Seen here about to go for the idiot gold, a woman in a grape colored shirt prepares to tackle a Boston subway escalator with her motorized scooter. SPOILER: she does a terrible job.

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/07/idiot-moron-tries-to-drive-scooter-up-es.php





The best part is, there's a second video showing her WALKING AWAY from the escalator after the incident. So she didn't even need to be trying to drive that thing up the escalator anyway.

lol, she walks alright

dumb bitch

Why does this remind me of the mobility scooter video that did the rounds 6 months ago... a Korean man missed the elevator so ram raids the doors, til the door gives way and then.... BAM straight to the bottom of the elevator shaft.... (FYI, he dieded)



Not Darwin's finest work, but proof that he still cares.

lol ivymike. WTF did he expect to happen?

gawd, if only i could get to my ftp space, id post that hi-larious gif of the old dude coming a massive cropper on the escalator.

I still love escalator grandpa best. I could happily watch that for ages :)

I guess this one finally settles the jet plane on a treadmill debate..

Didnt mythbusters test that and the plane could take off?

Didnt mythbusters test that and the plane could take off?

it doesnt take off

funny thing is she was finally on her way up when they stopped the escalator

I still don't understand how it ever got to such a big debate.

It's just whether the forward driving force of the plane's engines is greater than the braking force of the slightly increased friction of the wheels on their axles caused by the conveyor belt spinning the wheels backwards faster than they normally would (which, if the engines couldn't overcome that tiny frictional force, would be a pretty big concern)...

Kind of disturbing that the pilot in that video guessed wrongly and doesn't even understand how his plane physically propels itself.

Without thinking about it in a complex manner kos, i agree with you - i never understood the big debate.

One thing i was surprised about - they said in mythbusters than 2 cars in a head on collision both travelling @ 50kmhr would cause the same force as a car hitting a solid wall @ 100kmhr. My high school physics teach also said that. It was only after fans objected and they did some tests that they found they were wrong - the 2 cars @ 50kmhr have the same force as a car hitting a wall at 50kmhr.