Just sitting here listening to the Neal Boortz show and I heard something that surprised me. Belinda (Neal's producer, and one of the people that keeps him in line) had something very bad happen to her son at the airport on the escalator. While riding up it, his foot was sucked into the side and trapped. He will recover, but is having to undergo multiple surguries to fix the damage to his foot. The further mentioned that there have been several incidents with kids just in the last couple of weeks at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.
That kind of struck me, so I Googled Crocs and escalators.
The news isn't good... Consumer Reports, on their blog, has a story from May 20th about the dangers of Crocs on escalators. What shocked me even more was that CBS News had a story about this almost a year ago.
Right now (literally as I write this) there is an escalator out of service at Hartsfield because of a similar incident this morning.
It isn't just airports, either, but shopping centers and other places with escalators.
