Dutch Treat
By Izzy
Flipping through the latest issue of Interpol Footwear Daily, Izzy learned that in Holland some police officers wear wooden clogs (appropriately called klompen in Dutch). He imagines that clog-wearing cops running in pairs must sound like a single officer on horseback.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Proof positive that there is no crime in the Netherlands – there’s no way you chase criminals in these.
June 1st, 2006 at 3:42 am
No kidding.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:16 pm
What are you talking about? They can take off their shoes and chuck them fiercely at a criminal. They’re weapons in themselves! Didn’t you see that one Jackie Chan movie where he dispatches justice with a pair of clogs?
June 5th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Wouldn’t a cop in pursuit sound like a 2-legged horse? Or two empty halves of coconuts being banged together?
(No swallow jokes, please!)
June 16th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
They could have used these shoes in “Spamalot”!
June 19th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Rob D. – I DID SEE THAT! Imagine gettin’ kicked in the bum with those >.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
[...] To protect their feet on patrol, police dogs in the German city of Dusseldorf are being kitted out with specially-made plastic fiber shoes in a uniform-matching light blue. Not to be outdone, Dutch police dogs will be getting their very own tiny clogs. [...]