# Nike shoes are dangerous **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589 "2014-01-12T17:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/1 "2014-01-12T17:05:00Z")
[According to a pimp](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/11/22268548-pimp-sues-nike-for-not-warning-shoes-could-be-dangerous-if-used-to-beat-people?lite) who used them as a weapon. > [@](#): > > A Portland pimp is suing Nike for not placing a warning label in their shoes specifying that they could be used as a dangerous weapon – after he was sentenced to 100 years in prison for brutally beating a john with his sneaker. > > \ > > Clardy wrote a three-page complaint against Nike from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution where he is incarcerated, reported The Oregonian. In the claim he said Nike “failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction,” by not cautioning that their shoes are “potentially dangerous.” Golly! Who knew sneakers were dangerous? What _else_ around here is just waiting to cause physical injury? :eek: I’m glad I ate that banana the other day. Someone may have been hurt! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/2 "2014-01-12T17:08:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What _else_ around here is just waiting to cause physical injury? :eek: I’m glad I ate that banana the other day. Someone may have been hurt! Excuse me, sir. Was that your banana peel you dropped over there? Some lawyers would like to have a word with you. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/3 "2014-01-12T17:10:37Z")
In the parking lot of a ski area one day, I saw a banana peel on a sheet of ice. Neither the ice nor the banana peel had a label warning that they could be slippery. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/4 "2014-01-12T17:41:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > In the parking lot of a ski area one day, I saw a banana peel on a sheet of ice. > > Neither the ice nor the banana peel had a label warning that they could be slippery. We probably want to stay off this slope. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/5 "2014-01-13T01:27:42Z")
Obligatory [George W. Bush](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4) video. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/6 "2014-01-13T02:13:38Z")
I can’t figure out what the dude’s complaint is. Is he saying the shoes should be labeled for him (the guy using them as a weapon) to be so advised? If so, why? He seems to have figured it out anyway. Maybe his problem is, having used a shoe as a weapon in the absence of such a label, he is now guilty of using the product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling? But was there a warning on the shoe advising him of _that_ ? Or is he magnanimously suing on behalf of his victim, who should have been advised that the pimp’s shoe was a weapon, so he (the john) would have had a better opportunity to think twice about crossing a pimp who was armed with a shoe? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/7 "2014-01-13T02:32:16Z")
The only thing I can think of is that he hopes a court will find it preposterous that athletic shoes are ‘dangerous weapons’. If that happens, then that might remove the condition that gave him ‘the longest prison term possible’. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nike-shoes-are-dangerous/678589/8 "2014-01-13T15:22:04Z")
I think it’s reasonable to assume that beating someone with sneakers would deliver a “rubber hose” type of beating. If Nikes deliver a “nightstick” beating, then that has to be noted clearly on a warning label. I’d also like to see a label on the laces, “Caution: may cause choking if wrapped tightly around throat.”