Escalator spin goes bad

We're breakin' new ground today! Our first video produced exclusively for the blog! You've seen Rebekah Schecter (Bekah Jane to her friends) spinning on the escalator rails, but in this cell phone video emailed to us from her friend Liz, you'll see what it looks like when the spin goes wrong!

Liz Peik tells us that this video was shot to celebrate the fact that Bekah and her spin had gone viral! Anderson Cooper had just featured the clip as "The Shot" on AC360 so they decided to recreate the stunt, but this attempt was obviously much less successful.

I spoke to Bekah earlier this week... she told me that she first attempted this stunt about a year ago in Las Vegas. A friend of hers named Frank Schettini, who happens to be a monster truck driver, mentioned that he thought if she laid across the escalator rails that she'd spin "like a helicopter blade."

Bekah, who tends bar at The Tin Horn Flats in Burbank, California right now, has done a lot in her 28 years. She's been a truck dealer, a crew chief for the TV show "Adventure Highway," Red Bull even sponsored her to ride cross country on a motorcycle! But right now all those accomplishments are being eclipsed by one fateful night at the Arclight Cinema in Sherman Oaks when her escalator spin stunt was caught on video.

Bekah wasn't hurt in the video above, but as many people have pointed out, she could have been. Lots of people are injured on escalators every year while just using them as they were intended. Especially kids and older people. This is obviously not something escalators were designed to do and definitely something you do not want to try yourself.