rooster59 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Video: Children messing around on an escalator - where were the parents? Image: Daily News Daily News picked up on a story that nearly had a tragic ending after children were seen playing dangerously on an escalator. They suggested this should serve as a warning to parents to keep their children in sight at all times. In a couple of clips - at least one posted by Wichuta Srisamrit on Facebook - a child was seen going up an escalator grabbing onto the moving handrail on the OUTSIDE. He was grabbed by a member of the public near the top before he fell. Someone below rushed into position should he fall. It was not reported if the parents were even with the children. Sources: Daily News and Sanook -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-12-12 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post richard_smith237 Posted December 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2020 Good on the members of public for not turning a blind eye. I would suspect the kids parents were working nearby in one of the shops (Friday was a Thai school holiday). 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post djayz Posted December 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2020 You let the little ones out of your sight for only a few seconds and the can get up to all kinds of mischief. I know I did when I was a wee nipper. 10 out of 10 to those who reacted to this. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rkidlad Posted December 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2020 To be fair, when I was younger, me and my mates did some insane s***. Not in shopping malls, but out in the fields or park away from view. I remember we had a competition to see who had the balls to jump from the greatest height. Looking back we could have broken our legs. As dumb as some of the stuff we did, I wouldn’t change my childhood for the ones most kids have now. No way. The outdoor kid generation from the 80s and 90s was a brilliant experience. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Golden Triangle Posted December 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2020 6 hours ago, rkidlad said: To be fair, when I was younger, me and my mates did some insane s***. Not in shopping malls, but out in the fields or park away from view. I remember we had a competition to see who had the balls to jump from the greatest height. Looking back we could have broken our legs. As dumb as some of the stuff we did, I wouldn’t change my childhood for the ones most kids have now. No way. The outdoor kid generation from the 80s and 90s was a brilliant experience. Have to agree with you on all the points you make, you should see some of the 5h!t I used to get up to in London back in the late 50's early 60's, I'm lucky I made it this far ???????? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyril sneer Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 reminds me of that video in China where the woman gets pulled under and crushed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC 71 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I remember a Russian fella and his wife and kid decided it would be fun to go down one facing backwards in Suvarnabhumi. The inevitable happened and the ladies hair almost got caught. In a split second i yanked them all up. (Lord knows how, they were both big old units ????) I bet it looked funny on CCTV, but it nearly got messy ! They never thanked me, but it all happened so quick. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Tracy Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Kids will be kids. Unfortunate truth, sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLa Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 A similar situation is visible at airports with children 'mauling' the baggage conveyor belts and the parents totally oblivious to the potential outcomes. Having said that my favourites as a youngster were rowing across lakes in a tea chest, holding bangers by the end and letting them explode, and filling spud guns with 20 caps and then hitting them with a poker. Those were the days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elkski Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Once again if their were a few big lawsuits in Thailand companies would have to start thinking about safety. In USA there is usually a clear plexiglass blockade. Would have knocked his hands loose before he got more than 10' up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/12/2020 at 12:07 PM, richard_smith237 said: Good on the members of public for not turning a blind eye. I would suspect the kids parents were working nearby in one of the shops (Friday was a Thai school holiday). It may sound a bit cynical, but that could have been 'mum' that rushed to the rescue! The child must have cried out and mothers will always recognize the cry of their own offspring. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Elkski said: Once again if their were a few big lawsuits in Thailand companies would have to start thinking about safety. In USA there is usually a clear plexiglass blockade. Would have knocked his hands loose before he got more than 10' up I don't go around studying escalators but don't they generally have a safety barrier at the bottom to prevent this kind of incident? The Plexiglas barrier that you mention is there to prevent someone from leaning out and impacting their head on the approaching floor above. Edited December 13, 2020 by Moonlover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt1591 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Moonlover said: It may sound a bit cynical, but that could have been 'mum' that rushed to the rescue! The child must have cried out and mothers will always recognize the cry of their own offspring. Cynical !?! How about "natural selection" ... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Looks like something I would have don't at that age. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elkski Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Reminds me of the Xmas I had a job in the electronics department at a department store. Help set up Xmas displays with the hot designer ladies. Then reconfigured displays and some stocking. There were several of us temporary kind. there was a spiral trash chute on each floor. Used for boxes and clean packing trash. An input door at each level and an open chute at the bottom. We learned it made a fun transportation method to the basement. One time we tricked this one guy to go first and we had a big mop bucket around the corner. The water must have met up with him. 555. We never saw him but we could see his wet footprints on the floor. He just left work quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 We used to travel miles on our push bikes which we had made from old ones at the tip, go into woods and find the tallest tree, and climb it, even towing someone behind on a go-cart (box cart) wood and pram wheels, haul it to the top of a steep hill, speeding down it, with no brakes steering with our feet oh what fun we had. Another fav was to go to the unfinished QE2 reservoir with very high and steep concrete sides nick a wheel barrow, sit in it and go down, they then locked the wheel barrows away, fed up of having to retrieve them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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