Another escalator story
I was 16 and it was my first trip to that there London with a bunch of mates from school. After much wandering aimlessly around, we entered a tube station (can't remember which) for the trip back to Euston and the train home.

There was a bit of a queue at the down escalators, though it was moving slowly, and we found ourselves behind a man, his young (4-5 yr old) son and his well-fed wife... who he was pushing in a wheelchair. To be honest, I hadn't noticed these details while queueing, but they became immediately apparent as soon as he boarded the escalator.

As the level platform on which you board turned inexorably into a flight of steps, our hero began to push down on the handles of the wheelchair in an attempt to keep it level and avoid his missus being catapulted head-first over the heads of the commuters below. Sadly, he over-compensated and, as he hadn't set the brakes, the back wheels rolled off the step and began to gather momentum.

In an act of supreme strength and commitment, the guy kept hold of the handles as the weight of the chair pulled him into a prone position. The chair only stopped accelerating because of his death-grip on it, and the fact that his fully outstretched body acted as a brake and caused the chair to fall over onto its back.

As this happened, we were able to identify the locals as they were the ones doing fuck-all to help, and it was one of my mates who had the presence of mind to shout for someone to press the emergency stop.

Once everything stopped moving, we lifted the chair up to find the son wedged underneath, fortunately uninjured, like his Mum. The idiot who decided to push his wife's chair onto the escalator suffered some cuts and scrapes but got off lightly given the possible outcome, though the tirade of abuse he got from the Underground staff member who came to see what the problem was was well-deserved.

To our credit, we only started laughing after the event, though I believe that such behaviour means I have to hand back my "I'm a B3ta Cunt" card.

tl;dr - some cunt thought pushing a wheelchair onto a tube station escalator was a good move - he was wrong.

Length: about 70 steps.
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