"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."

"Andaman Thai Restaurant, in the 500 block of South Elm Street, had its first guest Sunday around noon when a compact car smashed through the faux brick and glass storefront, according to a witness."
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"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."

"They had made a grappling hook from clamps and wire and constructed the rope out of boot laces, electrical cords and electrical wire."

"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."

"The man says he woke up in a room with about twenty other victims, who had also been beaten and tied up with shoe laces."

"Three cars collided and a man sustained minor injuries when a driver’s shoelace got caught on a gas pedal Friday evening."

"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."

"The survey, which questioned nearly 800 UK drivers, found that more than one in seven drivers have asked the passenger to hold the steering wheel while they tie a shoelace or check a map."

"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."

" 'Somehow that's appropriate,' a nearby golfer remarked."

"Before they were smashed, the vases had been on display for 60 years in a window recess on the staircase of the museum."
"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!' "

"But the boy tripped over his shoelace and tried to hide behind a car."
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"As he took cover, he was hit in the back by a rocket fired under the car."

"The video shows Erica Paulina Guerra stopping for a moment to tie her shoelace before she ran to catch up with her mother, Laura Guerra."

"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."

"He needed something to tie the cord with," dispatcher Jasmine Fernandez said. "In a moment like that we need anything we can get so I said, 'Ask for a shoelace.' He asked, 'A specific shoelace?' I said, 'No, any shoe.' He grabbed the shoelace, tied the cord and waited for fire rescue."

"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.' "