New York Nanny State to legislate bowling shoes OCD_OCD: Nope, you still can't fix stupid, but stupid people will keep on trying to legislate it for stupid people. I guess they think that stupid people read. ****** ALBANY, N.Y. -- With all the corruption in Albany, one of your representatives is instead focusing efforts on something many of you like to do, bowl. New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan (R-59th District) New York State Assemblywoman Robin Schimminger (D-140th District) are sponsoring a bill that would cover bowling shoes. The bill in the assembly is co-sponsored by Assemblymembers Brian Kolb, Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Jane Corwin. It would require alley owners to post signs, warning kegglers not to wear bowling shoes outside. The reason, alleys would be shielded from lawsuits filed by people who slip and fall on snow, ice and wet pavement outside in their bowling shoes.  MichaeI: I'm glad the government does my thinking for me because I don't have the ability to make smart decisions. Also, don't Hipsters wear bowling shoes? sebtheanimal: Although this has the stench of Liberals, both sides need to do 'something' to justify their paychecks. OCD_OCD: Surely no one wears bowling shoes. I don't bowl, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't wear those ugly things. Besides, I'd never rent bowling shoes, either. No way do I want to put my little piggies inside some ugly azz shoes that eleventy fourteen people have sweated in.   Periwinkle Pixie: If you wore street shoes bowling...you would land on your face.  Our bowling alley has a sign on the door that says, "No bowling shoes past this point" It was posted years ago when they passed the "No Smoking" laws. **************************************************** It is imperative to keep the soles of bowling shoes dry. If the bowling shoe sole gets wet, it can stick like glue on an approach and result in the bowler suffering a wipeout or blown knee. The most common causes of wet bowling shoes tend to be spilled beverages, drips in washrooms and near concessions, and snowmelt or rainwater tracked into the bowling center. Outdoor footwear should be removed at the bowling center entrance. All spills should be reported to bowling center staff and cleaned immediately. A shoe cover is sold in most pro shops for bowlers who still want to wear bowling shoes while walking around the alley, in the washroom etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling **************************************************** (Edited by Periwinkle Pixie) OCD_OCD: If the owners of every bowling alley Texas wanted to put up a "Hey stupid, don't wear your bowling shoes outside" sign, I'd be good with it. If some of the owners wanted to put up the sign, I'd be fine with that, too. What I have a problem with is making it a law that you have to tell stupid people not to wear their bowling shoes outside just seems over the top. You can't protect stupid people from everything by making it someone else's responsibility. I thought it was stupid for manufacturers of electric appliances to have to put a tag on it that says "do not immerse in water" or "do not touch electric stove top when stove is turned on or until stove top has sufficiently cooled". People that dumb need to be stripped from the gene pool and not given the right to sue a company for billions of dollars because they're too stupid to draw breath. You burned yourself badly in bed because you put your blow dryer under the covers to keep your feet warm.  My first response is: "You are obviously too dumb to live" and not "Hey, let's sue the manufacturer because if we tell them how stupid you are and that they should have warned you not to use a hair dryer for a heating pad without proper ventilation, then you'd burn your stupid self".   (Edited by OCD_OCD) OCD_OCD: New York State needs to look at the bills these people have written and backed and then hold another election.  Chad_: No Comment..................  .........................My tax dollars hard at work....................... | Politics Chat Room 81 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
