Woman charges New Balance sneakers failed to tone her butt, injured her instead

Itty boo.

So,the complaint sets itself up for failure. At its center, the allegation is that NewBalance claims its internal tests show this and that and the other benefits. Then the plaintiff says some university's group shows different results.

Therefore?

Well, argal, the company claims internal findings and not peer review or any such. Game over.

Make my butt look small?

(oh - you actually have to do some WALKING in them?)

collapse our economy is suing a sneaker manufacturer because they didn't give her a butt like Jennifer Aniston? Maybe she should spend less time at Fattburger/In-n-Out/Carl's Jr/Sonic/Koo Koo Roo/ Popeye's/Pink's/Carney's, blah, blah, blah.

At least she still had a pair of shoes that still functioned as shoes. I wish someone would sue the company of those stupid "balance bracelets" advertised on NECN. Australia already clamped down on a similar useless product.

Everybody's a(potential)victim!

In today's Sunday Globe Magazine, David Abel reports less than satisfactory results from his new Vibram FiveFingers:

I sprinted over the finish line [of the BAA Half-Marathon], but as soon as I stopped, it felt as if I had rocks in my shoes. I had massive blisters. And if that weren’t enough, the top of my foot felt as if someone in stiletto heels had stomped on it.
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I spent the rest of the day with ice wrapped around my foot and taking ibuprofen. And the next day I went for an MRI. I had a stress fracture on the second metatarsal of my foot.

A few days later, I visited Dr. Naven Duggal, an orthopedic surgeon who sees a lot of injured marathon runners at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He said I had to stop running for six weeks, and, shaking his head, he told me how he and other doctors he works with had seen an increasing number of patients with the same stress fractures after running barefoot or with minimal shoes. The danger with something like FiveFingers, he told me, is that a lot of competitive runners seeking an edge or a way of avoiding their perennial pains are taking to a fad without any real evidence of whether it will do more good than bad. Duggal, for one, is suspicious.

“It’s hard to make the direct association that they cause stress fractures,” he said. “But if you put the dots together, you can make the association.”