13
2008
Killer Crocs
Being a victim of fashion usually involves looking like you’ve stumbled into a Topshop clothes rail whilst being happy slapped by Gok Wan on crack. Mindless pseudo beauties in generic high street clobber parade their fake tan and tramp stamp with pride, and although it’s quite tempting to trip a dolly bird up, generally their fashion choice doesn’t harm their health.
Not so for those who choose the comfy option of Crocs. Drum roll please… these overly-popular pairs of foot candy can kill you, kill other people and more disturbingly, erase your i-pod play list completely! The controversy comes from the claim that Crocs produce a huge amount of static electricity which could then potentially discharge itself into people and electrical equipment; prompting a ban of the super comfy sponge clogs at a hospital in Venice.
A safety spokesman for the hospital authority said “Those sandals can cause an electric shock in organs. They can also lead to crashes of data processing devices… this means that they do not match our safety requirements.”
Although Mr Widmann of Crocs in Oz came back with, “This is insane. I haven’t heard of a single incident where Crocs caused a critical incident in hospitals.” he fails to mention any reports of a critical Croc incident anywhere else in the world. My advice is to ditch the killer kitsch and avoid becoming a dead-icated follower of fashion!
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