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Rory McDermott, 4, has a bandage on his left foot at his home in Vienna, Va.. The boy's Croc-clad left foot was recently caught in an escalator. Crocs and other soft-soled shoes, such as flip-flops, can be prone to escalator entrapment. You write the cutline.

Cutlines

1. See ya later, escalator. After awhile, crocodile -- Average Joe.

2. Although a shoe-in for success, little Rory doesn't have a leg to stand on as the debate further escalates about what a croc his footware appears to be -- John Austin.

3. What happens when you toe tap the wrong person at the airport -- Daug Gone.

HM: Dick Haugen

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