Businessman way too drunk to understand how escalators work

We've all had our share of drunken embarrassments. But most of us are lucky not to have ours immortalized in a viral video. Sam Napper filmed this "drunk" businessman trudging against the flow of an escalator on the London Underground last Friday night. Napper said several of the businessman's fellow commuters tried to steer him in the right direction to no avail, and he was only released from the escalator after someone pushed its emergency stop button. The businessman's Kafkaesque tale has an appropriately bleak ending: "After pausing for a few seconds, he turned around and walked out, as if nothing ever happened, saying nothing," Napper revealed. [Source]

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