"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."

"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."

"... 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."

"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," ...

"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."

"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."

"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':"

"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."

"A prisoner has admitted escaping from the crown court in Swansea after using a shoe lace to tamper with a lock."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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.' "

"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."

"Somehow as these two players collided, their shoe laces had become so entangled that they literally could not get up off the ground."

"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."

"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."

"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, ..."

"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."

"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."

"The driver told a server at the restaurant that her shoelace had become tangled with the accelerator."

"An hapless burglar was left hanging upside down against a window after trapping a shoe lace during a break-in."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"They were smashed into hundreds of pieces when Mr Flynn tripped over his shoelace."

" '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."

"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."

"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]

"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!' "

"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."

"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."

"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.' "