“The guy on YouTube looked like he was having a good time so I wanted to try that,” prankster Joe Szklarski said of why he tried to recreate the stunt.
But his attempt, shot at a Colorado Springs mall, was woefully unsuccessful. He failed to complete a rotation and ended up falling in the space between the two escalators and breaking the glass on the side of the machines, leaving him with a sore back but otherwise OK.
“I definitely underestimated my weight,” he said.
“It was funny so it kind of makes it worth it but still I ended up on the side that I would rather have not done it in the first place,” he said.