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Shoelace News Stories
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Boyfriend falls 11 stories and dies after trying to scale girlfriend's building
NY Daily News (USA), 09-Jul-2010
"A man who tried to scale down the side of a Harlem building [with] with shoelaces and a belt plunged 11 floors to
his death Thursday morning."
Full story on NY Daily News web site
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What's Older Than the Pyramids and Smells Worse Than a Mummy?
Fox News (USA), 09-Jun-2010
"The 5,500 year-old shoe was discovered by a team of archaeologists in a cave in the Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia,
on the Iranian and Turkish borders. The shoe is the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world, a fact that came
as a shock to the discoverers."
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"The shoe was discovered by Armenian student Diana Zardaryan in a pit that also included a broken pot and sheep's
horns. 'I was amazed to find that even the shoe-laces were preserved,' she recalled."
Full story on Fox News web site
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Slide tackle gets laces stuck to studs
Yahoo! Sports (USA), 19-May-2010
"... defender Leonardo Silva went in for a challenge on a charging Davi that resulted in getting Davi's laces stuck
to the studs on Silva's boot."
Full story (including video) on Yahoo! Sports web site
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Man crawls out of ravine after crash
Cowichan Valley Citizen (Canada), 05-May-2010
"When he was going to downtown Duncan his shoelace got caught under the accelerator of the vehicle and he sped out
of control and off the road," ...
Full story on Cowichan Valley Citizen web site
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Dog mauls boy, 11, in Tieri street
Central Queensland News (Australia), 26-Mar-2010
"The 11-year-old was walking alone down Pisces Street on Sunday afternoon when he bent over to tie a loose shoelace
and was savaged by the medium-sized black and white dog."
Full story on Central Queensland News web site
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Figure skater Nobunari Oda dragged down by his bootlaces
The Washington Post (USA), 19-Feb-2010
"Following a crash landing on the triple loop, memories of Tonya Harding's skating debacle at the 1994 Olympics came
flooding back when Japan's Oda had to stop mid routine to sort out one of his bootlaces."
"With the long laces trailing his boots on the ice, Oda skated up to the judges seeking permission to retie the
offending piece of cord."
Full story on The Washington Post web site
Image gallery on The Mainichi Daily News web site
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Mandela's Shoelaces
The New Yorker (USA), 11-Feb-2010
"Mandela asked for a meeting with P. W. Botha, the head of the apartheid state, which Coetsee and Barnard finally
arranged in 1989. From an account by Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, 'Long Walk
to Freedom':"
"So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake
hands, he knelt down to fix Mandela's clumsily tied shoes. (Prisoners were forbidden shoelaces, and Mandela was
long out of the habit of tying them.)"
Full story on New Yorker web site
1995 "Time" article, containing Richard Stengel's account
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Hunter Rescued After Hanging From Tree
Jacksonville News (USA), 06-Jan-2010
"Epperson said the hunter's portable tree stand malfunctioned. The hunter fell backward and was saved from falling
to the ground by his shoe laces, which hugged the tree's trunk."
Full story on Jacksonville News web site
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Prisoner used shoe lace to escape from Swansea court
BBC News (UK), 04-Jan-2010
"A prisoner has admitted escaping from the crown court in Swansea after using a shoe lace to tamper with a lock."
Full story on BBC News web site
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Ayrshire dog rescued after falling from icy cliff ledge
Ayrshire Post (UK), 01-Jan-2010
"He used boot spare boot laces to make a lead, tying one end to Bruno's collar and the other round his wrist."
" 'I had to virtually throw Bruno on to the ledge above,' said the fit gardener/handyman."
Full story on Ayrshire Post web site
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Hiker rescued after falling 100 feet in LA forest
Mercury News (USA), 28-Dec-2009
"Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man fell while hiking a trail in Eaton Canyon on Monday, injuring
his right leg."
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"He also improvised a splint for his injured leg with his boot laces and a hammer."
Full story on Mercury News web site
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Illinois doctor delivers air male
American Medical News (USA), 21-Dec-2009
"After John Saran, MD, delivered a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight on Dec. 4, patients at his Naperville,
Ill., office started showering him with shoelaces. Dr. Saran used a shoelace and a sweatshirt string to clamp the
baby's umbilical cord."
Full story on American Medical News web site
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Mother shot with homemade arrow
Argus Leader (USA), 26-Nov-2009
"The boy had fashioned a bow out of a fishing pole and a shoelace, Clemens said, and shot his mother with a
sharpened plastic rod."
Full story on Argus Leader web site
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The luckiest boy in Swansea
This Is South Wales (UK), 02-Nov-2009
"A SWANSEA teenager who disappeared 100ft over a cliff to chase one of his beloved new trainers is recovering at
home - with a new pair of daps."
"... Felix had kicked some stones over the edge of the cliff, accidentally sending one his new £20 Quicksilver
trainers flying because the laces were untied."
Full story on This Is South Wales web site
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Broken bench lawsuit can move forward
The Jersey Journal (USA), 02-Nov-2009
"When Bolger rose from the bench, her shoelace snagged on the protruding bolt and she crashed to the ground,
suffering 'facial trauma' that sent her to the emergency room, according to court records."
Full story on Hudson County web site
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ECISD bus runs over teen
Odessa American (USA), 28-Sep-2009
"Chris, 14, said he and Alexis were playing on the sidewalk after getting off the bus when Alexis tripped on his
shoelaces and fell under."
Full story on Odessa American web site
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Baby born in car was in bigger rush than traffic
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA), 01-Aug-2009
"One passer-by - 'the shoelace guy' - offered help."
" 'There was a guy who stopped who wanted to know if he could help,' Pat Rullo said. 'I was looking for a string or
something to tie off the [umbilical] cord. The next thing I knew, there was a shoelace in my lap, and I never saw
him again.' "
Full story on Post-Gazette web site
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Fox steals more than 100 shoes
Retuers, 12-Jun-2009
"Although many were missing laces, the shoes were in good condition and their owners were delighted to reclaim them,
he said, adding that no reprisals were planned against the culprit."
Full story on Reuters web site
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A lacrosse oddity
Baltimore Sun (USA), 17-Mar-2009
"Somehow as these two players collided, their shoe laces had become so entangled that they literally could not get
up off the ground."
Full story on Baltimore Sun web site
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Grad student uses unicycle as main transportation
LSU Daily Reveille, Louisiana USA, 03-Mar-2009
"But one day on his way to class, Huber's shoe laces got caught in the spokes of the wheel, throwing him on his
back and leading to a crash that resulted in a broken shoe lace and backpack strap."
Full story on Daily Reveille web site
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Girl survives punctured trachea
UPI, USA, 25-Feb-2009
"A 6-year-old student at an elementary school in Tennessee fell on a pencil when she tripped over her shoe lace and
put a hole in her trachea."
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"School officials said the girl was carrying the pencil when one of her laces became untied."
Full story on UPI web site
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More records broken in the Guinness World Record pavilion at Global Village
Dubai Chronicle, 12-Feb-2009
"As of 03 February 2009, there were about 70 records continuously set and broken in the Global Village. ..."
"... 21 shoes tied in one minute by Khaled Abdul Aziz in Shoelace category, ..."
Full story on Dubai Chronicle web site
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Iraq veteran relies on guides to stay course
Houston Chronicle, USA, 18-Jan-2009
"For Castro, a visually impaired captain in the U.S. Army, a shoelace is what keeps him racing. Castro holds one
end of a shoelace while a guide holds the other, and together they run marathons, half-marathons and 10Ks."
Full story on Houston Chronicle web site
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One of the most important figures in science has at last been honoured in Edinburgh with a statue made by an equally
unsung Scottish sculptor
The Scotsman, UK, 05-Dec-2008
"The lace on Clerk-Maxwell's right shoe has broken. As we all do, he has simply knotted the shortened lace, missing
out an eyelet."
Full story on The Scotsman web site
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Patron’s car smashes into restaurant storefront
Denton Record-Chronicle, USA, 29-Sep-2008
"The driver told a server at the restaurant that her shoelace had become tangled with the accelerator."
Full story on Denton Record-Chronicle web site
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Burglar left hanging upside down after trapping shoelace
Telegraph, UK, 22-Aug-2008
"An hapless burglar was left hanging upside down against a window after trapping a shoe lace during a break-in."
Full story on Telegraph web site
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Bolting to a World Record
Time, USA, 16-Aug-2008
"Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke his own world record in the 100 meters to win the Olympic gold medal."
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"And he did it with his shoes untied: his left laces were flopping around at the finish."
Full story on Time web site
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Man hit by police cruiser was tying shoe, friends say
The Columbus Dispatch, USA, 05-Aug-2008
"But the friends -- two women and a man -- told the elder Pourfarhadi that Boback had bent over to tie his shoelace
and that they were waving at the officer to slow down because they thought he was speeding, he said."
Full story on Columbus Dispatch web site
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Dad delivers his own daughter in a van
Chippewa Valley News, USA, 04-Apr-2008
"At one point, he asked a doctor there if they had anything he could use as a makeshift shoelace. The doctor handed
him something, and Jason laced up the loose shoe."
"It turned out to be umbilical cord tape - the stuff doctors use in the delivery room to tie off the cord."
Full story on Chippewa Valley News web site
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Bekele a shoo-in for title of best over cross country
The Independent, UK, 31-Mar-2008
"The world and Olympic 10,000m champion lost nearly 25 metres as he bent to untie the laces on his shoe and do
them back up again."
Full story on The Independent web site
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Andy's High Regard For Doctors
60 Minutes, CBS News, USA, 23-Mar-2008
"He did not know how to tie his shoelaces. His laces always ended up with the loops parallel to the shoe instead of
with the bow across. This is a doctor who knows how to do the most sophisticated things with the organs inside a
human body but can't tie his shoelaces?"
Full story on 60 Minutes web site
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25 years jail for escaped drug dealer
ABC News, Australia, 04-Mar-2008
"Lau was once dubbed the shoelace escapee because when he fled the state authorities claimed he used a shoelace to
manipulate a lock on a door."
Full story on ABC News web site
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'Shoe tree' toppled
Union Tribune, San Diego CA USA, 09-Jan-2008
"All of the shoes were gone, but there were two pairs of laces - one turquoise, the other white - strung around the
branch. And what looked like a black handkerchief was actually a pair of Victoria Secret panties."
Full story on Union Tribune web site
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Smashed vases go back on display
BBC News, UK, 09-Nov-2007
"They were smashed into hundreds of pieces when Mr Flynn tripped over his shoelace."
Full story on BBC News web site
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Clinton told to "tie her shoe"
The Messenger, Fort Dodge IA USA, 10-Oct-2007
" 'We've been at this, in Iowa especially, a year,' said the man, adding, 'And lastly, would you tie your shoe so
you don’t trip over it?' "
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"Then, proving that even a candidate seeking the highest office in the United States can take a bit of friendly
advice, she sat down and tied her shoelace. The audience loved it."
Full story on The Messenger web site
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Police release more details in accidental shooting
Capital News 9, Albany NY USA, 12-Sep-2007
"The officers tied him up with shoelace because they didn't carry handcuffs into the field either. O'Reilly escaped
the shoelace restraints and ran away before being caught."
Full story on Capital News 9 web site
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Family Suing After Son Drowns
KNDO/KNDU News, Washington USA, Aug-2007
"Loch was sliding through a culvert with friends in the Beer Falls area off Clearwater in Kennewick last October
when his shoelace got caught and held him under the water and he drown." [sic]
Full story on KNDO/KNDU News web site
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Diana's wolf whistle to Simon
The Sun, UK, 26-Jun-2007
"I jumped off a running machine because my shoelace was undone".
"She wolf-whistled at me across the room and yelled like a brickie, 'Nice legs!' "
Full story on The Sun web site
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Driver caught on tape
The Bakersfield Californian, USA, 04-May-2007
"Erica, her brother and their mother were on F Street crossing Poso Drive at 7 p.m. when Erica stopped, apparently
to tie her shoes. The mother and brother continued across the street. Erica looked up, saw them ahead of her and ran
to catch up."
"A westbound car hit Erica and briefly carried her on its hood before she fell beneath its wheels."
Full story plus follow-up stories on the Crimeshots web site
(Original link on the Bakersfield Californian site now dead)
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Drummer Bobby Jarzombek Breaks Wrist, Is Forced To Sit Out PainMuseum Festival Gig
BlabberMouth, 23-Apr-2007
"Just one of those things - I was re-arranging my rehearsal studio in Hollywood when my shoelace got caught in the
'U' part of a guitar stand (the part that the neck sits into) that was laying on the floor."
Full story on BlabberMouth web site
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Shoelace costs museum dear as vases are shattered
The Guardian, UK, 31-Jan-2006
"According to witnesses, an unfortunate visitor tripped over his shoelace and fell on to three Qing dynasty vases,
shattering them."
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"The man kept pointing to his shoelace, saying, 'There it is; that's the culprit.' "
Full story on The Guardian web site
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