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04 November 2010

Metro's runaway escalators: Witness describes another incident, this one at Chinatown last night - @TBD On Foot | TBD.com

Update 4 NOV 10: Cause appears to be the brakes failed on L'Enfant Plaza escalator.


Metro's runaway escalators: Witness describes another incident, this one at Chinatown last night - @TBD On Foot | TBD.com:
"Stephen, 32, says the escalator was jam-packed with Caps fans, to the point where riders on the left no longer tried to walk down the steps. He wasn’t halfway down the escalator when “it felt like something let go,” he says. “You could still hear the motor going but it felt like it wasn’t hooked up to the conveyor belt.”

The escalator, Stephen says, started moving at at least twice its normal speed. People started to murmur, then to shout. Once people reached the bottom they scrambled to get out of the way of the riders behind them. People were yelling, “Get out of the way! Get out of the way!” When Davis hit the ground he jumped to the side.

“Everybody was freaking out at the bottom and running and trying to get away,” he says. “It was just dumping people at the bottom at a rate that was unsustainable.”

It all lasted a matter of seconds. The escalator slowed and then came to a stop. Davis says no one seemed to be seriously hurt. Everyone who’d been on the escalator headed toward the trains."
A similar accident happened at the L'Enfant Plaza station on 30 October, 2010.





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31 October 2010

HuffPo Defies Reality on Restore Sanity/Fear Rally

Huffington Post is laughable, as usual.  No, I will not be as nice as TheBlaze about it.  At first I thought the top photo at the link was doctored.  Now I am thinking camera angle.
If the angle is shallow enough, all the green space gets blocked by heads.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/43034085
If zooming on this picture isn't clear, go to the link and zoom there.  Even on my laptop monitor I can see the big green spaces just beyond the monitors.  See my other pictures from the event here.

Using the CBS/HuffPo methodology, I have analyzed a recent Bill Clinton appearance in Columbus, OH and have determined that his crowd is bigger than the Obama inauguration:
Clinton in Columbus


Notice how much larger this photo is than the others.






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Restore Sanity Circus Photos

I am still formatting video and culling through images from the event.  Ironic Surrealism v3.0 does not like to engage in pissing contests over crowd counts.  I, on-the-other-hand, enjoy the "true believers" of the Leftoid circus set as they spin and spin.  CBS says the crowd on the left (photo below) is less than 50% of the crowd on the right.  The same spin was given to the 10.2.10 Marxist and Union festival at the Lincoln Memorial.


Also note, the Beck and Union rallies did not have a concert with headliners like Ozzie Osborne either.
http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/bitter_clinger/ral.jpg
Really not sure exactly how much video I have.  The battery died when I was near the end of my stay in DC.  True to form, shortly after my camera stopped working, the L'Enfant Plaza escalator malfunctioned and several people were injured. Update: first comments on the L'Enfant Plaza accident were that the escalator "collapsed."  Witnesses and victims reported that the escalator sped up and dumped riders onto the crowded landing below.

The camera was still running when I arrived at the first closed entrance at L'Enfant, made my way to the other.  Ended up cabbing to Alexandria, VA with brother-in-law and sister.

Major note of this rally: this was the most clueless mob of event attendees that I have ever encountered.  Much larger rallies do not paralyze the METRO system.  There were more people at the Crystal City METRO station who could not figure out how to buy a ticket, or use a turnstile, than I have ever seen.  J-walking?  These people took it to a new art, waiting for oncoming cars to approach before crossing against the light.  Forget about escalator manners too.  They  could not "keep right" anywhere, especially on an escalator.

On the VA/MD/DC METRO system, we keep to the right when standing.
I would have been off the escalator if it were not for the rude people blocking the left side.
Blurry picture of the zoo that was the Crystal City METRO station on 10/30/2010
I have never seen more people who could not figure out how to buy a METRO ticket or use a turnstile. The entire METRO system was clogged full of sheeple who all decided to go downtown at the same time, just like turning on their television.

L'Enfant Plaza platform, Stewart/Colbert fans trying to figure out how to use a stopped escalator.
A view from the Capitol steps.  Large view shows large open space in the background.
People in odd costumes in Washington Monument area.

View from near the base of Washington Monument

Another view from base of Washington Monument

"Economics Are Too Complicated for Me to Understand; But Blaming Others Makes Me Feel Better About That"

Crowded sidewalks, empty grass near the carousel.

Expanse of empty space near the carousel.

I am an American and I'm not crazy.

Hate Aint Free.Org

Crowds trying to figure out another turned off escalator at L'Enfant Plaza.

"Alabama is about 42% Sane"
 It took me a few tries to get a picture of this sign in L'Enfant Plaza station.
"Alabama is about 42% Sane"


"Alabama is about 42% Sane"

"Hitler Was A Total Nazi" in L'Enfant Plaza
Having serious trouble uploading to YouTube from here.  Will try from a different location tomorrow.


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