Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    If applied universally this could actually be very good for aerobic fitness and general health.

  • Francis Delaney

    It’s kind of nice that the community first appreciates that the situation is funny, but then actually tries to help. Kudos to red haired girl who kinda kicks that sentiment into gear.

    • nowimnothing

      I think that was one of the rare sightings of a manic pixie dream girl:

      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManicPixieDreamGirl 

    • EH

      Yeoperson’s work there.

    • gamophyte

      If this is all I had to do to encounter that wonderful creature I would of started already. Me thinks this is a actor for a hidden camera show?

      • Chentzilla

        Me thinks this is a actor for a hidden camera show?

        Plausible explanation.

    • Chentzilla

      I liked her saying “Excuse me” multiple times to a drunk man. I wonder if Americans do that.

      • Lexicat

        Naw, we say “Hey! Hey are you OK? Hey! Pardon me? Hey! HEY! HEY ASSHOLE YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY! Get a load of this schmuck! HEY! BUDDY! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? OH SHIT! HERE COME THE COPS!”

        Oh and Mark: nice use of the most excellent Fleetwood Mac. :)

      • dabe2

        Since we’re like all cultures—mostly cool with a few jerks. Yes. 

        • Chentzilla

          Well, excuse me for having my doubts, then.

    • Sigmund_Jung

      Specially because it is not certain that he is drunk. He could be having a manic episode or something like that. Not everything is about alcohol.

      • Gilbert Wham

         Ketamine?

      • John Weeks

         No, everything IS about alcohol.

        • euansmith

           The want of alcohol is the root of all evil.

    • SDurnin

      I thought she was a killjoy.

  • Assault_is_eternal

    He probably thought that he was stuck in a hanna-barbera cartoon where the background never changes

    • TWX

       Could have been worse, he could have been stuck in a Filmation cartoon…

    • Brainspore

      Needs more “running in place” sound effect.

  • musesum

     An inverted Sisyphus adherent?

  • rob_cornelius

    Good to see that the business world still believes in the liquid lunch. At least three or four bottles in this guys case.

  • TWX

    I don’t think that if I added up all of the times I’ve been drunk into one cumulative drunken bender that I was ever that drunk…

    • DisGuest

       I’m having a difficult time believing that he was actually drunk. I would have expected at least a stumble.

      • SomeGuyNamedMark

        I’m not sure I could go the wrong way on an escalator like that sober without at least stumbling a little.

        • DisGuest

          I know. If I were drunk, I’d definitely be on my ass. I don’t know how he wasn’t, especially with people pulling him backward.

          • Chentzilla

            Staged? Viral?

          • blueelm

            Hate to admit it, but unless I’m ill with something else I could easily do this drunk. I’m not bragging, especially about being a drunk, but I just am good on my feet. 

            There have been plenty of times I’ve had the spins so badly I know I should be down for the count.. and yet the stairs affect me not.

          • Antinous / Moderator

            I have an essential tremor. My fine motor control gets better after a couple of cocktails.

      • dragonfrog

        Perhaps this fellow has more practice at drunkenness than you or I.

    • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

      Out of all the drugs I’ve tried, I can’t think of one you could dose me up on that would confuse me this much before I could no longer stand.

      • http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

        It’s a matter of stamina, more than dosage. Get yourself fucked up enough all at once and you’ll fall down. But go on a three-day bender and, at the end, you’ll still be able to stagger, but your brain will be totally fucked.

        • euansmith

          Useful info to live my life by, thank you.

  • Brainspore

    There’s a metaphor for life in there somewhere.

    • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

      I’m older now but still running against the wind.

  • Glen Able

    Funny, no matter how blind drunk you are, there is some ancient part of the brain that will get you home (even if you do arrive there inexplicably covered in twigs or vomit or somesuch).  This video is a wonderful example of the limitations of that part of the brain and will probably be of great importance to the neuroscience community.

    • http://lubke.net Flashman

      I’ve had nights in London where I’ve had only sparse memories of getting back home. On my bicycle.

      • euansmith

         Are you Boris Johnson? If so, it would explain a lot.

    • Beanolini

      no matter how blind drunk you are, there is some ancient part of the brain that will get you home

      Often known as the ‘beer scooter‘.

    • McGreens

      Happened to a mate of mine the other day. He either couldn’t speak or couldn’t remember his address (where he’s lived for 33 years) to tell the cab driver but somehow ended up in his own bed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=604100000 Matt Fisher

    This is sisyphean, this is.

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    I suspect there was something other than liquor at work here.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Bath salts!!!

      • GertaLives

        Nuh-uhh. He didn’t eat anyone’s face.

      • euansmith

        Shower Gel!!!!!

  • Jan Henning Berg

     To be fair, I’m not acting that much different when running on a treadmill.

  • foobar

    Thanks you to all those lovely people that helped him out. There’s a reason everything’s classier with a British accent.

  • http://www.bauartcreative.com/ Bauart

    I remember MY first beer.

  • thedreadpiratewesley

    OMG FINALLY someone thinks to press the massive big red stop button! 

    • http://bhtooefr.org/ Eric Rucker

      Actually, I’d go for a bigger problem with the stop button than, “he’s going to go flying”.

      That is, he’s clearly a danger to himself, and possibly others, and what happens if he does make it up the escalator (which, pushing the stop button would allow him to do), and continues to wherever he’s going?

      Physically grabbing him and taking him off the escalator (or calling the police and having them do it) was the right thing to do IMO.

  • http://lubke.net Flashman

    “No he’s NOT making progress! Don’t encourage him.”

  • chgoliz

    At least it’s not the Angel station.  (World’s longest escalator….subways, or anywhere, not sure which.)

    • echolocate chocolate

      Not even the longest in Europe any more… I think there’s one in Sweden that’s longer. And Moscow has super insanely deep subways that might have the actual longest now.

    • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

      Neither, at least not any more. Wikipedia claims its the third longest in Europe, behind Helsinki and Stockholm, both of which are found in subways.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Sinnott/766697305 Daniel Sinnott

    This can’t be America – the dude never got tazed!

  • nixiebunny

    Way better with the Fleetwood Mac song playing in a another window. 

  • skeptacally

    he’s just walking it off.

  • bolamig

    In a blackout.  Not laying down any memories of what has been happening, just keeping moving forward towards the goal like a zombie.

    Like when I was in an unfamiliar town trying to walk back to my hotel and instead woke up on a rock in the middle of a state park.  I later reconstructed that I just kept walking past the hotel on the same street the whole time, and when the street ended at a “city overlook” trailhead I continued walking on the hiking trail.  When the trail ended I hopped a fence and continued towards the city in the distance.  Always heading for my Hotel California.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jurgen-Westerhoff/619592849 Jurgen Westerhoff

    He looks like a Japanese businessman, or salaryman. In that case, just normal behaviour after a nomikai

  • disky00

    He could just be fucking with people. Don’t tell me none of you have ever done this.

  • http://twitter.com/bradbelltv Brad Bell

    I think this was created so a bank could advertise at me about how non-sociopathic it is. I feel sad: that was my first embedded ad. I don’t watch ads on internet videos. Life is too short. Videos aren’t that good. And it’s just so unfathomably stupid. Interruptive advertising and digital media go together like horse shit and teleportation. Please don’t feed the broadcasters.

  • IndexMe

    As self-punishment goes this is relatively benign. But it hurts to think of the whirlpool of loathing he was walking through.