In the weird and wonderful Universe of The Planet Baggers we soon discover that former glamour model Kayleigh is obsessed with shoes. And thanks to the Omigodians taking her to different planets she gets to add all manner of exotic alien shoes to her collection. Taking pride of place in her collection are what she calls her ‘prison’ shoes. She acquired these on the planet Flaarpoodle, where Flaarpudlians are an advanced race and highly skilled shoemakers. The prison shoes are high heels that have a titanium cage constructed under the shoe which forms the heel and sole giving a very strong structure that is open inside. Whilst this was initially done as an aesthetically pleasing design, an advanced Flaarpudlian scientist used his gifted talents in quantum mechanics to design a small remote control device that could be pointed at an object and miniaturise it to a pre-determined size. Then, using physics it is pointless to attempt to describe since humans are centuries away from understanding it, he was able to transport the miniaturised item into the cage of the shoe thanks to a tiny chip he added to the shoe to let the remote know the exact coordinates of the shoe in real time. He had great fun miniaturising all manner of objects and transporting them into the cage of the shoe, and quickly decided it would be wise to add another button to the remote which would reverse the process. One day, a colleague in his lab made a particularly irritating comment and, in a fit of pique, the scientist pointed the remote at him and pressed the button. He had never tried it out on animate objects before and was instantly racked with guilt that he might have killed his colleague but to his astonishment he heard a high pitched noise and realised it was the other scientist trapped inside the cage below the shoe and shouting wildly at him. His reduced size had caused the pitch elevation in his voice. He couldn’t help but laugh at his poor colleague, which caused even more animated ranting from within the shoe. Eventually he pressed the second button and the colleague was returned to full size where he was standing previously. He immediately swore to kill the scientist but a quick wave of the remote threatened to return him to the shoe and proved an effective deterrent (as Kayleigh would later discover when trying to calm down an irate Colin). For the scientist, the ‘prison’ shoes were little more than a proof of concept and he saw the real potential in the technology for maximising space on cargo and prison ships but the shoemakers loved his novel upgrade — in particular the price they could add to each pair of shoes. Sadly for the shoemakers, very few Flaarpudlians were prepared to pay an exorbitant price for what most of them deemed a silly gimmick. It seems a tad short-sighted on their part — after all, imagine buying a piano and being able to carry it home in your shoe without even noticing the effort. When Kayleigh chanced upon a pair the potential was not lost on her at all and she immediately acquired every pair the shopkeeper had, even in sizes that didn’t fit her. She knew she had struck shoe gold.