Unsuck DC Metro: Reverse Planking Comes to Metro

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Reverse Planking Comes to Metro

We're used to our escalators and trains planking all the time, but here's a new twist.

Planking, aka the lying down game, explained.

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@FixWMATA · 714 weeks ago

OMG! WORKING ESCALATORS!!!

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@Hell_on_wheelz · 714 weeks ago

side-by-side escalators working... the rarest of Metro finds

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Ever and Anon · 714 weeks ago

Hilarious! Both the video and FixWMATA's comment!

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BradK · 714 weeks ago

+1 to @FixWMATA ---

Once again, I want to point out that these well mannered and educated folks come from the same talent pool that WMATA has to pick their well mannered and educated staff from... I think the employees are worthless, but well, shit... if this is what they get to pick from, we are lucky it isn't recommended that we wear helmets in the trains.

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Soylent Green Line · 714 weeks ago

Well, at least he's having fun with WMATA, which is more than I can say for most of my experiences.

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Preach · 714 weeks ago

If you want to get fired catch Metro. The buses never come on time, if they come at all.
Refuse to pay if your bus doesn't arrive. The only thing Metro will understand is loss of revenue.

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ABusArrivesInAForest · 714 weeks ago

"Refuse to pay if your bus doesn't arrive."

Explain to me how this is an option.

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RGG · 714 weeks ago

Seriously? Because the bus operator is just going to let you ride for free?

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Alan · 714 weeks ago

Bears!

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dcn8v · 714 weeks ago

Metro escalators do take a lot of abuse...

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@AccessTheDMV · 714 weeks ago

Planking is THE single-most pointless fad I've ever seen, lol.......well.....there's still skinny jeans.

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Mike · 714 weeks ago

Plus those two guys are much too chubby to be described as "planks." "Blimping" might be more like it.

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RGG · 714 weeks ago

And the whole "jeans hanging off your arse thing." I've been hoping that one would have ended by now!

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@VeggieTart · 714 weeks ago

I hear Denis Leary screaming "PULL UP YOUR PANTS!!!"

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Guest · 714 weeks ago

No, gourmet cupcakes are more pointless.

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beema · 714 weeks ago

Wow, Johnny Knoxville really let himself go.

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iolaire 71p · 714 weeks ago

FYI: Last night I saw a policeman putting a boot on a car with a metro vest in the window that was parked in a metro official use only space at the Waterfront metro. Therefore it looks like there was some sort of enforcement that those spaces be used by official vehicles rather than the station manager or whomever else happened to have a metro vest…

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dcn8v · 714 weeks ago

There are a couple of photos of this in the Flickr feed on the left-hand side of the blog.

Does it make me mean that I get a secret thrill from seeing boots on luxury vehicles?

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Guest · 714 weeks ago

And when these idiots tripp the escalator alarms, bringing them to a stop, the rest get to curse Metro.

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ANON · 714 weeks ago

AND YOU MAGGOTS WONDER WHY THE ESCALATORS HAVE PROBLEMS.

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ANON · 714 weeks ago

check thumbs down all you want but you know i'm right.

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rider · 714 weeks ago

and evreyone wonders why the escalators are always broken.

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tunnelpig · 712 weeks ago

These people are fucking retarded. I can only hope that at some point someone else falls and wrecks their face on the moving teeth of the escalator. This is why you people get $300 tickets for fucking with the escalators. BTW this stupid shit also messes up the escalators and causes them to shut down. Retards.....

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Sony · 711 weeks ago

Yeah... yet I get in trouble just for sitting in between two broken down escalators for a few seconds to rest my feet on a crowded platform one night.