If someone told you they broke their leg at a major league baseball game, what would pop into your head about the how? A freak fast ball might do it. Or maybe tripping down the stadium stairs. Nobody would guess an escalator.
Escalators are the laid back dudes of mechanical transportation; slow and steady. But last Saturday, one malfunctioned at American Family Field. It decided to make things exciting and sped up and went rogue. Over 100 people were on it. According to one of the escalator victims, “The entire escalator shook and everyone got scared, and then seconds later, the whole thing gave way and just turned into a roller coaster off the tracks. Piling people on top of each other as it charged us all to the bottom.
Some elderly people were injured very badly and trampled over. An older lady was right in front of me, so I tried to hold her up as we hit the bottom, and we both got completely taken out by the people behind us. A couple of people went right through my knee. They are lucky no one died.”
It almost sounds like a scene out of a Die Hard movie. Yippee Kai Yay! But yes, I feel bad for the people that got hurt. Six were hospitalized. One broke a femur.