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A childhood phobia of escalators requires us to update yesterday's story about the 2 year old whose finger was partially severed by an escalator at Macy's Herald Square. The Post reports that 2 year old Michael Grateraux "underwent surgery Sunday night at Bellevue" in an attempt to keep his thumb. Other reports said that Grateraux stuck his thumb while riding an up escalator, but his mother Sandy Lopez tells a different story. From the Post:
Michael, his mom and five siblings [all visiting from Mississippi] were descending on a crowded escalator to the fourth floor when someone fell, knocking the little boy down and causing him to snare his thumb in the moving staircase, Lopez said.Poor, poor little Michael. We imagine Macy's on Christmas Eve to be a scary, crowded place. You might say, "Why not take the elevator with so many kids?" but we were at Macy's two weeks before Christmas and the elevators are ridiculous - we waited for 10 minutes to find an elevator that wasn't packed like sardines but no luck.She said doctors have told her that if his thumb isn't improved by Thursday, they will have to amputate. "His thumb is destroyed," she said. "Every time he wakes up, he cries in pain."
Last year, a little girl's finger was sliced off during an accident on the Macy's escalator - she was running up the stairs, tripped, and her finger was "caught under a metal plate." And in 2005, a group of schoolchildren and adults were caught in an escalator pile-up on the fairly steep escalator to the IMAX theaters at the Lincoln Square movie theater - a child's baggy pants caught a protruding screw AND someone pushed an emergency button.
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Wow, imagine the lawsuit! Looks like Mississippi is getting a new royal family.
That kid....is BACK ON THE ESCALATOR AGAIN!!!
Look, everybody knows escalators have dangers. You're supposed to hold the handrail if you're at all unstable. That goes double for kids. If the child is too small to reach the handrail, you hold his hand to make sure he doesn't fall. And if you can't properly take care of all the kids at one time, you shouldn't have so many. That girl last year should never have been running up the escalator. No damned personal responsibility anymore.
You have a point Brightliner, but have you ever seen those wooden elevators in Macys? They're a death trap. The gaps in the grooves in each step are so wide that it’s surprising this doesn’t happen more often to people who use it regularly. Kids are stupid and they will do stupid things, but Macys has to do something about those elevators because this WILL happen again if they don’t.
Maybe Macy's really needs to do something to childproof the elevators/escalators, sure. But lesson learned here is: DON't BRING YOUR TODDLERS TO MACYS DURING CHRISTMAS SEASON.
I'm not blaming the kids, Kojak. You're right, they do stupid things. But that's why parents should keep an eye on them and help them until they know better. It's the parents who don't control their kids who are being irresponsible. You don't let kids do everything they want. You're supposed to tell them they shouldn't run with scissors, play with fire, or not hold the handrail.
something tellsme that this is the Swan song for those ancient escaltors..its about time