A man’s cautionary tale of near-mutilation by an airport moving walkway could be the first good argument for wearing Crocs.
The frustrated traveler said he has not heard anything from Don Mueang Airport officials in the month’s time since one of his Crocs got stuck in the walkway’s machinery then pulled down beneath it and shredded.
“I was walking normally on the walkway when I reached the end and was about to step off, I felt something pulling on my shoe and not letting me step off. I tried pulling hard, but I couldn’t even move my foot,” Facebook user Jump Dhanapat wrote online Tuesday in a post since shared more than 13,000 times.
Because many people were behind him, Jump decided to pull his foot away out of his shoe, moments before it was devoured.
“I was so shocked. When I calmed down and looked around, I saw that the end of the walkway – that has a lot of teeth – is damaged, which was how my shoe got sucked into the bottom.”
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Jump’s sister immediately went to find an airport staff to ask for help retrieving the shoe. A worker had to stop the walkway and open an access cover to retrieve the shredded shoe.
“I don’t even want to think about what would happen if I pulled my foot away even a second late, or if I wore shoes that weren’t so easy to slip off. My foot would have been sucked into the machine too,” he wrote, adding that the only response to a complaint he filed has been one message apologizing for the “inconvenience.”
