Yet More Shoes of Danger
Manolo says, the many internet friends of the Manolo they continue to send the Manolo stories about the dangers of the flip-flops. Here is one from the Yellowstone.
Yellowstone National Park officials rescued a 27-year-old tourist Wednesday who tumbled off a cliff while snapping pictures of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.In a press release, park officials say Retan Seth, of India, was “overwhelmed with the sight of the canyon” and subsequently ran to the edge of a promenade area at Artist Point, off the established trail.
Seth started taking pictures and wasn’t cognizant of his footing. He was wearing flip-flop sandals and at about 4 p.m. slipped on the unstable, volcanic rock.
Park officials estimated that Seth fell 40 feet into a drainage near the promenade.
And then, of the course, there is the sad tale of the near-Idol Bo Bice
The “American Idol” finalist broke his foot Sunday night performing in Manchester, New Hampshire — and says his misfortune is due to a change in footwear.“There’s a part where I go running across the stage and do these jump-ups and flip around in circles and normally I wear cowboy boots, but about three or four shows ago, they started sliding on me,” Bice told MTV News.
“I was worried I was gonna trip and fall and hurt myself, so I changed to tennis shoes and they got a lot better grip, too good of a grip.”
He landed wrong and felt a snap: “I tried to stand back up and just collapsed. I thought, ‘Something’s not good here.’
Truly, one must be careful when one flips around in the circles in the new shoes.
August 7th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
The first thing they taught us in photography school was “always look where you’re going.”
I appreciate the story about Bo Bice–I’ll be careful when I break in some new dance shoes in about a month.
August 8th, 2005 at 9:11 am
I’m surprised he didn’t fall and break something during this performance, what with spinning and jumping in flip flops.
http://www.idolonfox.com/photosvideos/index.asp?video=videos/final5/week17/Bo.htm&expand=36
August 10th, 2005 at 3:56 am
we have a local amusement park as our advertising client and their marketing peoples gape at our feets one day when we arrived at their park for a photo shoot. because we were wearing Havaianas. the marketing peoples say that they are about to outlaw such rubber slippers (even if expensive) because of the danger they pose to the park and other peoples.
August 10th, 2005 at 10:51 am
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August 16th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
The man at the Grand Canyon is lucky he is not the deceased.
Truly, I have been at this Canyon, and it is indeed Grand, in both its width and its immense depth, and the falls are generally of the extreme steepness and length.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 am
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