June 30, 2002

4:03 AM

Pork chop shoes results in a lawsuit in Australia. A man who slipped on a grease trail left by pork chop shoes in a pub is awarded £23,000. I guess Nike better think twice before they release their filet mignon basketball shoes. What would be their marketing campaign?
posted by percine (8 comments total)

Double post. I can't find the link because Search is timing out for me. It was a few days ago, I think.
posted by password at 9:44 AM on June 30, 2002

password: Repeated search after your comment and nothing came up.
posted by percine at 9:52 AM on June 30, 2002

Search keeps on timing out for me so I skimmed the archives. I either passed right by it or perhaps Matt took it off. Dunno.
posted by password at 10:47 AM on June 30, 2002

I believe it was posted and deleted.
posted by adampsyche at 11:09 AM on June 30, 2002

this article is much funnier

especially:

Lucock returned a short time later wearing a pair of pork chops, which he had won in a raffle earlier, tied to his feet.

As the pork chop shoes disintegrated the hotel floor became slippery and Bowron fell after playing pool.

posted by ignu at 11:51 AM on June 30, 2002

What about pancake shoes?
Any lawsuits there?
posted by matteo at 12:22 PM on June 30, 2002

ColdChef mentioned this story briefly here in a thread about news sources on the web. Close, but not quite a double post.
posted by ttrendel at 2:15 PM on June 30, 2002

it was here (i had posted to it) but has since been removed.
posted by brigita at 6:01 AM on July 1, 2002