--- title: Man Slides Down Escalator in London Tube: Video description: Man slides down escalator in London Tube station in prank that goes horribly wrong on camera canonical: https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-16T20:19:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:05.415Z og:title: Man Slides Down Escalator in London Tube: Video og:description: Man slides down escalator in London Tube station in prank that goes horribly wrong on camera og:url: https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Slides Down Escalator in London Tube: Video twitter:description: Man slides down escalator in London Tube station in prank that goes horribly wrong on camera twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch an Escalator Stunt Go Horribly Wrong  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 16, 2016 8:19 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 16, 2016 8:19 PM UTC Today in cringeworthy viral videos: a 30-year-old man in a pink polo shirt can be seen attempting to slide down one of the barriers between escalators at the Angel tube station in London. As you can expect, the stunt did not go as planned. David Bailey, who [shared](https://www.facebook.com/DavidBailey88/timeline) the video on social media, told [_Express_](http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/644321/watch-never-slide-down-escalator-Tube-station)that the jokester, who appears to be holding a drink in the footage, managed to walk away from the disaster with just minor scrapes and bruises. London Tube officials were obviously not amused, and condemned the prank to _The Evening Standard._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/"},"headline":"Watch an Escalator Stunt Go Horribly Wrong","datePublished":"2016-02-16T20:19:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:05.415Z","description":"Ouch","url":"https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4226163/escalator-london-tube-prank-video-slide/","name":"Watch an Escalator Stunt Go Horribly Wrong"}}]}] ```