This kid was wearing the coolest shoes today...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

They had little wheels in the heel, so it was like the kid was wearing a skateboard. But he could also walk normally in them.
Anybody know anything about them? Are they hard on little feet?

[LostinVA]

1. I've seen them...

[IsIt1984Yet]

2. They're called "Heelys"

My kid loves them. No feet complaints. The only complaint is that finding them in men's sizes is damn near impossible.

http://www.heelys.com/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Thanks!

What's the accident factor like? This kid wasn't wearing a helmet or anything, so it made me think they might be as safe as my old-fashioned metal roller skates...the kind that had a key to adjust the size and fit...

[IsIt1984Yet]

5. No idea on stats, but they are WAY safer than those old metal skates.

Look at the design. To stop, it's a matter of shifting your weight to the front of your foot. A ton of my kid's friends have them and I know of no injuries, but I am not an ER physician by trade. They even wear them in school... fairly discreetly.

They're pretty cool, but not cheap.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. I notice some folks are selling them on ebay...

I guess that's so they can afford new ones when their kids outgrow them!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. LOL! I always shoot those kids with a rifle, preferably a .30-06.

It's like shooting ducks, but funnier. I love those little wheeled shoes!

Of course I "miss" the three or four times first just to see them trying to out-think me. But, come on, it's a kid on wheels against a genius-IQ gun-toting liberal.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. It's probably especially tempting

when they're smacking into unsuspecting pedestrians.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. That's the most hilarious time to do it, and when I get the most kudos.

I watch the pedestrians getting hit and mauled by these fucking evil criminal kids with their heelys, I watch the pedestrians, usually America-loving patriotic law-abiding decent Christian folk who are just trying to get throug the day without some ragamuffin felon giving them shit, I watch as they get more and more frustrated, and then I pop one into the kid's head when they're near the pedestrian, and you should hear the peels of laughter as they watch the little fucks' heads vaporize right in front of their eyes, their bodies taking a couple seconds to realize it has no head before they crumple down to the ground like so much unsteady concrete. Then the pedestrians look up at me and give me great big grins and thumb's up, and go on their day.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Every time I go to the mall...

There is a small wheelchair ramp just outside the record store I frequent, and kids are always flying down the ramp on their Heelies. It takes so much willpower to not clothesline the little punks, ahha.

[name not needed]

10. Next time I'm in a mall, I'm doing that.

:thumbsup:

[Broken_Hero]

9. and I thought you

were talking about them Superman shoes....:P :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. LOL

I saw a kid wearing a Superman shirt that inflated, so it looked like the kid had bulging muscles...

[Haole Girl]

11. I wish they had those when I was young

They look like a lot of fun!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. IsIt1984Yet's link shows adult sizes.

Too bad they don't come in wide widths...

[tanyev]

15. I almost blasted a kid today because of those shoes.

I was in the grocery store and turning my cart toward an aisle and the little piker appeared out of nowhere and swooped right in front of my cart. I managed to stop just in time. He continued on, blissfully unaware that moments ago he was inches away from a couple stitches in his face. As I completed my turn into the aisle I saw his mother chasing his even younger brother who was too young for skate shoes but was running just as fast as his little legs could carry him.

[grannylib]

16. My grandkids have some; they love them! The wheels can be brought

down rather like airplane landing gear, or they can be retracted into the sole of the shoe so one can walk normally in them.

[Redstone]

17. Heelies. The Little Guy has them. Hideously dangerous until the kid

figures them out. Helmet needed until then.

Redstone