Hooray, hooray. Let’s hear it for Shoe PR stunts. These are all the rage now and they certainly give me something meaty to post about on Shoe-n-Tell. The latest involves London’s Harrods department store which hired an actual live Egyptian cobra in order to guard their $120,000 Rene Caovilla jewel encrusted sandals. Yep that’s right the marketing team actually walked up to the cobra and politely asked it if it wouldn’t mind terribly shacking up in a glass case with their priceless shoes, haha.

Actually, the snake didn’t faze me at all, I was trying to figure out what the doohickey on the buckle was. Apparently, when you buy shoes like this they come with their own ruby, diamond and sapphire hood ornament - just like a fancy car.

All I know is I wouldn’t like to be in the store when (and you know it’s only a matter of WHEN) the new intern leaves the cage door open after feeding time…

Source: AFP via Yahoo news