On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:45:53 +0000, James Gagney wrote:

How do you turn OFF the lights to a kid's pair of sneakers?

Woo hoo!.

At first, we had a crisis this morning because we got the oversized laced
sneakers all full of mud on the weekend looking for cave-man rocks to
make cave-man tools for history class ... so my kid was forced to wear
the blinking sneakers.

So I grabbed them, drilled a small (1/32) hole in the first of four
lights, and bingo! It went out, like, well, like a light!

Unfortunately, the second one took quite a few more attempts, so I
drilled the sole horizontally quite a few times, like a woodpecker
looking for bugs in a log; but I finally got it.

I used a larger bit (1/8) on the third and fourth, but now, all four
lights are out. No outrushing air occurred. And, the sneakers seem not
too much worse for the wear.

My kid gladly accepted them, even before I could clean out the shavings
from the numerous poking them out attempts ... and I will snap a photo
for you guys when he gets home from school.

Thanks for your advice; again it worked like a charm.

PS: My old non-titanium drill bits worked just fine!