Woman’s leg crushed in travelator - how *content trigger warning*

[Pyri]

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just saw this news about how a woman’s leg was caught in a travelator in Bangkok airport and had to be amputated. But… how? How can this happen - surely there needs to be some sort of gap for it to be pulled in. Very weird story

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12250755/Son-shares-horror-seeing-mothers-LEG-amputated-getting-caught-airport-travelator.html#article-12250755

Mmm I saw this yesterday and it doesn't quite make sense does it.

It says the force of the fall forced her leg through so I think it the end got pushed down, her leg went in it and it sprung back and trapped it.

There’s a gap that is covered by metal comb like structures , a couple of those appear to have come loose / been sheared off leaving gap

there is a gap that is usually covered by a brush or a rubber lip to prevent this happening.

anytime you get annoyed because the escalator or walkway is switched off it's often because of a safety feature fail.

if you get a shoe lace or bag strap trapped in the mechanism it can pull you in.

Horrible. Not the same, but when I was a teenager I wore a floor length skirt on an escalator that got sucked into the side of the escalator. It was elasticated, so as the fabric got sucked in the skirt slowly dragged down until I was left in my pants and jumper. Luckily my mum was with me and she rushed down and pushed the emergency button to stop it. The skirt had to be cut away.

Before I even read the OPs post I knew this would be some in Far Eastern country. Happens all the time. Safety standards there are awful.

Got my skirt stuck in an escalator once, luckily with someone to hit the emergency stop button. I was fine obviously, skirt not, and spent hours until they eventually cut me out, taking it apart for quite a while

This poor poor woman. Quite despicable to photograph her.

Im incredibly sorry for the tragedy which has befallen her

I am really hoping that this is fake (as some sources are saying it is)

Exactly this 100%

I think she is already an amputee, they do. Not amputate your leg whilst you’re awake and then neatly fold your denims over it and all with minimal blood, in fact so little her jeans aren’t even stained.

This is very clearly fake- if she had just had her leg amputated she wouldnt be posed like that and there would be blood everywhere if her leg had literally just been crushed fgs

There’s no way they would amputate her leg in the airport, then transport her to hospital. And those photos are with the leg missing, but no blood, no oxygen mask, a neat folded jeans leg. None of it makes sense. I understand a piece of clothing getting stuck in the travelator combs but enough space for half a leg, including bone?

Those pictures do not look real to me.

There is no way this is true. The article says the leg was mangled and chewed up but it has apparently already been re-attached. The woman photographed is clearly not in pain. There’s no blood. It’s nonsense.

Definitely a fake news story. This lady / the area would be covered in blood!

What a weird thing to make up. Have they staged the photos? To ask for money for rehab or something?

LOL that people think this is real- its very obviously not

I can’t believe the Daily Mail reported this as fact. No way has that woman just had her leg crushed and amputated. She looks like she has a mild cold!

Oh I thought those pics were her back at the scene recreating it or something, not supposedly from the actual incident! How weird

The article says her leg was re-attached so if she did go back to recreate a photo- wheres it gone?!

If her leg went into such a small gap surely it would be grated to shreds? Youd never fit my leg into a two inch hole without bleeding to death.

Does her femoral artery stop just below her crotch?

Someone had their leg amputated at the scene on the A2 many years ago. It's something I really don't like to think about. Dr was airlifted in.

Horrendous. My mum worked in Debenhams in the 80s and an elderly lady got her foot dragged into an escalator. They had to cut her free. The brush strips were installed afterwards. I always remember that story when I step on an escalator.

My sil is Thai. She would take a selfie taking a shit if she could. She takes at least three a day for SM. She would definitely capture a life ending injury if it was about her AND she would look amazing doing it 🤣

Was this on the AI's day off? A toddler could have constructed a better photo than that.

Just googled it and the story appears to be real. It was reported that she lost her foot/lower leg which explains no blood at the thigh.