Problem With Crocs? - The Off Topic Post for the Month

This last year people started wearing these ugly, colored hard foam shoes called Crocs. For those of you old enough to remember, this recent trend is somewhat reminiscent of the 80's fashion flop "The Jelly Shoe."

I just read on Time's website that people who are wearing the footwear phenomenon, Crocs, are having problems with escalators. "One of the nation's largest subway systems — the Washington Metro — has even posted ads warning riders about wearing such shoes on its moving stairways." Here's the the funny part, they actually have a name for new problem - "shoe entrapments." "The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said escalator accidents caused more than 10,000 injuries last year, but the agency has few records of specific shoe problems. Only two shoe entrapments have been reported by consumers since the beginning of 2006. During the past two years, so-called "shoe entrapments" in the Washington subway have gone from being relatively rare to happening four or five times a week in the summer..."

Not only are people having problems with escalators but apparently, in Sweeden, some hospitals want to ban Crocs due to their uncanny ability to build up a static charge and knock out medical equipment.

I don't know why this was so interesting to me. It just struck me as funny. So much press on such an insignificant thing. I can just hear it now, the movie title being read by the famous "movie trailer guy" Don LaFontaine - The Summer of Crock - A Podiatric Plague

So what's the point you ask as I sit here and chuckle to myself? I don't know, but now you have a reason to think it through if you are going to get yourself a new pair of Crocs.