A couple of weeks ago we had a terrible scare. While on a lazy trip to the mall, my 5 year-old’s foot got caught in the escalator, very nearly severing her toes, or worse, foot. Thank goodness though, she was all right and we got away with a nasty fright, feet a little scratched but unharmed.
She was wearing her pink crocs, those rubber gardening shoes which have taken kids (and parents) footware fashion by storm.
It happened just as we were getting down to the lower floor. N suddenly screamed, and as I grabbed her, the back strap of the shoe was gobbled up mercilessly by the escalator. If the croc had been tightly fit (luckily it was loose, so it slipped off), her (gulp) foot could have been swallowed up as well.
N was shaken, and people behind us tried in vain to help, pulling the shoe out of the machine, but it was jammed, slowly getting crushed, every pink bit of it. N was so brave, seemingly more upset that her foot was now naked.
My sister, who was with us, stayed with the guards who were now filing a report, taking photos and such while N and I went in search of new shoes. My husband was furious when I told him what happened, he felt it was mall’s fault, using a faulty escalator. I agreed with him, until I found out that this incident with crocs on escalators has been happening all over the world. Read on and be wary of those shoes!!!
Dead Croc in Rustan’s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daphneosena/410998792/
Singapore Child Loses Toe:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061109/3/44ngj.html
Crocs + Escalators= Danger:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=bizarre&id=4630653
Originally posted on June 4, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
