Comments on: Croc vs. Escalators, The Deadly Croc

By: michele

michele — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:00:52 +0000

This is a joke! Have you ever stepped on a nail? It could easily have went thru a tennis shoe? I know it has happened to me! If you dont like the shoes thats fine. Dont buy them! If you do thats great, I will propably see you at the store!!

By: drzeus

drzeus — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:31:07 +0000

“If a garment is going to distort a child’s perceptions of the space around them, that garment should not be worn by children. ”
Bearing in mind how relatively slowly a child’s perception of space develops, that is going to throw a quite a few items of garments out the window - the majority of gloves allow you little perception (not to mention little grip) of feel in the hands - not what you need on handrails of escalators. I used to abhor mittens for the reason that I could never really tell where my hand was nor grip anything - especially escalator rails! Slippy slidey things. Great thick winter coats likewise. Hats and anything being carried. Loose laces (which most littel kids can’t tie anyway). Open toed sandals - when we were kids (you know, back in the dark ages! (70-80’s!!)) the front of our sandals were always ahead of our toes (so we could grow into em a bit). You never really knew where they were (hence the bruised knees). If a child’s perception of space isn’t developed enough they shouldn’t be on an escalator.

As stated, escalators are very dangerous things. One of my most frightening moments was watching (and hearing - not nice) a lady fall backwards on an escalator! Teach your children to use them properly or, heaven forbid, get some extra exercise and use the stairs, or use the elevator!

This should not be about Crocs - they are no more dangerous than any other shoe, simply that if your foot happens to be in the wrong place it will likely get hurt more than with ordinary shoes. Having said that, the soles on Crocs are substantially thicker than the majority of shoes and should trigger the safety mechanism quicker.

TG if the nail your mate stood on went right through the thickness of the sole of the Croc, I imagine the same would have happened with an ordinary shoe; most shoe soles these days are plastic/rubber based. Having said that, my own do seem rather prone to getting garden prickles embedded in them ;-) They certainly aren’t much of a fashion item for me (I am embarrassed to wear them out of the house), but oh boy are they comfortable - you just bounce along in them!

By: ikie12pts

ikie12pts — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:04:08 +0000

I love my Crocs. I care not what they look like. They feel wonderful, my knees no longer hurt and neither does my back. It seems a shame that your losing clientele to Crocs, makes you write “Very dangerous shoes! Be careful!” hilarious…..

By: manu

manu — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:03:27 +0000

Very dangerous shoes! Be careful!

By: Beyond Blond

Beyond Blond — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:43:52 +0000

Ponytail - thanks for the link to the BBC article. I had no idea that some hospitals were thinking of banning Crocs. Honestly, nurses were one of the few groups of people I was willing to forgive for wearing the painfully ugly footwear, for practical reasons. Who would have thought that there were safety concerns there too?

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:10:57 +0000

Bah! “Hurriedly.” La BellaDonna, she apologizes.

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:09:19 +0000

This is more of the Escalator Peril and the less of the Crocs. La BellaDonna agrees with the peoples who point out that the young children move about and are thus imperiled, but La BellaDonna vividly remembers, as she was riding up one escalator, seeing a young woman of her acquaintance - a college-age woman, with some martial-arts training, no less! - being hurridly pried loose from the escalator that went down. It had sucked in the hem of the coat of the young lady, who was struggling out of it before more was pulled into the machine.

La BellaDonna, she therefore encourages all the peoples to be careful on the Escalators that want only to eat you - not just the children in their horrible Crocs, or their parents in same, but the young girls in their gauzy skirts, the home boys in their dragging, sagging jeans, the flared jeans for all types which drag on the ground, the folks in floor-length Muslim attire.

By: TG

TG — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:41:28 +0000

Fourth of July my husband and I went to our friends home to enjoy a BBQ in their backyard with the kids. We arrived and our host (The husband) was wearing crocs. I, being opinionated and loud, went on about how a grown man should be embarrassed to be wearing those. His were black, which compared to the neon green ones, seem tame, and we were in his backyard, but alas, they were still unacceptable.
We were all having a lovely time when out BBQ came to an abrupt end. Playing with his child near the garage, he stepped on a nail, which Easily peirced his crocs and went straight through his foot. Our host was hauled away by the ambulance to get a tetanis shot while screaming bloody mary. At least it was him and not one of the children!
Those things Suck. I occassionally see otherwise well-dressed people in the fashion district (where I work) walking the street in them. It is mind blowing.

By: Elvira

Elvira — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:33:51 +0000

I must agree with GemDiva’s comments regarding children’s perceptive abilities. And for that reason, I do blame the Crocs, in addition to the inattentive parents and the escalators themselves. If a garment is going to distort a child’s percpetions of the space around them, that garment should not be worn by children. The ugliness of Crocs is an entirely separate issue.

By: dangster

dangster — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:39:20 +0000

I recently had a close run-in with an escalator. I was not wearing the abomination that are the Crocs, but I was wearing my Nike Aces (tennis shoes). I was going down a floor, facing sideways, not paying attention, and didn’t realize that I had reached the bottom of the escalator. Because I did not step off the escalator in time, one of my shoes sort of got “caught” (although “caught” is a strong word, it is hard to explain this) at the bottom, and the escalator turned itself off.

Later I realized that when my shoe got caught, the escalator had somewhat ripped up a bit of the outer bottom edge of my shoe. And I am 24 years old. So while we all know that Crocs are horrid shoes, the moral of this story is that you should be careful on escalators no matter how old you are or what shoes you are wearing.