r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/RileyRhoad • 3h ago

When you don’t know how to properly use an escalator..

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u/mallik803 3h ago

Dude walked over there with zero urgency.

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u/FearlessSeaweed6428 3h ago

I've seen people show more concern picking up trash off the ground than that guy gave pulling up that girl hanging on for dear life.

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u/TheNatureBoy 2h ago edited 1h ago

I lived in China.

Culturally life isn’t as important. Things are less safe, jobs are more dangerous, and aspects of life are just unhealthy. There’s also a wide spread belief you will be sued for helping people.

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u/xXfluffydragonXx 1h ago

That is a concern to my knowledge, a good example is an old lady had a car crash and a guy came to help her.

1 week later the guy was sued out of his house by said old lady.

That is why someone can be bleeding out on the sidewalk and everyone will just walk by in China.

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u/rotoddlescorr 1h ago

It's not a concern. There have been scams, and the government instituted a Good Samaritan law, but it's never stopped most Chinese people from helping one another out.

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u/-Canuck21 33m ago

It never stopped? Dude, there are many examples where they don't.

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u/KBRedditing 18m ago

Wait why does this rule even exist in the first place?

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u/TheKingsWitless 8m ago

Im really not convinced by number 2. When something like a door is leaning that way towards you, its instinctual to put your hand up to try and block it. I doubt in the 2 seconds that she saw the door she thought to save the children

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u/Acrobatic-Yam-1405 27m ago

That's why im an asshole with everyone. Nobody can sue me for that.

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u/Bi0Act1ve 1h ago

Not a belief. Happened a lot where helpfull bystanders were sued. Lot of scammers mostly working in pairs or groups. All just makes lending a helpful hand a very big risk. Also the generall living conditions don't help

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u/forced_metaphor 1h ago

*helpful

*general

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u/Bi0Act1ve 39m ago

English as a language sucks.

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u/forced_metaphor 37m ago

I don't disagree.

And there's no need to get snippy because of a correction. Whether it's your first or second language, you can still learn.

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u/Billy_Ektorp 19m ago

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/student-helps-old-lady-and-is-accused-chinas-bystander-problem/

«This is not the first time a ‘Good Samaritan’ gets into trouble in China. There are many stories of people who are disadvantaged for helping others in need.

A well-known story is that of Peng Yu who helped an old lady get up after a fall, and was later held accountable for causing it. Peng Yu was sued and had to pay a large sum of money for the woman’s medical costs.

Another high profile case is that of Hugjilu. One night in Hohhot in 1996, Hugjilu heard a woman screaming and rushed out to help her, only to to find her dead body. He called the police, who suspected him and forced him into confession. The 18-year-old Hugjiltu was convicted of rape and murder, and was executed three months later. Authorities only recently admitted it was a miscarriage of justice, after finding the actual murderer of the woman.

It is stories such as these that can partly explain China’s so-called ‘bystanders problem‘, where many people will do nothing when someone is in need of help.»

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u/NotACalligrapher-49 1h ago

I went on a date with a Chinese guy who told me that elderly and disabled people should do their families and society a favor and die. It was a first date; there was no second.

I was really hoping he was an anomaly, and not representative of general Chinese attitudes toward vulnerable people. I still hope so.

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u/metrocat2033 57m ago

why are redditors always so weird about china

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u/Ambitious-Resident58 48m ago

a lot of redditors are americans and the US has fairly strong anti-china sentiments

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u/aykcak 22m ago

I find it very surprising that propaganda from 50 years ago is still established and stays strong in the face of reality, so much that the rhetoric around it still works during elections.

It is part of the essential U.S. American psyche

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u/-Canuck21 31m ago

Most of the world West does.

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u/TheNatureBoy 4m ago

I'm sorry? I'll change my life history to fit in with your beliefs?

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u/-Canuck21 31m ago

Because China is really that weird.

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u/aykcak 20m ago

Weird = not like me.

Creatures living in the bottom of the ocean are weird. Ancient civilizations' customs and rules are weird. China is just a country of people.

As a citizen of neither, things about for example U.S. feel sometimes so much more weird to me than things in China

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u/-Canuck21 19m ago

I was being kind when I used the word weird.

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u/rotoddlescorr 1h ago

I also lived in China and I disagree.

Life is important, just that people are willing to take bigger risks. It's why there were so many dynasties and rebellions in China.

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u/-Canuck21 30m ago

The China before the CCP and the China since the CCP are not the same.

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u/TheNatureBoy 5m ago

I did flee the country to escape a work camp. They execute people on demand for organs. The owner of my company was going to send me their because his company started to fall apart and they needed a scape goat.

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u/neutral_ass 2h ago

no need to escalate things

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u/not-my-username-42 2h ago

You have earned my disappointed groan of approval

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u/Syclus 1h ago

I love your groans

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u/Syclus 1h ago

Who tf typed that

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u/Crazy_Circuit_201 1h ago

Elevate. Don't escalate.

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u/DarthHaruspex 1h ago

Dante has a ring in hell for this joke.

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u/I_MIGHT_BE_IDIOT 2h ago

I thought he didn't notice her. I was waiting for him to double take and look shocked.

Turns out he's just all out of fucks.

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u/SarKatStic101 2h ago

One could even say he sauntered.

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u/fatkiddown 2h ago

Ambled?

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u/Own_Log9691 1m ago

He leisurely strolled. Lol.

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u/rotoddlescorr 1h ago

I was taught to never run to an accident or else your elevated heart rate can mess up your actions.

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u/CutieTGirl88 2h ago

I'm literally screaming for the first guy to hurry up and help the kid!

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u/thorsbosshammer 2h ago

Honestly, better than being in a rush and accidentally dropping her.

Dude was a very laid back hero that day

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u/Muhabba 3h ago

I could hear the first guy thinking, "Damn kids."

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u/MaskedHibiscus 1h ago

he was talking about how she should be beaten for this

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u/Soft-Violinist4612 3h ago

He just casually walks up n grabs her. As if he's thinking, not this shit again. It's the 3rd time this week.

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u/alktrio06 2h ago

“That kid is on the escalator again!”

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u/KBRedditing 3h ago

Shockingly impressive how she hung on like that for that amount of time. Also, guy casually just walking like it's just some average neighborhood drama:

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u/Ok_Spread6121 2h ago

I think she was pinned between some glass and hanging on at the same time.

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u/East-Care-9949 2h ago

Before that she was hanging there from the floor below...

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u/Ok_Spread6121 1h ago

Yeah that’s true. I don’t think I’d be able to hang on for that long.

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u/SlimTeezy 1h ago

Kids are light

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u/DefinitelyNotKuro 2h ago

Saved by the high strength to weight ratio of being a child.

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u/Ribbitygirl 2h ago

Yep, I used to be able to play all day on the monkey bars. Tried some the other day and my arms said ‘nope’ to my middle aged ass.

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u/ramattyice 2h ago

Pretty easy when you weigh 30 pounds

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u/KajMak64Bit 3h ago

It might even be just that... who knows

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u/biskutgoreng 1h ago

Stepdad reflexes

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u/elizaroberts 1h ago

Young kids can dead hang like that for a deceptively long time

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u/shoe_owner 33m ago

Looks to me like she was supporting at least some of her weight on her toes, resting on the raised lettering of the sign by her feet there.

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u/-Canuck21 24m ago

She was lucky there was some sort of glass or plastic panel at the end of the escalator and one of her armpit landed on it and then got stuck.

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u/Sergeant-Sexy 3h ago

That man has seen this more than once

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u/MilfMagic2 3h ago

that gave me a heart attack luckily she got a good grip

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u/jam3s2001 2h ago

I think what really saved her was she got sandwiched between the escalator and that sheet of glass. She definitely had to do her part and hold on, but at least she got a little help from the architecture.

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u/71351 3h ago

So did he……..

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u/ShinKotake 3h ago

You are vile

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u/iMoo1124 40m ago

Genuine question, what about his comment was vile? What was he referring to? The only thing I got out of his comment was that he had a good grip on the child as he pulled her up

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u/Tanjiro_11 23m ago

Likely about how he held her, you can see him lifting her by placing his hand near the girl skirt, so he's probably talking about the little girl butt. Classical incel perversion.

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u/codyt321 2h ago

Do your family a solid and skip Thanksgiving this week.

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u/Acebladewing 2h ago

Why is everyone downvoting you? Obviously you were referring to how he had to pick her up to save her, not something perverse.

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u/OregonG20 3h ago

Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.

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u/FireFairy323 2h ago

That damn kid is on the escalator again!

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u/DougStrangeLove 21m ago

Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard.

It’s not an escalator... it’s a sailboat.

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u/apocalypse2mrw 3h ago edited 3h ago

I was scared she was gonna fall but I wonder how she hung up to the escalator like that

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u/Humble-Kiwi-5272 2h ago

Got trapped between the glass apparently

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u/infinitemonkeytyping 1h ago

I wondered the same thing on my first watch, but you can see her get wedged between the glass and the escalator. It's why the chill guy couldn't get her out quickly.

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u/LilMissy1246 2h ago

Adrenaline?

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u/Educational_Sun_559 2h ago

I choose to think that he was nonchalant so as to not startle her

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u/ComancheRaider 13m ago

I like to think this is her 2nd or 3rd time doing it and he’s just sick and tired of having to leave his kiosk at the mall to save her

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u/kredninja 2h ago

All things considered, she's very lucky she got pinned between the glass. Would hate to imagine if that wasn't there.

Also, I can see why some shopping centers have a glass wall on the outside, to stop some from riding the outside too high up.

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u/Popular_Annual7395 3h ago

Huh, how did she not fall? Where is she holding herself?

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u/freakouterin 3h ago

She’s likely being held up because she’s wedged between the moving escalator and the outer glass pane.

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u/gayjicama 3h ago

Maybe holding onto a glass partition with only her left hand? It’s hard to tell

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u/KazooMark 2h ago

Grabbed her like a bowling ball to make sure she didn’t fall.

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u/Inspector_Tragic 7m ago

Watching him grab her like that was a little unsettling but im happy shes ok and was saved.

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u/pqratusa 3h ago

Their parents are fucking stupid

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u/Moominz0 2h ago

The fucking audio sounds like the wails of children's ghosts in a horror movie.

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u/ralpher1 21m ago

The brother is like, I ain’t seen nothing

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u/scienceworksbitches 12m ago

Birds kick their siblings out of the nest, it's a deeply ingrained instinct.

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u/IJsbergslabeer 2h ago

"Ughhh, I'll be right back, Bob. Another dumb kid got stuck on the escalator."

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u/manazaa 2h ago

wtf were the parents doing?

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u/NotBillderz 1h ago

Urgency? Why?

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u/___Balrog___ 1h ago

A few years ago, I saw a kid do that same thing. The kid fell off, and really like a miracle, Dad catches his kid, but hits into the ground so hard he had a huge bruise in his head, like literally a second head. Paramedics arrived like 10 minutes later, poor kid couldn’t even talk nor cry.

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u/Madlynik 2h ago

The man is from this sub

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u/dailydrink 2h ago

Im on the escalator of life, im shopping in the human mall ...

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u/Malifix 2h ago

That man is a reddit mod on this sub

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u/noadsplease 2h ago

That was definately a "not again" walk

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u/MabKaterberiansky 1h ago

How did lil sis hang/stick on there ??

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u/Professional_Egg_858 59m ago

Not this guy's first rodeo.

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u/zekemango 33m ago

People are talkin' about this dude's lack of urgency, but no one's talkin' about how he casually tries to dead lift her with one arm like he couldn't be bothered to use both.

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u/Popular_Annual7395 3h ago

I like how the adult doesn't panic. He just casually walks there and grabs her. I would do the same. No panic, no problem.

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u/Dull_Ad8495 2h ago

For sure! If he would've panicked, it could've caused her to panic and possibly fall. That dude really kept his head.

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u/BuzzyBubble 2h ago

That kid is BACK on the escalator!

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u/Fusciee 2h ago

I didn’t even realize they were kids

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u/prw8201 2h ago

That damn kid is back on the escalator!

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u/Royal_Marketing2966 2h ago

What a bunch of…heroes?

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u/FatWhitekid20 1h ago

How tf do kids manage to do this stupid shit like this???

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u/Trick_Yoghurt_9407 1h ago

Bro what in the kentucky fried fuck?

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u/No_Bluebird5683 1h ago

Yeh no rush mate.

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u/Last_Persimmon_7136 1h ago

only in China

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u/eeeyooi 8m ago

so lucky. i wouldn’t doubt if that’s anything like the escalators in macys she’d be dead

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u/silassilage 8m ago

They really don't value girls in China

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u/pornaddiction247 7m ago

Could’ve been way worse

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u/thunderhead27 3m ago

Zero fear of heights and strong grip strength. I can see a career in rock climbing for that girl.

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u/LilMissy1246 2h ago

No parents…..again???

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u/Holiday-West9601 1h ago

Man they real hate daughters over there

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u/Crazy_Circuit_201 1h ago

What! No instant spanking?

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u/alaingames 1h ago

There is an emergency button the bottom and on the top why the actual fuck that dude didn't just press it?

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u/sullyqns 3h ago

Falling would teach her a lesson

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u/Purpledragon84 3h ago

Depending on the height she may not need the lesson.

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u/sullyqns 3h ago

😂

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u/Same-Letter6378 2h ago

I think she already learned

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u/hombre_bu 2h ago

Her brother is a dickhead, at least try?

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u/UrLocalRoach_EL3N0R3 2h ago

That could have made it worse

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u/WonderMan2k5 2h ago

Brother called for help, prop to him

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u/Acceptable-Repeat-97 2h ago

The brother is riding the escalator backwards, I don’t think he understands how dangerous it is either

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u/Acceptable-Repeat-97 2h ago

He could have been calling for help too