NY Looks to Regulate Use of Bowling Shoes

USBC News ^ | 2013,05,23 | USBC News Wire

[swampthang77]

NYC Mayor Bloomberg is famous for heavily regulating daily life in New York City, from banning trans fat, to regulating soft drink sizes.

Now two members of the NY legislature are doubling down on the type of regulation that has made Bloomberg famous in New York City....

[goldi]

The law is supposed to protect bowling alley owners from lawsuits. Apparently, bowling shoes are slippery and purposely made to look unattractive so people don’t wear them anywhere other than in bowling alleys, but apparently some people do and when they slip on bowling alley property, they sue.

Someone suggested tort reform — a better idea IMO.

[privatedrive]

Obviously the NY Legislature has nothing better to do with their time and our money.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“When government owns industry it is called socialism. When government micromanages business through regulations it is a called fascism.”

Are you the only other person who understands this simple fact?

Actually, I would say “communism” specifically, because socialism covers it all.

[Conserev1]

Que Dragnet music.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That comment about bowling shoes is nonsense. These days, MOST OTS personal bowling shoes are very nice, no worse than any other sneaker or boater and certainly better than the day-glo barf splurge that is most sneakers these days.

The RENTAL shoes still tend to be ugly and parti-colored, but not shoes you buy for yourself.

[reg45]

Hey QS! In bowling, three strikes is a good thing. Don’t we all strive for a twelve strike, 300 game. We’re talking bowling here, not baseball.

[KarlInOhio]

3 in a row and it’s a “Bloomberg”.

When I have three in a row for a Bloomberg, I usually look for some Imodium in the medicine cabinet.

[Calvin Locke]

...purposely made to look unattractive ...

And I always that it was to minimize the theft.

I read a version of the story last night, and while they buried the intent of the measure (litigation protection from idiotic "misuse of bowling shoes"), they at least mentioned it.

[GreenHornet]

I went outside the bowling alley to have a smoke. I was wearing my bowling shoes and carrying my 64 oz coke. I had such a large drink because I had put too much salt on my fries.

Bloomberg is going to order a drone strike against you!

[supremedoctrine]

(wiping)”front-to-back or back-to-front”.
-—I just hope whatever toilet paper controversies await us in the future don’t include whether the roll should be put in with the paper coming down in front or coming down the back.
But it might get to that point,given Bloomberg and his unstoppable arrogance.

[reg45]

A person should not wear bowling shoes ANYWHERE other than on the actual lanes. Otherwise, the shoes could pick up foreign matter which could damage the surface of the lanes.

[Gaffer]

Well, to be sure, it all depends on whether you have purchase a roll of TP with Obama’s picture on it. Then it would, most assuredly, matter whether the roll was mounted correctly :>)

[austinaero]

“Henceforth, all day-glo shades used in the manufacturing of bowling shoes must be preapproved by state committee, and all organized crime payments slipped into bowling shoes at the rental counter MUST be wrapped in state-approved rubber bands ONLY.”

I suspect Bloomie will require all bowling shoes to have those squeaky light up blinker thingies that make a god-awful sqwauk with every step.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Let me guess. New York hipsters have decided to start wearing bowling shoes, so the legislators are terrified that people will confuse them with New Jersey hipsters.

[cuban leaf]

Before Obama was elected in 2008, I told people he was like hitler and would point out the similarities to his and hitler’s rise. Then I watched how his supporters acted and how he governed and one day it hit me like a brick: He is more like Mussolini, but his followers are more like the followers of Hitler.

It’s a bad combination.

[broken_arrow1]

Is this satire?

[cuban leaf]

I went outside the bowling alley to have a smoke. I was wearing my bowling shoes and carrying my 64 oz coke. I had such a large drink because I had put too much salt on my fries.

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I did that once. I was also munching on deep fried spotted owl I had bagged just that morning with the pistol I keep in my glove box.

FWIW, spotted owl tastes a lot like Bald Eagle...

[SkyDancer]

Since bowling alleys have special expensive wood, going outside wearing bowling shoes can pick up small pieces of dirt or grit that can scratch the wood. How long does it take to take them off and put on regular shoes? Most alleys already have signs not to walk outside wearing bowling shoes.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Uhbama does tend to hold his chin up in the air very arrogantly.

[needmorePaine]

These legislators are entering a world of pain...a world of pain.