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I had to sleep overnight in the phoenix airport once. All night long a loud speaker was repeating at high volume "Caution: the moving walkway is coming to an end." I remember wishing that it would indeed come to an end.

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Hit the E-stop button next time. The belt will stop and won't get restarted until the morning when a maintenance guy comes around.

I'm sure the belt will stop, I'm less sure the audio will.

That sounds like a great way to get tossed out of an airport.

Sir this is hacker news not hall monitor news

I’m not the hall monitor. I appreciate a good hack. But I’ve also been around the hall monitors enough to recognize what behavior is likely to summon them.

I don’t particularly care if someone shuts up an obnoxious, unused piece of equipment. The armed federal hall monitors running the place probably see it differently.

Sounds like ill advice. Have great potential to discover the authentic beauty of Amtrak and Greyhound modes of traveling.

Generally the e-stop button will trigger an e-stop alarm of some sort: buzzer or horn, mandated by regulations.

No materials on the escalator

The white zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

The red zone is for loading and unloading only. There is no stopping in the white zone.

The red zone has always been for loading and unloading. There's never stopping in a WHITE zone.

Oh really? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

The really fun part is that the couple who read those lines in the movie Airplane actually had been announcers at, IIRC, LAX airport. They must have had a great time doing the movie.

The actual quote, both from the movie and IRL is: "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only."

Same problem at LAS, SLC, and DEN.

Whenever I have an overnight layover in any of these airports I now pack NIOSH certified ear muffs, along with an eye mask.

I look ridiculous, but I don’t care.

Female PA Announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.

Male PA Announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.

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Those walkways are only in between each set of gates, there aren’t any actually near gates or anywhere near seating. Where did you sleep lol?

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