These boots are made for…..hanging upside down on the Tube?

London Underground is not too impressed with Dutch designer Eelko Moorer. He’s designed a pair of boots that have a slot carved into the heel so that passengers on the Tube can hang upside down from the handrails.

His idea that ‘I like to make objects that give the user a sense of release, to experience animalistic behaviour using the environment they are already in’, hasn’t had the best feed back from the Tube whose spokesman said ‘this is a dangerous and stupid act that could result in serious injury to not only the individual concerned but also other passengers.’

They might be fun to use on a late night journey when you have the train to yourself, but try it during the day in central London and your head would be used as a pinata by other passengers knees.

The girl in the picture testing the boots out is Mr Moorer’s girlfriend and they’re not the only thing he’s designed. Take a look on his website at the stilt boots and Emergency Games: A manual for extreme physical experiences in the danger of your own home. That’s asking for trouble in the wrong hands.