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Now that’s what I call grade A failblog material!
Also at least he was in the mall so he can buy another pair of pants
♪You put your right leg in, you take your right leg–♪
“Dangit, Llyod! Take your right leg out!”
Is it definitely a mall? Maybe it’s a casino.
Did anybody notice that when the lady running down to help and pushed the emergency stop button pushed the wrong one stoping only the down escalator
yeah, lol. Also: Is there no button on the top of the escalators?
Old folks, is there nothing they can’t do?
Oh wait, using an escalator i guess.
hmm… if he’s drunk its funny. if its an old man … hmm kinda sad.
What if he was a drunk old man? Would that be funny or sad?
sadly funny
funny, sadly
Fad and sunny
Saddly, muffy, fuddy… …HELP!
dasynnuf!
Funny. The inebriation would have reduced his normal competency to this point, so sober he should be reasonably OK. Hence, not so sad.
He had to be drunk….or very senile!
nope, more funny if it’s an oldie
Do you kick babies and puppies and kittens too? You find it funny to watch an older person fall? Creep.
no, it’s not creepy to find that funny, it’s insensitive
puppies and kittens: no
babies: yes
not so much as kicking them myself, I found out that putting kittens and babys in the same cage for enough time and they start kicking themselves
very funny
PS: that my friend was sarcasm, learn how to take a joke…. and if you can’t…. why are you in a site called “failblog”??
Booooring.
What’s really fun is putting a baby in a cage with several kittens and then kicking it down an “up” escalator so it just keeps rolling.
Now THAT’S comedy.
No, it’s comedy if you dress up the cage with the kittens as a drunk old man, and THEN kick it down the escalator.
For a finishing touch, light it all on fire and add a laugh track.
I like cats by the way, but what about when their own kind turns on them huh?
Don’t drink and escalate.
I get drunk then ride my bike down the “up” escalator.
C’mon. An eldery person. An escalator. A fatal fall. This is not funny. See you in 50 years.
Ah great.
So if it can’t happen to you a day, its funny.
No, it’s funny if it is a fail caused by someone’s stupidity. If someone isn’t able to perform a task due to physical limitations it isn’t funny since that person cannot help it. It’s like punching someone in the nose and then laughing at that person for having a broken nose.
You’re right. Not funny. The down escalator would have been hilarious though
Of course. Wait, I mean…
no, the escalator can’t punch the old man in the face
it’s like an old man watching an automatic door that opens violently outward operate several cycles, then stepping into its path and getting a broken nose
it’s not unfunny just because they’re old, that’s what makes it more funny
Meh. I watched it and felt concern and sadness, not amusement. To me it’s not funny because you just get the vibe this person is probably confused and possibly scared and it’s not something they can control. Not funny.
being confused and scared is something you *can* control
What the Jones are you on about? Mental disability is something you can control?
In this case, though, it’s not mental but physical disability that’s the problem. Lots of old people with mobility problems have real trouble stepping onto escalators because they can’t take two steps together fast enough.
Not really. Fear and confusion is a combination of one’s neurological physiology and a conditioned response to stimuli. To some degree, the conditioned response can be practiced and the physiology can be altered with psychotropic medications. As a person ages, their physiology changes. It’s a bit extreme to say that seniors have to add psychotropic drugs to their regimen of heart, BP, cholesterol, etc, medications just so they can accomplish mental responses that their bodies can no longer follow. It’s far better as a society to treat them with honor and respect as the generations who fed our ungrateful butts when we were still dirtying our diapers. One day we will be in their position. Will we have raised kids who will be there for us when we can’t get around without walkers or wheelchairs or leave us to rot in the local nursing home peeing in our Depends?
tl;dr
confusion is cured by not being stupid
scaredy-catness is cured by not crapping your pants
To be fair, the idiot who who tries to jump his riding-mower over an irrigation ditch and fall in is also confused and scared.
Fear and confusion ALONE don’t necessarily make something unfunny
He can control not going on an escalator that confuses and scares him.
If the guy is senile. Can he control that? Can he control what then confuses him etc.? Can a resident of a country of totalitarian regimes control their fate? Is the plight of every resident of North Korea who falls foul of Kim Jong Il funny? Is that footage of the puppy being kicked by it’s owner funny?
“[blah blah blahditty blah]…Is that footage of the puppy being kicked by it’s owner funny?”
YES!!!
Oh, and its*
I’m glad to see that there are reasonable people here who will stand up for comedy.
Are you implying there weren’t any escalators 50 years ago? Dude…
in 50 years from now there won’t be any escalators…. we will just tele-transport with a pre-paid nanochip in our heads.
but some elders would teletransport to some pretty weird places, that will be ver funny to watch too
Is it a fatal fall if he didn’t die?
(cheat sheet: it’s not)
fatal fall, rofl. it was hardly fatal, not even bruising.
What’s the deal with the jerk at the start who walks past without helping??
You’re right, that’s the real fail here.
(The woman who came running down the other side to help wins, though. I’m not sure if she was an employee or a random passer-by, but I kind of hope the latter because it makes her seem that much kinder.)
She’s got a nametag and looks like she’s trying to work the emergency stop. But I suspect it’s both.
I agree–the hero FTW (for the win)!
Dunno. He’s more concerned about his hair, I guess. He’s the only thing FAIL about this. I think he deserves being passed by and left without help after an accident. just to make him think. And maybe lose a limb.
That’s what I was going to say, the real fail here is the jerk who sees him and doesn’t help.
He had to laugh really hard, but was too polite to laugh in the old man’s face?
Could be. Hell the old guy could have been a real a**hole for all we know…………maybe the old guy flipped him off earlier for trying to get something down off a top shelf
He probably suffers from Alzheimer’s
Those people are constantly unlearning even the most basic things. Not that funny actually…
quite funny actually…
Shipoopi = troll
so finding it funny when someone falls down makes you a troll now?
nop…….. but saying it on the other hand…….
JK
Looks to me like a comedy bit from old British TV.
The ministry of silly falls
I agree, it’s not particularly funny. My Grandmother used to experience the same thing. Getting older altered her depth perception and so she found riding escalators very difficult – and she’d get embarrassed about holding people up
lol
Was that man transported from the 19th century?
And we let old geezers drive
civil courage fail
I like how the one guy glances at the man in trouble and just keeps on walking.
C’mon guys. The hand rail wasn’t moving. That’s what caused the problem. Give the poor guy a break.
The inside rail isn’t supposed to move Round gal
Wrong. It was moving. Any handrail will stop if you apply enough pressure. Look again!
Civil courage fail, yes.
was that in 50′ i hear the were man eater back then
I think they let him out of the “facility” too soon.
anyone else notice the cursor in the bottom right hand corner just before the words appear?
i did
I think that’s a drunken win myself, I don’t think it’s because he’s old…
Plx use ur Feets d:
Emergency stop fail – he stops the wrong escalator.
he drops his cane on the escalator.
Pick it was a bad idea.
Has this man never used *stairs* before?
Sorry, but I don’t buy it. Nobody’s that crippled. The guy is walking relatively normally up to the thing, but then simply has no idea how to step onto it. He’s not elderly, he’s just an idiot.
Not shown: Dignity.
Dignity is an option…
did he died?
no, he is resting in a casket now… ;D
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!
“WHY DO I NEVER STOP FALLING!?!?!
I wish we could have seen the part where he goes up out of the cameras sight and then he AND the lady tumble down……..then up…….then down………then up……then…wait…….what?
why are they no escalator pron s?
We don’t want his kind here.
Ship him off to Guantánamo in an orange jumpsuit.
It’s Darwinism a work people. Just let it happen. We’ll all be better off for it…
the black and white makes it look like this was filmed when elevators were first invented… lol
It’s an escalator…
And? This video does look like it was filmed when elevators were first invented.
Yeah, this was one was not so funny to me.
He looks like hes having a stroke. Strokes can be funny when there are hilarious consequences, but its kinda sad too.
There was nothing funny about this video when i watched it!!!! BUT IT GOT FUNNIER EVERY TIME AFTER THAT
Not funny at all.
Agree. Laughing at tosspots is funny. Laughing at the aged and infirm is *being* a tosspot.
inb4 people needlessly empathize with old loser
Kind of sad, but pops still failed for stepping on the escalator like a douche
eggzackly
Its look like that this man is from the deep field
What happened?
do a barrel roll!
I think the fail is from the old man and not from the escalator in itself
Love how that first guy looked right at him and walked right on by. Douche.
This man could have been one of my co-workers. I’m not sure what his diagnosis is, but he has serious mobility problems. He could be walking down the hallway just fine, and then one of his legs will suddenly refuse to move. Thank God I’ve only ever seen him fall once; there have been a couple of dozen other times where I was sure it was inevitable.
That happens to my grandfather because of scar tissue near his spine. Sometimes his legs just stop responding. Could be similar.
As a paramedic, I’m CONSTANTLY called out to help lift elderly people from the floor, who can’t help themselves up. They are often too weak and too uncoordinated. Add to this the possibility of a past stroke, Parkinson’s disease, polio, hip replacements, or a thousand other agility-affecting maladies, and it’s no wonder. There’s nothing at all funny about this video. What’s especially sad, is the first guy who walked right past without helping.
too lame; didn’t read
Agreed, this isn’t funny. Hell, he could be having a stroke or a heart attack right there on the escalator. Shame on you douchers who think it’s funny to laugh at disabilities and medical issues.
I don’t get all the morons who say this is not funny because maybe he suffers from illness or disability.
My question is then: WHY TRY TO GET ON AN ESCALATOR!!!!!!!!
Go find stairs or elevator.
That was hilarious.
Perhaps there is no elevator?
Perhaps he’s just too darned proud to admit he can’t manage something as simple as getting on an escalator any more.
I can think of lots of possible explanations for this video, and the only one which would make it funny is if that’s a young, healthy guy who was intoxicated. All the others are a bit sad, and not funny.
so, we shouldn’t laugh at a hubris fail?
Im sorry but if I was there I would’ve probably laughed.
I like how the first guy just walks away when the guy was curled up on the escalator. A class act.
he’s holding a drink, and there are slot machines in the background. either way i still think its funny
I gotta give him credit – he tried to keep the drink upright. Priority win!
To me it seemed like he fainted or blacked out.
Looking a second time it does look like he’s drunk, he was just staring at the moving steps like WTF IS GOING ON HERE?!? and then got pwned by them.
And I have no idea how some of you think that guy is old. He’s just not.
if you’re lucky enough to live a long life then you will end up rolling around on an escalator one day… or possibly some new piece of technology you can’t comprehend
The actual story behind this video: The man who is going up the escalators is suffering from an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). Unfortunately, this man did not survive his heart attack. Therefor the only fail i can see in this video is the man walking straight on by without helping. The poor old man didnt fail, he just passed out as a result of his heart no longer working.
Proof or its bs!
Straight up hilarious. The rolling killed me. So good.
I absolutely don’t understand the heart attack reasoning. If he has the heart attack at the start why is he still trying to board the escalator, if he has it midway how do you explain the initial fail.
I don’t care how old you are, if you’re too arrogant to admit you can’t do the things you use to, it’s a fail.
Perhaps the doctor’s office is at the top of the escalator?
I fell down the escalator once. it took me an hour and a half to reach the bottom.
This is not a fail
this goes ‘escalator wins, fatality’
If I were the old guy I’d laugh at it. Much better to be the butt of a Joke than the object of pity. Have some humility and stop being so self righteous – it’s hilarious and it’s allowed to be. If you remember that you’ll have a much better time of it when it happens to you eventually……of course if you do get Alzheimer’s then you won’t remember much….but then you won’t remember the falling down the escalators either.
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If I were the old guy I’d laugh at it. Much better to be the butt of a Joke than the object of pity. Have some humility and stop being so self righteous – it’s hilarious and it’s allowed to be. If you remember that you’ll have a much better time of it when it happens to you eventually……of course if you do get Alzheimer’s then you won’t remember much….but then you won’t remember the falling down the escalators either.
…. apparently I have Alzheimer’s already as I seem to be unwittingly repeating myself ^^
What about the person walking by while the old man falls?
“Why the hell should I care?”
What would have been great is if the escalator wasn’t moving at all in the first place. Nothing better than falling up.
Isn’t that Johnny Knoxville from JackAss playing that old man character? I can’t remember his name.
Look Like Mr Burns – The SimpSons
I agree with GogaPike. That might be Johnny. But what if it is’nt. Mystery