On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
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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

hangingfire for the link.

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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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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