Posted on 04/28/2005 11:44:22 PM PDT by beaversmom
A western Kansas mother buys her four-year-old a new pair of shoes. But she says what she got was a nightmare. Nearly a week after buying the shoes, the parents found a hypodermic needle lodged inside one of the shoes.
After four days of Zoie Siler, Dorrance, complaining, her seven-year-old sister tried on the shoes to see what the fuss was about. Something in the right shoe pricked her toe and made it bleed. That something, a nurse told Zoie's mom, Angel, was a hypodermic needle. "She (the nurse) said it looked kind of like...what a diabetic uses," says Siler. The same day the Siler's discovered the needle, they went to the hospital to get blood tests and shots. "I had to leave and leave my daughter in there with my husband cause I couldn't handle it. I mean getting her blood drawn for HIV and hepatitis," says Siler.
Saturday, Siler filed a complaint at the Payless shoe store in Hays where she bought the shoes. Three days later, the company sent Siler a letter in the mail. In it the company apologized for any inconvenience their shoes may have caused. The letter also informed the Silers to send Payless any and all medical bills and records so they could investigate the claim. The Silers intend to do just that. Siler says she expects to get the girls' test results back by the end of this week.
Sounds like PayLess pays less for its employees as well.
Didn't those needles-in-Pepsi-cans and needles washing up on shore and fingers in Wendy's chili turn out to be hoaxes?
When she got home from Payless, she found on her car door handle ...... a bloody hook!
I bought a bag of hypodermic needles the other day and found a Pepsi can in it. Where do I file my complaint?
Ping
A week. WEEK. It took almost seven days for these dummies to decide these shoes were laced with more than shoe laces?
When I have bought shoes for my children they try them on in the store and walk up and down the isle in them. Not these people. It took a week to figure out something was in the shoe and even caused bleeding. Give me a break. Payless should have sent them a letter than said "Bite me."
I WON a bag of needles, there was a condom inside, dare i use it? hahahaha :P
Hey, your lucky streak may continue....
Check the family tree and see if they are in any way related to the Finger in my Wendy's chili lady. From the details given this story stinks like a week in the sun halibut
Sorry, if I get shoes for my children, and they complain they hurt, I look at them right away and/or replace them.
A week with a needle inside? Something is not right here.
Reminds me of the Tom Paxton song:
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