Crocs Sandals: Are They Dangerous on Escalators?
i've just recieve an email from a regular email sender.. and the contains were really shocks me.. a nice and easy to wear crocs sandals are dangerous?? well, i'm not the brand's fan but i saw lots of friends are wearing the sandals... so does it really dangerous?
so, here's the story i've copied...
Kids love their Crocs. The brightly-colored, odd-looking shoes are an international phenomenon, with more than 50 million pairs sold.
The company markets them as a comfortable all-purpose shoe. But more and more cases are popping up across the country in which parents say their children have been injured while wearing Crocs on escalators.
5-year-old Isabella Payne, of Huntsville, Alabama, lost her big toenail and needed stitches after her mom says her Croc got stuck in an airport escalator just two weeks ago.
Isabella's mom says, "She was just screaming, 'Mom, Mom!' Any kind of parent that's ever had a child be injured…it was this horrific blood-curdling scream."
6-year-old Brodie Horn was wearing Crocs when his parents say one was pulled into an escalator at the Atlanta airport. "He was standing," Brodie's mother tells INSIDE EDITION, "So I believe it got stuck and pulled like this," she says describing the incident. His mom says his foot was stuck for an agonizing ten minutes before someone helped them get it out.
"It looked mangled," she continued. "There were lots of gashes where the escalator stairs had kind of pushed against his toe."
Kathleen Huddy of the Good Housekeeping Institute says Crocs are great for the pool or beach, but kids should not be allowed to wear them on escalators. If a Croc "gets stuck…it can't be pulled out easily."
INSIDE EDITION asked Robert Belcher, an inspector with the Excel Elevator and Escalator Corporation, to demonstrate to Senior Investigative Correspondent Matt Meagher what might happen when a Croc is pressed against the side of a moving escalator.
"That would definitely do some damage to a child's foot," Belcher says, demonstrating how a Croc might be pulled in by the machine.
Other types of footwear like sneakers with dangling laces and flip flops have also been involved in many escalator injuries. But parents of some of the kids injured while wearing Crocs believe the rubbery texture of the shoe can stick to the side of the escalator and get pulled in.
Attorney Andrew Laskin represents two families who are suing Crocs for negligence after they say their kids were injured on escalators. Laskin says, "Crocs has a duty to warn parents of the danger inherent in its shoe."
Crocs denies the allegations in the lawsuits, and in a statement to INSIDE EDITION says that "consumer safety is a top priority." They continue on to say that "several factors can contribute to accidents, including escalator design and maintenance...and improper use." Crocs maintains that "parents should supervise and assist children on escalators."
That is of little consolation to Isabella Payne. Isabella's mother says, "Children just walking, parents and even older children need to know that they can have their feet mangled by an escalator because of these shoes."
More stories about Crocs Sandals accidents HERE
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