Mind your head

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  1. elkosith

    elkosith Maha Guru

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    One of my students nearly got killed last Sunday when her head got stuck between a moving escalator handrail and the ceiling. Luckily someone managed to turn off the escalator and she was rescued. Very similar to this:

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    This happened because the mall didn't put the 'Mind Your Head' sign. At that time something on the lower floor caught my student's attention and she put her head above the handrail to get a better view. If there were this 'Mind Your Head' sign then her head would bump this sign first and she would pull her head back.

    Is somebody need to die first before they put that sign, like in this news article?

    http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/02/06/2821s679441.htm

    In the photo above we can see the sign, but it was wrongly placed.
     
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  2. nhlkoho

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    It's sad that we need signs for this type of thing.
     
  3. Brasky

    Brasky Ancient Guru

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    +1. But, that's the way of the world.
     
  4. Extraordinary

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    There seems to already be some sort of sign on that photo

    Gonna stick your head over the side of an escalator, out a train window, in an alligators mouth... expect pain
     

  5. scatman839

    scatman839 Ancient Guru

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    Don't design escalators like this, most of the ones i've seen are either free from walls or don't have an acute angle when they meet the next floor.

    All that needs to be done is the drop a wall, plastic cover or something down before the angle
     
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    I am an A$$ for writing this, but natural selection... This is what the Darwin Awards are around for.
     
  7. IcE

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    It's the contractor's fault for putting it next to a ceiling like that. But still, you should be paying attention to your surroundings regardless. A sign helps literally nobody who isn't paying attention.
     
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    I remember watching something on liveleak where some girl had her foot amputated by an escalator somehow.
     
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    well men if it carry on, it will got to a point when we are to have aer heads inside a bowl when we go outside (in case od a damage)
     
  10. Clouseau

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    sign me up, I need a helmet to get me through life.
     

  11. CalculuS

    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    What about a safety box?

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    Qft. Although they could've built it better.
     
  13. TyrantofJustice

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    All the malls by me have the same issue with walls and escalators and there are no signs required... i never heard of a mind your head sign
     
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    My kids never choked on a happy meal toy...
     
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    Quite callous to brush someone aside for the Darwin Awards due to inattentiveness; that can happen even to the best of us on a bad day.
     

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    life is callous, pay attention.
     
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    Where can I get one?
     
  18. elkosith

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    Oh may, would you say that if it's someone significant to you who got crushed on the head?

    It's the same reason why we have so many other kinds of signs in this world, why this one is considered as stupid?
     
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    This being the most common sign, also for idiots:

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  20. drandiiski

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    Sign are there more so for legal protection of the owners of the facility, than your personal one. If can’t notice a damn stairway, you are sure not to notice a sigh.
     

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