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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 8:55:24 GMT
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!!!!
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Post by nexus6 on Mar 28, 2007 15:40:06 GMT
Just when I thought I had seen them all, this idiot goes and skis down an escalator. I am lost for words (words that can be posted on this forum, anyway).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 18:20:44 GMT
OMG! What a nutter.......What is wrong with some people!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 18:40:02 GMT
Nutters indeed, but at least he had a mate down at the other end to prevent anyone getting on the escalator. I don't care if people do these crazy things if there is no "collateral" damage.
That was:
1. Nuts indeed
2. Very nicely done
I guess it's like England before all the H&S mess when kids did all sorts of pranks.
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Post by 100andthirty on Mar 28, 2007 20:12:28 GMT
New Scientist magazine annually reports on the Darwin Awards - people who've topped themselves in mad ways. This is one of the madder attempts; shame he didn't succeed. He's certainly on my "little list":
For those who like Gilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado, the Lord High Executioner sang:
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list.....................
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 20:29:21 GMT
Notice that just before he went down, did we hear someone [Gate Staff] shouting?
Yeah, true adrenalin rush, but...?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 20:41:43 GMT
He is a known Norwegian stunt skier, apparently. Still, imagine a fall on 60 metres of metal steps. Typical, it's always those Norwegians. Wreaking havoc in Britain for centuries... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2007 21:09:59 GMT
But they do build good buildings....
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Post by nexus6 on Mar 29, 2007 13:04:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2007 16:10:44 GMT
A-Ha... Pal Wakataar or whatever his name was...
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Post by gavelex on Apr 1, 2007 14:56:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2007 9:35:59 GMT
BUMP. I can only imagine what the SAs and DSM thought when they found these stickers...  |
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Post by Tubeboy on Apr 14, 2007 10:15:45 GMT
Just yet more work for the station cleaner, and at a time when the cleaning coverage on stations is at an all time low.
Fantastic!!!
Just yet another example of the public treating the tube like a toilet.
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Post by Phil on Apr 14, 2007 12:51:04 GMT
Just yet more work for the station cleaner, and at a time when the cleaning coverage on stations is at an all time low. Fantastic!!! Just yet another example of the public treating the tube like a toilet. Although I sympathize with the Station staff, I fear we are in danger of losing our sense of humour over this sticker business. Not at the incident itself, which we all agree on, but the idea of a sticker. It all comes down to the English (NOT British) sense of humour. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 13:12:54 GMT
The only person he could've hurt here was himself. I think it's a pretty nice stunt and have no problem with it.
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Post by Tubeboy on Apr 15, 2007 16:31:10 GMT
Just yet more work for the station cleaner, and at a time when the cleaning coverage on stations is at an all time low. Fantastic!!! Just yet another example of the public treating the tube like a toilet. Although I sympathize with the Station staff, I fear we are in danger of losing our sense of humour over this sticker business. Not at the incident itself, which we all agree on, but the idea of a sticker. It all comes down to the English (NOT British) sense of humour. I can see the funny side to it Phil, it is the fact that the public think they can do what they like when they enter the Underground system. Let us be honest, in the strictest sense of the word, they are defacing the escalator...........flyposting even. As is known, I work on the station side, and it is due to the selfish/ignorant attitude of a significant minority of the public, that make the tube more unpleasant [for staff and passengers alike] than it has to be. Time spent removing the stickers, could result in more time being spent on clearing up vomit, because some idiot can't hold their drink. [Rant over] |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 21:31:08 GMT
The only person he could've hurt here was himself. I think it's a pretty nice stunt and have no problem with it. And what if he had killed himself? Station closed, inconveniencing thousands of passengers. And some poor sod has to clean up what's left of him afterwards. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2007 14:10:59 GMT
The only person he could've hurt here was himself. I think it's a pretty nice stunt and have no problem with it. And what if he had killed himself? Station closed, inconveniencing thousands of passengers. And some poor sod has to clean up what's left of him afterwards. You can't really kill yourself doing this I'm quite sure. Hurt yourself, sure, but I see now way of actually killing yourself this way. He's also a professional skier, which means he knows what he's doing. You can say the same thing about tube challengers running down escalators full of people, for example. That's a bigger risk I think. |
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Post by setttt on Apr 16, 2007 20:52:33 GMT
You can say the same thing about tube challengers running down escalators full of people, for example. That's a bigger risk I think. I'd be interested to know why you consider that a bigger risk than someone hurtling down an escalator on a pair of skis, substantially faster than anyone could possibly run down it. Care to explain? |
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Post by nexus6 on Apr 16, 2007 21:06:20 GMT
You can't really kill yourself doing this I'm quite sure. Hurt yourself, sure, but I see now way of actually killing yourself this way. He's also a professional skier, which means he knows what he's doing. You can say the same thing about tube challengers running down escalators full of people, for example. That's a bigger risk I think. You're quite sure you can't kill yourself doing that kind of stunt? He's a "professional skier", therefore he "knows what he's doing"? I'm assuming that post was made in jest. You were joking, right? Tell me you're joking. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 11:59:02 GMT
Well, he may be a professional skier, but let us assume he makes a mistake and accidentally goes off piste on the snow bound slopes, and falls 250ft down a ravine of crevasse...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 15:02:03 GMT
The odds of surviving a head-first tumble down even a third of that escalator flight at that speed would be pretty slim, they are not exactly padded are they?
wonder why he didn't do it in Norway? Perhaps he would have ended up in Jail.
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Post by amershamsi on Apr 17, 2007 16:21:15 GMT
wonder why he didn't do it in Norway? Perhaps he would have ended up in Jail. the answer is surely really really obvious - Angel's escalator is the longest in Western Europe, if not the whole of Europe. What was the 'ride time'? 10 seconds? Snoreway's finest would probably be, at most, a blink and you'll miss it 4 seconds. I also seriously doubt he'd have been jailed in Norway for doing it, unless he was stupid enough not to have the people stopping others using the escalator (which he isn't). He was only putting his own life in danger, though of course, if things did go wrong, he's been incredibly selfish as the place where the escalator is would have been closed and it wouldn't have been pleasant for those in it at the time. |
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Post by amershamsi on Apr 17, 2007 16:38:02 GMT
I'd be interested to know why you consider that a bigger risk than someone hurtling down an escalator on a pair of skis, substantially faster than anyone could possibly run down it. Care to explain? let me see - easier trip risk, objects in the way to collide with. It's hard to weigh up the different risks, but the skiing has worse injuries, yet less risk to others and less chance of accidents - it's hard to tell. It's like driving at 100 on the M6Toll (a very empty motorway) vs driving at 30 along an urban road with lots of pedestrian/cyclist traffic (say a High Street) - the two are chalk and cheese, but both are potentially very dangerous. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 17:28:28 GMT
You can say the same thing about tube challengers running down escalators full of people, for example. That's a bigger risk I think. I'd be interested to know why you consider that a bigger risk than someone hurtling down an escalator on a pair of skis, substantially faster than anyone could possibly run down it. Care to explain? Because you're pretty much stuck to your skis and can't fall either forwards or backwards. If you've ever skied you'll notice that the only time you a ski can really shoot loose is when you are making a turn or somehow going sideways, which is impossible on a narrow escalator. Tube challengers run down at what may be lower (but still high) speeds, but could easily trip forwards or backwards, and obviously have other passengers on the escalator with them. It looks like he was indeed a professional, a Norwegian called Arild according to all the sources on it, working on a freestyle skiing video that's going to be on sale some time later this year. Read here for example: thinktank.typepad.com/weblog/2007/03/index.html |
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