WoV escalator challenge
I'm hoping somebody will take the challenge on the Treasure Island escalator someday.
I did it at The Plaza, but I think that was a lesser escalator.
How many stories is the TI escalator? I might try it. My girlfriend won't let me do the Nuggets challenge, she said she's not going to bed with me smelling like a Chicken McNugget.
The TI escalator is twice the distance of the Orleans one.
Dang, I was hoping you'd give the McNugget challenge another shot. If anyone can do it, you can. Just shower afterward.
As for the mcnugget challenege, all i have to say is that a rematch is not something i would refuse..... Seeing as my results were more dissapointing then the mayweather (hes a boxer for those who dont know) vs pacquiao fight. Ive been busy but rudeboyoi challeneged me to a sushi challenge and i would take him up on it someday....
Actually he did it at Plaza. I'm not saying he didn't do it at the D. But you made him a side bet or gave him a free roll offer at the plaza. I remember thinking he could do it easily, and he did. He had a few drinks, that was the only thing that made me wonder if he might misstep.Quote: WizardI think you did it at the D.
The TI escalator is twice the distance of the Orleans one.
Dang, I was hoping you'd give the McNugget challenge another shot. If anyone can do it, you can. Just shower afterward.
I think anybody in normal shape, who's fairly coordinated, should be able to beat the pace of an escalator.
I think I'm more inclined to bet the yes on this one.
What happens if security stops you?
Here we go again. Well since Max P***ed out and I had that money spent. I need some free money. I'll lower it to 99 just for you.Quote: djatcI need to get my fat ass into shape and this sounds like fun. I would like to start with an easy one first though to not embarass myself.....
As for the mcnugget challenege, all i have to say is that a rematch is not something i would refuse..... Seeing as my results were more dissapointing then the mayweather (hes a boxer for those who dont know) vs pacquiao fight. Ive been busy but rudeboyoi challeneged me to a sushi challenge and i would take him up on it someday....
Quote: Mission146My girlfriend won't let me do the Nuggets challenge, she said she's not going to bed with me smelling like a Chicken McNugget.
Fast forward to 8:58.
Most were just drunks that fell or just dumb people that thought what they were doing was fun.
I remember reading about this one: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/fall-escalator-kills-man
All though I didn't get to see any video on that accident.
http://nj1015.com/man-falls-from-atlantic-city-casino-escalator/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shirt-caught-escalator-kills-seattle-man-article-1.1314751
Some of the calls we would get was a woman's skirt ripped off, the bad ones were from the kids wearing crocks shoes, that would get their foot caught because they were dragging their foot along the skirt that runs along where the steps run on the sides. Friction would melt the rubber and their foot would get caught in the step plates and the steps at the end of the escalators.
We would call escalators meat grinders, they will not stop fast enough to stop damage! Although there are plenty of safety switches to shut them down. A whole lot of hair won't do it or some time a finger or two may be lost.
So think before you take a challenge like this, it could be your life on the line!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628462/Quote: superrickVery funny,..till someone falls and get a finger ripped off, or in the case of the hot blonde, gets her hair ripped out or worst yet ends up dead. I had to watch some of the accidents that happened in the casinos when I was working as a elevator mechanic here in Vegas. We couldn't turn the escalator back on until we review the video to make sure it wasn't the escalators fault.
Most were just drunks that fell or just dumb people that thought what they were doing was fun.
I remember reading about this one: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/fall-escalator-kills-man
All though I didn't get to see any video on that accident.
http://nj1015.com/man-falls-from-atlantic-city-casino-escalator/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shirt-caught-escalator-kills-seattle-man-article-1.1314751
Some of the calls we would get was a woman's skirt ripped off, the bad ones were from the kids wearing crocks shoes, that would get their foot caught because they were dragging their foot along the skirt that runs along where the steps run on the sides. Friction would melt the rubber and their foot would get caught in the step plates and the steps at the end of the escalators.
We would call escalators meat grinders, they will not stop fast enough to stop damage! Although there are plenty of safety switches to shut them down. A whole lot of hair won't do it or some time a finger or two may be lost.
So think before you take a challenge like this, it could be your life on the line!
Quote: AxelWolfHere we go again. Well since Max P***ed out and I had that money spent. I need some free money. I'll lower it to 99 just for you.
No amount of goading will get me to accept that chemical laced challenge. ;-)
It's ok if you can't do it, we totally understand.Quote: MaxPenNo amount of goading will get me to accept that chemical laced challenge. ;-)
TBH I never understood the I can eat x amount thing.
I'm not sure what food and amount would be equivalent to 100 Nuggets. Obviously there's something about nuggets that get to you.
Someday?Quote: WizardI'm hoping somebody will take the challenge on the Treasure Island escalator someday.
If you recall, both Miplet and I ran down the up escalator at TI faster than you rode the down escalator. Winning that challenge cancelled the $5 debt I owed you from Waitress Trivia.
Quote: AxelWolfI'm not sure what food and amount would be equivalent to 100 Nuggets. Obviously there's something about nuggets that get to you.
I think it was about 3.5 pounds of food. I doubt I could eat 3.5 pounds of anything. I believe the average stomach can stretch to hold about a gallon in volume, which is about 8.35 pounds if it were full of just water (or, say, beer) but obviously nuggets would be denser than water. And don't get started on trying to chug a gallon of milk.
Quote: superrickVery funny,..till someone falls and get a finger ripped off, or in the case of the hot blonde, gets her hair ripped out or worst yet ends up dead. I had to watch some of the accidents that happened in the casinos when I was working as a elevator mechanic here in Vegas. We couldn't turn the escalator back on until we review the video to make sure it wasn't the escalators fault.
Most were just drunks that fell or just dumb people that thought what they were doing was fun.
I remember reading about this one: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/fall-escalator-kills-man
All though I didn't get to see any video on that accident.
http://nj1015.com/man-falls-from-atlantic-city-casino-escalator/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shirt-caught-escalator-kills-seattle-man-article-1.1314751
Some of the calls we would get was a woman's skirt ripped off, the bad ones were from the kids wearing crocks shoes, that would get their foot caught because they were dragging their foot along the skirt that runs along where the steps run on the sides. Friction would melt the rubber and their foot would get caught in the step plates and the steps at the end of the escalators.
We would call escalators meat grinders, they will not stop fast enough to stop damage! Although there are plenty of safety switches to shut them down. A whole lot of hair won't do it or some time a finger or two may be lost.
So think before you take a challenge like this, it could be your life on the line!
You bring up good points, superrick, and speak to this with some authority. My main concern is the safety of the participants but your words may fall on deaf ears.
I think we can all assume how the casino feels about this activity. I'm sure it breaks some house rules even if the rules aren't posted. Hey, they can't post every rule.
Please be safe everyone.
Quote: 1BB
I think we can all assume how the casino feels about this activity. .
It would skyrocket their liability insurance
if somebody got hurt. So we can guess
how they feel about it.
Quote: EvenBobIt would skyrocket their liability insurance
if somebody got hurt. So we can guess
how they feel about it.
NAH since this is the WOV ESCALATOR CHALLENGE wov surely carries the insurance for it ;)
Quote: WizardI think you did it at the D.
The TI escalator is twice the distance of the Orleans one.
Dang, I was hoping you'd give the McNugget challenge another shot. If anyone can do it, you can. Just shower afterward.
No, it was definitely at The Plaza. It was when we were all going up to the Bingo room and you were explaining some stuff to us about the potential for AP Bingo.
Hmm...I might give it another shot. I'd really want to do it on the first day I'm there this time, though, can't drink the night before, you know. That's why I had so much confidence going into the last one, but then, I was kind of basing that on being in my area just doing my regular thing. You can ask TeddyS, he's seen me eat probably a little over the mass of 100 Chicken McNuggets at multiple buffets, multiple times.
Anyone betting against me is definitely going to have to Lay, though. Not only did I lose last time, but also, so much of it is just in how you feel when you wake up that day. It's about as close to random as something like that can get. Some days, I wake up feeling as though I am almost starving, and other days, I don't even eat until 6-8 hours after waking up.
Quote: Wizard
Fast forward to 8:58.
It was almost 100%, if not 100%, just a bunch of phlegm that had collected in my chest, I swear it! Didn't anyone actually look in that waste receptacle?
Quote: EvenBobIt would skyrocket their liability insurance
if somebody got hurt. So we can guess
how they feel about it.
Maybe if we offer their Sports Book the opportunity to give people action on it a day or two ahead of time, their opinion of the event will soften.
Quote: DJTeddyBearIf you recall, both Miplet and I ran down the up escalator at TI faster than you rode the down escalator. Winning that challenge cancelled the $5 debt I owed you from Waitress Trivia.
Dang. I'm getting forgetful in my old age. It rings a bell now.
The one thing the elevator industry can not do is stop the fools from losing their life's or limbs or being scarred for life, because of their own stupidity.
Back when I raced sailboats, I campaigned hard to put a stop to the foolish practice of throwing somebody into this one pool after they won the race. One slip could paralyze that person for life, that was just a winner. I won that battle, and hopefully saved someone from being seriously injured by that practice.
Escalators are something that shouldn't be taken lightly. The one thing that will happen if someone gets hurt trying this challenge, that I can tell you for sure is that there will be a lawsuit, that the Wizards board can't defend. Does the guy that owns the Wizards board want to see what happens in court when they read that a retired elevator mechanic and elevator inspector warned you of the dangers of this foolish stunt?
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2789/man-dies-following-accident-on-escalator/
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but would hate to see anybody get hurt trying your challenge!
Quote: superrickElevators are the safest form of transportation in the world! When I was an elevator inspector I went to many safety meetings to improve their safety factor. The elevator code is constantly being rewritten, that code covers escalators too!
The one thing the elevator industry can not do is stop the fools from losing their life's or limbs or being scarred for life, because of their own stupidity.
Back when I raced sailboats, I campaigned hard to put a stop to the foolish practice of throwing somebody into this one pool after they won the race. One slip could paralyze that person for life, that was just a winner. I won that battle, and hopefully saved someone from being seriously injured by that practice.
Escalators are something that shouldn't be taken lightly. The one thing that will happen if someone gets hurt trying this challenge, that I can tell you for sure is that there will be a lawsuit, that the Wizards board can't defend. Does the guy that owns the Wizards board want to see what happens in court when they read that a retired elevator mechanic and elevator inspector warned you of the dangers of this foolish stunt?
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2789/man-dies-following-accident-on-escalator/
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but would hate to see anybody get hurt trying your challenge!
A long time ago, I worked at a local college as the campus security. I've seen some of the potential injuries from falling down an escalator. One lady I treated with first aid had some really deep gouges of flesh taken out of her legs. Wasn't pretty.
I suddenly recalled this thread for a moment, as leaving for home from where I spent my day involved attempting to use an escalator at a large casino resort in the more mundane conventional way, as if it was a simple device for moving about. At times this can be hard to do in some of those joints. The way onto the contraption was of course blocked by the usual convention of folk who naturally choose each end of it as their very most favorite place to stand and do nothing and go nowhere together, in a tightly packed group, forcing everyone trying to enter or leave the place to do the same. So with this thread in mind, I surrendered to the convention of the American Association of Escalator Constipation Facilitators, and just watched them for a few minutes. In the space of five minutes or so, I saw two separate Mensa Mommies bravely stroll right by the way to the alternative elevator in order to push baby strollers in front of them onto the escalator amidst the stumbling drunks, and was similarly amazed to watch several separate couples try, with mixed results, to stuff the same escalator with a tumbling assortment of ginormous luggage pieces the size of Volkswagons. I had no idea there were people who apparently fly to a Las Vegas vacation resort with all the inventory of goods required in order to open their own convenience store, or to try to get rid of their whiney annoying little spawn once and for all by stuffing him into a flimsy wheeled thing and shoving it down a large escalator. This is when the bowling ball inspiration struck.
Unfortunately, that particular large hoity-toity mid-Strip resort does not have any bowling stuff. But if it did, perhaps the surviving winners of the Darwinathon Bowling Escalator Challenge could be invited to show off their athletic prowess in a playoff elimination round by combining it with the simultaneous consumption of several chickens, chopped into mouth sized chunks of course.
Quote: BlueEagleThis challenge reminded me of this video:
Sure, but when you reach the end of the walkway at full tilt you'll fall flat on your face. Not sure if that's the right metaphor they are going for. Sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses... I'm sure Ferris Bueller taught me that...
Quote: 1BBShouldn't permission be obtained before going onto someone's property and engaging in escalator escapades?
Good grief.
Quote: DrawingDeadThis is getting wimpy.
You said it. The vigorous accent of moving stairs ain't exactly X Games material.
Quote: FaceYou said it. The vigorous accent of moving stairs ain't exactly X Games material.
What if I go down up-moving escalators on a snowboard?
Quote: FaceYou said it. The vigorous accent of moving stairs ain't exactly X Games material.
Quote: Mission146What if I go down up-moving escalators on a snowboard?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what would happen if the next fool that gets hurt on a escalator here in Vegas gets a lawyer that does a little research and finds your challenge on the web.
Maybe he will drag you two into the lawsuit, along with this board!
Quote: Mission146What if I go down up-moving escalators on a snowboard?
Tossing bowling balls at anyone that happens to be coming up that escalator during your descent?
Quote: Mission146What if I go down up-moving escalators on a snowboard?
It's been done. Remember to lean back upon landing, and have enough run off to stop before crashing through doors/windows/wall.
Quote: superrickIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what would happen if the next fool that gets hurt on a escalator here in Vegas gets a lawyer that does a little research and finds your challenge on the web.
Maybe he will drag you two into the lawsuit, along with this board!
My challenge? I didn't make a challenge. I'd take this challenge all day long, but I didn't make it. Why would I? I don't even view it as "a challenge". Were I summoned to court I'd be held in contempt, as there's no way I'd be able to prevent laughing at such absurdity.
It's climbing stairs, not blindfolded rattlesnake wrangling.
Quote: superrickIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what would happen if the next fool that gets hurt on a escalator here in Vegas gets a lawyer that does a little research and finds your challenge on the web.
Maybe he will drag you two into the lawsuit, along with this board!
Hand-wringer.
In the event that you attempt said challenge and cause damage or injury to self, others, or property we shall be held blameless and not liable.
Quote: Mission146It was almost 100%, if not 100%, just a bunch of phlegm that had collected in my chest, I swear it! Didn't anyone actually look in that waste receptacle?
You were offered to continue I believe.
If you're confident nothing came up then surly you would've finished, we better set the odds lower this time since you now know to not put your head in a trash can.
Or drink the night before.
Quote: Mission146Wizard of Vegas, Wizard of Odds, Diversity Tomorrow and any other websites, businesses or online casino affiliates associated with any of the above-named entities DO NOT advise that any person, for any reason, attempt the escalator challenge, with or without a snowboard.
In the event that you attempt said challenge and cause damage or injury to self, others, or property we shall be held blameless and not liable.
Thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Going up or down escalators the wrong way should be strictly left to professionals.
No! Whaddareyounutsorsumpin? Bowling balls should not be thrown! Obviously. Correct procedure would be to roll them down the up escalator, using a slide step delivery to impart a bit of backspin. Preferably during a break in a nearby convention of lawyers.Quote: TwoFeathersATLTossing bowling balls at anyone that happens to be coming up that escalator during your descent?
DrawingDead is personally and solely responsible for any ensuing epidemic of bowling ball carnage on Las Vegas escalators. But not for any dipstick that tries to throw one of them.
Quote: AxelWolf
You were offered to continue I believe.
If you're confident nothing came up then surly you would've finished, we better set the odds lower this time since you now know to not put your head in a trash can.
Or drink the night before.
I don't believe I drank the night before, I might have had one or two in the afternoon, but consulting my trip report, it says that Beth didn't really want to drink without me the night before and that I was drinking water.
I may or may not have been offered to continue, I don't recall.
Now I know that this happened in China but it could happen here too.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/27/chinese-woman-dies-after-being-trapped-in-escalator-but-saves-2-year-old-son/
