Bowling Alleys: Don't Hold Us Liable For Slippery, Wet Shoes

LANSING (WWJ) - What does Michigan's new indoor smoking ban have to do with potentially faulty bowling shoes?

WWJ's Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports that bowling alleys say the new smoking ban means people have to go outside to smoke, and they do it with their rented bowling shoes on. They come back in and slip and fall while wearing the wet shoes. Bowling alleys don't want to be held liable, since they own the shoes.

State Senator Joe Hune wants a law to exempt the bowling alleys from being liable.

"Put on your tennis shoes, walk outside ... but if you come back in, in rented shoes and you slip and fall from your own, essentially, negligence then the bowling alley is not liable for it," Hune said.

Hune also says he was surprised to see this was a problem, but apparently now that there's a smoking ban in bowling alleys, it is.