Article: Crime Wave Strikes Macon, Ga.-Area Rental Bowling Shoes.

By Cindy Sams, The Macon Telegraph, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 4--These shoes are made for walking.

Orange and black with fluorescent green laces, bowling shoes are at the center of a fashion footwear fad that has them disappearing right and left from local alleys.

"If you see this clown with these shoes on, call the police," quipped Tom Shimek, manager of Gold Cup Bowling Center on Pio Nono Avenue in south Macon. "I have no idea why people want them."

While always an industry hazard, rental shoe theft has become rampant at bowling alleys across the country. Gold Cup Centers Inc., which owns facilities in Macon, ...

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