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Late comedy legend Mitch Hedberg said, “An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.” 

Unfortunately, it turns out they can break, and when they do, they can become faster elevators, which is exactly what happened to fans leaving a Milwaukee Brewers game on Saturday night.

According to Yahoo Sports, the Brewers had just wrapped up a game and fans were heading for the exits. Saturday night’s game was a losing effort against the Cubs, so you can imagine fans probably weren’t in the best moods, so the last thing they needed was a malfunctioning escalator that injured 11 people, but unfortunately, that’s what they got.

The Brewers put out a statement after the incident explaining the details.

“After the conclusion of today’s game, an escalator at American Family Field moving fans from the Terrace to Loge Level malfunctioned, resulting in an increased downward speed. Eleven people were injured in the incident, five of them treated at the ballpark and six others transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries,” the statement reads.

Our onsite physician and EMS were on the scene immediately, and we are appreciative of their quick response.”

I don’t mean to brag, but I find myself on an escalator pretty regularly, and from time to time, I think about what a problem it would be if suddenly the escalator decided it wasn’t having it that day.

Contrary to Mitch Hedberg’s point, these escalators can do some damage, and CHGO Sports’ Greg Braggs Jr. was one of those who got a taste of what can happen when an escalator goes haywire.

Jeez. 

Here’s hoping Greg and everybody else who got dinged up by that escalator are on the mend sooner rather than later.

But, at least the escalator at American Family Field is still safer than the slide at American Family Field.