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Related: About this forumQuick thinking adult saves playing kid from deadly fall!
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Watch the bottom of the escalator. The child is outside the safety railing!
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)That guy definitely intervened in a potentially sad Darwinian moment.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)It's a scary video to watch. I just keep wondering where are that child's parents. I can't imagine this happening with any of my children and they were pretty wild. But, in public they had to stay within eye sight and one of mine wasn't let loose in public for weeks because she liked to try and hide.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Note that at the beginning, "quick thinking adult" is watching the kid, and I'm not sure whether the adult says something to the kid before proceeding to a store and then rapidly turning around. It's not clear why the adult turns around so fast, unless the kid was making some noise.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)on his phone, got into that store, then said, "Wait! Did I just see what I thought I saw?"
Fla Dem
(23,351 posts)of other people walking around and riding the escalator. And where were the child's parents? Even after he fell, it didn't look like anyone frantically rushing up to the kid.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)and a person helping him. So it might be dangerous to abandon a blind person on an escalator as well, but it doesn't look like the helper saw it.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)below the kid don't even notice.
Even after the kid fell, they were none the wiser....
Quick thinking by the passerby, and a damn good catch!
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)in my opinion. So title is misleading. Maybe, "potentially deadly fall"
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)him and the catcher dude are gonna go viral!
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)where the fuck were the parents?
tblue37
(64,979 posts)The video leaves a lot of important details out or ambiguous.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Also, don't American escalators go the same as road traffic? This one is going up on the left instead of the right.
AAO
(3,300 posts)and as soon as he noticed him missing he ran to find him, thereby saving the day!