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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:46 PM Original message |
Are "crocs" unsafe? This is the second child injured due to wearing them |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'd want to see a statistical breakdown of shoes worn in all |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes... good idea. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I wear them in the garden. |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. I do ocean surveys in the Caribe |
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bdf (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 07:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
48. They're not butt ugly, they're fugly. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. See? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Moms need to watch how their kids stand on escalators.. |
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SteelPenguin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
41. Well there's the problem |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. The real danger is to passersby, of dying laughing. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Risk is probably as great |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. when i was about 10 one of my shoe laces got caught in the escalator in Filene's |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. Crocs are very safe, it's just that the kids play with the esclators too much. |
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aspergris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. when I was a kid |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. I got somehting else stuck in a zipper when I was 17 and drunk |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
34. how the hell did you do that? |
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aspergris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #34 |
46. talent! |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. I don't understand how a croc is any more dangerous than any other shoe. Could be that so many kids |
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Kookaburra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. Don't know about unsafe, but |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. you've never worn a pair, then |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 07:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
49. I wear them for work (as a nurse) |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
13. My math-fu is fairly strong, but even I would have trouble drawing an inference from just 2 events. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. this is the incident mentioned by NPR, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. Gotcha. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. How's the hangover? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:28 PM Original message |
(blush) Was a lil slow this morning, but am all good now, thanks. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. well, first let's compare the number of folks injured wearing Crocs... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
38. Well, there must be something to it |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. When I was in Miami we had a near heart attack |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. Also, is there something specific about that airport's escalator? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Crocs are one of the two best things that ever happened to my feet.... |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. it's the busiest airport in america, at times # 2 but often #1 year in year out |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. Nephew got his hiney chewed up as a young'un sitting on an escalator. |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
19. He likely wasn't wearing crocs. |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. yes he was |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
22. Escalators are unsafe .. inherently. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. DING DING DING! |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
23. I don't think it's the "Crocs" |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm gonna put my money on lack of parents carefully watching their child on the escalator |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
27. This is the ONLY sentence you removed..... |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I removed it because it conflicted with the report given by NPR |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. No thanks |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. it sounds like 2 stories they are attempting to link without much luck. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
35. Children are unsafe. |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
39. WTF! |
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CatWoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. put him on an escalator!! |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
42. Any shoe/sandal not securely on the foot can be "unsafe" |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
43. After working around conveyor belts in industry, escalators, |
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islandmkl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
44. crocs are muchocomfortable... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
45. This happened to me |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
47. Well they are hideous, that's for sure. |
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global1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-29-08 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
50. After Hearing This I Throwing My Kid's Crocs Away And Getting Him...... |
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