Crocs Lawsuit ??!!

[Missin'Disney]

Check out this story about a 3-yr old's family blaming her CROCS for a recent escalator entrapment incident.
http://www.parentdish.com/2008/07/0...t-crocs/?icid=200100397x1205423711x1200262002
I just don't understand how the Croc would be the culprit...there are no hanging parts to become ensnared in the escalator

I would think a shoelace that is untied would be an obvious culprit, but how does the rubber get stuck??

What do you all think? does this article make you think Crocs are dangerous? There is a poll at the end of the article and over half the respondents said they think Crocs are "Ugly" & "Dangerous"

 

[mommytoone]

I have to say from experience, that the crocs are dangerous. I am not sure exactly how, but my DD (6 at the time) was getting on an escalater (sp?) and the shoes got caught. The strap on the back of the shoe got stuck on the steps or something, it happened so fast. I really didn't care how, I just wanted to get my daughter safe. I had to drag her up by her wrist to the top or she would have went head first down the stairs. She was all scrapped up and bleeding from her knees and achilies on both legs and feet. NOT ONE person offered to help me either. I had not once thought to "SUE" because of the accident. But I will tell you she will not wear crocs ever again and she is very very afraid of escalaters (sp?). So know we just avoid those things.

 

[NotUrsula]

Any rubber shoe can do this, it's just like wearing rubber shoes going down a slide -- my BIL broke his leg that way as a child, because the rubber resisted against the metal and jerked his leg back sideways.

DS had a different rubber sandal chewed up on an escalator (at age 10), and we were screaming for him to pull his foot out of the shoe. He had been goofing around holding his foot against the side of the escalator so that the rubber against the metal would make a squeaking noise. Of course, the rubber jammed between the moving parts of the steps and the escalator started to eat the shoe. Rubber shoes are not dangerous for adults because we don't do squeaking experiments, but kids will, and you need to be watchful to stop them before something nasty happens.

 

[Ellester]

Escalators are much more dangerous than most people realize. My mother was in management for many years at a large department store (the now defunct, Jordan Marsh) at the Omni in downtown Miami and between their 10+ escalators someone got stuck at least once every few weeks. It usually was minor injury, if any, but some toes were lost from time to time. She always watched me like a hawk on escalators and checked for loose shoe laces before I got on. The edges can suck just about any type of shoe right in. I'm sure they were sued but I don't think anyone ever won a major settlement. That's the type of thing the store would settle out of court in a hurry to avoid bad publicity.

 

[txsciencegirl]

I agree with Ellester. I worked at Dillards when I was a teen and while I was working a lady lost her toe because of the elevator. I am paranoid about elevators to this day!

 

[Frankiesmom]

This is the exact reason I will not allow my kids to wear them. They are an accident waiting to happen!

 

[mdhkitten]

Escalators are much more dangerous than most people realize. My mother was in management for many years at a large department store (the now defunct, Jordan Marsh) at the Omni in downtown Miami and between their 10+ escalators someone got stuck at least once every few weeks. It usually was minor injury, if any, but some toes were lost from time to time. She always watched me like a hawk on escalators and checked for loose shoe laces before I got on. The edges can suck just about any type of shoe right in. I'm sure they were sued but I don't think anyone ever won a major settlement. That's the type of thing the store would settle out of court in a hurry to avoid bad publicity.

I also agree with this. I've worked for mall management companies for the last 6 years, and I've seen all sorts of shoes (typically it's things like sandals, even leather type ones, or flip flops) get "eaten" by the escalator, as well as shoe laces, pants, whatever. Basically, it can happen with anything that you're wearing. It's sad to see parents allow their children to play on escalators like they are a toy. This is how several children have wound up being seriously injured and losing toes, etc.

 

[eeyoregon]

The Crocs company has issued many warnings over the past few years advising that young children should NOT wear their product on escalators or moving sidewalks. It's been in the news and on the DIS boards many times.

The tread pattern poses an extreme danger vs. the grooves in escalators. Yet people keep on buying them and putting them on their kids Disney has LOT'S of moving sidewalks and escalators = not a good combo for the croc wearing youngsters.