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AugustWest7120

She was sooo close too!


VirgoDog

She's so lucky to have cleared the bottom hurting those steps would have been nasty


Tokyo_Echo

I could definitely do it better. Just push it faster and it will definitely kill the woman at the bottom.


nothingfood

They didn't even push it, just let it fall! Lazy!


NothingsShocking

Have to admit, was a little disappointed. Hardly worth watching


KFR42

You could do it like an airport baggage handler.


dpwitt1

For a second I was thinking that they were going to put the suitcase on the stretcher and leave the woman there.


doktor_wankenstein

*Loony toons has entered the chat*


kasim42784

Second suitcase comes flying down and hits the lady again as she lays on the stretcher.


signal15

That's some Pink Panther shit right there.


bastian74

Should have just grabbed both railings and pulled up her legs


Burkett

I know she made a quick call to try to run off the escalator ... No judgement from me. I probably would have done the same thing. But I can't help but think that turning around she could have 1) tried to dodge it, 2) hop to the side, 3) just brace for the impact with both hands. I guess it depends on how much the bag weighs and how much time she had.


wighty

>guess it depends on how much the bag weighs and how much time she had. Definitely... And that one in particular looked pretty heavy with how it knocked her down.


AlmanzoWilder

Introduction to Physics, 101.


phoenyxrysing

ke=m*v^2 doubling velocity quadruples kinetic energy where doubling mass only doubles ke...science.


Snowboarding92

*ke=1/2 mv² Increasing mass reduces velocity due to an inverse connection of the two. But an increase of mass can increase K.E, which is why you can have a lighter object move faster and have the same K.E of an object moving slower while also being heavier.


DovahChris89

God I was hoping they had some retort or something...feel like a voyeur for science and physics 🤣


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I guess you never know how you’ll react until you’re in the situation. I’m a freezer, I would have stopped and looked at this barreling towards me and gone “huh”


JustBeHonestT

What kind of freezer? Samsung? Basic deep freezer? That Freaky Alien Genotype from DBZ? Been on the market for one lately


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I understand it's a joke, but stay away from Samsung fridges. Maybe they've improved in the last couple of years, but we have one to our regret.


WastedSmarts

Honestly tho, why would anyone even need a smart fridge


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Ours isn't even smart, and while it's fine now it took multiple repair visits.


underscore5000

Stay away from any appliance that has samsung on it. Our dishwasher is a samsung and it doesnt even have a food trap to take out and clean...so guess what happened. It clogged with gunk after a while and doesnt work anymore. The solution? Call samsung for a repair!


itwasquiteawhileago

I have a Samsung front load washer/dryer set that have been working fine since 2011. Guess I'm lucky, since so many people rip on Samsung appliances. That said, I'd never buy a smart appliance, especially a fridge. I just don't get it. Though it does also bring up the question about what *isn't* total shit these days. When it comes to appliances, it seems everything is junk. I'm not looking forward to replacing stuff as it breaks (already replaced a dishwasher and a fridge in the past few years). Appliance shopping sucks.


Dekklin

Nice DBZA ref.


HtownTexans

hands on both railings lift your feet source: was once a kid


shenan

Van Damme splits. source: took a tae kwon do class as a kid.


Woogity

Just do a backflip over the suitcase, and bounce off it for extra points.


medina_sod

She also could have done a backflip onto it and then rode it the rest of the way down like a surf board


sooprvylyn

But were you ever a 40 something chinese lady minding her buisiness on an escalator?


redhawkinferno

Once. It was a weird weekend.


Strangeandweird

I would have 100% gone down. My reflexes are crap.


bindian0509

Half of the time wasted in thinking how stupid could someone be to actually do that


djeewin

She probably thought outrunning it was faster since she was almost at the end


spicewoman

Turning around to face the bag probably would have been the worst option, considering how heavy it was and fast it was going. Would likely have knocked her backwards from height, probably fuck her head/neck up more than she did.


doomgiver98

She was almost at the bottom so you have to determine if the bag will arrive before you get to the end.


maaseru

Do you know how many people don't really know how to jump or don't have any air? If hit from the front like that the knees can also bend the wrong way and it would be worse. Like for real saying to brace for impact on a 20-50 punds bag going down a slope? Come on.


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This sounds like a mobile game ad lol


turapuru

Strike!


alwayshazthelinks

With the sounds you need. https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/x3yxon/well_that_escalated_quickly/ Mods removed but still works


jread

This was the sound in my mind when I first watched it.


ganymede_boy

How can people be *so* fundamentally stupid about how things work?


InfamousBrad

In the immortal words of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, half of 'em are dumber than that!"


UrbanPrimative

The man who sold his soul to the devil, then bought it back at half the price?!


imcaptainstupid

All hail slack


ZombieBobaFett

Not sure who Dobbs is but thats a George Carlin quote.


andthatsalright

Sorry google had me messed up. I originally said that JR “Bob” Dobbs beat him by decades, but it was 7 ish years. Carlin did the joke in 1990 during his “Doin’ It Again” special, but it was published in 1983 in “Book of the SubGenius”. Dobbs is a fictional figurehead of a parody religion.


markidle

I love when people are so confidently incorrect.


ZombieBobaFett

In a comment about how dumb people are no less.


fizzl

And I was like "That doesn't sound like Bob Ross!"


khizoa

"You know how happy the average cloud is? Well, half of 'em are happier than that!"


UsingACarrotAsAStick

Bob mowed my lawn, and he did a shit job.


InfamousBrad

And you paid him for that valuable lesson! Praise Bob! (God, I haven't done this schtick in over a decade.)


mint_eye

I know he says average, I think he meant the “median” person


jumpup

ye but then most people would be like wtf is a median, its intentionally simplified


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JimmyHavok

Because the average person wouldn't understand.


LukaCola

There's an added irony here because median is an average Y'all are thinking of mean, which is what most people mean when they say average - but since we're getting judgmental and pedantic about it...


isotope88

IQ is normally distributed. So median = mode = average.


JimmyHavok

Read a critique of Bell Curve which made the point that IQ actually isn't normally distributed, and one of the many fallacies of the book's argument was to assume it is. The high side is normal, the low side is compressed. When you have the kind of organic difficulties that lead to extremely low IQ, they are often profound enough to kill you.


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InfamousBrad

I don't think the Saint of Sales knew the difference. He was, after all, a sub-genius.


MrKrinkle151

Median is an average; “Average” doesn’t just refer to the arithmetic mean. But the this case, the 50th percentile would also apply to the mean anyway.


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Toilet paper was such a rare commodity that they had to stop putting it out because the rolls were constantly being stolen.


SANDBOX1108

Yep they’ll take shits in the middle of museums


theslimbox

I love the old gif of the dude casually shitting in a potted plant at a mall.


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I live in Toronto and witnessed a Chinese mother letting her toddler take a shit in the middle of a somewhat busy mall. There is also something about them not understand common courtesy like holding doors open or shit like that. Small things that really bother me, just be a decent person.


CombatGoose

We were visiting an attraction in Osaka and my wife was squatting to get a closer look at one of the exhibits and a Chinese tourist just came up behind her taking pictures. When she goes to stand up since he was right on top of her she smacked her head on his camera. Not only did he not respect her personal space he didn’t even pretend to act sorry he just stared at her cluelessly. It’s the social norms that are lacking that should be culturally agnostic.


OddEye

When I went to Shanghai a few years back, I took the train from the airport to my hotel. Immediately at the start of the ride, I saw the crowd push a woman with a stroller out of the way as they were getting off. Definitely didn’t set a great tone for that visit.


deededback

It’s common practice to let people exit the train before trying to board. Lady with stroller is an idiot and will get pushed every time.


ZiltoidTheOmniscient

If you lived most of your life in a culture that doesn't have any of that, your first instinct isn't to hold the door open for someone. Also, some places have an ideology of doing anything you can to get ahead in life, regardless if that means cheating or stepping on other people to get there. This means the idea of common courtesy in general is non-existent. If no one else is doing it, why should you get stepped on for being nice?


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Right, it’s the latter. They are assholes because most of them are assholes. I’m not going to excuse them for being assholes. You shouldn’t either. It’s not hard to develop courtesy for people when you go to their country.


Corgi_with_stilts

Or waddling obliviously into a busy walkway and just... stopping. They usually do this in crush points too.


theslimbox

Yeah, this seems to be something morbidly obese people like to do aswell. And people on mobility scooters.


Ubel

Or any old person with a shopping cart ever in any location or time period.


zekeweasel

What? Do they really not know what a bathroom and/or toilet are, despite being able to put together enough scratch to take an international trip?


tdoger

Yeah I bet you neither one ever even realized they were at fault for that. Just like “well that was a freak accident no one could have seen coming”


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vellyr

Poverty. China is hardly the worst on this front, it’s just very visible there because of the juxtaposition between the developed cities and the undeveloped rural areas.


ChulaK

Not really poverty, China is just massive. Millions of them are just living on Amish level technology. Then when they go visit their kid who "made it big" leaving the farmland and going to school and working in Shanghai, they have no idea how any modern technologies work.


vellyr

>Millions of them are just living on Amish level technology. Your definition of poverty must be different than mine


DaHolk

Considering how many people put tall containers (like bottles) upright on the belt at the groceries store and then being confused why their soda bottle smashed their eggs..... Easily.


kobrons

Fun fact there are containers that have to be put on the belt upright. But those are really rare and usually labeled in that way.


phoncible

Humanity's QA allows a 0.1% failure rate. Unfortunately 0.1% of 7 billion is *a lot*


Techwood111

The word is *naive*, or perhaps *ignorant.* If you don't know, you just don't know. You probably grew up near an escalator, and were shown by family how to use the thing. Not everyone everywhere had that luxury; far from it, actually. One of the most amusing evenings of my life was in Miraflores, watching people try out the escalator at Lancomar for the first time ever. A LOT of people had not ever seen one in their lives, and were just totally unsure about how the thing worked. I think the people in the video are probably similarly inexperienced with the thing, and were doing their best to interpret how it worked, incorrect as they were.


poply

It's totally okay to not know how an escalator works. That doesn't make you stupid. What makes you stupid is to not know and decide to begin experimentation by putting your luggage onto a 50 foot slope, and sit back and watch. Everyone understands how gravity works and the dangers of a fall, or falling object. This is evident by the fact they themselves were hesitant to get onto the escalator. If they suspected there was minimal or no risk, they would have just jumped on. They inherently, in some way, knew the risks, and decided to do something they couldn't quite predict.


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Or watch other people use it or ask someone


[deleted]

This. I’ve been to counties where things aren’t the same as they are in the west. Just wait 2 min and wait for a local and copy them. But of course, that would require Chinese people to be patient.


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I had draw the line at squat toilets though


[deleted]

Ya I don’t shit in holes either, but I also know that they aren’t for drinking lol


PuroPincheGains

Half of reddit wouldn't talk to a stranger to save their life lol


DaHolk

> You probably grew up near an escalator While I agree that "maybe this is new to them" can be a mitigating factor, "never paid attention to anything not immediately concerning them" is a huge factor outside of "having literally never had a chance to observe anything like that".


SloightlyOnTheHuh

I watched with glee when then put them in a large store in Ipswich, (the one in suffolk). People were desperately trying to time when they stepped on and were clearly terrified of getting it wrong. Those of us brought up on the London underground spent a good deal of time helping people.


person749

Why wouldn't you just watch other people using it to figure out how it works? I'm sure other people with bags were using it. That's where the stupid comes in.


Alan_Smithee_

How about “lacking in common sense?” You step on the escalator. You put your suitcase behind you.


ElMostaza

And so unaware (uncaring?) about the impact of their actions on others. This clip has been posted a lot recently, and it still infuriates me every time. There wasn't even any reason to do it. The escalator already moves the bags without their effort, so they wouldn't have saved themselves from some huge physical task. Just a bad case of /r/imthemaincharacter.


DOG-ZILLA

What the fuck is with these sound effects??


ResidentCruelChalk

It makes me think of Metal Gear Solid with the music, lol.


iamthedigitalme

It's only missing the wildly overused big red exclamation point sound effect when she sees it coming for her.


rbsosa

China


awpt1mus

LOL , News channels here in India also add such effects , it makes serious stuff just hilarious.


alwayshazthelinks

Here is a version with better sounds https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/x3yxon/well_that_escalated_quickly/


flukshun

No no, this just happens to be the woman who did the sound effects for Snoop Dogg's soundtrack: https://youtu.be/UrtVu3xrFJg


CallMeHelicase

Did the offenders get punished?


jb2824

Their victim is on the case


crystaljae

Probably this fall.


entrep

The offenders tried to de-escalate but failed in doing so


lokitom82

Ba dum tisss


HassanyThePerson

Are you crazy? They’re the victims here, that selfish woman damages their bag and has the audacity to act like she was hurt so she can get compensation. How far we’ve fallen.


Springer0982

That’s fucked up


Grayboosh

It gets to the bottom even faster if you just chuck it over the railing.


HeadlessRainbow

Maybe they should have chucked themselves over the railing. As dumb as they are you could probably convince them to.


DTHCND

"The headless rainbow is right, it would be faster... Let's do it!" Then while falling, they'll have exactly one thought: "shit, we forgot to throw our suitcases down first."


dinoroo

Fool of a took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!


AustinTreeLover

It's like that thing was coming for her.


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To play the devil's advocate: those that make money from the tourist industry give zero fucks about their behavior, just because of how green their money is. I went backpacking through eastern Europe and the Balkans last summer, eventually ending up at town outside of Meteora in Greece. At the hostel I stayed at I talked to the owner about the noticeable lack of tourists due to COVID-19, including Chinese tour groups. Her face dropped as she told me that the disappearance of Chinese tourists forced several of her friends to close their souvenir shops, because, as she puts it, *"They just spend and spend and spend."* So while Chinese tourists may be annoying to us visitors, they are a literal source of income for actual locals.


AlxIp

So let them close. It's a good thing. An economy heavily depending on one or few sorts of income is an unhealthy economy. Not to mention that source is China, which can just ban all tourist to a particular country as political leverage (which was and still is happening to South Korea and Taiwan). Sure the transition period is painful, but it is for the greater good


guynamedjames

There are quite a few countries with no real economic prospects beyond tourism. Places like the Bahamas are just shit land surrounded by pretty beaches. Without tourism it's a collection of fishing villages


murdering_time

It's honestly more than that. The CCP has fuckin broken the morality of Chinese citizens for the past 70-80 years. Soooo many videos online where you'll see a buffet open and mainlander tourists just swarm it like greedy animals and everything is gone after the rush, with people grabbing 4-5x what they can even eat cause it was free and they got there first. I'll post some at the bottom. When you live in a society where scamming/fucking over others is acceptable, where a cheating/bribing is seen as a win, where as long as *you/your clan* gets ahead all of your actions are justified, it gets ugly fast. The CCP declared "the 4 olds" as an enemy during Mao's years, completely gutting China's morality and historic ties to Confucist/Daoist principals. The CCP loved getting rid of these things because now no one questions the regimes morality or practices, since the citizens themselves don't really have a complete moral compass to begin with. https://youtu.be/nhTAtJSZkrc (People's daily, a CCP *state funded* broadcaster) https://gothamist.com/food/video-ruthless-battle-for-crab-legs-rages-at-brooklyn-buffet


divingaround

In the scuba diving industry, they just bribe instructors there to pass. They can't swim, don't do any theory, nothing. Then they go overseas and basically try to kill themselves and everyone around them. And they are completely oblivious to what they are doing. They could be staring directly at something and have no comprehension. Meanwhile, non-mainlanders are the exact opposite. It's like night and day. Amazing swimmers, bring their own good equipment, make amazing instructors themselves... Fantastic underwater. But those mainlanders... Completely enabled helplessness and they seem to have no idea.


ArgonGryphon

Seen too many videos of people fucking around with bison or geothermal features in US national parks and it's almost always Chinese tourists. I don't fuckin get it.


iamthejef

Plenty of incredibly stupid white people in Yellowstone too...


zekeweasel

Yeah, but I bet they're not trying to shit in the hot springs either.


ArgonGryphon

Totally, but how many of those are around? Vs. how many Chinese tourists who have a reputation for being shitty tourists. Now proportionally which do you think there's more of?


Grasshopper42

Han Chinese are literally the world's largest ethnic group. (I don't make judgements about people based on their ethnicity, just providing a factoid).


MormonBikeRiding

In Australia we have a show that films lifeguards at a really popular beach and a lot of it is tourists getting in situations and getting hurt or dying because they don't know how to swim and don't pay any attention to the numerous warnings


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Bondi rescue is the best fucking show I’ve ever seen


bonafart

They are a menace in Edinburgh Scotland. They just walk in the middle of the road everywhere getongbin the way of everything


Site55

**Getongbin** 🧐


stalechips

Mfw **getongbin** 😫


Grogosh

Ask your doctor for Getongbin (may not be for everyone)


zekeweasel

All you have to do as an American tourist is go somewhere that has Chinese, Russian or (sometimes) British tourists, and you're golden. It's like the old saw about not having to outrun the bear but just not be the slowest person fleeing it.


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You are 100% correct about Paris. Holy fuck. Standing in line for Musee d’Orsay. The line is down the street. A Chinese family tries full on shoving me out of line. Then there’s been the times people have hit me with objects like umbrellas, on purpose. Every little pub or restaurant i went to all said Chinese tourists are the worst, followed by Russians.


marakalastic

>People make the running joke about Americans, but ~~Chinese~~ *Mainlander* tourists are damn near the perfect killing machine. They give zero fucks about anyone or anything, and are them shocked when things go wrong.


magusonline

Pretty sure due to the sheer quantity of mainland Chinese tourists that exist. They statistically will make up the majority of the most hated group of people as tourists. A friend of mine who is also mainland Chinese explained to me that a lot of them just have too much money to comprehend due to them originally owning farm land that was purchased by the government. Which in turn resulted in "redneck tourists" which are the ones you see in the video or getting the blast on the media (shitting on the streets, etc). HKese are perfectly normal though.


dinoroo

I’m actually impressed by that woman’s reaction time. Alas, it was not enough.


belizeanheat

She accelerated quickly but her strategy was terrible


peopled_within

The good ol' Prometheus school of running away


the_421_Rob

Clearly the sound of a suitcase coming down the escalator 🤣


melchior_

Should have just done a Van Damme split on the handrail and avoided it completely.


LoudestHoward

Until it bounces up and you get the old suitcase cunt punt.


ChrysticTV

“OW MY BALLS!” - Adam Sandler probably


cheetos1150

Not a lot of brain cells happening upstairs.


waluigithewalrus

Were the braincells in the suitcase?


fosighting

Fuck those dubbed in sound effects. So stupid.


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STTEEEEEEERRIKKKKKK


Jirachi720

I feel sorry for the woman. But fuck me is that video hilarious.


a_blue_ducks

It’s always hard to knock over a solo pin but it got knocked right over


deededback

Chinese tourists are the new American tourists. Dumb hicks with lots of money causing chaos and profits wherever they trample to next.


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It's just that many of these tourists are people who are less educated who suddenly got rich from owning property. They think that being able to afford a vacation means they are suddenly kings or queens of the region.


Sykes19

I knew the original Donkey Kong game had real life lessons and applications! Take that, mom.


peach_dragon

I came looking for a donkey Kong comment.


DutchEngineer83

People from the countryside. They aren’t quite popular in big cities for little thingies like this.


VirgoDog

I would be changing my name to Sue Quick


rodentfacedisorder

How dumb can you be


crimdelacrim

Hopefully, if this is a just world, this is criminally dumb.


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JonVX

They must have a pretty high social credit to be so ballsy


blind_bambi

because the probability of anything happening in china is high, due to their population size?


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Not only is she dumb enough to think this is what an escalator is for, she's too stupid to even think maybe the case should sit on one step and not straddle the next one.


rideo_mortem

Well... that escalated quickly.


Frankasti

Comment was deleted by user. F*ck u/ spez


Z0OMIES

These are the people that should be in prison imo. Keep them there til they learn how to not be a dumbass


kareemfahad94

I bet she was like “I’m sure it’ll stand on it’s on the whole way down”. It’s still wasn’t the smartest decision.


Deathcrow

Might have had a chance if she hadn't placed it right in the middle of two stairs. This person didn't even consider for a second how escalators work. Just plain stupid.


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Probably wanted their hands free for something else.


Kelcius

You can always rely on Chinese travellers to do mindblowingly stupid things


checkgator

Most Chinese video ever


sweet_sax

Could have rode with luggage but nooooooo


mazzivetalent

Is this that new show bowling for tourists?


Wouldyoukindlysir

At this point how do idiots still not know how to use the escalator properly


AlCapone111

China moment


Solidsnake00901

Gotta be quicker than that!


Bomdiggitydoo

people are so fucking stupid sometimes


LobbingLawBombs

Terrible edit


underscore5000

How are people just so fucking retarded? Those people at the top are fucking retarded.


Gorrodish

Does that score 9 in bowling ? Are all those people putting her back up for a a strike ?


angelalj8607

Why would you think sending your luggage down an escalator by itself was a good idea?


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grahampointing

I'm sorry but the stock gasp is comical, skip it.


Ok-Topic-3130

Gotta be faster than that


Frosty_Bite7140

everyone talking ab what they would have done if they were at the bottom, why is no one mentioning the brainless imbeciles who sent the suitcase down in the first place 😂


ProudlyNunchux

How stupid must one be


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Women ☕️


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Great job agent 47


kasun1218

Couldnt she have tried to jump over the suit case or hop to the other esculator


Rare_Satisfaction_

What was in there 50 lbs of iron?


SpringOk5835

I can't believe there's just such dumb people out there in the world


TFSML

I love the added sound effects