Still Life: Shoe
Ever since the world was captivated by colorful kiddie shoes with the crocodile insignia, horror stories about traumatized children and mangled feet have not been far behind.
Google search alone has yielded 425,000 results for Crocs + escalator + injury. Ranking first is the lawsuit filed by the parents of a 3-year old girl against the company for $7 Million for an accident which happened at the JFK airport in November 2007.
I would have dismissed these news, or they would not have come into my orbit, except that it happened to C.
9:50 p.m. We were going up the escalator of one popular mall in Quezon City when C suddenly felt her Crocs being pulled by the escalator grills. She tried to pull it but it would not budge. Looking up, she saw that she was nearing the top, the end of the escalator. She had the sense to pull out her feet and hop to safety. Horrified, she saw her Crocs go deeper into the grills, which kept going and going and going.