General Discussion

Escalators are designed and rigorously maintained to run for thousands of hours without failure. This would be especially true at a high profile and well funded building like the UN. For it to miraculously fail just as that stronzo (an apt Italian curse) got on would either be a woefully weak act of God or more likely, somebody at the top of the escalator smashed the emergency stop button. I'd like to buy that guy or gal a good bottle of wine.