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

It doesn't ring true does it.
The picture in jeans with amputated leg in jeans too
Mmmm

If she only lost her lower leg where is the rest of it in the photos? They all show her leg stopping mid thigh with no apparent gap under her for the rest of it to be hiding?

If it was bad enough to be amputated she'd have passed out surely? Did the fire brigade turn up like they would to a person trapped in car wreckage
My first thought was that this is an AI generated article

CNN and bbc havw quotes from the airport saying they're going to investigate the cause and pay the woman's medical bills, so seems unlikely to be fake, why would they go along with a made up story about this.

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It's nice that they covered the scene with tarpaulin after but photographed the woman lying like that in a vulnerable state. Nice.

That is one Stange story
so her leg is amputated, yet she is sat in a wheelchair!!
she would be in agony.

Yes. Because in that photo there is no gap big enough for a crushed leg……so if there was an amputation it would have happened by the time that photo was taken and would have been a total amputation but there’s no blood!

I mean maybe it crushed her arteries so much it closed them off and there was no blood loss but she looks quite calm if her leg has just been chopped off.

Oh actually there’s a tiny bit of what could be blood on the little white squares by her stump. But where is her actual leg at that point? And apparently it’s been reattached? Seems unlikely?

It's one photo, a lot of weird assumptions in the post above. She's probably in shock?

This happened to a girl I knew as a kid on the tube - made me absolutely terrified of escalators. I still do a jump off the end.

@orangeflags DS's girlfriend got her Doc Marten's laces caught on the top step of a tube escalator when they were about 14. The force pulled her over and was dragging at her foot. I grabbed her foot and shouted to the people on the escalator to press the stop button but they all just looked at me blankly. People were just stepping over her when they got to the top 😡until a man in a suit with a briefcase got to the top, leant down and ripped the laces out with the most almighty force so they snapped. He just walked off without a backward glance before I could even thank him.

It's scary how forceful escalators are. They can pull a child's foot in easily. It's far safer to get little ones to stand next to you in the middle and hold their hand rather than letting them stand on their own step.

The article describes her leg been torn apart by the escalator how would they even reattach that.
No way have they amputated her leg and just sat her up on the floor.
Why have they made this story up?

😂

We’ve got an artery near there?

this doesn’t make sense that she just sat there and she was fine…./she wasn’t even hooked up or had fluids or anything at this point?

I once helped a women who got stuck and fell all the way down one of the escalators in the tube stations.

no one else could get to the buttons and she didn’t get her legs stuck and she had people sorting her within mins.

I been on an escalator with a pile up at the bottom - it was horrible, I had to jump over the top to hit the emergency stop. Have also had plenty of idiots stop at top and bottom of escalators to check their phones - almost causing a pile up. I screamed at a woman to move and she racially abused me as a non-native Londoner,🙄a pile up is something I do not wish to encounter again but I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often

This didn't just happen. Not a drop of blood.

Yes, my reply might not have been that serious. But escalator accidents are, people do get trapped and seriously injured. Unfortunately as part of my work I have read witness statements and seen pictures of people who have got limbs trapped in similar machinery - belts and feeders which can catch clothing or a lace - and it is horrific. There is someone in the first photo using a mobile next to her, she's sat up. Apparently her muscle, tendon and bone was mangled but she left sat in a wheelchair and they reattached her limb? Which was in a box? But another sentence said only her foot was?

My comment was a bit flippant but there is either some very bad reporting here or parts of the story are highly embellished.

Look at this thin pointy shoes, exactly the right shape for spearheading her foot into the gap.

If the airline are accepting responsibility then it’s happened

It was this that gave me serious doubts that the Daily Fail hadn't done their background checks.

I can’t actually remember what you wrote but I don’t think it was in bad faith

Why aren't her jeans ripped ?