Trolleys On Escalators... Near Disaster!

[Head Snake]

Does anybody have the schedule for the BKK Trolley Training? I did take my trolley down the gradual escalator. I was spooked when I could not move my trolley. Luckily in the end, my trolley developed the ability for locomotion. Boy! Was I relieved!!! How about some bigger elevators for me and my trolley?

I'm also interested in knowing what to do when the automatic door doesn't open. Is that why they put flower planters in front of it and signs to use another door?

[chinthee]

I unfortunately wasn't on this forum when this jewel of a thread ran its course. Looked it up because someone rated it the funniest thread ever.

Just wondering if any updates from WeHo or others on this?

[bendix]

If TV ever has a 'Greatest Moments' compilation put together, this thread would get prime billing.

Hilarious.

WeHo, WeHo, where are you?

As someone else said, i got very little work done that week.

[Mid]

too quick bloke

Edited June 21, 2007 by Mid

[jdinasia]

I believe WeHo was last seen trying to figure out what the slat/stairless escalators were for at Suwannapoom. He was walking for hours and wondering ... where are the stairs on those things?

[bendix]

Actually, I just checked. He's still posting, over in the Pattaya forum.

Well, that figures . . .

[Weho]

Actually, I just checked. He's still posting, over in the Pattaya forum.

Well, that figures . . .

Actually, I'm thinking of participating in the FARMING IN THAILAND forum, as it needs a little spicing up...

I have things to say, opnions, sometimes admittedly strong, about weed killer.

[Mid]

[chinthee]

Weho, you go girl. I'll watch the farming thread with great interest.

[bendix]

I'm heading over to farming forum! Anyone coming?

[elsie]

Right behind you, bendix.

While you're at it, Weho, how about the Swimming Pool forum also?

[jdinasia]

an update on the space alien disapearing turtles is due as well

[bino]

Yes indeed- this has been one of the most amusing threads of the year, if not my entire tenure on TV. Made me laugh so hard that my eyes watered!

an update on the space alien disapearing turtles is due as well

Whist your theory is plausible JD, unless Weho can supply a logical story as to where the turtles actually went, I'm still betting on the housekeeper.

Could you imagine being Weho's housekeeper? We are all well aware of his obsession / fetish for cleanliness and hygeine, so it is not a great stretch of the imagination to envision him running the poor woman ragged and pissing her off.

She probably stole Weho's turtles, took them home and cooked a nice soup for herself and her husband, and savoured every mouthful!

[jdinasia]

Yes indeed- this has been one of the most amusing threads of the year, if not my entire tenure on TV. Made me laugh so hard that my eyes watered!

an update on the space alien disapearing turtles is due as well

Whist your theory is plausible JD, unless Weho can supply a logical story as to where the turtles actually went, I'm still betting on the housekeeper.

Could you imagine being Weho's housekeeper? We are all well aware of his obsession / fetish for cleanliness and hygeine, so it is not a great stretch of the imagination to envision him running the poor woman ragged and pissing her off.

She probably stole Weho's turtles, took them home and cooked a nice soup for herself and her husband, and savoured every mouthful!

No ... no chance the maid took them! WeHo would never let her clean, move around, probably even go to the toilet unescorted! The risk that she might steal something valued over a 16 baht bowl of rice would be far too much for him to deal with

[sjaak327]

Very funny thread indeed. Congratulations to the OP, what a brilliant troll post it is. I mean you not only have pulled in a lot of replies, but brilliantly fuelled the troll several times.

Top marks !

[Payboy]

hel_l, maybe I should start advising all my retail clients who run shopping malls to stick up signs so people won't take shopping trolleys up and down the escalators.

seacon square - arguably the largest shopping mall in thailand has posts at the entrance to each escalator preventing use by people with shopping carts.

and by the way - there is a recording at the end of each moving walkway at suvarnabhumi announcing the end of the walk - only the english accent is enough to stop anyone in their tracks!

[kratindaeng]

I arrived on a flight at the new airport, put my luggage on a trolley, which had those plastic things on the bottom, I've seen all over the world, that can go on escalators. I exit the customs area, and need to go down one level to get a public taxi. There is a DOWN escalator right there, but it just didn't look right... it was a regular looking escalator, kind of like in a department store, rather steep, and no sign FOR or AGAINST trolley usage. I waited to see if others were using it, and got impatient... I started to put the trolley on it, and some nice person RAN and screamed NOT to use that escalator with a trolley, I needed to use a different escalator, not a steep one, but one of those long, gradual ones... I found it, again, no signage FOR or AGAINST trolley usage, but there was no problem.

I imagined in my mind someone putting a child on top of some luggage, putting them on the WRONG escalator, with NO SIGNS, and the whole thing immediately tipping over, and flying down about forty feet. What kind of idiot wouldn't put a sign there? And as I indicated, the STEEP escalator was RIGHT next to the arrival exit area, that most people would immediately head for.

Awful.

And I am sure you took the time out to translate your experience into Thai Language and posted it the relevant Airport Authorities, rather than just ranting in English on a website, chai mai krap?

[ZEAK]

Has anybody else seen piles of passengers strewn around in that area?

Do you think common sense of an arriving passenger would be to think:

A: there's the first and closest escalator going down one level, it's very wide, I think I'll just put the trolley on it as I do in many other airports, and there's no sign telling me NOT to do that, so here goes...

or...

B: I see there's the first escalator right there, real close to the arrival area... real wide too... Even though I just arrived off a 15 hour flight, I think I'll go hunting to see if there is another escalator going down one level, cause I'm real picky about which escalator I go down... and I love to go hunting after 15 hour flights...

So, is common sense A or B?

Perhaps you should treat escalators like walking on ice ,or better still, get 2 trolleys, push one on first and see what happens to it in case it is destroyed on its descent prior to descending yourself with your 2nd trolley. Mind you in fairness to others you must shout very loudly "watch out its coming to get you" just to warn the other travellers.

However I expect given this alarming experience of yours in future you will be suitably prepared and will travel to BKK with fulll head, body, arms and leg padding, looking much like a Michelin man, purely for your own safety. It will also provide unique recognition to the Immigration staff.

Wow....I have not laughed like that for a while.....thanks!! And thanks to the OP for this thread, just great!

[richard_smith237]

Reading a lot of posts by a lot of different people. It occurred to me today that amongst a lot of criticism of Thailand, are people who self incriminate their own intellect and common sense and tar themselves with the same idiotic brush as those they are trying to criticize….

We have the Darwin awards for those stupid enough to remove themselves from the gene pool with idiotic acts..

Should we have a TV Darwin awards, for those who completely void the point of a post by being stupid enough to get themselves in that situation in the first place ??

Favorites are:

> Driving drunk and criticizing fines.

> Meeting the girl of your dreams, half your age, on the internet or within a few months of meeting her

> What to do, Visa overstayers.

Maybe this is for a new thread. But maybe a good thread to start... …Can we add the names of guilty the parties ?

Edited September 22, 2007 by richard_smith237

[elkangorito]

This was the best thread in the whole farking cosmos!!! I almost wet myself on several occasions. I'm wondering how weho managed to live so long? Did he need instructions to breath?

Anyway, I know it's late in the piece but I must add a few graphics to this marvelous thread.

This trolley sign could help people with vacuum sealed heads.

This sign is to be put on any trolley that weho may use.

These are pics of various baggage trolleys. Can you find the "escalator friendly trolley? What is the difference between them?

[Acquiesce]

[Acquiesce]

[TravelBUG]

I arrived on a flight at the new airport, put my luggage on a trolley, which had those plastic things on the bottom, I've seen all over the world, that can go on escalators. I exit the customs area, and need to go down one level to get a public taxi. There is a DOWN escalator right there, but it just didn't look right... it was a regular looking escalator, kind of like in a department store, rather steep, and no sign FOR or AGAINST trolley usage. I waited to see if others were using it, and got impatient... I started to put the trolley on it, and some nice person RAN and screamed NOT to use that escalator with a trolley, I needed to use a different escalator, not a steep one, but one of those long, gradual ones... I found it, again, no signage FOR or AGAINST trolley usage, but there was no problem.

I imagined in my mind someone putting a child on top of some luggage, putting them on the WRONG escalator, with NO SIGNS, and the whole thing immediately tipping over, and flying down about forty feet. What kind of idiot wouldn't put a sign there? And as I indicated, the STEEP escalator was RIGHT next to the arrival exit area, that most people would immediately head for.

Awful.

Hmmm.. what kind of an idiot would put a kid ontop of their luggage... ontop of a trolley, THEN onto an escalator?????

Bit of a strage thing to imagine in your mind!!

[intumult]

I say B!

If you notice there is an escalator there then I would first assume you would look to see if it’s going up or down. If you have to see if its up or down I would also assume you might notice if its long and gradual with no steps or steep like a moving staircase. I would then assume once you see its rather steep you may want to find an elevator or perhaps a different type of escalator. I’m not sure that choosing to just go down that escalator because you’re too lazy to walk anywhere would be construed as common sense. Or perhaps im wrong or maybe I just assume too much. Just for the record I managed to navigate my way through the assault course of the new airport escalator system all by myself and after a 14 hour flight and so did a large group of SAGA OAPs behind me! Do you think I should be proud of myself?

Jake

[hkt83100]

What kind of idiot wouldn't put a sign there? And as I indicated, the STEEP escalator was RIGHT next to the arrival exit area, that most people would immediately head for.

And don't forget to put another sign right next to it:

"Don't hold you breath for longer than 5 minutes. It might be fatal to your health."

[Crossy]

Hmmm.. what kind of an idiot would put a kid ontop of their luggage... ontop of a trolley, THEN onto an escalator?????

Sadly an awful lot, just look around the airport next time and see how many nippers are riding on the luggage compared to the number walking.

Not wishing to be associated with Weho, but I have nearly sent my luggage to its death by not being 100% attentive. In my/our defence the top of a regular escalator and the top of a sloped travelator look very similar at 5AM after a long night flight

Gotta love the trolley capable escalators (and escalator capable trollies) at KLIA

Edited June 15, 2008 by Crossy

[mzqueenie]

wow new airport but sh*tty escalator designing, looks like a typical shopping centre one, except better

[Doudou]

Many airports are equipped with trolleys that are compatible with escalators (and yes these are the same as in shopping center). Geneva for example. You don't even need to hold the trolley while on it, even with heavy luggage (I tried with about 50kg). The trolleys at Suvarnabhumi where designed to go on escalators too, as you can see with the plastic steps under and the grill in front. The problem is that the company that was chosen to build them had no prior experience. So they are a bit unsafe on the escalators because the plastic is slippery with metal. Rubber would have been the correct choice, except that rubber is more expensive. I did try to go up and had no problems (at least you can hold a bit), but didn't care to try going down.

The problem with the the travelators is different, the wheel are supposed to lock the trolleys in place (like at Paragon) in the grooves of the travelators. However, since this is not working well, the brakes should take over, but... oops, the brakes are not working well either, so you need good shoes with rubber soles so that you don't slip with the trolley. I have seen numerous ladies with high heels having problems on travelators.

So, what we have is a poor design of the trolleys and not a behavior problems on the part of the users. This topic was talked about briefly in Bangkok Post shortly after the opening.

[tutsiwarrior]

a thread as remarkable as this one does not simply evolve on an internet forum...I am convinced that all of the contributors are the same person who has been having the rest of us on...not that I mind; the thread is wildly entertaining...

[pampal]

ppl must be seriously bored to find anything amusing in here