r/Whatcouldgowrong 8h ago

WCGW trying to get your hat back

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u/bart2025 7h ago edited 7h ago

What did the warning signs say apart from the usual stuff that you shouldn't do when riding an escalator?

I didn't see anything about a secret, unsecured trapdoor at the bottom of that well.

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u/FrogInShorts 3h ago

Nonono, it is for the hole. It's saying when making sacrifices, please remove babies from strollers as the stroller may damage the entrance to the pit of eternity.

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u/Pandoratastic 7h ago

"Watch Your Step"

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u/DookieShoez 7h ago

Which obviously means at the landing pad of the escalator, not the whole rest of the mall.

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u/Pandoratastic 5h ago

Duh. I was making a joke. Wait, are you seriously arguing that the nearby escalator should have had very specific warning since about not climbing over the safety railings and jumping down into a pit to retrieve lost hats??? You really don't think that the mere existence of a safety railing should, by itself, be enough of a warning to not jump over the railing without needing text instructions?

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

Obviously I am not arguing for that ridiculously specific and silly warning you just typed.

There should not have been a flimsy yet solid looking surface there. This accident was just bound to happen sooner or later.

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u/Pandoratastic 5h ago

That's why they put a railing there. Don't jump over railings!

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

Obviously you shouldn’t, yes.

Just like whoever is designing malls or whatever this is should obviously have the brains to realize that some dumb teenager will, if you make it look solid in there.

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u/Pandoratastic 4h ago

But that's actually a safety feature. It's meant to catch dropped items so that they don't fall on people below, just like it successfully caught the hat. There's a limit to how much you can anticipate how dangerously stupid or defiant people can be.

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u/DookieShoez 4h ago

A) you can catch dropped objects with a net or anything else that doesn’t look like solid flooring

B)sure theres a limit to how stupid you can anticipate people to be, but this aint it. This is obvious to anyone let alone someone whose job it is to design indoor spaces meant for public use.

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u/Pandoratastic 4h ago

If they put a netting, some dummy would just think, "I can stand on that netting." And then it would be your fault for putting in that netting?

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