Video: Children messing around on an escalator - where were the parents?

 

Image: Daily News

 

Daily News picked up on a story that nearly had a tragic ending after children were seen playing dangerously on an escalator.

 

They suggested this should serve as a warning to parents to keep their children in sight at all times. 

 

In a couple of clips - at least one posted by Wichuta Srisamrit on Facebook - a child was seen going up an escalator grabbing onto the moving handrail on the OUTSIDE.

 

He was grabbed by a member of the public near the top before he fell.

 

Someone below rushed into position should he fall. 

 

It was not reported if the parents were even with the children.

 

Sources: Daily News and Sanook

 

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Good on the members of public for not turning a blind eye. 
 

I would suspect the kids parents were working nearby in one of the shops (Friday was a Thai school holiday). 

You let the little ones out of your sight for only a few seconds and the can get up to all kinds of mischief. I know I did when I was a wee nipper. 

10 out of 10 to those who reacted to this. 

To be fair, when I was younger, me and my mates did some insane s***. Not in shopping malls, but out in the fields or park away from view. I remember we had a competition to see who had the balls to jump from the greatest height. Looking back we could have broken our legs. 
 

As dumb as some of the stuff we did, I wouldn’t change my childhood for the ones most kids have now. No way. The outdoor kid generation from the 80s and 90s was a brilliant experience. 

6 hours ago, rkidlad said:

To be fair, when I was younger, me and my mates did some insane s***. Not in shopping malls, but out in the fields or park away from view. I remember we had a competition to see who had the balls to jump from the greatest height. Looking back we could have broken our legs. 
 

As dumb as some of the stuff we did, I wouldn’t change my childhood for the ones most kids have now. No way. The outdoor kid generation from the 80s and 90s was a brilliant experience. 

 

Have to agree with you on all the points you make, you should see some of the 5h!t I used to get up to in London back in the late 50's early 60's, I'm lucky I made it this far ????????

reminds me of that video in China where the woman gets pulled under and crushed

I remember a Russian fella and his wife and kid decided it would be fun to go down one facing backwards in Suvarnabhumi.

The inevitable happened and the ladies hair almost got caught.

In a split second i yanked them all up. (Lord knows how, they were both big old units ????)

I bet it looked funny on CCTV, but it nearly got messy !

They never thanked me, but it all happened so quick.

Kids will be kids. Unfortunate truth, sometimes. 

A similar situation is visible at airports with children 'mauling' the baggage conveyor belts and the parents totally oblivious to the potential outcomes.  Having said that my favourites as a youngster were rowing across lakes in a tea chest, holding bangers by the end and letting them explode, and filling spud guns with 20 caps and then hitting them with a poker. Those were the days.

Once again  if their were a few big lawsuits in Thailand companies would have to start thinking about safety.  In USA there is usually a clear plexiglass blockade.   Would have knocked his hands loose before he got more than 10' up

On 12/12/2020 at 12:07 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Good on the members of public for not turning a blind eye. 
 

I would suspect the kids parents were working nearby in one of the shops (Friday was a Thai school holiday). 

It may sound a bit cynical, but that could have been 'mum' that rushed to the rescue! The child must have cried out and mothers will always recognize the cry of their own offspring.

55 minutes ago, Elkski said:

Once again  if their were a few big lawsuits in Thailand companies would have to start thinking about safety.  In USA there is usually a clear plexiglass blockade.   Would have knocked his hands loose before he got more than 10' up

I don't go around studying escalators but don't they generally have a safety barrier at the bottom to prevent this kind of incident?

 

The Plexiglas barrier that you mention is there to prevent someone from leaning out and impacting their head on the approaching floor above.

 

Edited December 13, 20205 yr by Moonlover

3 hours ago, Moonlover said:

It may sound a bit cynical, but that could have been 'mum' that rushed to the rescue! The child must have cried out and mothers will always recognize the cry of their own offspring.

Cynical !?!

How about "natural selection" ... ? 

 

Looks like something I would have don't at that age. 

Reminds me of the Xmas I had a job in the electronics department at a department store. Help set up Xmas displays with the hot designer ladies. Then reconfigured displays and some stocking.    There were several of us temporary kind.   there was a spiral trash chute on each floor.  Used for boxes and clean  packing trash.   An input door at each level and an open chute at the bottom.  We learned it made a fun transportation method to the basement.   One time we tricked this one guy to go first and we had a big mop bucket around the corner.   The water  must have met up with him.   555.  We never saw him but we could see his wet footprints on the floor. He just left work quickly. 

We used to travel miles on our push bikes which we had made from old ones at the tip, go into woods and find the tallest tree, and climb it, even towing someone behind on a go-cart (box cart) wood and pram wheels, haul it to the top of a steep hill, speeding down it, with no brakes steering with our feet oh what fun we had. Another fav was to go to the unfinished QE2 reservoir with very high and steep concrete sides nick a wheel barrow, sit in it and go down, they then locked the wheel barrows away, fed up of having to retrieve them.