11.   Tire manufacturers say bald tires are showing up in record numbers.

12.   Which is why your chances are slipping like a bald tire on black ice.

13.   Women arrived in chauffeur-driven sports utility vehicles that lined up behind cars on bald tires to drop off donations.

14.   Officers routinely stop matatus for speeding or having bald tires.

15.   They cross oceans and continents in the shoes and luggage of tourists, in shipping ballast, in packing materials, even in bald tires heading to recapping plants.