"So he says, 'OK, every time you're in a pile, I want you to focus on something. I want you to untie his shoes.' "

" 'Anytime you can, just reach in; he's got floppy shoe laces, he doesn't spat (cover them with tape) or anything, just untie his shoes. It will irritate him.' "

"Brock said the Packers offensive lineman untied Suh's shoes three times during the game."

" 'That's why he stomped him,' Brock said."

"A PREGNANT mum says she was abused by shoppers and ignored by staff as she struggled to free her son when his shoelace became stuck in a store's escalator."
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" 'I was desperately trying to pull his shoe off but it was getting tighter as the lace was pulled in.' "

"But the event wasn’t all plain sailing - the pair had to operate their wipers using shoe laces at one point after they failed in heavy rain."
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" 'We tied shoe laces around the wiper blade and had to drag it across the screen when the water got too much for Gwyndaf to see through the screen.' "

"A van driver has been cleared over the death of a biker after the jury heard his shoelace had got stuck around the accelerator."

"Stephen Johnson, 54, couldn’t get his foot on to the brake and drove straight into the path of motorcyclist Ian Brierley."

"Dr Paul Möller, 60, was alone at a shooting range on Saturday morning when he apparently stepped on a loose shoelace and fell down while holding his .357 revolver."

"... commentator David Frost discerned that the bat had actaully [sic] brushed against the lace of Dravid's boot in the willow's follow-through and that it was most likely this unusual collision that exuded the impression of a thick nick by the ball off the bat!"

"I remember once the laces on my trainers came undone and David was down on his knees in the middle of the street tying them for me."

"[One night] my shoe lace broke. It screwed me right up. I’ve never worn shoes with laces since."

"Host Joe Scarborough introduced Carla Markell ... noting the couple first met in kindergarten."

"Asked what kind of introduction the young Jack Markell made, the first lady responded: 'He taught me how to tie my shoes.' "

"Pensacola resident Richard Miller was driving east on U.S. Highway 98 around 9:30 a.m. when his shoelace became entangled on the gas pedal and he was unable to stop."

"Miller, who was driving a 2006 Chevrolet, hit the back of a 1974 MG GT ..."

"A BUNGLING thief had to call 999 for help after a botched getaway left him dangling from a fence by his shoelaces."

"The clumsy crook, 28, was snared when his shoelace became caught."

"A MAN fell down a 20-foot embankment and ended up with his head stuck in a thorn bush after an unsuccessful attempt to tie his shoe laces."
...
"Shortly after midnight the man bent down to tie his laces at Rowner Road, Gosport, and rolled down the bank."

"A soldier was saved from a Taliban sniper - by his boot laces."

"Lance Corporal Michael Davies, 31, bent down to tie up his laces a split-second before he was fired on."

"Eight-year-old Harrison Jones will never forget the day football royalty bent down to tie his shoelace, even though the junior rugby league player did not know who David Beckham was before yesterday."
...
" 'I was running around and he asked me if he could do my shoelace up and I said yes. I think it was pretty cool.' "

" 'I saw this pretty girl sitting in front of me and she had long beautiful plaits which were flowing over the back of her chair. So I took my shoelace out of my shoe and I tied her plaits to her seat,' said Mr Johns."

"Imez believes she may have threw the shoelace back at him."

"A 42-year-old man was injured Monday night when he was run over by his own pickup truck."
...
"The man said he was backing up with the door open when his shoelace got caught under his tire and pulled him out of the truck, Brouthers said."

"Investigators said Monday that a teenager who tried to a light a candle with a shoelace started a fire that left seven people homeless."
...
"He couldn't reach the wick, so he set a shoelace on fire and tried to use it as a lighter."

"Officials said the teenager threw away the shoelace in a wastebasket filled with tissues, which started smoking."

"On July 22 my 13-year-old son, Patrick, tied his shoelaces. It was a moving occasion. For the first time in his life he had performed this routine but intricate task, on his own and unaided."
...
"Patrick had become the youngest of the small number of people round the world - some 1,400 or so - fitted with the Touch Bionic prosthetic. He was the 'bionic boy'."
...
"It can lift up to 90 kilos, perform intricate tasks (such as shoelace tying, holding spherical objects, using a keyboard), and provide a level of digital functionality previously impossible."

"A man who tried to scale down the side of a Harlem building [with] with shoelaces and a belt plunged 11 floors to his death Thursday morning."
...
"Wright tied the laces and the belt to a pipe and tried to inch his way to her top-floor window, then plummeted onto a second-floor patio roof."

"The 5,500 year-old shoe was discovered by a team of archaeologists in a cave in the Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia, on the Iranian and Turkish borders. The shoe is the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world, a fact that came as a shock to the discoverers."
...
"The shoe was discovered by Armenian student Diana Zardaryan in a pit that also included a broken pot and sheep's horns. 'I was amazed to find that even the shoe-laces were preserved,' she recalled."

"After a horrible first touch early on in Cruzeiro's match against Avai on Sunday, defender Leonardo Silva went in for a challenge on a charging Davi that resulted in getting Davi's laces stuck to the studs on Silva's boot."

"When he was going to downtown Duncan his shoelace got caught under the accelerator of the vehicle and he sped out of control and off the road, ..."
...
"It came to rest approximately 200 feet down the bank."

"A Tieri schoolboy's face was slashed and bitten in an unprovoked weekend dog attack."

"The 11-year-old was walking alone down Pisces Street on Sunday afternoon when he bent over to tie a loose shoelace and was savaged by the medium-sized black and white dog."

"Following a crash landing on the triple loop, memories of Tonya Harding's skating debacle at the 1994 Olympics came flooding back when Japan's Oda had to stop mid routine to sort out one of his bootlaces."

"With the long laces trailing his boots on the ice, Oda skated up to the judges seeking permission to retie the offending piece of cord."

"Mandela asked for a meeting with P. W. Botha, the head of the apartheid state, which Coetsee and Barnard finally arranged in 1989. From an account by Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, 'Long Walk to Freedom':"

"A St. Johns County hunter is back on solid ground after a pretty harrowing experience."
...
"Epperson said the hunter's portable tree stand malfunctioned. The hunter fell backward and was saved from falling to the ground by his shoe laces, which hugged the tree's trunk."

"A prisoner has admitted escaping from the crown court in Swansea after using a shoe lace to tamper with a lock."
...
"The court heard Stevenson had used a shoe lace to tamper with a latch on his cell door during the escape."

"Bruno somehow finished up on a precarious ledge in the Galloway Hills, beyond Loch Doon."
...
"Brian now had to think about getting them both off the ledge."

"He used boot spare boot laces to make a lead, tying one end to Bruno's collar and the other round his wrist."

" 'I had to virtually throw Bruno on to the ledge above,' said the fit gardener/handyman."

"Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man fell while hiking a trail in Eaton Canyon on Monday, injuring his right leg."
...
"He also improvised a splint for his injured leg with his boot laces and a hammer."

"After John Saran, MD, delivered a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight on Dec. 4, patients at his Naperville, Ill., office started showering him with shoelaces. Dr. Saran used a shoelace and a sweatshirt string to clamp the baby's umbilical cord."

"A Swansea teenager who disappeared 100ft over a cliff to chase one of his beloved new trainers is recovering at home - with a new pair of daps."

"... Felix had kicked some stones over the edge of the cliff, accidentally sending one his new £20 Quicksilver trainers flying because the laces were untied."

"A Bayonne woman who injured herself after her shoelace wrapped around a bolt sticking up from a city park bench does have the right to sue the city - even though a Superior Court judge dismissed the case."
...
"Bolger's laces looped around the bolt when she tucked her leg under herself and turned around to keep an eye on her other daughter."

"When Bolger rose from the bench, her shoelace snagged on the protruding bolt and she crashed to the ground, suffering 'facial trauma' that sent her to the emergency room, according to court records."

"An eighth grader at Nimitz Junior High School was severely injured Monday afternoon after getting ran over by a school bus on Odessa’s southside, ..."
...
"Chris, 14, said he and Alexis were playing on the sidewalk after getting off the bus when Alexis tripped on his shoelaces and fell under. He said bus 659’s right rear tire ran over Alexis’ shoulder and collarbone, while his face struck the pavement from the impact."

"Just a few more minutes and Ari Payton Smith might have been born in a nice, soft bed in the clean confines of Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland."

"But Ari wouldn't wait. So she was born in the front passenger seat of her great-grandmother's Pontiac Aztek, ..."

"One passer-by - 'the shoelace guy' - offered help."

" 'There was a guy who stopped who wanted to know if he could help,' Pat Rullo said. 'I was looking for a string or something to tie off the [umbilical] cord. The next thing I knew, there was a shoelace in my lap, and I never saw him again.' "

"A fox has been unmasked as the mystery thief of more than 100 shoes in the small western German town of Foehren, authorities said Friday."
...
"Although many were missing laces, the shoes were in good condition and their owners were delighted to reclaim them, he said, adding that no reprisals were planned against the culprit."

"While most students choose to walk or ride a bicycle to class, Matthew Huber takes a more unusual approach - he unicycles."
...
"But one day on his way to class, Huber's shoe laces got caught in the spokes of the wheel, throwing him on his back and leading to a crash that resulted in a broken shoe lace and backpack strap."

"A 6-year-old student at an elementary school in Tennessee fell on a pencil when she tripped over her shoe lace and put a hole in her trachea."
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"School officials said the girl was carrying the pencil when one of her laces became untied."

"As of 03 February 2009, there were about 70 records continuously set and broken in the Global Village. ..."
"... 21 shoes tied in one minute by Khaled Abdul Aziz in Shoelace category, ..."

"To Ivan Castro, a shoelace is so much more than something to tie in one's footwear."

"For Castro, a visually impaired captain in the U.S. Army, a shoelace is what keeps him racing. Castro holds one end of a shoelace while a guide holds the other, and together they run marathons, half-marathons and 10Ks."

"This monument has been installed by the Royal Society of Edinburg in recognition of one of its most distinguished fellows ..."
...
"The lace on Clerk-Maxwell's right shoe has broken. As we all do, he has simply knotted the shortened lace, missing out an eyelet. String theory is the latest chapter in the understanding of the fundamental construction of the universe that was begun by Clerk-Maxwell."

"Andaman Thai Restaurant, in the 500 block of South Elm Street, had its first guest Sunday around noon when a compact car smashed through the faux brick and glass storefront, according to a witness."
...
"The driver told a server at the restaurant that her shoelace had become tangled with the accelerator."

"An hapless burglar was left hanging upside down against a window after trapping a shoe lace during a break-in."
...
"The thief, John Pearce, had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass."

"Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke his own world record in the 100 meters to win the Olympic gold medal."
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"And he did it with his shoes untied: his left laces were flopping around at the finish."

"Columbus police said the 25-year-old Boback Pourfarhadi fell and was lying in the roadway when Minerva Park Officer Jason Gross, who was driving south on Westerville Road, ran over him."

"But the friends -- two women and a man -- told the elder Pourfarhadi that Boback had bent over to tie his shoelace and that they were waving at the officer to slow down because they thought he was speeding, he said."

"At one point, he asked a doctor there if they had anything he could use as a makeshift shoelace. The doctor handed him something, and Jason laced up the loose shoe."

"It turned out to be umbilical cord tape - the stuff doctors use in the delivery room to tie off the cord."

"Kenenisa Bekele regained his world cross country title here in Holyrood Park yesterday - but only after regaining a shoe which was partially dislodged from his foot ..."

"The world and Olympic 10,000m champion lost nearly 25 metres as he bent to untie the laces on his shoe and do them back up again."

"He did not know how to tie his shoelaces. His laces always ended up with the loops parallel to the shoe instead of with the bow across. This is a doctor who knows how to do the most sophisticated things with the organs inside a human body but can't tie his shoelaces?"

"A Canadian man, once dubbed the shoelace escapee, has been sentenced to 25 years jail for one of Western Australia's largest heroin importations that dates back 14 years."
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"Lau was once dubbed the shoelace escapee because when he fled the state authorities claimed he used a shoelace to manipulate a lock on a door."

"For some reason, people tossed their shoes onto the massive tree, which graced hole No. 2 at Morley Field Disc Golf Course for about three decades."
...
"Until Sunday."

"Wicked winds knocked the old tree to the ground. It had died years ago, but it was never cut down because of its popularity."
...
"All of the shoes were gone, but there were two pairs of laces - one turquoise, the other white - strung around the branch. And what looked like a black handkerchief was actually a pair of Victoria Secret panties."

"Three 17th Century Chinese porcelain vases accidentally smashed when a museum visitor tripped are back on public display after being restored."
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"They were smashed into hundreds of pieces when Mr Flynn tripped over his shoelace."

"Hillary Clinton was reminded Tuesday that even an undone shoelace can somehow be tied to the health care issue."
...
" 'We've been at this, in Iowa especially, a year,' said the man, adding, 'And lastly, would you tie your shoe so you don’t trip over it?' "
...
"Then, proving that even a candidate seeking the highest office in the United States can take a bit of friendly advice, she sat down and tied her shoelace. The audience loved it."

"It started as a routine job for an Albany drug task force, but it ended in a bizarre scene."
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"The officers tied him up with shoelace because they didn't carry handcuffs into the field either. O'Reilly escaped the shoelace restraints and ran away before being caught."

"Nearly a year later, the family of a Kennewick boy who drown [sic] in an irrigation pipe is suing the Kennewick Irrigation District."
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"Loch was sliding through a culvert with friends in the Beer Falls area off Clearwater in Kennewick last October when his shoelace got caught and held him under the water and he drown." [sic]

"Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon has told how Princess Di wolf-whistled at him 'like a brickie' as she admired his bum."
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"I jumped off a running machine because my shoelace was undone".
"She wolf-whistled at me across the room and yelled like a brickie, 'Nice legs!' "

"Erica, her brother and their mother were on F Street crossing Poso Drive at 7 p.m. when Erica stopped, apparently to tie her shoes. The mother and brother continued across the street. Erica looked up, saw them ahead of her and ran to catch up."
"A westbound car hit Erica and briefly carried her on its hood before she fell beneath its wheels."

"Just one of those things - I was re-arranging my rehearsal studio in Hollywood when my shoelace got caught in the 'U' part of a guitar stand (the part that the neck sits into) that was laying on the floor."

"According to witnesses, an unfortunate visitor tripped over his shoelace and fell on to three Qing dynasty vases, shattering them."
...
"The man kept pointing to his shoelace, saying, 'There it is; that's the culprit.' "