October 17, 2005
Macy's Escalator Defingers Child
This why Gothamist was afraid of escalators from ages three to seven, and why we may be regressing soon: A 3 (or 4, depending on what your read) year old child's finger was SLICED OFF as she rode on a Macy's escalator. Augh!!! Macy's employees and the police "spent the afternoon pulling apart every step" to try to find the finger, but couldn't. The girl had been running up to the top of the escalator when she tripped, with her finger getting "caught under a metal plate." Macy's says there was no escalator malfunction, but a surgeon standing behind the girl's father says the store took too long to turn the escalator off, so he hit the emergency button himself. This is so terrible, but this is why there are those photographs that say that adults should hold children's hands on the escalator. None of the articles says whether or not the accident took place on the rickety wooden escalators - those are scary, especially starting in November.
Photograph of a wooden escalator at Macy's from beezlebubmilk on Flickr
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You just know this will end up on Snopes in a year's time.
I thought this happened on Friday at the Garden before the Ranger game? And like 7 people got injured and one kid lost his finger. My father works there and told me about it.
I saw another esalator incident on Thursday at Filene's Basement in Union Sq. A woman was riding the escalator and put a pair of rain boots too close to the edge of the stair where it meets the glass wall and it got caught in the gap and was completly ripped up. luckily, she wasn't wearing it, but it was really scary--I remember hearing stories on 20/20 when I was a kid about not standing too close to the gap because things like that DO happen!