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Didi ([info]didi) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-14 13:05:00


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On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
Another [info]customers_suck wank:

[info]tijay makes a lengthy post about a kid coming into the store wearing heelies. Kid, while skating, apparently trips over the steps on a nearby escalator and bangs his head.

Result? 911, kid half-dead, in coma (prolly and hopefully died on the way to the hospital, he bleed all over the escalator making 4 people clean up after him. Bitch. His mom is crying and yelling at everyone, escalator gets stopped. People complaint about elevators that are slow and that we need to fix our escalators.

Then we have team meeting, and at least three people confess that they told him and his mom to stop skating. Making our liability 0. At least now, we have banned these goddamn shoes.

That incident just made my day. I will remember it on the bright side for the rest of my life.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're off. 324 comments and counting.

Edit: The wank, it hits stupid_free--many thanks to [info]hangingfire for the link.


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magpiggles
2007-05-14 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Anyone else only see those shoes after hearing people bitch about them online for months?

I was expecting them to look like Satan after the hype...

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[info]amxjm
2007-05-14 05:58 pm UTC (link)
I'm more surprised they're even still around, personally. Those are so 2004.

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[info]memoriamvictus
2007-05-14 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Yep, they've only popped up here (WNC) in the last few months--I actually hadn't heard of them before, and half-thought it was some kind of clip-plane issue the first time I saw a munchkin go hovering by in the grocery store. :) (And, as mean-spirited as it is, I have kinda been waiting to see some kid bite curb while on 'em; I'm fairly amazed they're not banned.)

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-05-14 06:17 pm UTC (link)
I winged one with a shovel once. It was my cousin though and he knew the risks when he took the job.

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[info]bemysty
2007-05-14 06:19 pm UTC (link)
I actually saw them first on a Brit "science" show, which makes this all the more amusing.

...I'm very easily amused.

That being said, OP is either a moron or a troll, and I can't decide what's worse.

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magpiggles
2007-05-14 08:29 pm UTC (link)
I guess it's just because they only really caught on in England this year and I've spent most it at Uni in a fairly backwoods place. So I kept seeing people bitching about them online but then when I came back to civilization for christmas I suddenly saw all these kids zooming around and thought 'oooh so that's what they mean.'

(I got all my mean spiritedness out of the way when I saw a group of kids going up and down the street taunting some boy reading in his garden about not having them.... after about 10 minutes he lost patience and opened his garden gate as one went past. I shouldn't take pleasure in children hurting each other, but the way he quietly nodded afterwards was adorable.)

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[info]irised
2007-05-15 09:24 am UTC (link)
Buahahaha! I shouldn't take pleasure in children hurting each other, but ... oh shit, I just did.

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[info]mary_mac
2007-05-15 08:23 am UTC (link)
I've been the kid who bites the kerb. Albeit a 21-year-old kid...
A huge flat terrazo patio looks like the perfect surface for playing with Wheelies until your aunt's Great Dane decides to investigate. Ankle's still screwy, three years later.

Between the Wheelies and the drivers, and the ostrich, I still think South Africa was trying to kill me.

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[info]keri
2007-05-14 06:22 pm UTC (link)
I'd been wondering for ages where all the kids in the mall (where I work) were finding them. Then three weeks ago, our store switched spaces to allow for renovations, and we're now located in a spot with the Heelys kiosk right in front of our door. Ohmans it annoys me. Especially because we're at the corner of two corridors, so we have two big open doors, right? And all the kids like to glide through, as though it's a game.

I just thank god that when we switched spaces, we downgraded in size, so we got rid of most of our mannequins and tables - otherwise, I can just see one of those kids running smack into a mannequin and both of them toppling over (this happened more than once in our old location, actually - and the layout of that one had a long section of wood flooring like a skating rink OUCH)

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[info]aposiopetic
2007-05-14 10:59 pm UTC (link)
One of my coworker's also works at Dick's sporting goods and he said that they sell them there.

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[info]sorchar
2007-05-14 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Some of the kids at our school have em - they're not allowed to skate indoors. One of them kept ignoring that rule, but fortunately his mother also works at the school and I totally ratted him out. *G*

They're expensive, man, like $70 and up. I don't spent that much on anything my kid's gonna outgrow.

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Wheelies and the like.
[info]stinksap
2007-05-15 12:20 am UTC (link)
The vendors who deal in mass market oriental tchotchkeys at our local flea markets have started selling them (Or reasonable facsimiles thereof.)for $10 a pair.
The things scare me.

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Re: Wheelies and the like.
[info]sorchar
2007-05-15 02:36 am UTC (link)
Yikes. They still scare me.

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[info]toph
2007-05-14 06:42 pm UTC (link)
I actually desperately wanted a pair back in like, late 90's early 2000's or something. I can't remember the exact year, just that I was young and they were way expensive. Then they disappeared for years and suddenly pop back up.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-05-15 06:56 am UTC (link)
I still want a pair.

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[info]jeanne
2007-05-15 01:58 pm UTC (link)
I got them back in 2001, wore them for several months, then went off to college where there were hills everywhere, and some rather steep hills as well. I stopped using them then, cos it was either that or die in a horrible traffic-related accident someday.

...I think I still have them around somewhere, though.

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[info]sashenka
2007-05-14 07:34 pm UTC (link)
I remember when they came out. I thought they might be neat, but then I had mental images of myself coasting down a flight of stairs. I would probably stillm do that, actually.

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[info]moonjaguar
2007-05-14 08:03 pm UTC (link)
I saw some in a department store in early '05 but I've never actually seen people using them.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2007-05-14 08:19 pm UTC (link)
They are an absolute f*cking _godsend_ in DIY stores. Previously bored kids in DIY stores used to zoom around on those little scooters, which really _hurt_, but heelies don't move you fast enough for you soft little nine year old body to hurt me when we collide.

Plus, it stops them whining and moaning.

And they look like fun.

*goes off to sit in the old and grouchy corner*

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[info]icedark_elf
2007-05-14 09:25 pm UTC (link)
That's how I first saw them when they made their comeback. A small child bounced off me. I was must confused on why I had just been bodyslammed by a six year old. Who apparently thought it was fun, as he then went and did it to two other people.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-05-14 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I work retail at a shoe store, so I was forced to do research after being asked eighty times if we carried them. I'm pretty sure the first customer that ever asked me about them still resents the "WTF?" look I gave them.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-05-15 06:26 am UTC (link)
I see them all the time, and they annoy the hell out of me. And it seems kids only use them INDOORS--I've yet to see a kid outside use them.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-05-15 06:57 am UTC (link)
The wheels on em aren't big enough to handle anything less than a perfectly smooth surface.

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[info]sharps
2007-05-15 05:43 pm UTC (link)
I first saw them in my home country in January! Mind you, I have spent too much time in Germany recently...

Mum and kid shopping. Kid is about eight, so mum is holding kid's hand. Mum sees Marks and Sparks and heads towards it. Kid doesn't want to go and digs heels into ground. Mum simply pulls kid into Marks and Sparks, because kid has forgotten he's wearing Heelies...

Class.

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[info]ara
2007-05-17 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I remember seeing ads for those shoes on cable TV years ago comparing them to those razor scooters that were popular at the time. Never saw kids actually wearing them in public until two years ago. Now it seems like half the time there's a kid around, they're wearing those things.

I think they also showed up in an episode of CSI once too.

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