Perfect Footwear for Nazis!: Boots recalled because their tread leaves swastika imprints

[mahatmakanejeeves]

‘Perfect Footwear for Nazis!’: Boots recalled because their tread leaves swastika imprints

By Lindsey Bever

@lindseybever

January 13 at 12:50 PM



A Southern California shoe company has recalled a model of military-style work boots after a customer complained that the tread leaves swastika stamps on the ground.

The faux pas was brought to the attention of Conal International Trading Inc., the City of Industry company that manufactures the lace-up boots, after a Redditor posted a picture on Imgur showing the footwear alongside its swastika imprints.

“There was an angle I didn’t get to see when ordering my new work boots,” the caption read.

Conal International Trading said it has recalled the Polar Fox boots and stopped selling them.

[louis-t]

1. I thought those were the ones drumpf ordered

for his private security guys.

[dalton99a]

4. They prefer SS bolts for better traction

[octoberlib]

2. They're claiming it was a design flaw but I'm not buying it.

“That was totally something that wasn’t intentional or anything like that,” the company’s e-commerce manager, Anthony Nguyen, told the Daily Mail.

“It’s something that we’re going to pull off the shelves obviously … It was obviously a design flaw.”

The boots made news in Germany, too, where Stern, a weekly magazine based in Hamburg, noted another oddity — the boot’s name, Polar Fox.

That happens to be “the name of an operation carried out by the Wehrmacht of the German Reich in the Second World War: from Finnish and Norwegian soil, the goal was to conquer the port town of Murmansk against the Soviet Union,” the magazine noted.

“Furthermore, the (boot) can be described as … military combat boots.”

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/mcclatchys-america/article125875644.html#storylink=cpy

[meadowlander]

3. Also calling bullshit on this as a coincidence.

Best case scenario is the designer didn't like his boss and went rogue thinking no one else would notice.

[Blue_Warrior]

5. They didn't design themselves...

Mistake? I think not.

[Initech]

6. I bet Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer own a pair.