Scott Leopold
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Nov 21, 2001
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While I agree that it shouldn't be funny, I did see a lady & her baby take a spill on the escalator just the other day. This lady ignored the sign and decided to try to get her massive, stroller/car seat combo down the escalator. We've got one of these, and I'll admit that I have a hard time carrying it around when it's folded up, no baby, no carseat. This was fully expanded, and had the baby & carseat on it. The lady had it at an odd angle so that only one wheel was touching the escalator, and she was trying to use her leverage to keep the thing upright & balanced. I wanted to say something, but I was so dumbfounded that all I could do was stare like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel. About 2/3 of the way down, something gave and the stroller started to tumble (I was going up on the opposite escalator, so I was in no position to stop it). The lady either got pulled by the stroller's momentum, or dove to try to stop it. Either way, she went headfirst over the stroller, landed at the bottom of the escalator, then had the stroller land on top of her. The stroller kind of bounced off, then landed sideways, spilling the carseat out onto the mall floor, where it skidded another five feet or so. The lady was dazed and embarrassed, and the baby was screaming--more from fright than injury, thankfully. I had run down the down escalator as soon as I reached the top, and by the time I got down there quite a crowd had gathered. I would have stuck around to see how both were doing, but a guy was screaming at the lady calling her an idiot, and I wasn't in the mood to get in the middle of an ugly scene. I would have told the guy to back off, but the lady truly was an idiot, and truly needed to be told so.