Escalator swallows woman alive

[pocketrockets]

http://gawker.com/woman-swallowed-a..._source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

A Chinese woman reportedly died in one of the most horrific ways imaginable on Sunday after she fell through the platform at the top of a mall escalator. The woman managed to toss her two-year-old son to safety just seconds before being swallowed whole inside the contraption.
According to the Associated Press, security camera footage of the tragedy shows the woman—identified as 30-year-old Xiang Liujua—slowly riding up the escalator in a mall in Jingzhou , China, while holding her son’s hand. Once she reaches the top, the metal floor buckles, causing the woman’s legs to become ensnared in the downward moving metal steps. As she frantically struggles to free herself, Xiang passes her son to three onlookers, who tried to grab her hand before she was sucked into the machine.

According to the state-run People’s Daily’s, the woman’s body was finally removed from the machine four hours later.

 

[TheComputerGroup]

That's one of the freakiest accidents I've ever read.......I see a huge lawsuit coning!

 

[MikeB]

That's one of the freakiest accidents I've ever read.......I see a huge lawsuit coning!

It's China....there will be no lawsuit.

The Government might take the escalator Engineer and shot him in the town common, but that's probably about it.

 

[scottcarter]

omfg

 

[pocketrockets]

That's one of the freakiest accidents I've ever read.......I see a huge lawsuit coning!

there's a video in the link

 

[IMISREMEMBER]

Was that Otis System made in USA or China WTF that was Scary

 

[HacheMan]

Are those 2 employees standing at the top?

If so, then what were they doing there?

It's as if they were keeping an eye on something.

They knew something was wrong with it and someone apparently already had the cover off checking it....

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

And people act like the Chinese are a legitimate threat. They can't even get escalators right. They are like the Russians from the 80's. They know they can't win because if they did, they would have thrown a punch. AKA as North Korea today. They will talk and talk but at the end of the day they know they cant win.

 

[pocketrockets]

Are those 2 employees standing at the top?

If so, then what were they doing there?

It's as if they were keeping an eye on something.

They knew something was wrong with it and someone apparently already had the cover off checking it....

They were "bystanders" but yeah very suspicious.

 

[CoachCB]

Oooof!

 

[MikeB]

Somebody should start a poll-


Which RX Poster (or Mod) would you most like to see swallowed up by an escalator?

 

[shane-o-mac]

Are those 2 employees standing at the top?

If so, then what were they doing there?

It's as if they were keeping an eye on something.

They knew something was wrong with it and someone apparently already had the cover off checking it....

Saw this posted on reddit-not sure how accurate it is but it makes a little more sense.

"it's a mother and her son. the mall employees were waiting at the top because they were about to close off the faulty escalator. the mother ignored the warning and thought lifting her kid and stepping over the faulty area would avoid the problem. she was confirmed dead when extracted three hours after the incident. the father heeded the warning but watched it all happen helplessly at the bottom. you can see him in the gif."

 

[wilbur]

Somebody should start a poll-


Which RX Poster (or Mod) would you most like to see swallowed up by an escalator?

Pockets(who I thought was banned) and Vlad, for obvious reasons.
And Hache for being too curious.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Pockets(who I thought was banned) and Vlad, for obvious reasons.
And Hache for being too curious.

Me? Why?

What was it like to see Andrew Jackson sworn in as President?

This is the stuff I need from you, Everything else just means you thing Babe Ruth was good.

 

[pocketrockets]

Pockets(who I thought was banned) and Vlad, for obvious reasons.
And Hache for being too curious.

MikeB overruled you and sent you to your domains (aka retirement home). Damn Alzheimers.

 

[Greenbacks]

I found this video pocket.....

 

[devocr]

What no emergency stop button...

 

[StevieRay]

Sounded like they were laughing

 

[C.P.]

are we forgetting...that little girl...LIVED...thx to the help

some post are funny, but damn

this little girl has one less parent....sad

 

[wilbur]

are we forgetting...that little girl...LIVED...thx to the help

some post are funny, but damn

this little girl has one less parent....sad

God now I feel kinda bad.