Today In NOPE: Mother Saves Her Son As She Is Swallowed By An ESCALATOR

I’m never riding an escalator again. Especially in China.

A woman reportedly died in China after she was caught in the gear system of an escalator at a shopping center. The woman, who was with her two-year-old son, fell victim to the automated stairs when the floor at the top of the escalator caved in and swallowed her.

Amazingly, she was able to hand her child off to two people standing at the top of the stairs. The women took the child and then tried to help the woman, who was quickly sucked into the rotating stairs.

The woman was identified as 30-year-old Xiang Liujua and this reportedly occured at a mall in Jingzhou, China. The state’s run newspaper, The People’s Daily, claimed the woman’s body was finally removed from the machine four hours later.

Nope. Never again. Or, if I do, I’ll be riding them like Buddy The Elf.

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