does one even get sucked into an escalator? What’s gotta happen to make that work???

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      17 hours ago

      It’s always at the bottom or top right where you’d step off and you just watch the person’s shoe suddenly disappear, and then they disappear. I believe it’s a shoelace or loose/flexible shoes that get pulled into the machinery and belts where the surface flattens out and goes back under the floor.

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        16 hours ago

        Interesting. I get that this is a pretty morbid line of thought, but I’d kinda just assumed that the amount of force required to crush a person like that would be more than enough to just… rip off a foot or the limb or whatever and still leave enough of a person left over to survive…? At least, assuming bystanders were quick enough to stop the bleeding. idk…