From the first day Mario Batali came sashaying onto the set of his cooking show, I have had a deep-seated aversion to those monstrosities passing themselves off as shoes. I am referring, of course, to Crocs. We've all seen them, occasionally you'll pass an entire family outfitted in a rainbow of these things. I hate them.
Turns out, they aren't just repulsive, they are also hazardous when used in combination with escalators. Yes folks, people are getting their toes ripped off when they wear these squishy pieces of crap on moving staircases. In fact, the Washington Metro subway system even has signs warning people of the hazards of these "shoes".
"In Singapore, a 2-year-old girl wearing rubber clogs -- it's unclear what brand -- had her big toe completely ripped off in an escalator accident last year, according to local media reports.
And at the Atlanta airport, a 3-year-old boy wearing Crocs suffered a deep gash across the top of his toes in June. That was one of seven shoe entrapments at the airport since May 1, and all but two of them involved Crocs, said Roy Springer, operations manager for the company that runs the airport terminal."
Of course, anyone that would wear Crocs in the first place obviously doesn't have much of a sense of personal pride to begin with, so maybe they don't care if their toes get ripped off. In which case I say Good Riddance.
1 comment:
I have to disagree. i luv crocs!
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