Maybe not so weird, but shows
incredibly poor judgment. A DC Metro commuter climbs up an out of service escalator (an every day occurrence here) only to find that at the top of the escalator, it is under maintenance and several of the steps have been removed to expose the machinery underneath. There is a huge hole in the floor, with only some grease covered axles spaced every couple of feet. Instead of turning around and walking back down the stairs to use the adjacent broken escalator, this moron and a handful of other passengers decide to step from grease covered axle to grease covered axle to get across the pit. Then they blame Metro for their "terrifying" experience crossing the pit and go to the paper, which publishes a sympathetic article about them. Fucking morons.
They risked serious injury just to save about a minute of trudging back down the stairs and going back up the other side.
Metro was supposed to barricade the bottom of the escalator like they normally do, but for some reason that barricade had been pushed aside.