'Her shoe got sucked into the escalator': Toronto family warns of potential risk of wearing Crocs
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A Toronto family is speaking out after their 10-year-old daughter's Crocs got stuck in an escalator, ripping the entire toe area of the clog off.
A Toronto family is speaking out after their 10-year-old daughter’s Crocs got stuck in an escalator, ripping the entire toe area of the clog off.
“It was so shocking,” says the girl’s mother Arax Copeman. “Her shoe got sucked into the escalator. I don’t know how else to explain it. It was the most bizarre thing.”
Copeman was shopping with her daughter, Violet, at the Yonge-Eglinton Centre Mall in midtown Toronto in September when they took the escalator to an upper-level. As they were about to get off, Violet says she noticed her shoe was stuck. Next thing, she was sent flying.
“My mom was ahead of me and caught me,” Violet says. “I went flying and my Crocs came off. I was like ‘What just happened?’”
Violet was wearing her Crocs in “regular mode,” where the back shoe strap is folded forward and becomes a slip-on. Had she been wearing them in “sport mode,” where the strap remains folded backward, her mother worries her foot wouldn’t have been able to get out and her toes could have been stuck in the escalator teeth.
“She managed to fall forward out of them, so her toes didn't get sucked in,” Copeman says.
