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"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

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[...] The escalators of the station caused a significant disaster on the Moscow Metro on February 17, 1982, that killed at least eight people. [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviamotornaya_(Kalininsko%E2%8...

It's a Mitch Hedberg joke

Quoting someone who died by misadventure when the subject is public safety is either tone deaf as hell or way more satirical than I’m prepared for on a Monday.

He died of a drug overdose, nothing to do with escalators or stairs.

That accident happened when the escalator was in motion when the mechanical failure occurred, and the brakes had been incorrectly installed. If it had been stopped and brakes correctly applied, the escalator would have functioned fine as stairs.

Yeah that's some fun logic.

This isn't a broken web application sir, it's a static web page that displays important exception information.

Give me a static page with the information I want anyday please

Sure. Whenever you feel the need for one of those, click this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702940

500 Internal Server Error

“The web server is down”

No it’s not, it up and running. See that error page?

I know this is a joke, but it is false.

https://youtu.be/fLUppwRShpE?t=11

(Aside: I was about 10 minutes walk away from the location when this happened.)

Ugh, reminds me of this recent ski lift accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvt0gTAXvA

Even worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X1zEIyWUw

Warning, very disturbing, shows someone dying.

As an exercise machine, it is actually broken when it is moving.

Mitch was obviously unfamiliar with WMATA.

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