Contractors sprucing up North Promenade took an astonishing short cut when they came across the abandoned footwear tied to a railing. Rather than remove it - they painted over it. Resort visitors and fellow decorating firms labelled it "the laziest thing we've ever seen".
The council declined to name the contractors used to paint the railings - situated 150 yards from the Hilton hotel - but Kay Martin who owns the nearby Rutland Hotel said the painted sock had become a major talking point.
She said: "It looks so funny painted silver - a lot of the guests have been asking me whether it is part of this year's illuminations display!
"My customers often cross the road to look out to sea and stand at those railings. I wondered what on earth they were talking about when they asked if I'd seen 'the sock'.
"It's amazing someone would go to the trouble of painting it silver, surely removing it would actually have been quicker?"
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